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Re: New Mosaic: Map of the USA
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lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest
Date: 
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:51:12 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Chris Maddison writes:
> That is absolutely stunning.  This is the coolest thing I've seen so far
> this year, lego or otherwise.

Well sure, but we're only 12 days into the year, so that's not saying much.

> 
> Great idea for a subject matter too - cool and functional.  It'll be
> interesting to see the map after everyone's stuck their dots on.

Yeah, me too.  Too bad the internationals aren't recognized, but a world map
would be, well, monstrous.

> 
> Eagerly awaiting to adorn Iowa,
> -Chris

Reminds me, I forgot to dot Cleveland with the first dot :)

Adrian

> 
> 
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Adrian Drake writes:
> > Here's my latest project, which I've been working on for two months now.
> > It's a large scale mosaic of a map of the United States of America.  the
> > reasoning behind building this was I wanted to bring it to the various
> > fests, and allow people to place 1x1 dots or something similar on the map to
> > show where they're from.  Since it weighs so much, I'm unsure if I can get
> > it to Brickswest, as shipping would be pretty expensive.  It WILL be coming
> > to Brickfest though, since I can drive there.
> > 
> > Anyway, enough blabbing.
> > 
> > http://www.brickfrenzy.com/sculpture_map.html
> > 
> > Adrian
> > --
> > http://www.brickfrenzy.com



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  Re: New Mosaic: Map of the USA
 
(...) Very nice, but some of the internationals beat you to it. Is it any wonder your map is to scale with my map of the UK (a miniscule 48 x 64 studs) j/k lugnet.loc.uk:8040 (URL) though, yours has an impact that mine could never achieve. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)

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  Re: New Mosaic: Map of the USA
 
That is absolutely stunning. This is the coolest thing I've seen so far this year, lego or otherwise. Great idea for a subject matter too - cool and functional. It'll be interesting to see the map after everyone's stuck their dots on. Eagerly (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)

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