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Re: The pseudo-intellectual ramblings of a cool-guy wanna-be.
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:24:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Felix Greco wrote:
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I was never really sure where to place minifig building amongst everything.
Then I overheard Lar talking to the crowd about the train display at HoB.
They kept asking him, “So is this some town nearby?” And he repeatedly told
them something to the effect of “No, its any-town USA. Its an idea of a
town.”
Something about that statement stuck with me. To merely recreate something
in LEGO is one thing. But to create an interpretation of a town means the
ideas are filtered through the creator’s mind. You’re not just building a
town-- its some version of what a town seems like in your head.
Thats probably a no-brainer for everyone at lugnet. But it is a means of
self expression and thus... well, you see where I’m going.
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No, I see where you’re going. The minute it’s ‘any-town’ instead of
‘town-xyz’, you’ve gone from being someone who objectively (so to speak)
observes things around them and then builds stuff accordingly, to someone who
interprets what he sees according to his own world view. That makes the
key difference here. CMIIW.
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Even selective compression is a form of that. If you can EVOKE the look of (for
example) Cincinatti Union Terminal without having as many tracks or asmany
columns on the front of the headhouse, you’ve succeeded artistically, I feel...
Evoking something (a terminal that one viewer sees as Chicago’s and another as
Houston’s, just to make two up, no idea how similar they are) that sends
different messages to different viewers is even harder but just evoking one
thing is still an achievement, IMHO.
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