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Re: The Brick Testament: The Full Extent of The Law
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Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:30:13 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
> Wohoo!
Weeee!
> What not to eat
> :4 I thought camels had two humps?
Some have one, others have two. My LEGO camels have one, because two would be
very hard to fit on there and keep it in scale with minifigs.
> :5 I like that wall paper, but the wall is kind of clean? Not that level of
> detail I'm used to. I'm spoiled, I really am!
Clean? You'd prefer I use my old dirty LEGO? Just kidding. I assume you meant
that the walls lack any adornment in the way of paintings, etc. I suppose
you're right. But it might have distracted people from the focus of the shot:
the steaming hot plate of freshly cooked hyrax.
> :6 LOL! Love the couch! The 'what you call it' bench thing is cool too.
Thanks. I believe it's called a "secretary desk".
> :8 Love the bacon!
Who doesn't love bacon?
Oh yeah... apparently God...
> :9 I can hear the White Stripes music :)
Scene from their new video: Fell in Love with a Fish.
> :10 Nice scene!
Thanks. I was happy with the underwater look here, and how the guy looks like
he's just floating there. Whoops, I just realized he should be wearing
flippers.
> :29 Love the turtle!
I like how the turtle came out. Looking back, I think the snail and lizard are
lackluster, but I really didn't know how to make a better lizard that would be
in scale to the other creatures. Sigh...
> :42 I'm sure a 'fleeb' in that pic would have turned a few .spacers toward your
> work :)
There's just no appeasing the .spacers.
> 7:26 What is that vase?
The bottom is an upside-down trans-blue 1x1 round plate, and on top of it is
um... I don't know the name of this piece. It's the same thing Adrian Drake
used in trans red to surround the landing pad of his Rigel 7 casino:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tremor/Ground/rigel7/dscn0664.jpg
> :27 Nice punchline!
Happy Halloween!
> Fashion
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> Lv 19:27 Love the background! And it has never been so obvious that the minifigs
> don't have ears!
Not unless they're Yoda, Jar-Jar, or Dobby.
> Like the hair trimmer too, it works better here than as a
> locust.
It's a Locust(TM) brand Trim-O-Matic(R).
> :27-2 I like the razor! Don't want to get cut on it though .) How did you do the
> mirror image?
The "mirror" is just a standard window, I just set up a mirror-image minifig on
the other side to create the illusion. If you look closely, you can see that
the "razor" is actually not a perfect mirror-image. This is because I wanted
the squared-off edge to be the more prominent one on both sides of the mirror.
Looks more like a razor that way.
It was a day or so after I photographed this that I realized that I had a
decently relecting actual LEGO mirror in my collection. Whoops. I like my
solution better, though.
> :28 Yikes! Now that's a law I won't brake! :) Like the coffin. The stone in the
> background is a perfect touch!
I like the look of the coffin, though it's a bit out of scale. Or you just have
to assume that it's a child inside.
> :28-2 Love that chair! How did you do that one?
Well, you can see the hinge that's facing out. There's two of those, and in
between them is two 1 x 2 x 2 panels:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4864
And it's propped up on something or other to give it a little height off the
floor.
> Looks like the barber shop
> doubles as a tattoo parlor .)
This is uncommon in Sweden? @8^)
> Lending money
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> Ex 22:24 Yeah, right! I like the desk and computer. The vault is so-so since
> it's not very realistic but at the same time a neat touch. Love the floor!
> Perhaps a minifig lever/antenna stick would have worked as monitor cable?
It's all wireless at banks these days. They can afford it with the interest
rates that the gentiles have to pay.
> Male Genital Injury
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> Dt 23:1 Don't even get me started on the pain... The white glove thing and
> hat/helmet is great! Perhaps a jump/hinder in the background?
I thought of putting a jump in there, but was worried that people might not
recognize what it was, with the picture being that much of a close-up on the
genital injury.
> :1-2 Yikes!
He got Bobbitted!
> Miscellaneous Laws
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> Dt 22:11 I like the background, however the amount of blur on the farmer and the
> farm is about the same, so the distance thing don't work as well as it should.
You're right. It's sometimes very tricky to get just the right amount of focus
on just the right parts of the images.
> How did you get the trees to look like the stand next to the farm?
The one on the right *is* standing next to the farm, and the one to the left of
that is a larger granulated tree resting on its side.
> Ex 23:19 The kicthen looks great and I adore the big pot with the boiling milk!
Yeah, I have a LEGO cauldron, but it wasn't big enough to hold the piece I
wanted to use to give the impression of boiling milk.
That's such a bizarre law. But from what I understand, it is the sole basis for
orthodox Jews not eating meat and dairy products together. I don't get it.
(Anybody following up on this, please FUT: off-topic.debate, I guess.)
> How to Keep the Law
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> Dt 6:6-7 Nice play room!
Thanks. I finally got a chance to use the cool Duplo mosaic tiles for the
floor.
> :7 Nice table and couch. Is the wall dark red?
The walls are earth orange. I don't remember if I'd seen someone else do the
glass table thing first.
> :7-2 Nice town, I don't want to know what's standing in the phone booth (or is
> that a display doll in a shopping window, yeah it must be?)!
It's just a mannequin. Not all that frightening, unless it reminds you of the
1987 Andrew McCarthy movie.
> The trolley works and must have been a pain to find a good version of.
I thought you meant trolley as in "an above ground light rail transportation
system". Then I realized you meant the baby carriage. @8^) It's kind of on
the large size, but I'm glad it comes across.
> :8 I suppose the girls head-plate is stuck in the invisible corner?
Of course! I would never use sticky gum to cheat. Right?
> Why to Keep the Law
>
> Dt 28:15 I like the bench with the coffe machine. Took me a while to figure out
> how the table is made.
Yeah, I was surprised that 2 x 2 tiles fit over those sideways cabinet things
properly. Makes for a counter that's a good height for a minifig.
> :63, 27 Are those marks PS or pen?
All the extra mark-ups in this series are PhotoShopped in. (I'm using PhotoShop
as a generic verb here and elsewhere. I do use Photoshop sometimes, but more
often it's Paint Shop Pro.)
> Yahweh is cruel :)
The Old Testament in a nutshell.
> :35, 27 That's a scene that makes me feel a little ill, honestly.
Then I have accomplished what I set out for with that illustration. Somehow
just reading that passage in the Bible doesn't have quite the same effect as
seeing it boldly illustrated.
> :22 Ah, the markings are moving around on the body :)
That's the tip-off that it's PS, I suppose.
> :53 Would make a great B-movie.
Who knew the Bible had zombies?
Well, I guess it's not that uncommon for the dead to come back to life in the
Bible. But they don't necessarily then start eating human flesh. (Or did Jesus
ever take communion in his post-ressurection state?)
> :26 The bird-eye view of things, eh? :)
Heh. @8^)
> :45 Yahweh is hillarious in this shot! Love the excess helmet ribs.
He doesn't look like he's "taking delight" here so much as he is just "taking
care of business". Then again, I can't really show my LEGO Yahweh smiling, what
with the beard and all...
> Following Your Own Moral Compass
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> Dt 29:19 I thing I have to build a micro-scale city, those are cool!
> :20 I had no idea the flames connected like that! That's amazingly cool! Imagine
> how useful that can be with wizards and in SW-scenes! (perhaps it's known
> already and I've been living under a rock lately, which is not far from the
> truth when it comes to castle and SW)
I couldn't believe it either when I figured this out! Are Tobbe and I just
slow-learners? Was this common knowledge? This would have been so useful to
know when I was illustrating The Wilderness, and Yahweh was shooting fire and
everyone and his brother. Almost makes me want to go back and reillustrate, but
I must... trudge... forward...
> I hope this was not the end your modern day settings!
It may be, at least for a long time now. I don't know what else in the Bible
would be fit to set in modern day times until I eventually illustrate the
Revelation of John. But I think I'm going to hold off for a while on that. I
remember that there's the occasional line from Kings (or maybe it's Chronicles)
that such-and-such is still the case *to this very day*. So there may be a
modern-times panel here or there in stories to come, but this is likley to be
the last for a while.
> Keep the good work coming, I see you've gathered some momentum now!
I'm happy that putting out the book hasn't slowed down progress on the website
too much, but I may take a little break now to turn my attention to some other
projects I've been neglecting. But I promise it won't be too long before I
start the next section of illustrated Bible stories. There's still so many
great sstories to come...
Thanks for the comments!
-Rev. Smith
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