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Since Ive successfully run LEGO-based events at the Philcon SF/F convention for the past three years, Ive been asked to
investigate doing the same for the 65th World Science Fiction Convention --
Nippon2007, the first Worldcon to be held in Japan,
in August of next year. But I need your suggestions and tips! Thanks for
your help, everybody; and remember, this is still a feasibility study.
Who? First Id have to locate American (etc.) AFOLs planning to attend.
Japanese AFOLdom can contribute even if its members dont attend -- they can
mail-in MOCs (assuming I get some assistance with Japanese parcel post). But
actually contacting Japanese builders is, we all know, difficult. (I can get
recruitment announcements posted via the website and hardcopy progress reports.)
What events? An exhibit is easiest, with MOCs provided by Japanese and
overseas attendees. An open build would be trickier to organize, because a
parts supply would be needed -- and although I happily loan mine to Philcon, and
the Worldcon will be shipping a bunch of stuff from the U.S., Im not in a rush
to send my own pieces halfway around the globe.
What theme? Its an SF convention, and its in Japan, so the most obvious
models would be mecha -- replicas and original designs. But fans everywhere
build everything, so theres really no distinctive local flavor to that -- is
there? Models inspired by the author and artist GoHs (guests of honor) would be
topical -- thatll require some research.
(Obviously fantasy castles? Final Fantasy- and Miyazaki-esque flying
contraptions? Gojira & Co.? Mindstorms robots?)
Where? Any suggestions as to where else I should make this announcement?
Mecha Hub and Classic
Space are the first that come to mind.
Followups to DelVaLUG since thats my home club, and its low-traffic. Other
discussion elsewhere as necessary.
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Announcing the premiere of Joe Vig... to Japan!
In the image, the Japanese characters in black read Bonyari Bouzu, which
means Oblivious guy. The red characters read Joo Viggu (where Joo -
with a long o - sounds much like his English name Joe).
There are many famous vignette builders from Japan, but until now Joe Vig has
been mysteriously absent in their work. The only logical explanation for this is
the language barrier.
To overcome this obstacle, I have been working with Andrew Becraft of
Pan-Pacific Bricks to translate
the Official Joe Vig page into
Japanese. Andrew quickly made the translation, and contacted Japanese builder,
Izzo for his take on it.
Izzo must have been quite intrigued with the Joe Vig phenomenon, since he
quickly built and posted FOUR Joe Vig vignettes!
Without further ado, here is the Japanese version of the Official Joe Vig page!
We hope to see many new and interesting Joe Vig vignettes from our fellow
builders in Japan!!
Enjoy!
Big Daddy Nelson
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Well, after recieving an email from John Barnes with a pic of a Shinkansen, I
decided that I had to have a go at one. Wanting a quick build I decided to go
for the 700T the Taiwanese released Shinkansen. See it
here.
BS gallery
Sorry, theres no high quality render this time. MPD available on request.
Hope you like it and please give me feedback.
Tim
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Hi all,
Just uploaded another train, this time a Japanese
EF64. This had been sitting on my computer for ages as I had a couple of
problems with it, one of which was the door which Ive now fixed using the fence
offsetting techniques discussed recently (yay for fences, see
here!).
The image clicks through to a high quality render.
BS Gallery
The train is BoBoBo and features a very basic BoBoBo frame which you can see in
the included MPD. Thanks must go to the person whose panto design I ripped off
(sorry, cant remember the model or the builder :( )
Any comments appreciated!
Tim
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In lugnet.people, Mark Neumann wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Hi all,
Does anyone know how to contact the builder with the brickshelf ID
Sugegasa? Im
sure everyone in .mecha knows his work very well.
Bruce
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Let us know if you have any luck Bruce. Getting a hold of the Japanese
builders can be a challenge.
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His weblog is here.(Japanese font set needed)
http://blog.kansai.com/sugegasasugegasa
Ive tried to leave a comment to his weblog that you wanted to contact him.
## ayucow/Ayumi Hayase
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Hi all,
Does anyone know how to contact the builder with the brickshelf ID
Sugegasa? Im sure
everyone in .mecha knows his work very well.
Bruce
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In lugnet.lego, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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X-Posted to .loc.au/nz/jp/hk in the hopes that this will spur more people
from the region into applying
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Although more people applying would be nice to see, the real requirement is
better people applying.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Fine, Ive removed .nz from the crossposting.
Tim
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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X-Posted to .loc.au/nz/jp/hk in the hopes that this will spur more people
from the region into applying
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Although more people applying would be nice to see, the real requirement is
better people applying.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Dear Jake,
I am not trying to attack a faceless monster here, I am responding to Lennys
claims that you guys were personally being in some way harrassed/ attacked/
asserted against in my original post. I believe that you love your job enough
to do what your company would prefer and if they HAD said to concentrate on
NA/Europe I suspect you would have done so. Now that you have said the
reasons were otherwise I can lay the blame solely at your feet :P
Thank you for taking the time to explain that there was little geographical
bias and I hope that next time you will find a suitable candidate from the
other parts of the world.
Yours,
Tim
X-Posted to .loc.au/nz/jp/hk in the hopes that this will spur more people
from the region into applying
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Whoops! Sorry to reply to myself, I set the followupto, not X-post. Stupid me!
Tim
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