a love letter to new york - in lego

I'm sure all of you Web-savvy types have already seen illustrator Christoph Niemann's fabulous I LEGO N.Y., first posted on his New York Times blog earlier this month, but I'm pointing to it here in giddy anticipation of my upcoming trip to NYC in mid-March.  Niemann distills some quintessential New York experiences into tableaux constructed out of his sons' Lego bricks, and the results are altogether quirky and absolutely charming.  I would love to do a similar project for the Bay Area, as soon as I can figure out how to build a suitable representation of a Pabst Blue Ribbon can to stand in for the Mission hipsters.  You can see Niemann's whole piece at the link above, or click here for a small gallery of highlights from The Guardian.