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Re: The Brick Testament lays down The Law
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:15:04 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Great work as always. Some thoughts:
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Hi, Bruce. Thanks as always for taking the time.
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Introduction: Same issue as before, more Moses talkin’.
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Yep.
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Settling Disputes: I love the use of modern settings, which give you the
opportunity to use different building styles as we discussed before, and also
a lot of torsos you wouldn’t use otherwise.
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It’s been a liberating experience, I have to admit. Nice to use minifigs who
wear glasses, too.
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Nice tile floor in the courtroom.
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Thanks, see my replies to others for more details on that.
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What’s that hair on the judge? Is it clay?
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That the same hairpiece I used for one of the
Moabite dignitaries, but now turned around to face backward and just sort of
resting by gravity on the judge’s head. It does appear to be an official LEGO
piece, but is of indeterminate origin.
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I like that almost no studs are
showing in that first picture. Clever idea on the gavel.
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I actually fretted for a while about how to do a LEGO gavel. I was afraid I’d
have to puncture the side of a 1x1 cylinder brick and poke a walking-stick type
of thing into it or something. I hate to resort to such extreme measures, so
I’m sure glad I came up with the wrench-with-two-round-plates idea.
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Accidental Death: I really like the kitchen scene (again, no studs). How
many sand blue headlight bricks do you have?!?
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Believe it or not, sand blue is actually currently one of the easier colors in
which to horde headlight bricks. @8^) Not sure which sets are providing them
all, but it’s a nice color for headlight mosaics, so I’m glad.
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Numbers 35:19, I almost missed the
unfocussed scene in the background, very gruesome.
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Yeah, pretty gross.
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In the next picture, gray
hair makes a good rock, but I’ll bet it was a pain to get everything set up
for that photo.
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You can imagine how many times that ‘rock’ slipped out of his hands. After
several failed attempts, I put a gray minifig head behind the hair piece, and
that made it a little easier for the minifig to hold.
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In the firing squad photo, what piece is inside the arched windows?
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That’s this castle wall piece in tan,
and facing backward so you see the interiors of them.
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I like the blue house in the photo after that, and the microfig city in the
background of the hanging.
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Thanks. Modernity is fun.
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All of the execution scenes in this chapter remind
me of this website:
http://www.blockdeath.com/
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Yeah, just trying to give that site a run for its money. @8^)
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In the boxing scene, is the black guy with funky hair supposed to be Don King?
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Maybe. @8^) I was originally going to feature him more prominently, in the
ring. But boxing promoters don’t usually stand inside the ring during a
fight, do they?
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Just wondering. It also seems like it would be uncomfortable to fight in
speedos. :)
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Ouch, yeah. Has anybody come up with a way to do minifig short pants?
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How did you get the screwdrivers to stick in the dartboard?
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Sigh... cheated. I tried like heck to think of a way to make it work. But in
the end I used some sticky stuff on the points of the ‘darts’, and had to erase
it out in Photoshop.
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Brawling: Grabbing the testicles is pretty funny. That woman’s arms
are very different lengths.
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Yes they are. Actually, her
right arm is green, has no hand, and is supporting her body. I have no idea
whose hand that is between the man’s legs. @8^)
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I like the hospital scene. Zam’s veiled face makes a good surgical
mask, and an appearence by R2-D2-- :D.
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My favorite detail is the IV bag -- or maybe nobody got that...
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I like the brick wall. Is it all just held by gravity, or is it
actually stuck together.
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It’s just gravity the way I’ve done it. I’m guessing it could be done more
solidly, but it would be hard to do it without the other side of the wall
looking terrible.
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There is some debate on the word you have translated as “miscarriage”.
Some people argue that that actually refers to a premature birth, as
the word is something like “to come out” and is elsewhere used for
normal births. That’s one of the passages you’ll hear people argue
about in the abortion debate.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn’t realized that this was such a
controvesial passage as far as translations go. So according to the other
interpretation, the “further harm” being done is referring to the fetus/baby,
not the mother (as I’ve illustrated). Interesting. Of course, much more
interesting to me is God commnding “eye for eye and tooth for tooth”, etc.
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I really like the use of the western face for the “tooth for tooth”
line. Also, the arm backwards looks good as a broken arm.
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Oh, good. I’m glad the ‘broken arm’ works. My girlfriend pointed out that this
is not really tecnically a “wound”, but I think it gives the right impression.
-Rev. Smith
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| (...) That passage is much misunderstood. At the time it was written, it instructed a to retribution, not an encouragement to revenge. Prior to "Eye for eye" laws, it was much more common for the people to follow the practice of "Death for eye." (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament lays down The Law
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| Hey Brendan, Great work as always. Some thoughts: Introduction: Same issue as before, more Moses talkin'. Settling Disputes: I love the use of modern settings, which give you the opportunity to use different building styles as we discussed before, (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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