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Re: The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:03:34 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
> It's like Christmas, to unwrap such nice gifts...
Ho, ho, ho. @8^)
> Slavery
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> Ex 21:2 Great cuffs!
I'm sure I got that idea from someone else, sticking the minifig hands through
the end of the chains. I think it was someone's catsle's torture chamber.
> The chair in pic 2 is nice!
Thanks. It's velvet.
> The carpet with all those pins, that's a new idea.
I keep getting new ideas for floors and walls, but I'm running out of Laws for
which to display them in modern times. Hope my other ideas can translate into
ancient settings.
Not all my ideas work though. I spent a good deal of time working out this wall
idea where I had big plates facing backward, and stuck onto the back in a
diagonal pattern were all these 1x1 plates. It looked pretty cool as a
wallpaper design sort of thing, but only if it was deep in the background and
blurry. I ended up scrapping it.
> Ex 21:8 Your beds are improving.
Thanks. I don't know why I didn't think to use curved edges before. Then
again, most beds are pretty rectangular.
> 21:21 Nice hospital, I see we jump around a little with decades here :) IV
> rocks!
Hmm? How are we jumping around in decades? Are IV bags no longer used in the
00s?
> 21:21-2 Nice touch to let the shovel remain in the background and the
> brush on the floor.
Originally I had some blood still lying next to the brush, as if having killed
his slave, there was no one left to clean up. But removing the blood seemed
more pleasingly subtle.
> When to Stone Your Children
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> Dt 21:18 Nice hair, I see your helmet cutting technique is improving aswell!
Not everyone would say so. @8^) I actually cut that helmet about a year ago
for another project I was working on. Mojo magazine hired me to do a full-page
LEGO illustration for the lead album review of Moby's 18. They asked me to have
a LEGO Moby climbing aboard a spaceship which was leaving Planet Electronica.
Left behind on the planet were supposed to be other big electronica acts of the
late 90s, including, among others, Prodigy. So for the wild-colored hair of
their lead singer, I chopped up that racers helmet.
> 18-2 Ah, the mess! That tile do work as a game pad.
Glad that came across.
> 18-3 "..no TV for week." Must not comment on language, must not...
Actually, it's much appreciated. Fixed it up just now.
> 20 Did you post-edit the mothers smile? Neat touch!
Yeah. I'm always torn about when and how much to Photoshop facial expressions.
I generally only do so when the standard face looks *very* inappropriate for the
particular scene. Granted, the mom has her regular smile in the panel before
that where she's dragging her son to the town elders (and presumably his death).
> 21 Ah, the good 'ol stoning. How it lacks in modern society.
Has *everyone* abandoned God's laws?! No wonder modern society is in such
steady moral decline. @8^) (FUT: off-topic.debate, or better yet, don't)
> I like the blurry stones.
For my fourth depiction of a stoning, I thought it might be a nice idea to show
some stones actually sailing through the air. Or at least approximate the look
of that.
> When to Marry Your Sister-In-Law
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> Dt 25:5 Nice pipe,
As Bruce pointed out, this pipe design is lifted from his Lord of the Rings
illustrations, and was apparently the idea of a few people working together.
> should work better with Technic figs though .)
It is a big pipe, no doubt.
> The snow shoe is a strange touch that made me smile, works well
> in the end! The fireplace with the picture frames is good.
Cool, glad when little abstract details like the picture frames come across as
intended.
> 5-2 The sudden death of Jethro, ROFL!
It's the traditional Brick Testament way to go. @8^)
> :9 Huh? No stoning? Bah!
This is a prime example of God's mercy. Of course he *deserves* to be stoned (I
mean, who doesn't?), but God has mercy on the sinner (in random unpredictable
instances), and let's him go with a stolen sandal and a loogie in the face.
> False Prophets
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> :2 What are those trees? Tried locating them at Peeron but no such luck.
It's an old school "granulated" tree. You can pick them up on Bricklink for
about US$11 each:
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=granulated
For a couple hundred dollars you could make a half-decent forrest. @8^)
Luckily I got mine for free when I inherited what was left of my girlfriend's
older brothers' LEGO collection from the late 60s. Several odd and interesting
pieces in there, but by far the most useful to me are those granulated trees.
I sure wish LEGO would make them again. They're so much cooler than the modern
day tree pieces -- and they're not much more out-of-scale with minifigs than the
current one-piece tree offerings. What's interesting is that the granules that
make up the 'leaves' are in no short supply today. I saw in a behind-the-scenes
video playing at LEGOland that all LEGO is made from these granules melted down
and injected into the molds. I also noticed that a few of the Miniland displays
there used these granules to nice effect. Of course it always rubs me the wrong
way when I see stuff in Miniland that is totally unavailable to the consumer.
Sadly, one of my granulated trees broke while I was pulling it off a baseplate
during this last photo-taking session. The stem just snapped in two. I almost
cried. Then I remembered how much I paid for them.
> :6 The cross works well this time around too. Love the micro-
> scale city in the background.
Sometimes I look at my early stories and I'm kind of unsatisfied with the level
of detail in them. I wonder if I'll be tempted to go back and re-make some of
the New Testament stories. Then again, look what happened when George Lucas
went back and fussed with stuff (nice shot, Greedo.) Maybe the key is not to
let 20 years pass in between.
> When to Stone Your Whole Family
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> Dt 13:9-10 The basement window, another neat touch. It's all
> the small things that make your work really stand out!
Thanks. Hopefully in another two years I'll look back on *these* stories and
cringe at the lack of detail and poor design.
> Religious Tolerance
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> Dt 13:13-15 The man in the background looks a tad surprised to see his black
> brothers.
I don't think it's a racial thing at all. I imagine him to be a devout Jew who
is thinking, "Sixty years I've obeyed the Law to its finest detail, and now
along comes this one Christian and because of him, my whole town is going to get
put to the sword and burnt to the ground."
> 15-16 Now we're back to business!
That's some zealous love for the Law right there! (The people with the swords,
that is, not all the dead people.)
> The Occult
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> Lv 20:26 Nice curtain!
Thanks. I was pleased with how that came out. It has the right feel.
> If you get to do these as a book, don't leave out the balloons!
I was reluctant to leave out the dialogue bubbles in the Genesis book. My
publisher had to convince me that it could work without them. I think it does,
but I don't know if that would be universally true of any Brick Testament
stories. For now, I'll just hope that sells enough copies to warrant more books
in the series, and I'll worry about that issue when I come to it.
Thanks for the comments!
-Rev. Smith
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