Welcome to the new and improved Baronvonbrunk.com!

April 15, 2024By Julius von BrunkUpdates

After changing my hosting plan and upgrading my PHP, I had to install a new WordPress theme. So now the site is completely different than the previous version, so you may notice some bugs and glitches here and there until I’ve fully ironed out all of the wrinkles. Notably you may discover some dead links … Read More

Start Your Morning with Power, Courage, & Wisdom

September 3, 2019By Julius von BrunkUpdates

If you’ve been keeping up with me on social media all summer, you’d know that I’ve been working tirelessly to create a quick stop-motion animated parody of Legend of Zelda breakfast cereal! This is a mixed-media stop-motion LEGO brickfilm animation that I’ve gradually animated and edited throughout the course of over two months in summer … Read More

Ultra Hexacon Turns 5!

September 9, 2018By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Welcome back, Brunkamaniacs! Remember my popular LEGOformer Nintendo 64? Well, it’s officially turned 5-years old a few weeks back! I worked tirelessly to create this massive project which was released in August 2013. I spent the majority of the summer 2013 working to build this without any digital assistance, and now for it’s re-release, I … Read More

I Can See For Miles and Miles and Miles.

April 7, 2018By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Very meta! Welcome back, Brunkamaniacs! Just recently I made the major switch from using a cropped-sensor DSLR to a full frame model. I’m now shooting all of my primary images on the Nikon D750, whilst using my old D5200 as a backup and for animations. Prepare for a new generation of high quality and superior … Read More

If You go Chasing Rabbits. . .

November 12, 2017By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Welcome back, little Brunksters! I’ve had a very unstable year thus far, which has hindered many of my creative projects — but nonetheless, I’ve persevered and now I’m back on course. We built this city on rock ‘n’ roll. . . And LEGO bricks. To begin, in early 2017, my job at Dynomighty Design in … Read More

Down the Rabbit Hole

May 24, 2017By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Good news, everyone! Things have started to pick back up again in my professional and personal life, which means I’ve resumed production of my stop-motion Alice in Wonderland video! I’ve been tinkering with DragonFrame software, and I created a few test animations of some of the key characters: Both tests videos were created by me … Read More

Baron in Wonderland

March 3, 2017By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Alright, alright, I realize I haven’t updated in over a year. Despite the lack of major site updates on this website in particular, I have in fact been very active and busy in my creative ventures. For those of you who follow me on Twitter and Instagram, you’d know about my planned stop-motion animation video … Read More

Off the Top of My Head

April 10, 2016By Julius von BrunkUpdates

To start, a while back I mentioned that I’d like to soon release a coffee table book on my LEGO sculptures and photography. I wanted to use a photo of my custom Amish magnifigure for the front cover, but then I discussed the idea with some friends and finally decided to use an epic creation … Read More

A New Year of New Brainstorming!

February 12, 2016By Julius von BrunkUpdates

Welcome back, Brunkamaniacs! Last week I celebrated the 6th anniversary of when I left my hometown of Lancaster, PA to embark on my journey to New York City! To commemorate, I built an epic LEGO Viking ship and took a photo in New Jersey near the Statue of Liberty. For all of my friends, family, … Read More