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Re: Moses is Dead
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Thu, 29 May 2003 22:37:26 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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I guess it’s more in the selection of the stories. You seem to have chosen
each of these stories and left out others, which is, of course, your option.
I just don’t think it’s been completely unbiased.
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In general, with The Brick Testament, I readily admit to a bias in choosing
which stories to illustrate. I think any Bible illustrator is going to bring a
bias to their story-selection. But I would say that for the section of the
Bible I am currently illustrating, The Wilderness (the books Leviticus, Numbers,
and Deuteronomy) there isn’t really much selection going on. I’m pretty much
illustrating every bit of narrative I come across.
In fact, with the Old Testament as a whole, there’s really not very much that
I’ve skipped over in the five books I’ve illustrated so far, so it’s hard to
argue that my choice of stories in the Old Testament shows a particular bias. I
would argue that most other Bible illustrators display a stronger bias by not
illustrating many of the stories I have.
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Also, the story title
“Instructions for Genocide” is fairly inflammatory.
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I really don’t know what else to call the planned systematic desctruction of
other peoples and cultures. It’s one thing to plan for a military conquest, but
clearly Moses is telling the Israelites that these other peoples must not just
be conquered, but be wiped out completely and their cultures obliterated.
I think if we’re going to discuss the above issues any further, we should be
polite and move to off-topic-dabte, but then again, I’m not sure either of us
want that. @8^)
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Of course. I don’t have one of those and had never seen in turned backwards.
How did you attach it? Did you just have a head inside, or did you use those
handle things on the side?
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There’s a 1x1 round yellow brick where the head would go, and that’s stuck to
the rest of the head in the normal fashion. The Baal is a little fragile in the
head section, and definitely looks best when viewed head-on.
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Oh, I do agree that you get some good camera angles and Moses’ gestures. Just
from an action standpoint there’s not much here.
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True.
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I’ve run into that with Gandalf. You can turn the head a little and get a bit
of a sideways glance, but that’s about it.
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With Moses and God, the printing on their face underneath their beards prevents
me from even turning their heads a little bit, else you’d see the printd
mustache and their 3D beard. I remember back with Noah, though, I could turn
his head a bit before it stared to look unnatural.
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(I’m guessing
we’ll agree to disagree on the amount of emphasis it deserves.)
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I should add that I do think this is a point that needs to be discussed. It’s
just that when it is being emphasized by someone who does not ascribe to the
religion it feels like an attack.
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You know, these days I think maybe I do believe in God, it’s just that he’s an
awful, arbitrary, and very powerful being. If I were a believer, would that
change how you perceived my emphasis?
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I’d certainly love to see your take on more poetic things. There is lots of
great imagery in the Psalms, Prophets, and in Revelations. Maybe if you want
to take a break from the straight narrative you could go there.
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I think I will get to those eventually, but I don’t have any particular desire
to take a break from straight narrative. I really like the straight narrative,
and there are many more great stories to come.
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I would like to see your illustrations of the Law, though. Anyway, keep up
the great MOCing.
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Thanks. My temptation to illustrate The Law at this point is mostly because
this is where it would fit in chronologically. Anyhow, I’ll decide soon. Right
now I’m going back and cleaning up some of the photos from the Genesis stories.
I’m not replacing photos, but I’ve learned a lot how to take a bad photo and
make it look good since then. Anyhow, that should be done within a week, and
then I’ll tackle the issue of where to go next.
-Rev. Smith
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| (...) I agree that bias is inevitable. If I were to take on a similar project I'm sure others would say it was overly reverent, or Jewish readers might object to my Christological interpretation of certain texts in the Old Testament (of course, my (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| (...) I guess it's more in the selection of the stories. You seem to have chosen each of these stories and left out others, which is, of course, your option. I just don't think it's been completely unbiased. Also, the story title "Instructions for (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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