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2001 Ancient Theme Building Contest Jan 1-Mar 15, 2001
email: 2001@ancient-theme.com
website: http://www.ancient-theme.com/2001
1. Build a Lego model of any place or thing from ancient
history.
You can draw on any ancient civilization. For instance, the
classical cultures of Greece and Rome and all lands and
peoples known to them. Entries covering the Far East and
ancient Americas are also encouraged. Medieval times are
really outside the scope of this contest, but may be
acceptable if there is an obvious ancient connection.
2. Suggested categories are Architecture, Daily Life,
Engineering, Mythology, and Sculpture.
Feel free to go outside these category guidelines. If you have a
good idea, I'll make a new category.
Architecture: Any type of building. Temples, villas, palaces,
monuments, tombs, forts. Work in any scale you prefer. There
have been some very nice micro-scale models, in addition to
minifig and maxi scale.
Daily Life: People doing things. Minifigs in costume. City
scenes, farming, entertainment spectacles, ceremonies,
battles.
Engineering: Models of machines used in the ancient world. This
category was pioneered by the Technic Ship-Shaker of
Archimedes in the 1998 contest. Standing models are also ok,
such as aqueducts or construction scenes.
Mythology: Events or creatures from myth and legend. Past
examples have been the Trojan Horse and Pegasus.
Sculpture: Use Lego to recreate an ancient work of art. Think
lots of basic bricks. For instance: statues, busts, masks,
friezes, mosaics. You could also sculpt an ordinary artefact
such as a lamp or jewelry.
3. The contest runs from Jan 1 to Mar 15, 2001.
4. You can enter more than once.
To enter, take pictures of your model and put them on a web page.
Then post a message to lugnet.build.contests with "2001
Ancient Theme Entry" in the subject.
Alternately, you can send email to 2001@ancient-theme.com and
attach pictures. If you can't send your pictures
electronically, just email and I will make arrangements to
help.
Pictures remain the property of the builder. Some of your
pictures will be used to compile a 2001 contest web page on
ancient-theme.com.
5. You are encouraged to research your chosen subject! You don't
have to write a paper, but some written background would be
nice.
As in any model, building accuracy is secondary to clarity.
You can re-create a famous event, make up your own action, or
just create a standing scene.
6. Models in LDRAW (MLCAD, etc.) are perfectly acceptable.
7. Scenes inspired by movies are ok, but original is better.
8. Prizes will be awarded by a judging committee. The Grand Prize
will be a US$50 Amazon.com gift certificate. Other prizes
will be awarded for each category,
9. Remember: for them the world was already ancient…
10. Have fun!
For ideas and up-to-date information visit:
http://www.ancient-theme.com
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New:
Erik Wilson has given me permission to host his Ancient Theme pages on
http://www.ancient-theme.com/1998
At some point, the original Acropolis Project and 1998 R.T.L. Ancient Theme
Building Contest pages will go offline. Erik Wilson may bring them up elsewhere,
but in the meantime they are preserved mostly intact at the above website.
The 2001 contest runs Jan 1 - Mar 15! More good things on the way...
-Erik
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In lugnet.build.contests, Erik Olson writes:
> 2001 Ancient Theme Building Contest Jan 1-Mar 15, 2001
>
> email: 2001@ancient-theme.com
>
> website: http://www.ancient-theme.com/2001
>
>
> 1. Build a Lego model of any place or thing from ancient
> history.
>
> You can draw on any ancient civilization. For instance, the
> classical cultures of Greece and Rome and all lands and
> peoples known to them. Entries covering the Far East and
> ancient Americas are also encouraged. Medieval times are
> really outside the scope of this contest, but may be
> acceptable if there is an obvious ancient connection.
>
> 2. Suggested categories are Architecture, Daily Life,
> Engineering, Mythology, and Sculpture.
>
> Feel free to go outside these category guidelines. If you have a
> good idea, I'll make a new category.
>
> Architecture: Any type of building. Temples, villas, palaces,
> monuments, tombs, forts. Work in any scale you prefer. There
> have been some very nice micro-scale models, in addition to
> minifig and maxi scale.
>
> Daily Life: People doing things. Minifigs in costume. City
> scenes, farming, entertainment spectacles, ceremonies,
> battles.
>
> Engineering: Models of machines used in the ancient world. This
> category was pioneered by the Technic Ship-Shaker of
> Archimedes in the 1998 contest. Standing models are also ok,
> such as aqueducts or construction scenes.
>
> Mythology: Events or creatures from myth and legend. Past
> examples have been the Trojan Horse and Pegasus.
>
> Sculpture: Use Lego to recreate an ancient work of art. Think
> lots of basic bricks. For instance: statues, busts, masks,
> friezes, mosaics. You could also sculpt an ordinary artefact
> such as a lamp or jewelry.
>
> 3. The contest runs from Jan 1 to Mar 15, 2001.
>
> 4. You can enter more than once.
>
> To enter, take pictures of your model and put them on a web page.
> Then post a message to lugnet.build.contests with "2001
> Ancient Theme Entry" in the subject.
>
> Alternately, you can send email to 2001@ancient-theme.com and
> attach pictures. If you can't send your pictures
> electronically, just email and I will make arrangements to
> help.
>
> Pictures remain the property of the builder. Some of your
> pictures will be used to compile a 2001 contest web page on
> ancient-theme.com.
>
> 5. You are encouraged to research your chosen subject! You don't
> have to write a paper, but some written background would be
> nice.
>
> As in any model, building accuracy is secondary to clarity.
>
> You can re-create a famous event, make up your own action, or
> just create a standing scene.
>
> 6. Models in LDRAW (MLCAD, etc.) are perfectly acceptable.
>
> 7. Scenes inspired by movies are ok, but original is better.
>
> 8. Prizes will be awarded by a judging committee. The Grand Prize
> will be a US$50 Amazon.com gift certificate. Other prizes
> will be awarded for each category,
do i get a prize for being the 1st entry?
> 9. Remember: for them the world was already ancient…
>
> 10. Have fun!
>
> For ideas and up-to-date information visit:
>
> http://www.ancient-theme.com
-philip kostka
s7445567852@hotmail.com
kimagewerke.hypermart.net
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Howdy Eric,
...my name is Richard Wright, and I am a teacher from Boise Idaho. I am
glad you are doing this...we were very
excited about it when Mr Wilson hosted it.
Is there any assistence you need?
I can spread the word to different groups of students in Idaho.
I know the first prize is the $50.00 at Amazon. Do you have any other
prizes hammered out yet?
Richard
rwright@pcsedu.com
www.weirdrichard.com
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Wright writes:
>
> Howdy Eric,
>
> ...my name is Richard Wright, and I am a teacher from Boise Idaho. I am
> glad you are doing this...we were very
> excited about it when Mr Wilson hosted it.
Richard, your students had more ideas and entries than the rest of us put
together! It would be exciting to see a new bunch.
>
> Is there any assistence you need?
> I can spread the word to different groups of students in Idaho.
Generating enthusiasm first!
I have heard from several other 1998 people already...
-Erik
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Wright writes:
> I know the first prize is the $50.00 at Amazon. Do you have any other
> prizes hammered out yet?
Here's what I've planned: There will be at least 5 prizes for best-of-category.
Other than the grand prize, which is a best-of-show, the other prizes will be
small-to-medium Lego sets from the "treasure chest." It's possible that special
awards will be merited in newly-created categories.
Surveying the past efforts in Ancient Theme, I saw two main ways to categorize
them... First: you can try to use type-of-model categories (and it's possible
for a model to fit well in more than one.) I set the categories for this contest
to suggest directions for builders to go in. Second: you can divide it all up
into cultural categories, for example Erik Wilson awarded a "Best Egyptian Theme
Entry". This makes for lumpy categories, but would be useful for an index to
what's been done already. Other schemes could be time period, or geographical
location, which are less essential attributes.
My plan for the website is to make an indexed catalog, where you can approach it
from any of these schemes. It will have about 2 dozen entries right now.
For geography, I've made a map experiment online at
http://www.ancient-theme.com/map
(works with IE 4 or Netscape 4)
Someone suggested a category for showing historical events (as opposed to just
generic scenes.) I thought it was a good idea and it could be a special award.
It's hard to pack a story into one model--though some great painters have
succeeded. So, this suggests a serial-art (that means: comic book panels)
approach.
-Erik
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Henrik Christian Grove, Peter Makholm and I have built a
part of Astèrix' village:
http://hugin.ldraw.org/LEGO/Antikken/Asterix_landsby/
Play well,
Jacob
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