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Re: The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:54:19 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
> In lugnet.build.ancient, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
> > It's like Christmas, to unwrap such nice gifts...
>
> Ho, ho, ho. @8^)
OT: Love "Vendetta", talking about Santas with you can only give that Santa.
> 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.
Glad to hear your human .)
> > 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?
It was just me who got the impression we were in the year 18xx from the auction
pic and the first one to tell me otherwise was this. Now when I looked at them
again with modern society (almost) it's no jumping at all. Kinda' forgot you
make the Laws in modern day - which is great BTW.
> > 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.
Hm... Is this OnLine somewhere? I'd like to see it.
> > 18-3 "..no TV for week." Must not comment on language, must not...
>
> Actually, it's much appreciated. Fixed it up just now.
That's why I did (not) do it. It's always a little scary to dive in unknown
waters. When I (who has English as a second language) comments on English to a
native (?) speaker it could be that I don't know enough to spot that the error
in fact is quite valid or common "talked" language.
> > 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).
I actually think the first smile works, she tries to look firendly when meetign
the elders, the smile itself looks a little forced on that minifig. So, it came
across as if she tried to get the elders on her side while being in tremendous
pain for "killing" her own son.
Wow. Can I actually read all that from a minifig smile? Think I need a life...
> > 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)
LOL!
> > 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.
I saw that; Bruce: Nice pipe!
:)
> > 5-2 The sudden death of Jethro, ROFL!
>
> It's the traditional Brick Testament way to go. @8^)
And don't ever mess with that fact!
> > :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:
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> http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=granulated
>
> For a couple hundred dollars you could make a half-decent forrest. @8^)
Aoch! No wonder I never noticed them before :)
> > :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.
It's like comics, it change a lot if you prefer the new strips too the old, you
hardly recognize the carachters. But if you follow it chronological you don't
notice how it improves.
I'd prefer new "episodes" in front of remakes anyway.
> > When to Stone Your Whole Family
> >
> > 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.
I'm sure you'll do. In fact, I hope you do :)
> > Religious Tolerance
> >
> > 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."
Would not such thinking brake some other law thus getting him stoned?
> > 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.
*If* you get to do another book, perhaps they will let you decide more.
> Thanks for the comments!
Your most welcome! In fact, I like writing them, makes me study the scenes a lot
more thus picking up neat things in my mental building technique database.
/Tobbe
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