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A small update:
Today, there is an article in the Danish newspaper 'Berlingske Tidende'
about the 'Danish version' of the Brick Testament (in Danish only):
http://www.berlingske.dk/artikel:aid=240330/
The Brick Testament is also mentioned. The article is about the 11 year old
boy Glenn Vejlø, who has created the Holy Ghost in LEGO. In the paper
version of the article, printed on the backside of the main section of the
newspaper, there is a large picture of his Holy Ghost:
http://www.ung-jul.church.dk/Hellig_nden_skal_kom.1169.0.html
The last two paragraps in the article mentions, that Glenn is not the only
one, who has created some of the stories from the Bible. Losely translated
the last two paragraphs is something like:
"But Danish Glenn is not the only one who has tried (creating biblic
stories). An American pop-musician and multi-artist who is calling himself
The Reverend (translation of the word reverend) Brendan Powell Smith has
also used his Lego bricks to tell some of the stories from the Bible. Look
at www.thereverend.com/brick_testament .
He has also tried creating a character, to show us how what the Holy Ghost
looks like in the real physical world. His version of the Holy Ghost reminds
you of what we all think of as a traditional ghost."
According to their own information the Berlingske Tidende have about 500,000
daily readers.
Martin
In lugnet.general, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
> 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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