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Re: 100,000 Views!!! I'm Throwing a Party on LUGNET
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Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:58:54 GMT
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Eric, there are a few people who's creations I dare not look at directly because
they are so complicated, so unfathomable, I fear I may go mad just contemplating
them. You are at the top of the this list.
Many things can be done with LEGO, which is the main reason I like it. I love
that you can create a sculpture of a cartoon character (like Eric H.), or a
giant dinosaur (like Henry L.), or a giant battleship (like Adrian D.).
However, all of these things I feel I could build, given enough parts and time.
There are some fantastic innovations in all of these creations, but one looks at
them and understands what they are, and how they were built, more or less. You
may wonder at the little details and the amount of parts involved, or how you
support something that weighs so much, but because they seem to be built with
basic bricks, you kind of understand how cool and amazing they are immediately.
You realize you PROBABLY couldn't really build it, but some small part of you
thinks "well, if I had a ton of parts and really devoted myself, I could do
that".
However, when I look at some of your robot/biomechanical sculptures, I want to
move on immediately. It's akin to driving in your new car that you saved up for
and researched and finally bought, and a Ferrari Enzo rolls by and drops your
jaw. Certainly it's pretty to look at and appreciate superficially, but you
dare not take a ride or really look closely, because that path leads to madness
and poverty.
I rememeber walking by your blue robot (the big one ... J... :) at Brickfest I
think last year, and my girlfriend asked if it could walk. Now, I had seen your
stuff on Brickshelf and maybe at other Brickfests, but I certainly knew it could
not walk around. If someone had built a LEGO robot that could follow people
around the fest from room to room, certainly that person would be in a hot tub
with supermodels drinking champagne from Waterford crystal glasses, not kindly
and patiently trying to give simple answers to extremely complex questions.
When you stare directly at it and realize what it CAN do, however, how
complicated and lifelike and amazing it is, it disturbs you. When you get home
and look up "Legomaster" on Brickshelf and realize that was only one of dozens
and dozens and dozens of complicated and awesome robots that this guy has built,
well, it's time to go cry into your collection and build a little truck, and
realize you will never be that talented.
So, hat off to you sir, for being one of the best in the world.
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| (...) Gosh wow, I urge you to reconsider. btw, welcome, tea, juice, water, beer or spirits? (...) LMAO, but :( [frown] instead. awwwww. Dave Eaton said the same. (...) All I started with was some blue bricks and a dream. The rest followed like (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.fun.party)
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| I remember my first uploads were done at the offices of Omnipoint. Later to become Voicestream and now T-mobile. I used to look trhough Brickshelf on my down time between hardware resets and when technicians were dispatched to Cell Towers, until (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.fun.party)
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