Famous album covers rendered in Lego

Roxy Music, Country Life

Someone’s created a Tumblr of famous record albums that have been “pixelated” and turned into 40″x40″ Lego grids. They’re quite nice.

These Lego albums are so well–one might say perfectly–executed that I find myself wondering about the color choices available to Lego users–these covers appear to use every color in the Pantone universe. I suppose if you’re using Lego Digital Designer, you can use these colors.

Which begs the question: Are these actual Lego constructions or were they made in Lego Digital Designer? And if they were made in Lego Digital Designer, does that make them any less real?

The albums pictured here are so well known that I’m not going to bother identifying them–the Tumblr itself ranges more widely across the musical spectrum.

The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed

Talking Heads, Remain in Light

Michael Jackson, Thriller

Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy

Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Airplane Over the Sea

The Velvet Underground, Loaded

Inevitably, here’s The White Stripes, “Fell in Love with a Girl”:

via Ufunk