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Re: It's not my "Dark Ages" but what is it?
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Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:00:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Timothy Culberson writes:
> > I found that lots of time spend organizing bricks reduced my non-virtual
> > inspiration as well.
> >
> > My suggestion: buy a $20-30 set and build an alternate model. One of the
> > panelists at MindFest had a great quote, something to the effect that the
> > limitations of "form" actually enhance creativity. By limiting myself to • the
> > pieces in one set, I had to be more creative in using those pieces. It's • been
> > fun recently buying the McDonalds sets and building alternates--talk about
> > limitations.
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> Hmmm.....this just made me think of an exercise I did one time for fun.
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> Before when I had all of my LEGO (see my post "very long super ramble for the
> reason why I don't have my LEGO), I used to keep it all just in a big • rubbermaid
> tub - no sorting at all, just mixed in together. One day after I had been
> building for quite a long time, and all of the LEGO was back in the bucket for • the
> day, I was just sitting there staring at it. After a bit, I just reached in • and
> grabbed two handfuls of pieces without looking and forced myself to build
> something and I had to use ALL of the pieces (remember, EVERYTHING was • included, I
> could have got some plain bricks, some plates, headlights, parts of minifigs • or
> maybe even a whole minifig, etc). I think that I did allow myself to always • have
> one baseplate on hand as a starting point if I wished. It was actually very
> inspiring. Sure, anything that I built looked like a goldfish made it, but it
> forced me to think about what I was going to do with the pieces to make it awe
> inspiring. Later on, I did the same thing over again only my brother was with
> me. Within the simple set of defined rules, we both had to take the same • amount
> of pieces and see which creation turned out better. It was actually quite • fun.
> Maybe you could try something like this. It might sound really dumb, but it
> really make you look at your LEGO pieces in different ways.
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> -Tim Culberson
I've often thought it would be fun to throw a party and just have the big
Rubbermaid tub-o-legos out on the coffee table, just to see what my
non-lego-geek friends and family would come up with.
James
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| (...) Hmmm.....this just made me think of an exercise I did one time for fun. Before when I had all of my LEGO (see my post "very long super ramble for the reason why I don't have my LEGO), I used to keep it all just in a big rubbermaid tub - no (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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