110 The Art of LEGO | Nathan Sawaya
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A few weeks ago I got to visit an art exhibit called The Art of the Brick and was blown away!
I got to see recreations of famous art pieces like the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and even a full scale Easter Island head. Oh and these recreations are entirely made out of standard LEGO bricks!
For this episode, I reached out to the artist, Nathan Sawaya, and he agreed to come on the show!
Tune in to learn…
-How Nathan went from a lawyer to full-time LEGO artist,
-How many LEGO bricks he keeps on hand at a time,
-What his process is for building a piece,
-& so much more!
For more info and The Art of the Brick exhibit schedule visit https://www.brickartist.com
For photos of his creations and more, find Nathan on Instagram @nathansawaya
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 110th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:13.0 | I am Travis DeRose, the host of Curiosityness. |
| 0:17.0 | And this episode I have on Nathan Suella. So I actually went to a Lego exhibit in, to Nathan's |
| 0:26.3 | Lego exhibit at the California Science Center. I was blown away with that whole thing. And |
| 0:31.5 | afterwards, contacted Nathan and, and he agreed to be on the show. So it was pretty stoked to get |
| 0:36.5 | him on. |
| 0:40.9 | This is a fun episode. |
| 0:43.9 | If you like art, if you like a Lego, you're going to love this. |
| 0:47.7 | Even if you don't, it's pretty interesting to hear his behind the scenes of how he builds this stuff. |
| 0:48.1 | But I think before you even start this episode, you should go to brickartist.com or Nathan's |
| 0:53.8 | Instagram at Nathan Sooya and just see a few |
| 0:56.9 | of the things that he's built. I think it'll help you appreciate this episode. So again, go to |
| 1:00.8 | brickartist.com. I'll have the link in the description. And just look at a couple of his pieces of |
| 1:06.0 | artwork that he's done out of Lego because it'll help you appreciate this. So that's it. We get into |
| 1:12.1 | the whole story of how he builds this stuff, his workspace, where he gets his Legos, how he got |
| 1:16.7 | started, which is a really cool story. But yeah, let's get into the episode. Episode 110 with |
| 1:22.5 | Nathan Sooya is happening right now. Nathan, how you doing, man? Good to have you on. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, heck yeah. So I'm so excited to talk to you. Glad, you know, I'm just honored to have you on this |
| 1:36.3 | podcast because, you know, we went, a couple of my friends and my girlfriend, we went to the |
| 1:41.0 | California Science Center, I think, right? Yeah, California Science Center. And, you know, my friends were like, hey, you want to go check out this Lego exhibit from this guy who's doing crazy stuff? And I'm like, yeah, sounds cool, but had no idea what I was in for, man. It is freaking sweet what you do. Thank you very much. Yeah, I've had a lot of fun putting that exhibition together over |
| 2:01.8 | the past decade or so. So I'm glad you enjoyed it. Man, very cool. Yeah. So it's a decade old |
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