TEASER: Building LEGO Cities with Sean Kenney
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
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Sean Kenney, one of the voices in Episode 65, "Where are the Bike Lanes in Lego City?" is an artist and self-described "professional kid" who designs and creates amazing sculpture and other works of art using nothing but LEGO pieces. Sean provided the original episode with a highly informed perspective on Lego's history and design choices over the years.
In this extended conversation just for Patreon supporters of The War on Cars, Sean explains why he moved his family — as well as his enormous LEGO collection — from Brooklyn to Amsterdam, a city that he described as one that was "fully cooked" before the arrival of the automobile. He also provides further theories as to the longtime lack of bicycles Legoland, dives deeper into the evolution of LEGO cars and trucks, explains the unique design challenges that make adding bike lanes to LEGO road plates difficult and waxes poetic about building his idea of a perfect city.
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Visit Sean Kenney's official website.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Doug Gordon, and welcome to a special bonus episode of the War on Cars, exclusively |
| 0:18.0 | for Patreon supporters. |
| 0:20.8 | If you listened to episode 65, which was all about the quest to bring bike lanes to LEGO City, |
| 0:26.0 | you'll remember that one of the featured voices was an artist named Sean Kenny. |
| 0:32.0 | Sean is a self-described professional kid |
| 0:36.0 | who uses LEGO pieces to design and create absolutely amazing sculpture |
| 0:40.0 | and other works of art. |
| 0:42.0 | I loved having Sean in that episode because he |
| 0:45.3 | provided a very informed perspective on Legos history and design choices over the |
| 0:50.2 | years, but because there was so much to cover in a short amount of time, I left a lot of my |
| 0:56.0 | original interview with him on the cutting room floor. |
| 0:59.4 | And the thing is, my conversation with Sean was so absolutely delightful that Aaron, Sarah, and I thought it was worth |
| 1:05.8 | releasing all on its own. |
| 1:08.6 | What follows is a quick preview of the episode. |
| 1:11.7 | If you want to hear the entire thing, become a Patreon supporter today. |
| 1:16.0 | Visit the War on Cars.org, click support us, and sign up starting at just $2 a month. We will also send you stickers and you'll get access to all |
| 1:26.1 | of our other exclusive content. Enlist today in the War on Cars. Thanks. Are there lessons that people who love playing with |
| 1:37.6 | LEGO can give to city planners and designers and the people who are in charge of our streets. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah, well I think one of the great things about Lego is it allows you to really visualize |
| 1:48.9 | an idea in a way that you can't do even in a computer simulation or in a drawing or anything. |
| 1:54.7 | Actually seeing a model of something in front of you three dimensionally really |
| 1:58.0 | allows you to understand the space and allows you to see kind of how things play out. |
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