Little Brooklyn Monkeying Around Manhattan!
You’re going to go ape for my new little LEGO vignette inspired by Little Brooklyn’s burlesque show at Coney Island Film Festival 2011!
Nelson Lugo (Lego!?), the Vaud-villain and co-producer of Epic Win! Burlesque in New York City. Watch as no plastic cups can withstand the wrath of his mighty hammer!
Soon to come: Schaffer the Darklord… Can you survive it!?
D20 Burlesque, with its large fan base of assorted freaks & geeks! Anja Keister flaunts her stuff as being the greatest fantasy for nerds since Slave Leia! For those of you in the New York area, check out D20’s extensive lineup of creative and geeky burlesque shows!
This is one of my few custom projects that actually uses techniques outside the traditional realm of LEGO — the Aperture logo on the back of Anja’s orange jumpsuit has been superimposed with Photoshop. I rarely ever use computer effects (aside from hue/lighting) to modify my projects. Otherwise, everything is what you see. The lighting was done in a makeshift lightbox in my closet with a single white daytime CFL bulb as a brightness source, with white balance settings rigged up on my camera.
The Portal cube stage and Robo-Cthulu were made first, then each minifig was specially selected from my collection. The audience members are shown as:
Star Wars:
- Clone troopers
- Darth Maul
- Boba Fett
- Hoth Rebel soldier
- CIS Battle droids
- AT-ST pilot
- AT-AT pilot
- AT-AT Hoth trooper
- X-Wing fighter pilot
- Two Snowtroopers
- Stormtrooper
- Scout Trooper
- Master Yoda
- Gamorrean guard
Various:
- Sherlock Holmes
- Hulk Hogan
- Toy Story alien
- Batman
- Harry Potter
- Zombie in hazmat suit
- Generic kid in a hoodie with anime hair
- Norse dwarf warrior
Some of these minifigs are in fact rare discontinued figures that I’m deliberately showing off — the Batman, Darth Maul, Boba Fett and yellow-skinned Harry Potter to name a few!
Leg(o)s Malone, my favorite tall goddess in the New York burlesque scene! Instead of making a custom minifig model, I drew a vector illustration!
Pasties & a G-String: New York Burlesque Girls
In honor of my recent major shift from reclusiveness to being a socialite by means of incursions into the New York City Burlesque scene (as a patron!), I have made a little diorama depicting multiple stars such as Miss Coney Island BB Heart, former Miss Coney Island Bambi the Mermaid & Lefty Lucy, and the ever-so-lovely Bambi Galore! This set was made with multiple Castle pieces and an elaborate tiled floor, with pointy footlights and the nameless emcee yet again — and incorporating various themes from the recent Coney Island Pageant and Storybook Burlesque! This is my first large custom vignette taken with my new Sony 16 megapixel camera, new light rigging (250 Watt bulbs!) and light tent for better image quality.
Click on thumbnails to enlarge…
Something told me the diorama was pretty badass as is, but not quite badass enough — ergo, I added a few surprise crowd cameos from a Futuron astronaut (the same guy as my tattoo), a Viking, an X-Wing pilot, a midget clown, Jimmy Hart, a Civil War Union soldier, and um, Hulk Hogan…
- Baron von Brunk
