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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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