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Re: 100,000 Views!!! I'm Throwing a Party on LUGNET
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Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:25:04 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.party, Jason Rowoldt wrote:
> 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.
Gosh wow, I urge you to reconsider.
btw, welcome, tea, juice, water, beer or spirits?
> 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.
LMAO, but :( [frown] instead.
awwwww.
Dave Eaton said the same.
> 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.
All I started with was some blue bricks and a dream. The rest followed like
magic. Donations and sponsors saved the day, or the bot, whichever your prefer.
> 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.
If you program it, the robot will do as you command.
"kindly and patiently trying to give simple answers to extremely complex
questions" is all I can do so people can cope with the magnatude of the robot.
Your post is an example. People shy away when it takes effort to understand.
I simply want people to enjoy the possibilities the LEGO system offers.
> When you stare directly at it and realize what it CAN do, however, how
> complicated and lifelike and amazing it is, it disturbs you.
The realization has always been there, from the very first TECHNIC sets.
It's up to you and I to explore the possibilities. OR allow the artist to delve
in to this strange madness. You sit back and enjoy.
> 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.
LMAO, honest, I have felt like that when seeing some of the creations at Fan
Displays on Brickshelf as well as the various Cons and Fan Fests.
Let it inspire rather than quelch your own ideas.
> So, hat off to you sir, for being one of the best in the world.
I hope to earn it, not compete or assume. I try, and I simply enjoy building.
Add to that some good fortune, good friends that encourage me, as well as my
desire to share with other people. There you have it. Either way, wow, thank
you.
Here is your drink. I have to flip the mix tape.
e
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