The Great Ganesha

A friend forwarded me an email about two guys (Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu) who recreated Escher’s 1953 lithograph Relativity using Lego blocks. It’s their fourth such endeavor for an Escher work and - I have to say - a damn cool hobby. Lipson even has a Lego rendition of Rodin’s Thinker.

Take a look at the original Relativity by Escher:

Image ? The M.C. Escher Company BV. Used with permission.

And now take a look at the Lego version by Lipson and Shiu:

Image ? 2003 Andrew Lipson. Used with permission.

Not bad at all. Here’s what they say about creating this piece:

Once again, no camera tricks, but the picture has to be taken from exactly the right place, and boy did we get tired of trying to find where that place was. The whole thing took five or six evenings spread over two or three weeks. Most of the last evening was taken up with setting up the lighting the way we wanted it and trying to get the camera position just right… [link]

Check out their other Lego-Escher works.