
This picture and more from Art of the Brick can be found at The Avant Guardian. This is Sawaya’s signature piece and is life size. These faces are nearly two meters tall making them very detailed (photo: Jonathan Liu, Wired) Nathan Sawaya is an artist that specializes in large scale LEGO models (he does other sculptures too). LEGO themselves used portraits as part of an advertisement campaign created by Geometry Global agency: It’s more than that! With these little blocks you can create whole worlds that at the end of the day can simply be pulled apart. In its most basic form it’s rectangular blocks that squeeze together until you want them apart again. LEGO has been going since forever … well … 1940’s. You’re going to have to see your friends’ pictures and hope it runs again soon. It wasn’t a surprise that Burra’s field trip to go look at LEGO portraits filled up quickly. It would be amazing if I was able to keep the Dream going. That’s why today I hope that whoever is the next president figures something out for getting us Americans-at-heart an easier way to contribute to the nation. However, there’s no clear way for me to continue working on Retronator in the US after the 1-year extension runs out. I’m not trying to steal anyone’s job by trying to immigrate.

I pay my taxes there and I made many good friends. I’ve lived for the American Dream all my life, working hard to be able to work on what I love. Working on Pixel Art Academy is-thanks to Kickstarter backers-now my full-time job. My employment authorization runs from December 2016–November 2017 and it is in this time that I will get Retronator started as a formal company. As a college graduate I get one extra year to do that. Today I returned to my home country Slovenia to visit family and friends while I wait to be able to work in the US. Oh, wait …) Just like my love for The Sims, I love my real life in the States. (University Life … Sounds like a Sims expansion.

On top of my 2 years as a researcher at UC Berkeley I’ve now experienced the US university life firsthand at Stanford. I’ve lived in the US for 3.5 years now and it’s been a blast.
