Nathan Sawaya plays with blocks for a living. As a renowned Lego artist, Sawaya has spent a good portion of his adulthood creating gallery-friendly pieces out of the Danish toys. Recently, though, he’s gone Hollywood, lending his quick-building skills and Lego smarts to Fox’s new reality competition series Lego Masters. As a consulting producer on the show, which premieres Feb. 5, Sawaya produced set pieces, challenge inspiration, and even the trophy for the show, all on short notice.
The A.V. Club stopped by Sawaya’s North Hollywood studio to talk about his role on the show, and how he made everything from giant frogs to semi-functional Lego bikes for the series.
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I saw this guy’s traveling LEGO art show last year. There are pretentious avant-garde fine artists that don’t like to hear themselves talk as much his him. You paid an additional entrance fee – then were made to watch his 5+-minute talking head video about how creative he considers himself before being allowed to look at the children’s toys he had glued together.The docent at the entrance was wearing earplugs.
He K’ra’gled his LEGOs together?
Thank you for a perfect comment. His arrogant and pretentious style of self-promotion is unbearable.