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Re: tour of gregor tower begins
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Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:58:54 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org, Greg Howell writes:
> Very cool Craig,
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> These creations always seem to take on a much more mythelogical signifigance
> when people add their stories.
sometimes i think the stories are there in the creations already, we just
have to look for them and write them down.
> Is this tower in any way influenced by an old movie called "In the Name of the
> Rose" (I think thats what it was)
> This movie has an enormous library labrinth. It's pretty good. Sean Connery
> plays a monk.
hadn't really thought of it. great movie though! i was much more into
m.c. escher as direct inspiration. ~ like that ain't obvious!
> Any who, still, the tower is bloody impressive. I hope that the menacing red
> intruder isn't a Van-der-roheian because all that ornate architecture would
> make him/her very, very mad.
"who?" nope, not him! but the intruder is not a happy camper, nonetheless...
> (Mies Van-der-rohe was a famous architect who thought that buildings should
> have little ornimentation. It was saig, the Gothic and Greek revivalist periods
> (late 1800s) made him sick!)
ahhggh! those are my favorite periods! no wonder i never heard of the
guy! i still want to attempt baroque/ rococo styles out of lego! "it's not
done till it's over-done" is often my building battlecry. ;-)
> Greg -mind wandering lost in tower of Gregor -Howell
be carefull, and keep a wizard with you at all times!
later ~ craig~
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