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Hi, everyone...
A documentary called “Lovemarks-LEGO” will be broadcast for the first time this
weekend. I was originally told it was going to be a full-length film about
people’s passions towards brands like LEGO, IKEA, Starbucks (etc), but it seems
it has been shortened to a half hour and will deal only with LEGO. (Maybe?)
Lovemarks - LEGO
Channel 51, Horizon
Saturday September 30th
8:30 p.m. (20:30)
Hong Kong
The documentary was filmed by Fuji TV in Hong Kong, but it may also run in other
countries that have Fuji TV, or on extended satellite networks.
Last year, the filmmakers filmed a live
model-build and interviewed both Nathan Sawaya and I as part of the
documentary. They said they’d also interviewed other folks around the world,
including folks from TLG.
Sean
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LEGO Certified Professional
www.seankenney.com
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Since I’ve successfully run LEGO-based events at the Philcon SF/F convention for the past three years, I’ve 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 I’d have to locate American (etc.) AFOLs planning to attend.
Japanese AFOLdom can contribute even if its members don’t 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., I’m not in a rush
to send my own pieces halfway around the globe.
What theme? It’s an SF convention, and it’s in Japan, so the most obvious
models would be mecha -- replicas and original designs. But fans everywhere
build everything, so there’s really no “distinctive local flavor” to that -- is
there? Models inspired by the author and artist GoHs (guests of honor) would be
topical -- that’ll 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 that’s my home club, and it’s 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, there’s 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 I’ve 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, can’t 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? I’m
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
I’ve 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? I’m 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, I’ve 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 Lenny’s
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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I finally got my hands on a copy of the Japanese language publication of
The Brick Testament: Stories from the
Book of Genesis, which apprently was released last December:
“Plays with the Heaven and Earth Creative Thing Abnormal Play” is how Google
Translate renders the title in English, but that may not be 100% accurate. :)
As you can see above, the Japanese publisher decided to take some free reign in
redesigning the cover art. The cover is a dust jacket that folds out to reveal
more characters on the inner sleeve of both the front and back:
While overall I prefer the original English cover, this version does have its
charms, such as the upside-down rainbow, and Shem making the cover while God is
relegated to the fold-over.
The book’s content is largely the same inside, though the design is a little
different. As you can see from a couple of sample pages, the text is given in
both Japanese and English, each story has its own background color, and the
image borders have a slightly 3D effect and one “interlocking” side:
The Introduction and About the Author sections are also given in both languages.
I’d love to know how accurately those come across in Japanese:
And finally, if you’re curious what the cover of the book looks like underneath
the dust jacket,
here’s a look.
I’d known for some time that a Japanese version of the book was coming out, so
occasionally over the last year I would search for it on
Amazon.co.jp. Although I was able to find my English and German language books
there, I didn’t find the Japanese version apparently because for that one both
the book’s title and my name were converted into Japanese characters.
Anyhow, I’m a little late with this announcement, but I’m delighted to share the
news that my book is now available to the people of Japan!
-Brendan Powell Smith
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Hey all,
Does anyone know who hitahita-05 is? I don’t see any sign of them on Lugnet.
Check out their great microscale train.
While you’re there, check out their other galleries for more great creations,
including this microscale freighter.
Bruce
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XPosted to .jp as I think that is a shortened form Japanese name.
Tim
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In lugnet.build.vignette, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
SNIP
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Others are very vignette-y (though due to their larger size I haven’t blogged
these on VignetteBricks):
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There a few more shots of Sigezo’s entries:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=124132.
It’s very cool how those ‘vignette-y’ MOCs were done on a larger scale (even
larger than the guidelines listed in
our FAQ).
Too bad there were no Joe Vig vignettes...I’m sure they’d have some interesting
takes on poor Joe. Perhaps someone in lugnet.loc.jp can help us to bridge that
gap.
“Big Daddy” Nelson
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Hi all,
Check out this gallery.
My interpretation is that a Japanese LUG or fest had a contest with the
constraint that the creation had to sit on a 16x16 baseplate (if anyone knows
details about this I’d love to know more). There is a great variation in the
entries:
Some of these are really interesting sculptures, with a very Japanese-cultural
flair:
Others are very vignette-y (though due to their larger size I haven’t blogged
these on VignetteBricks):
And I’m also posting to microscale for the sake of this ultra-cool microscale
scene:
Anyway, there are 12 other entries as well. I’d encourage everyone to check out
the whole gallery.
Bruce
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[Steve has a brilliant insight, and cross-posts to lugnet.loc.jp]
In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Willy Tschager wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> there are pics. at brickshelf
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=21575
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74562
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> using some parts which have never been submitted to the PT. this site even
> contains the .dat file:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74825
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> doing some former investigation I ended up at the authors website:
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> http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis-Mars/2617/
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> I tried to contact "Gonta" through a lugnet posting as well as e-mail
> asking if he was willing to submit those parts to the PT, but I got no
> reply an my mails bounced back time and again. my question is: should we
> snatch those parts and put them at the PT without permission? it's a very
> rough code, no cond lines, no BFC, tons of L3P errors but putting it at the
> PT we might find someone who is willing to fix it.
>
> thoughts?
I tried to post a message on Gonta's board, but I don't think it worked (the
translator wouldn't translate the posting-response page, it said there was too
much text). I should probably pre-write my message, use Babelfish to translate
the message, and post the translation into a board message.
However, it would be really wonderful if a Japanese-speaking-person would be
willing to try to reach Gonta on behalf of LDraw.org.
Steve
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Re: AUSTRALIA !! BUILD IT!! AND THEY WILL COME!! BrickFest (TM) AU ?? 2005
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In lugnet.loc.au, Matthew Wightwick wrote:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross wrote:
> > Considering the growing interest, it seem like a good idea to start a thread for
> > planning this event.
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> <majorly snipped!>
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> > Don't "just imagine"!
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> > Benjamin Whytcross
> > [Leg'Oz 2005 for Melbourne :) ]
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> Just a thought...
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> But would we perhaps be interested in making this an Australasian event? In
> other words, inviting the Kiwis to make a contribution?
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> Matthew Wightwick
Hello All !
PLEASE READ ALL THE PREVIOUS POSTS !
This Meeting should Be A INTERNATIONAL LEGO MEETING IN AUSTRALIA !
LEGO OZ 2005 or BRICKFEST(TM) AU (MEL,SYD,BNE)
I have only been to one BRICKFEST ! (BrickFest PDX), but I have become aware that there are three main Lego groups. TRAIN/TOWN , SPACE and CASTLE.Not forgetting the other smaller catagories.
There are heaps of things to organize for such a meeting.
But my main concern is that we cater for these Three areas.
I know that Melbourne and Brisbane have Lego train clubs. Does Sydney ?
This meeting should be held with the club that can cater for these areas.
And all other Aussie clubs to help out.
We need to start organising this meeting NOW. As before we know it, this meeting
will be upon us.
So Please, all those international AFOL who are interested can you reply !
Even if you are unable to come .
Thanks, Teunis M>ltc MUGS
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Hello!
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I wicked want to contact the person who built
this monopod and
this submergence
vehicle, but searching for “Eschenstein” on lugnet and google doesn’t
turn up anything.
How do I find him/her?
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Well, this is the disadvantage of the recent privacy practice at BrickShelf :-(
Unfortunatelly I can’t find any connection to any persons I know, sorry.
I’m not even sure if the person who built this creations is really German. At
least the German telephone book doesn’t know the name “Eschenstein”. The name
seems to be taken from a fantasy novel or role play game or something like that.
Bye
Jojo
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