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Re: The Brick Testament - The Teachings of Jesus
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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:46:54 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Continuing on:
Wealth - I like that shelf solution using clips. How is the screen attached
on the computer? It looks like it’s attached to a steering wheel piece.
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Good call. I hadn’t realized that you can pull the steering wheel off of its
base. But be careful if you try this. One out of the three wheels I pulled off
broke a piece of the base off with it.
The computer screen tile is then just precariously balanced on the nub that held
the steering wheel. I’m not sure if that nub “fits” any other LEGO parts
securely, but I did jam a black “lightsaber blade” piece into the center of a
steering wheel so that the sports car I made for this story would have a
steering wheel in the last photo. But at the angle I took the photo, it turns
out you can’t see the wheel, just the altogether-too-long steering column.
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In the yard sale the block of books on the right looks a little odd,
espeically since it’s a mix of 1x2’s and 2x2’s.
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Yeah, that looks pretty crappy. I was hoping nobody’s eyes would be
particularly drawn to that, but I really should have made that look better. I
was imaging that as their vinyl album collection, so the 1x2’s don’t even make
sense. Maybe they’re long box CDs. Arenh’t those collector’s items nowadays?
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This is the second time you’ve used this technique of bending
a head up for someone laying down - interesting - I think it was
better in the previous instance where they were dead, since it
seems an unnatural angle.
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I’ve used that technique a few other times in previous Bible stories to depict
dead people who have perhaps had their necks broken. You’re right that this is
the first time I’ve had a living person in this pose, but I kind of liked it for
a down-and-out street dude.
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Why just the one fleshy fig on the divorced
woman while yellow everywhere else?
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I guess for all the modern scenes in The Brick Testament, I am equating the more
standard yellow minifig “skin” color with what is commonly referred to in our
culture as “white”, and the less common minifig skin colors are meant to
represent non-“whites”. I guess I think of most of these modern scenes as
taking place in the USA, so “white”, which is to say yellow, is the majority
skin color.
This is different (and admittedly, perhaps conflicting) with what I’ve done in
the ancient Bible stories, where yellow is meant to portray a more golden-toned
Middle Eastern skin color, and the more pink-skinned minifigs are supposed to
represent the lighter-skinned Greeks and Romans.
In each case though, I’ve used the yellow figs as the majority skin color mostly
for practical reasons--there are far more possible minifig facial expressions to
choose from in yellow than any other color, and I think the yellow minifig is
still the most iconic and instantly recognizeable as a LEGO person.
But mainly I chose that pink-skinned LEGO woman’s face because I thought it was
cool, fit the story well, and was one I haven’t had the chance to use before.
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Castration - Ouch! That face just says it all, doesn’t it? Perfect choice.
My favorite detail is probably the toilet paper roll behind him. I wish I
could see the toilet itself.
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I was pretty pleased with how that bathroom came out. I’m not sure if it’s
still intact, but I should take a photo of it with the amenities in focus.
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Self mutilation - This may be my favorite of your redone lessons. In the
first pic that’s the perfect face eyeing the well-endowed fig.
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I meant to give a shoutout to the person whose bikini idea I borrowed, but I
couldn’t find it on LUGNET or Brickshelf when I went to look.
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Law of Moses - In the first pic, why is Jesus holding the scroll upside down?
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Upside down? Oh, you’re used to reading things left to right, but Hebrew is
written right to left. :)
OK, OK, actually, it just seemed more natural to have Jesus holding the side of
the scroll that is rolled up. I can’t believe I still haven’t gotten that new
2x2 tile scroll piece that you pointed out months ago. Shame on me.
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I really like that customized hairpiece on the boss. That scene looks very
much like something from Office Space.
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Yep, that scene was based on a freeze-frame from the movie. I happened to have
already cut a hairpiece into a decent facsimile of Lumbergh’s hair.
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Good Papal balcony and LOL at his hat.
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It took me a while to figure out where to have the Pope. I thought of having
him visiting Bush in the Oval Office, but that didn’t look quite right. And I
don’t know if people would recognize the interiors of the Vatican. Then I
vaguely remembered that the Pope sometimes goes out on a balcony, so I Google
Image searched for “Pope balcony” and voila.
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Looking forward to future installments.
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As am I. :)
-Brendan
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