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Subject: 
Lego Performance Art - Stealing the "T" at NELUG Greenburg show
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:31:13 GMT
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Hello everyone!

As many people know, I have a model of Tech Tower from Georgia Tech. One of the cool traditions about Tech Tower is the act of Stealing the “T” from the group of letters on the top of the tower. Many attempts have been made over the years, and for some fairly obvious reasons the school administration has been increasingly vigilant in protecting the “T” and stopping these attempts.

Anyway, the neat thing about a model is you can recreate an event without getting arrested. Since my wife (who was the one who went to Tech in our family) never got to steal the “T”, I thought I would make a little story about a (ficticious) “T” stealing attempt out of Lego.

Ok, I actually didn’t think that hard about it. The Tower was being displayed on a NELUG layout at the recent Greenburg Show in Wilmington, MA. In order to make the time a bit more entertaining, and to practice my camera skills, I decided to shoot this lego caper.

Anyway, the full story is up on MOCpages http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/6690 and the photos themselves are in the usual place: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=108917

Also, in case you are interested, the Greenburg Show was a hit for other reasons besides my little vignette. (Actually, I think only a few people noticed it at the show!) We had automation in all corners of the layout, a helicopter, a crane, out usual stunning fairgrounds, and a point-to-point trolley, not to mention the automated train-gates.

While I am sure there will be a write-up on the NELUG website soon, you can look through my pictures of the event here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=106943 and Chris Meeks posted some here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=109239, and he has some of his movies posted there as well.

-Alfred



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