LEGO Digital Designer: Design anything you can Imagine with LEGOs

If you loved building your own LEGO designs as much as I did, I have found a must download free app, the LEGO Digital Designer! The LEGO Digital Designer allows you to select from three LEGO themes and 763 different blocks. The graphics rich interface allows you to rotate and connect bricks, move any hinges or levers and move the "camera" 360 degrees. Of course there is a link to the LEGO store so you can purchase your creation, which even comes with custom step-by-step directions so you can re-build you digital creation with the real blocks.If you're having a creative mental block the Digital Designer comes with 17 models ready for you to customize. All the options combined with the heavy graphics can be quite the memory hog, so I suggest closing every thing else before you give it a try, but I DO suggest you give it a try.

Check it out HERE

Mr. Picasso Head

If you have ten minutes to kill check out Mr. Picasso Head. The name pretty much everything you need to know, but just in case you can't quite picture it I'll give you a brief run down. You start with blank canvas in lieu of a potato, and instead of shiny plastic appendages to bludgeon the potato with Mr. Picasso Head allows you to arrange Picasso-ish graphics which can be enlarged, rotated, shaded, etc. Create your own or browse the user created gallery HERE

Carbonite Han Solo Desk: And other Tom Spina Designs

If I told you that I had heard of Tom Spina today, I'd be lying and the inner fanboy in me is kicking myself for it.
According to TomSpinaDesigns.com

"Tom Spina Designs provides custom sculpture, furniture, mannequins, movie prop and wardrobe displays & restoration and other unique items for collectors, home theaters, museums, restaurants and more!"

Apparently Tom Spina has a decent gallery of restoration project as well as custom funiture and scupltures, also a large collection of haunted house items which are for sale if you have a lot of space and neighborhood children (and their parents) to scare.

Being the star wars nut that I am, I found the Han Solo desk and the Max Rebo Band scuplture the most facnating.

Check it out for yourself HERE

The Wire: Maurice Levy loves Robert McClintock?

All over blogs, big or small you can read all about this weeks shocking episode of The Wire, If you haven't seen it I'm not gonna spoil it for you. (click here if you just got to know) I am going to write about what I believe to be overlooked as so many details in the wire are. In one scene we are treated to the inside of Baltimore's scummiest of lawyers, Maurice Levy's law offices. Now you may have read of David Simon's tip of his hat to the real Baltimore quite often and in this instance it featured one my favorite artist, Robert McClintock. Levy's walls are covered with his work!

Robert McClintock is a self described "HYBRiD PHoTO-DiGiTAL ARTiST" meaning he uses photographs and paint, as well a Mac with a giant monitor. McClintock catches Baltimore's fun and quirky landscape as well as Simon depicts it's dirty not-so-underbelly. Was Simon hinting that the fun and loud Baltimore exists within it's dark seedy urban blight? Some times it's difficult to remember that David Simon's Baltimore, Robert McClintock's Baltimore and John Waters' Baltimore are all the same Baltimore and all were once Barry Levinson's Baltimore.

Whenever your in Baltimore's Fell's Point, I recommend you stop by McClintock's studio it's at 1809 Thames Street. If you need a zip for Google Maps it's 21231, which is coincidently right next to where NBC would shoot the external shots of the police precinct in Homicide.

Check out his site for some more of his great artwork HERE

Or check out his MySpace Page HERE

Oh and I caught wind of a rumor the character Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belzer,who is currently on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, is going to make a cameo on an episode of this season's Wire. For those who don't know Belzer first played Munch on the Baltimore based Homicide, and will be setting some sort of record for most appearances in different TV shows as the same character. It seems this time TV is giving Simon a nod seeing as he wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which became Homicide: Life on the Street. (Ok so he's really giving himself a nod, but I think he deserves it.)