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Re: Project proposal: Seven Wonders of the LEGO World
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:22:47 GMT
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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 presentation, or will they be updated every so
often to show the ever changing world of Lego Builders. Unlike the 7 wonders,
we are constantly growing.
In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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?
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> The project needs several volunteers:
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> * 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
>
>
> [followups to lugnet.publish]
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