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Re: Danish Brick Testament-esque nativity story
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Date: 
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:48:31 GMT
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Here's an update :-)
They have added this paragraph:

Til almindelig orientering så er det tilsyneladende en hobby for mange, at
lave forskellige LEGO kreationer, fotografere dem og så gøre dem
tilgængelige på Internettet. Hvis du er interesseret i mere LEGO on-line så
kan vi anbefale at du klikker dig hen til www.brickshelf.com hvor der bl.a.
kan findes mange flotte LEGO opsætninger. Specielt vil vi gerne gøre
opmærksom på en række bibelske legoopsætninger lavet af Brendan Powell
Smith - herunder også en anden udgave (på engelsk) af juleevangeliet - klik
her hvis du vil se denne engelske udgave - og klik her hvis du vil se alle
de forskellige bibelske historier, han har lavet med LEGO.



Here:

http://www.ung-jul.church.dk/3_produktionen_af_LE.1196.0.html



Translation into english is something like this:



For general information it is a hobby for at lot of people to make different
LEGO creations, photograph them and make the pictures publicly available on
the Internet. If you are interested in more LEGO on-line, we can recommend
www.brickshelf.com where you can find many great LEGO creations. Especially
would we like to point out a number of biblical LEGO setups created by
Brendan Powell Smith, inluding another version (in english) of the Jesus is
Born story. Click here (links to BrickTestament version) of you want to see
the English version. and click here (links to BrickTestament) if you would
like to see all the different bible stories he made with LEGO.





Hope you can use that Brendan.
--
Carsten Straaberg, Denmark
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=cstr
http://www.lugnet.com/~1722


"The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith" <thereverend@thereverend.com> skrev i en
meddelelse news:H5MxEG.BGB@lugnet.com...
Hi, all.

Someone e-mailed me today to bring my attention to a website that is
"ripping off material" from The Brick Testament:

http://www.ung-jul.church.dk/Englen_Gabriel.1163.0.html

Needless to say, the phrasing of the e-mail was a little disconcerting, so • I
followed the link.  The site is in Danish, so I can't quite tell what's
going on, but it seems to like someone in Denmark is doing something very
similar to The Brick Testament, but not actually pilfering any images from
my site.  I can't claim an exclusive right to illustrating Bible stories • in
LEGO, so this doesn't seem like something to be too concerned over.

An interesting issue, though, is that although this person's illustrations
are originals, their story is plotted out *exactly* as mine is.  I mean, I
did not write the Bible, but I did pick and choose certain passages from
different gospels together in a particular order to tell the "Jesus Is • Born"
story.  From what I can tell, this person seems to be doing an
illustration-for-illustration copy of the way I put together the story. • You
can put two browser windows sides-by-side for some interesting comparisons
such as this one:

http://bricktestament.com/jesus_is_born/lk02_06-07_mt01_25.html
http://www.ung-jul.church.dk/Jul_for_f_rste_gang_.1174.0.html

If anyone who reads Danish could take the time, I'd be interested to know • if
this website recognizes or links to The Brick Testament, and what sort of
larger website this illustrated LEGO story is part of (seems like one run • by
a church?).  Or if anyone knows a website that can transalte Danish to
English, that might help.

Over the past year I have received many offers from people interested in
translating The Brick Testament into their native tongue, including • Chinese,
Portuguese, French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Danish, but no one has ever
followed through.  (I imagine this is partly because it's a pretty • enormous
task, and partly because I do not allow anyone else to host the images • from
The Brick Testament -- I tell them to send all their final work to me, and
if I approve of it, I will put it online for them and give them • translation
credit).

Judging from this page, it seems to be a kid who behind these • constructions:

http://www.ung-jul.church.dk/2_produktionen_af_LE.1195.0.html

I don't want to squelch his creativity -- as rudimentary as some of his
scenes are, there is some clever stuff here.  But I guess I would like to
know whether his material is being presented as a wholly original work • (with
no credit given to The Brick Testament), or as some sort of homage.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's thoughts on this.

-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith



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(...) Hi, Carsten. Thanks for the update! And the translation! While this isn't quite the admission of their basing all their illustrations on mine that I would have preferred, I'm guessing this is probably the best I'm going to get. I do like their (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.loc.dk)

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Hi, all. Someone e-mailed me today to bring my attention to a website that is "ripping off material" from The Brick Testament: (URL) to say, the phrasing of the e-mail was a little disconcerting, so I followed the link. The site is in Danish, so I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.loc.dk)

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