Lego my LEGO bricks

Nathan Sawaya was a full-time attorney who switched to being a full time LEGO artist. Hold your lawyer / toy jokes until later...

I use to love playing with Legos as a kid and even thought I was pretty good. But after looking at the pics on his site all I can say is, "WOW!" And I thought the little spaceships and boats I made were pretty good. Yea.... hiding those pictures.

A childhood obsession is now his life's calling.

He took a Lego leap of faith leaving a six-figure job as a corporate lawyer and started building his professional Lego artist career with a13-dollars an hour job at Lego Land to make – of course Lego sculptures. He is now one of the premiere Lego artists in the world earning thousands of dollars for his original works of art.

Check out his life-size Han Solo in Carbonite on his website, Star Wars geek will be able to catch a dozen flies when you see the pictures.

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My To Do list was supposed to be ‘not important non-career kinds of things...crazy or fun things. The things you have never done but have always wanted to do.

But, just as it says in Me Time, “I constantly push myself into overdrive trying to fit everything into one day only to have it spill into the next and than the next.”

I wrote the original To Do list because I spend a lot of my days day-dreaming. I figured I should write down what I would love to do and commit to at least trying some of the things. I haven’t done anything on the list and now that I’m looking at them almost two months later, I realize that all of them are weekend kinds of things.

Since I haven’t taken the time to do any of the big weekend plans, I figured I would add some smaller easier to do within the city stuff. This way, I make it harder to make up excuses why I can’t take some time for myself. So I’m doing a new list and will yet again try to stick to doing some of them.

RULES:
They can not be professional ambitions, they have to be something fun that you wouldn't normally do or you have been putting off saying "maybe next year". Than within the next 12 months you have to do at least 1 /4th of the items of either list. You must list at least 10 items on both lists.

Things I Would Love To Do:

1. Fly in a hot air balloon
2. Swim with Manatees
3. Scuba Dive
4. Build a raft like Tom Sawyer and float down the Mississippi river or any river
5. Learn to Tango / Flamenco dancing
6. Be in a movie
7. Sea kayaking
8. Fly a plane
9. Skydiving
10. Spend an obscene amount of money on an outfit and not worry about how irresponsible it is, or whether or not I will ever wear that outfit more than once.
11. Go on a blind date TV Show

Things I Promise To Actually Do (Locally):

1. The Getty Villa Malibu
2. Griffith Observatory
3. Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
4. Los Angeles Zoo
5. Hike up to the Hollywood Sign
6. California Strawberry Festival
7. Learn to play pool (Billiards)
8. Go to a firing range & a lesson
9. Go to California Science Center
10. See a genuine Burlesque

Things I Promise To Actually Do on a Weekend / Vacation:

1. Parasailing
2. Go to Ninja New York
3. Go to Catalina Island
4.Learn to ride a motorcycle
5. Whitewater rafting
6. Wear a scandalous outfit / costume
7. Go gambling in Las Vegas and not worry about the money I lose.
8. Go to Mexico

Me Time

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1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year.

4. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.

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