Art of the Brick

Last Sunday I went with my friend Nicole to see Nathan Sawayan's "Art of the Brick" exhibit at the American Swedish Historical Museum (not to be confused with the Ikea) here in Philadelphia. Although I'm more interested in building cityscapes with Lego, Nathan's work is really amazing. I took along my compact camera t take photos, but now I wish I had taken my DSLR instead. I put the photos up on Flickr. After checking out the exhibit and the rest of the museum, Nicole and I headed over to the kids section where they had buckets and buckets of bricks to play with. At first, I wanted to just try building a sphere, but I couldn't get the geometry right and it started to look more like a pyramid. After finding some interesting brown and green pieces, I started building a pair of trees while Nicole made a (peeing) dog, a stream and bridge. I added a waterfall and lamppost to finish off the park and put it on a shelf with other visitors' creations.

I might go back in a few weeks with a camera and tripod to take better photos of the exhibit. I'm curious to see if my park will still be there. (Note: This post is my first test at using MarsEdit.)