London Olympics Comes Alive Brick by Lego Brick

What better way to re-live the finest moments of the London 2012 Olympic Games that animate them with thousands of Lego bricks? That's exactly what German Fabian Mortiz has done, painstakingly recreating key moments from the Aquatics center, Olympic Stadium and volleyball arena.

Published

10 months ago

Categories

World, Europe, Arts & Society, Visual Arts

Topics

Olympic Sports, Europe

People

Fabian Mortiz

Places

London, United Kingdom

Transcript

LONDON, AUGUST 9, 2012 SOURCE: AFPTV -VAR Fabian Mortiz building the volleyball stadium with a colleague SOUNDBITE 1 Fabian Mortiz, (man) Lego animator(English, 33 sec): "I started doing the lego video 5 years ago when I was 16. It was my summer holidays in school so I was a little bit bored and I had a friendly match, Hannover 96 my favorite team in football, had a friendly match against Real Madrid which we won 3-0 and yes I was a little bit bored and I just tried. I had a little stadium and then I made my first video and the actions were so great, so I decided to keep going." -VAR Fabian Mortiz building the volleyball stadium with a colleague SOUNDBITE 2 Fabian Mortiz, (man) Lego animator (English, 14 sec) "It's a nice idea to recreate sports events with Lego figures because everyone knows Lego , everyone played with Lego when he was young. So it's just a funny thing to watch." -VAR Fabian Mortiz building the volleyball stadium with a colleague SOUNDBITE 3 Fabian Mortiz, (man) Lego animator (English, 25 sec) "The biggest challenge was to find a solution for the water and the aquatic center because of course we couldn't use real water, we wanted to try but it can't work. So we used little pieces in blue transparent colour, thousands of it and put it all in the pool and I think the result was very good." -VAR of lego pool, lego Olympic Stadium ----------------------------------------------------- NO AFP TEXT STORY