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Greetings:
Here is my attempt to address a major problem: the near total absence of Art
Deco architecture in the Lego townscape.
This is a minifig scale version of a typical Miami Art Deco hotel from around
1930. Check out the MOC pages for
details. I am not sure it will end up on MichLTC train layout or not.
I hope you like it!
This is my second post to Lugnet (my first was for the Fisher Building which
attracted little notice at the time).
-Jim Garrett
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"Jim Garrett" <jsgarrett@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:IM0on4.1oGG@lugnet.com...
> Greetings:
>
> Here is my attempt to address a major problem: the near total absence of
> Art
> Deco architecture in the Lego townscape.
Very nice Jim! I like the graduated stripes at the corners especially, and
the way you've dealt with the newer style roadplates. Good use of train
windows for the upper windows too.
Kevin
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote:
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Greetings:
Here is my attempt to address a major problem: the near total absence of Art
Deco architecture in the Lego townscape.
This is a minifig scale version of a typical Miami Art Deco hotel from
around 1930. Check out the MOC pages
for details. I am not sure it will end up on MichLTC train layout or not.
I hope you like it!
This is my second post to Lugnet (my first was for the Fisher Building which
attracted little notice at the time).
-Jim Garrett
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I kept meaning to post a reply to this and I’ve finally got around to it. I
really love this building! I’ve made a couple of art-deco buildings myself but
never even close to this one. Thank you for sharing it!
Tim
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Very nice building, Jim. Glad to know someone is on the case of bringing more
art deco architecture to LEGO towns. :) Hope to see more!
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This is my second post to Lugnet (my first was for the Fisher Building which
attracted little notice at the time).
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WOW! Your Fisher building is incredible! Holy moley! Absolutely
inspirational.
I’m dumbfounded both by the awesomnity of the MOC itself and by the fact that I
never saw this when you first posted about it to LUGNET.
But after a few minutes of gawking, and after picking my jaw up off the floor, I
was able to figure out the latter part. If you want your MOCs to get noticed on
LUGNET, you really need to make sure you post them to the group
lugnet.announce.moc. Feel free to cross-post to other relavant groups like
lugnet.town, but especially with the new way the LUGNET highlight/spotlight
system works, it is imperitative to post to lugnet.announce.moc in order for
your post to receive the automatic spotlight boost, and hence have an excellent
chance of making the Top Stories sidebar on the front page, and hence be seen by
a lot of people browsing LUGNET.
Your Fisher Building was given 6 spotlight votes by LUGNET users. But I don’t
remember ever seeing it make the LUGNET front page’s Top Stories sidebar. I am
quite sure this is why I and a whole lot of people did not get to appreciate and
comment on your MOC when it was announced. We never knew about it! Six
spotlights is very good score, especially for a MOC that may not have ever made
it to the front page sidebar. Unfortunately, another quirk of the LUGNET
highlight/spotlight system is that if a MOC’s announcement post is around for a
while before it gets some spotlights, those spotlight votes will do little to
bring the post to more people’s attention.
By way of comparison, since you posted about the Fisher Building last February,
I have seen many, many so-so MOCs get listed on that front page sidebar simply
because they remembered to post to lugnet.announce.moc. And currently Mika
Karttunen’s Casino Town (which is
impressively grand in its scale and detail, comparable to your Fisher Building)
is the #1 story on the front page Top Stories sidebar even though it has so far
“only” received 2 human spotlight votes.
So what I’m saying is: please do not be discouraged by the lack of attention
that has been paid so far to your incredible MOCs. I’m sure those lucky enough
to have seen them in person have been bowled over, and I’m sure those who have
seen them on LUGNET have been as well.
I’ve made the same mistake myself, forgetting to post to lugnet.announce.moc
when announcing new sets of Brick Testament stories, and the difference in
reaction on LUGNET has been very noticeable.
Anyhow, I hope your next great MOC will get the spotlight attention it deserves
and will bring people to view your previous great MOCs as well.
-Brendan Powell Smith
P.S. Loved your Roman aqueduct and colosseum study too! And we can always use
more MOC posts over in lugnet.building.ancient!
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote:
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Greetings:
Here is my attempt to address a major problem: the near total absence of Art
Deco architecture in the Lego townscape.
This is a minifig scale version of a typical Miami Art Deco hotel from
around 1930. Check out the MOC pages
for details. I am not sure it will end up on MichLTC train layout or not.
I hope you like it!
This is my second post to Lugnet (my first was for the Fisher Building which
attracted little notice at the time).
-Jim Garrett
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Jim has a good eye for design realism. I had the pleasure of meeting him on
August 13 during the Downtown Detroit Historic Theatre Tours, where I was a
guide and he a visitor.
Jim did a wonderful job on building Detroit’s famous 1928 Fisher Building, by
the noted Detroit architect Albert Kahn, who primarily did industrial
architecture, but also did the 28 story Fisher Building, and the GM World
Headquarters across the street from it. The Fisher Building was a pioneer of
modern architecture. It was the inspiration for many later
office/entertainment/retail complexes to come, such as Cincinnati’s Carew
Center, and NYC Rockefeller Center. The Fisher Building is known as Detroit’s
biggest art object. It contains the famous Fisher Theatre, which (run by New
York’s Nederlander organization) had the worlds premier of the play “Fiddler on
the Roof”.
The Art Deco Miami Beach hotel is very nice also. With all the colors now in
the Lego pallette, it makes this type of colorful pastel architecture much
easier to produce. There are a lot of different possibilities with Lego for
producing some of these gems. For anyone interested in Miami Beach Art Deco, the
book “DECO DELIGHTS” by Barbara Baer Capitman is a must. Jim, great job on this
colorful confection!
Jim, don’t get discouraged about folks ignoring your wonderful creationgs... I
posted (after 5 years of working on it) my 20,000 piece GOTHIC CATHEDRAL earlier
this summer in lugnet.build.architecture, and got not one comment either. Seems
like too many folks around here prefer to whine about colors or why their
countries were ignored in TLG programs. Maybe Lugnet is no longer the place for
true builders.
Gary Istok
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote:
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Greetings:
Here is my attempt to address a major problem: the near total absence of Art
Deco architecture in the Lego townscape.
This is a minifig scale version of a typical Miami Art Deco hotel from
around 1930. Check out the MOC pages
for details. I am not sure it will end up on MichLTC train layout or not.
I hope you like it!
This is my second post to Lugnet (my first was for the Fisher Building which
attracted little notice at the time).
-Jim Garrett
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Brilliant!
I’ve done an Art-Deco stlye office building (The Offset Building, so called
because of extensive use of jumper plates) seen at some UK train displays.
I’d really like to do more Art-Deco. A good respurce is
http://www.artdeconapier.com/
Mark
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