"Nathan Sawaya is a professional LEGO artist and former LEGO Master Model Builder with a gifted skill set that he’s been honing since the age of five."
The dude builds stuff out of LEGOs; apparently, for a living. While we're trying to wrap our heads around how it's possible to make a living off of LEGOs, and cursing our college educations, check out his next-gen game controllers. The Xbox 360 controller is 15"x10"x5" and the PS3 controller is ... well, it's a boomerang. Where's the Revolution love? I guess there's not enough challenge in building a rectangular wand to interest a LEGO Master.
[Via Joystiq]
1. LEGO has a team of Master Builders that make LEGO sculptures for their themeparks as well as for clients that ask for them. I believe at one point there was a lifesize LEGO Geoffrey the Giraffe at the Toys R Us in Times Square and I know for a fact that Volvo had a full-scale LEGO XC90 SUV doing the car show rounds (saw it in Cleveland a few years back). In fact right now, LEGOLand California is doing a nation wide talent search for a new model builder. When I was younger that was one of my dream vocations. That, astronaut, and professional soccer player.
And damn that's a sweet model. Although the Xbox Guide button looks weird.
Posted at 12:12PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Oozer