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Hello everyone!
This year’s Mecha Pose
Contest 2005 has been a great success!
Our the Curators sincere thanks to
those who entered.
The Contest deadline is Friday June 17th 2005.
Please get your entries in by 12:00 midnight if you would still like to
participate.
You never know.... you could win one of our
fabulous prizes!
About the contest
Awhile back when I started the ZRX1 Frame development with Marcus Clancy, I
began posing the armature much like I had done with all the other Mecha I
created over the years.
Except, because of its size and inherent posability, it reminded me of how much
I enjoyed posing my other mechs. Moreso, it made me think about a part of the
building process we don’t often discuss here. That is posing the mech itself.
I know from many years of building that one of the fun parts of building Mecha
with LEGO is, posing it. The poses a Mech can perform is a big part of the
enjoyment for me. Setting up the Mech to seem like you have caught it in still
life. Causing the viewer to see the captured moment. Showing what the creation
is capable of.
I know when I would set up my Mechs for display or even to show a friend, the
challange of setting up the Mech, then putting it in to a pose that conveys the
personality of the creation was a big part of the satisfaction.
Your Mech doesn’t have to be super flexable, or even if it takes you time to set
it up so it is stable, what matters is the subtle way you tilt the head, or
pivot the wrist. This gives the impression of still life. Seeing an inanimate
object set up in a way that brings life, emotion and or movement to an
otherwise dead or stagnent object.
Now you and I or other people familiar with this know half the fun is in our
minds. We know the coolness we had hoped to create. We know the life that exists
within the Mech we created. Its all about imagination.
Posing your Mech to seem like its reaching out of that stagnent realm is what
inspired this contest.
That and the fact that some of the enjoyment that comes from LEGO Mecha
construction, is infact the poses you later put your creation in to, bringing
the Mech to the next level. From a pile of bricks to a well thought out
construction, having both feeling and emotion. Through the poses.
Like I said, we talk about the parts, we talk about what we like and don’t like,
but seldom do we talk about or just simply post about poses.
I for one, would love to see people re-post their MOCs with a new pose you may
have discovered. Sure we build, yes we look, but the fun does not stop there.
Many times I personnaly have built something, posed it out, then took pics,
uploaded, posted, said Hi and Thanks, then discover a cool pose 10 min later.
OH SSNIZZZAP - dat’s the bomb pose! Why didn’t I think of that before!
I like to bring the ZRX1 frame to my friends houses or when I go to hang out.
I sit and study the human form. Sometimes I have my dancer friends pose and
challange me to emulate what they can do with their bodies.
Martial Arts, everyday stances. I like em all. That’s what this contest is
about.
It was also our hope to have photograpghy play a part in the contest.
I mean duhhh right, but seriously, a pose is only appreciated when seen from the
angle we the builders know is best. Or painting a picture of unmistakeable
origin. Setting up the viewer for a glimpse in to the world of the fantastic. A
place where our creations live.
So this contest is 50% Pose 50% Photography and 50% Emotion.
Wait that’s 150% right? Well if your counting this contest is not for you.
The idea is what matters.
So with that I give you the entries for the
Mecha Pose Contest 2005!
Eric Sophie
Mark Neumann
Mecha Newsgroup Curators
Many thanks to Greg Muri of http://www.hookedonbricks.com/ for his contest
prize sponsorship.
Small Mecha Entries
Jon Walden
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Leonard Hoffman
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Anthony Sava
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Marco Tagliaferri
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Angus MacLane
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Medium Mecha Entries
Jon Walden
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Nathan Wells
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Matt Smither
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Lee Magpili
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Marco Tagliaferri
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Large Mecha Entries
Dan Thompson
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Ka-On Lee
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Brian Cooper
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Adam Silcott
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Mecha Pose Contest 2005!
The Contest deadline is Friday June 17th 2005.
Please get your entries in by 12 midnight.
You never know.... you could win one of our
fabulous prizes!
You still have time, remember, new and old mechs can apply, you just need a cool
new picture. Bots, robots, mechs, whatever.
After the weekend, Mark and I will announce the contest winners.
Thank you.
Eric Sophie
Co-curator lugnet.build.mecha
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| We the curators of .mecha are hosting a mecha pose contest. Wassat? See it here: (URL) long and short of it is this: Take a mecha creation, new or old, and take a new pic of it. Most striking imaginative poses count. Categories are Large, Medium, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.technic.bionicle) !!
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