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Who's ready for a challenging and fun group project?!
I'm lookin' at the new LUGNET homepage and thinkin' that we oughtta have a
special area which captures the spirit, imagination, and dedication of LEGO
builders and wraps it up in a Nice Neat Package with a Bowtie -- something
for outsiders, naysayers, friends, family, employers, journalists, and people
trapped in a LEGO blackout or dark-age. Something to sweep the world off its
feet!
By "Seven Wonders" I mean seven very different and _really truly amazing_
creations -- things that knock your socks off even if you're not a True
Believer in The LEGO Way. :-)
Here are some examples of what I mean:
* Giant sculptures (like the ones by Eric Harshbarger)
* Huge, detailed LEGO Train layouts (like the ones by GMLTC & PNLTC, etc.)
* Beautiful, breathtaking computer-generated imagery (like what people do with
LDraw and POV-Ray)
* Amazing things with LEGO Mindstorms (like Jin Sato's "MIBO")
* Giant minifig-scale cities
* Datsville
* Mecha that "strike fear the hearts of men"
* Giant LEGO castle setups (like Ed Boxer's castle or NELUG's TCS display)
* Dennis Bowman's second-to-none trucks and construction machinery
* Shaun Sullivan's AT-ST and all the chicken-leg and other technical research
he put into it and documented at his site
* Amazing collections of hand-painted minifigs (like the ones made by Craig
Hamilton and Dennis Chidley)
* Karim Nassar's "microfig"-scale Star Wars models
* The Ancient Building Theme contest
...and so forth and so on! :)
Is this something you would be interested in contributing to?
The project needs several volunteers:
* one or more scouts to find the shining examples of what our community has
to offer, and to get permission from the creators of each to do a page or
two of write-up or story, with photos (possibly recropped or image-enhanced
as appropriate)
* an art director with experience in the publishing industry who has an eye
for what makes a good zinger image and can take a good image and make it
look super-great (by cropping, image-enhacing, etc. -- whatever it takes)
* a writer/editor who can produce high-quality, professional-sounding text
from notes, outlines, photos, etc.
* someone fluent in building FTX webpages on LUGNET
* a project leader to coordinate/guide discussions, generate enthusiam, make
tough inclusion/exclusion decisions, etc.
Selection of content is a distinct first "half" of this -- where input from
many brains is needed. Ideally, each of the seven choices would cover two
or more aspects of the hobby -- for example, "awesome ray-tracing" and
"awesome mecha" might be combined by showing a ray-traced mecha, or, OTOH,
maybe the most fear-striking mecha is from real photos and something like
Datsville is a better ray-tracing choice.
But even before selecting categories or stuff to feature, it would be good to
step back and brainstorm up a big list of all the things that people do with
LEGO -- and that list would also make a great Appendix. This list would be
Step One.
I can't spend much time on this, but I'll definitely be able to help get the
web area established and running for this. That is, if people are interested.
--Todd
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| (...) employers, journalists, and people trapped in a LEGO blackout or (...) I always said the homepage needed some great pics, and this could add them. Sounds like a great idea! If you got more than seven pages (and to leave room for additional (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Hmmmm...don't know what I have to offer...I doubt I have the requisite qualifications....BUT... (...) Sounds like a press kit or "Internet Grand Opening"... If you are considering expending this much effort on a "neat little package" (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) OK I hope you don't mind me showing my colors but how about the NELUG Star Wars Display. Particularly this picture: (URL) is by far my favorite picture of what I consider one of the best Non-train group projects set for public display. If that (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Neat idea. I'd love to see it happen but not a lot of time for helping out. (...) I was happily nodding my head and going "yep, that would be a good one" till I got to this one: (...) Huh??? I think I may have slept through something when this (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| I would like to volunteer my services, however you can make use of me. As it turns out I have lots of time during the day to search out web pages. Maybe a scout position is open? Anything else I can do please let me know. Will this be a static (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I'm game! (...) Mmmm.... sounds great!! (...) ...yes. (...) Sounds good to me, in a week I'll be back to Boston and school (which'll be relaxing in comparision) and will have enuff time to do this. (...) This is something I could easily do, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Yes! (...) I can help out in either (or both) of these two areas. I don't have a lot of experience, but I'm willing to work at them. I'm good at proofreading, and can at least help with that. This will be a very exciting project and I look (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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