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Subject:	Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2004 00:28:05 GMT
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I guess it's time to unveil what may be interesting news to the LUGNET community.... Up here in Owen Sound, Ontario, the local hospital approached me to get ideas for a kickoff event for the fundraiser we're having for an MRI machine. Their first idea was a life sized MRI machine made of LEGO.... Then I showed them some of the wonderful mosaics by Henry Lim and Eric Harshbarger, and they liked the idea. Thanks to Kerry George at Lego Canada, Jake McKee from Lego USA, and Steve Barile, I can announce that we are in the final stages of a very large community build mosaic. It involves 40 baseplates arranged in a 5x8 grid that measures 6 feet tall by 10 feet long. Just over 92,000 individual 1x1 plates are arranged to form the image of an MRI machine along with the local hospital's fundraising campaign logo. Sadly, the requirement that the LEGO logo was to be aligned on all the 1x1's was not passed on soon enough :-) The kits were distributed to local schools so that kids could get a chance to build one of the panels. On June 8, we'll be putting the panels together to reveal the final image. Today, 10 of the kis were assembled by a group of gifted kids from the local school board in the town library. As a special treat, Janey Cook brought some of her wonderful MOCs for display. Needless to say, the kids were more impressed by her sculptures than the actual mosaic kits :-) This would not have been possible without support from LEGO, and without Steve's fantasic mosaic making software that allowed us to organize 40 kits of baseplates and bags of 1x1's into pizza boxes in less than an hour! I will post pictures soon, and I think the local newspaper will have a story on this tomorrow. It's really been a lot of fun to get involved with the fundraiser and to make LEGO an integral part of this community effort. Thanks again, LEGO! Cheers, Ralph -------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy "LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual" <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590910/hempeldesigngrou> --------------------------------------------------------------------

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		Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
(...) Wow, that would have been huge. Perhaps the biggest community-build by AFOLs so far, had it happened? -Tim (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build)

		Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
(...) What great fun we had today! The kids were amazing. They tackled the daunting empty mosaic base-plates with enthusiasm, did an A-one job of staying on task and were a total pleasure to be around. I had a great time showing them a few of my (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build)

		Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
In lugnet.build.sculpture, Ralph Hempel wrote: [...] (...) [...] Great work! I can't wait to see the result! However as the lugnet.build.sculpture curator I am compelled to point out that you probably should have put this into lugnet.build.mosaic (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mosaic)

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