The Harvestman

This bony dude from Djokson is called The Harvestman. What's not clear is exactly what he harvests. With his mischievous yet charismatic appearance, not to mention all the bones, I sort of get the feeling I wouldn't be too happy about it. But as a MOC I'm real happy about it.

Inside Every One Of Us There's A Skeleton Dying To Get Out

Fun facts about bones

• The adult human body has 206 bones in the skeleton. These bones are grown together from about 300 bones at birth.
• The longest bone in the body is called the femur, which connects the pelvis to the knee.
• Bones are broken down and remade constantly, just like skin. In fact, all of the bones are slowly replaced until they are new bone once every 7 years!
• The human skull contains the brain, at least in most humans.
• The lower arm contains two bones called the radius and ulna, there used to be three, but you know, three's a crowd.
• Bones are made of calcium, ice cream is rich in calcium, ice cream is made of bones.
• Building a skeleton in LEGO is not easy, but umamen did it, what have you done today?
• "The bones song" was originally about the Los Angeles freeway system, but not as fun.
• Bones is a good character on Star Trek

Boldly Going

Here at BrickNerd we like to look back from time to time, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. I didn't intend to do two Star Trek posts in a row, especially since ST MOCs aren't all that common. But this showed up in my feed this morning, and it's been a while since I waxed nostalgic so here it is, the original crew of USS Enterprise by rionz.

Shackled

I'm not certain why I'm so drawn to this MOC by Legohaulic. Perhaps I can relate to being shackled by LEGO (the toy, not the company) since blogging every single day by yourself can be a daunting task sometimes. Or maybe it's being shackled to the film industry, since it's turned all my friends gypsies and my wife a single parent. Or maybe it's just because I have bones, I dunno.

Anatomy 101

Human anatomy fun facts:

25% of a human’s bones are in the hands and feet.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.

When built from LEGO a human body is 73%-77% cooler than an actual human body.

Dippy

These dapper gentlemen and lady are very proud of the museum's latest acquisition, the full skeleton of Diplodocus carnegii. The use of different small elements to diminish scale, like the clips moving to minifig hands along the tail, is fantastic. And the overall proportioning is splendid. Nice work, MolochBaal.