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I’ve been taking a lot of photos of LEGO people and their creations
over the past 18 months, and right after I got back from NWBrickCon 2003,
I thought it would be fun to see what all those photos looked like in
an ultra-fast chronological photo montage ripping by at 24 frames per
second. The result was a 9-minute “movie”:
- Small (120x120, 49.7 MB, MPEG video, 00:09:05)
- Medium (240x240, 145.2 MB, MPEG video, 00:09:05)
- Large (480x480, 410.7 MB, MPEG video, 00:09:05)
If you want to see the photos at a slower pace, load the large version
into Apple’s QuickTime player and use the right and left arrow keys to
go through the images. (Hope you have fast net connection. :-)
Somewhere in the middle of the montage are two time-lapse sequences taken
during the PNLTC show last April at the Oregon Convention Center. These
sequences can be viewed separately -- at high-quality wide-screen DVD
resolution -- in the following two files:
- Neverending Crowd (768x320, 66.7 MB, QuickTime video, 00:02:22)
Tens of thousands of people showed up to view the PNLTC layout. If it weren’t for free food and drinks from Starbucks, everyone in PNLTC would have passed out from exhaustion and dehydration (except Steve Barile, who was busy causing train wrecks). This is a 2,589-frame time-lapse sequence taken between 12:45pm and 4:21pm on Saturday, April 18, 2003. See if you can find Jon Rasmussen’s infamous “Teriyaki Shuffle” (hint: it’s in the first 10 seconds). - Teardown (768x432, 110.0 MB, QuickTime video, 00:01:31)
Teardown of everything took only 90 minutes. This is a 1,656-frame time-lapse sequence taken between 9:12pm and 11:30pm on Sunday, April 19, 2003. My favorite parts are the tables coming apart, the carts filling up, and the banner coming down. Incidentally, this video proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Jeremy Rear is indeed bionic.
People (and/or their creations) captured in the montage include
TJ Avery, Steve Barile, John Barnes, Mark Benz, Ross Benz, Jamie Berard,
Cris Berneburg, Dan Boger, Jennifer Boger, Lindsay Braun, Kai Broderson,
Daniel Brown, Doug Carlson, Ken Cefaratti, Bruce Chamberlain, Will Chapman,
Matthew Chiles, Cary Clark, Jennifer Clark, Rick Clark, Russell Clark, Joe
Comeau, Scott Costello, Tim Courtney, Gregory Cross, Jonathan Dallas, Sid
Dinsay, Shiri Dori, Adrian Drake, Tom Duggan, Remy Eagan, David Eaton,
Frank Filz, Abner Finley, Stephen Fisher, Ben Fleskes, Jim Foulds, Tim
Freshly, Thomas Garrison, Matthew Gerber, Chris Giddens, Jared Gilbert,
Ashley Glennon, Keith Goldman, Neal Goldman, Felix Greco, Jim Green,
Suzanne Green, Matthew Greene, Nicholas Greene, Mark Hafner, Tony Hafner,
Constantine Hannaher, David Harris, Michael Harrod, Joel Hart, Bob Hayes,
Rob Hendrix, Christina Hitchcock, Dean Husby, Xandria Husby, Wayne Hussey,
Gus Janssen, Daniel Jassim, Jenny Johnson, Brad Justus, Eric Kingsley,
Edward Kohl, Jason Krish, Todd Kubo, Joel Kuester, Rick Kujawa, Bram
Lambrecht, Terri Landers, Magnus Langlo, Chris Leach, Joe Lee, Henry Lim,
Benjamin Liston, Kevin Loch, Bruce Lowell, Andrew Lynch, Scott Lyttle,
Chris Maddison, Thomas Main, Jason Mantor, James Mathis, David Mayhew,
Bryce McGlone, Gary McIntire, Jake McKee, Brian McLean, Fuzzface McMahon,
David Michon, Susan Michon, Ted Michon, Thomas Michon, Judy Miller,
Jonathan Mizner, Randy Morrison, Aaron Muhl, Marc Nelson Jr., Mark Neumann
and Raven, Erik Olson, Jon Palmer, Jimmy Park, Dan Parker, Kenny Paul, Greg
Perry, Chris Phillips, Larry Pieniazek, Dave Porter, Scott Quirk, Thomas
Rafert, Jeff Ranjo, Jon Rasmussen, Jeremy Rear, Michael Ripley, Soren
Roberts, Roger Rothar, Jason Rowoldt, Ryan Rubino, John Rudy, Mark Sandlin,
Robin Sather, Andrew Schilling, David Schilling, Derek Schin, Ben Schwartz,
Richard Shamus, Adam Silcott, Paul Sinasohn, Daniel Siskind, Brendan Powell
Smith, Robin Smith, Aaron Sneary, Eric Sophie, Barbara Sproat, Jeremy
Sproat, Mark Staffa, Tom Stangl, Jeff Stembel, Shaun Sullivan, Kate Sutch,
Todd Thuma, Kim Toll, Calum Tsang, Lewis Valentine III, Jeff Van Winden,
Bill Ward, Brik Wars, Christopher Weeks, Teddy Welsh, Robin Werner, and
Sun Yun. (There are about 50 portraits too, but those aren’t part of the
montage.)
--Todd
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With Brad Justus now moving on to bigger and better things, this seems as good a
time as any to share something I threw together almost a year ago, just after
coming back from BricksWest 2003:
http://www.thereverend.com/brad_justice
Though it has a little fun at Brad's expense (which is why I hesitated to share
it in the first place), it was more meant to parody the whole nature of Q & A
sessions at AFOL LEGO events, where 90% of the questions are ones that just
can't be answered. I honestly think Brad did a commendable job at such events,
and no disrespect meant! I wish him the best of luck in his future career, be
it as a superhero or as an employee Informative, Inc. @8^)
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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Hopefully people have archived whatever they needed to archive from the site.
In particular the presentations are good to have archived. ILTCO has most if
not all the train presentations in the library (and Mike is busily adding the
BF 03 ones as we speak) but the ILTCO site is unreachable at the moment.
That’s just a temporary thing, I am sure.
Hope that helps.
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I have all the BW 2002 and 2003 presentations and stuff archived on the
“offical” Brickswest gallery on Brickshelf. (Matt gave me his blessings in 2002
to make this account for the BW stuff)
You can reach BW2002 here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=12626
You can reach BW2003 here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=30726
-AHui
A&M LWorks
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, John Cooper wrote:
> The BricksWest.com website seems to have disappeared off the web. It was
> available a week or two ago, even though it had not been updated since
> BricksWest 2003. Draw your own conclusions.
At first I thought maybe this was just another site hosted on NorthStar that was
having temporary trobules, but WHOIS seems to show the domain as recently (24
Aug 2003) expired.
http://www.register.com/whois-results.cgi?212c22764453f50e94b497a0207a7998d68de78af5ca947f188dd24c248841216a5fa70a6225be5e785ab5187b44e1abe064a7f657b570f9
(not sure if that link will work for you or not, if not, just go to register.com
and do a search on brickswest.com then follow the WHOIS link)
Hopefully people have archived whatever they needed to archive from the site. In
particular the presentations are good to have archived. ILTCO has most if not
all the train presentations in the library (and Mike is busily adding the BF 03
ones as we speak) but the ILTCO site is unreachable at the moment. That's just a
temporary thing, I am sure.
Hope that helps.
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The BricksWest.com website seems to have disappeared off the web. It was
available a week or two ago, even though it had not been updated since
BricksWest 2003. Draw your own conclusions.
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