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Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto Makes the Front Page. Literally.
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Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:00:22 GMT
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Awesome! Great job on the Logo guys. The article was good, its just a shame
there weren't any pictures of robots! A shot of Daves biped or Iains robot
would have been nice. Also, there was no mention of the robot competitions
or train shows. Great publicity though.
Rob
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
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> The December 22nd, 2002 Sunday edition of the Toronto Star features a Lego
> brick mosaic of the paper's banner, in place of the normal banner on the top
> of the front page. It also includes a detailed article about rtlToronto and
> Lego enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as photos of an
> rtlToronto member's creations (Dave Koudys).
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> See the front page and story of how it was built here:
> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/events/lego/lego-122202-index.html
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> See the article about rtlToronto here:
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1035775863435
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> The mosaic was built by rtlToronto members including myself, Derek Raycraft
> and Jeff Van Winden. I worked with the Star art department to get all the
> logos and reduce the graphics to a suitable design that could be built out
> of Lego. Derek then built pretty well all of the mosaic himself except the
> sides, which I put together Friday night. On Saturday morning, we gathered
> and Jeff quickly put together a smaller version by hand, which was used in
> some secondary photos.
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> The project is 231 dots by 24 dots, and roughly five feet long. This was
> because 24 dots was easily made from 32x16 and 32x8 baseplates, and at 24
> pixels high, the distinctive Toronto Star typography was still recognizable.
> It is estimated roughly 3000-4000 bricks went into the construction, which
> took less than 24 hours because of constraints to get the image out to press.
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> The masthead has never, in the modern history of the newspaper, been altered
> in composition in this widespread fashion before. Special permission had to
> be received from the publisher of the paper for this project.
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> The Toronto Star is Canada's largest daily newspaper, with a paid circlation
> of 450,000 copies on Sundays.
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