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Re: The Brick Testament: The Book of Joshua Concludes
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:33:54 GMT
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Hi, Lenny.
Hey, remember when we first met in person at BrickFest PDX, and we talked about
how people’s visages don’t always match up to how you’ve pictured them in your
mind? And since your name on LUGNET always appears in the header as “Leonard
Hoffman”, I had pictured you, based only on the sound of your name, as a
upper-crusty and all-too-proper Englishman who would walk around holding a
saucer of tea and wearing a monocle? We all had a laugh, and then somebody
pointed out that it would be totally cool if somebody habitually wore not just
one, but two monocles, one on each eye. I still think that would be totally
awesome--but it didn’t strike me until a few weeks later that two monocles =
bionocle!!!
Well, anyhow, you probably don’t remember any of this. @8^)
In lugnet.build.ancient, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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This photo
is simply beautiful. So much emotion wrapped up in there - almost as if you
pitty Joshua in that photo. Being a conqueror will take something out of
you, and this photo just has a sense of tired sadness to it. Excellent.
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Thanks. I do like how that photo turned out. It’s odd how after a long career
of massacring other peoples and taking their lands, it seems that Joshua goes
off to his own plot of land, rebuilds a city (by himself?), and seemingly lives
there alone for many years. There’s not really any mention of what Joshua does
for all those years at Timnath Serah--no mention of him having any family or
even friends nearby. We finally catch up with Joshua when he is a hundred and
ten years old, must sense his impending death, and decides to gather all Israel
together for one last dire (and prophetic) warning not to @%&# with Yahweh.
So in this photo I wanted there to be a sense of both great loneliness,
wearniess, and foreboding. Presumably Joshua is making the trek from his
solitary existence in Timnath Serah to the gathering at Schechem. Most outdoor
shots in The Brick Testament use the blue-sky piece of posterboard for a generic
background. To give this a more storms-a-gatherin’ look in these shots, I have
the posterboard arcing greatly toward the camera. This kept a good amount of
overheard light on Joshua in the foreground, but cast a shadow on everything
beyond him and gave the hills in the distance a strange look. I think my arm
holding the posterboard in place also blocked some light. So it was part by
design and part luck how it turned out.
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And a question: in the Masacre of the Anakim - are these the giant people
from the Wilderness stories? In the
earlier story, it just calls them ‘children of the giant.’ Or did you
postulate that because the Anakim live near Hebron that they are the same?
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Yes, the Hebrew word “anak” (literally “long-necked”, I believe) is synonymous
with the noun form of the English word “giant”. If you look a
few panels father in the “Giants in the Pormised Land Story”, these giants are
indeed referred to there as “Anakim” as well, meaning basically, the
“descendants of Anak” or the “descendants of the Giant”. And then
a few panels later, it is explained that the Anakim are “giants descended from
the Nephilim”, and the Nephilim (literally “the fallen”), as we all remember,
are first mentioned in the
“Sons
of God” story way back in Genesis.
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Always excellent work, always funny with a bit of seriousness. Excellent!
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Thanks!
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PS. A friend found yer book at Barnes and Nobles and asked if I had it yet -
and I happily told her that I actually got to meet you. She was very
impressed by the photography and story-telling she saw. Long story short, it
seems I will be getting a copy of the book without having to pay for it.
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Wait, so you’re going to shoplift it?!
;)
Thanks for passing on that story--it’s always good to hear how the book goes
over among non-AFOLs. Glad she liked it!
-Brendan
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