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Re: Merry Christmas from The Brick Testament
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Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:45:56 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Markus Wolf writes:
> Your nativity set is beautiful. It's only unfortunate that you weren't able
> to make the website more family friendly. I would've loved to show some of
> these stories to my kids, if you hadn't chosen to interpret things so
> graphically.
I think Bible imagery has to be really watered-down for it NOT to be
extremely graphic. I chose to pull no punches in my illustrations. Frankly
I'm surprised anyone would want their kids reading that book.
> Would you mind if I copied some of the appropriate slides and made a
> Powerpoint presentation for my after school Lego Club and family?
Go ahead, but please do give all credit for the photos and website to The
Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, and let your audience know that what your'e
showing is only a select portion of the website, and that the rest are
available online at http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament. I'm very
happy that people like my creations, and happy that people want to share
them with others, but I don't want them passed off for something they are not.
> I loved the emperor as Herod. Just as a side, I did my own nativity, not as
> cool as yours, but I had baby Jesus with a 2 x 2 plate instead of legs. The
> down side to your Lego Babies is they seem mutated.
So your Jesus had a normal minifig upper-body, but just a 2x2 plate for
legs? And he didn't look severed at the waist? I realize that my LEGO
babies aren't the most beutiful, but after trying several variations, I went
with what I thought looked best.
> Your shepherds, sheep and especially wisemen were perfect. At first the
> bearded ninja seemed angry. Then again, when the Son of God appeared in the
> flesh, if the wiseguys really were astrologers, they probably had some
> belief re-processing to go through. Maybe I'm getting too deep. It's Lego
> after all.
Well, there's no indication that the wise men ever went through any change
of beliefs. They followed a star, dropped of some gifts, and then left.
They probably weren't even Jews themselves, much less anachronistically
Christian. But yes, it's all just so much speculation. It's the Bible
after all. @8^)
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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| (...) Interesting. I bet the pictures you show from your honeymoon and when your wife has a baby would be pretty intense than also, since you wouldn't want to water down the most significant parts of those events. :O) I also doubt you would teach (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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| Your nativity set is beautiful. It's only unfortunate that you weren't able to make the website more family friendly. I would've loved to show some of these stories to my kids, if you hadn't chosen to interpret things so graphically. Would you mind (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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