Staggeringly Amazing Church of Lego 215
rcharbon writes: "This link brings you to yet another of the web's compulsive personalities. Almost 18 months in the making, the lego church is astonishing. Christened as a monument to dead cats, no less." I know we post Lego things often, but this is an amazing project from Groundbreaking ceremony to completion. I was especially impressed with the mosaic works. The artist also has a number of other Lego works to check out while you're at it.
Delusional (Score:1, Funny)
Brings up thoughts of Misery.
Re:Delusional (Score:4, Funny)
What would be really scary is if all the parisoners were identical -- white robes, no hair, maybe with a tub of KoolAid in the corner... (I had no idea Lego made so many different people)
A slightly -less- serious religious lego project (Score:4, Interesting)
The Brick Testament [thereverend.com]
Very funny, if a bit irreverent . . .
Re:A slightly -less- serious religious lego projec (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/the_fl
(there's not supposed to be a space in 'flo od', I don't know why Slashdot is putting one there, but the link works)
The guy in the striped shirt is a mime, but his face is too blurry to see that it's painted white. And yes, that's Jar Jar back there, and a guy in a tree stump, and an unfortunate sheep...
Re:A slightly -less- serious religious lego projec (Score:1)
There goes an hour or two.
Hilarious.
Re:A slightly -less- serious religious lego projec (Score:2)
Funny stuff.
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted! (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Slashdotted! (Score:5, Informative)
1) Overhead of the Church [realfx.com]
2) The Altar [realfx.com]
3) Lego Priest giving a sermon [realfx.com]
4) Lego Organ Pipes [realfx.com]
5) Her cat, Precious, inside the church [realfx.com] (you'd think laying on legos would be uncomfortable!)
Should I be amazed or afraid?!
Laying on Legos (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted! (Score:2, Funny)
It seems though that some racial profiling was done when selecting the people for this church.
Re:Slashdotted! (Score:4, Funny)
You all watch too much Simpsons. In the real world, white people aren't yellow.
Re:Slashdotted! (Score:1)
All lego are yellow, not white.
Thank you! I propose the SlashCache (tm) (Score:2, Funny)
Correct Link (Score:3, Informative)
You should be going here: http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/
Kaboom (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kaboom (Score:1)
Re:Kaboom (Score:1)
Re:Kaboom (Score:1)
Yikes. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yikes. (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Yikes. (Score:2)
or how about harnessing the value of the slashdot effect for good? Get a site promoting (insert evil cause here)? - just slashdot it!
Re:Yikes. (Score:5, Funny)
Overview
The CERN/CC has received reports of a new web DOS attack, called the Distributed Slashdot Denial Of Service attack. Rather than depending on exploits readily found in certain HTTP servers, this attack utilizes social engineering to bring down sites that appeal to the technically savvy. Within minutes of the target site's URL being posted on a publicly accessible web site [slashdot.org], the target site is bombarded with connection requests. This can result in the complete blocking of even the most robust web farms.
Workaround
Re:Yikes. (Score:2)
And how would you end up on
*grin*
Re:Yikes. (Score:2, Insightful)
Clearly you are not a nerd.
Re:Yikes. (Score:2)
'Twas sarcasm.
Just watch out... (Score:4, Funny)
Easily spotted... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
> not forget: they ARE toys, and no matter how
>impressive the result of this guy's obsession is,
>it's hardly of major theological importance.
what if he built a lego tower all the way to heaven? or what if he built a lego ark big enough to hold two of every animal? or what if he sent a lego half way across the ocean in the belly of a fish? or what if he turned lego's into blood? or what if there were burning legos that talked? or what if... ok that is enough of the ridiculous bible stores.
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Don't give the mindstorm people more ideas... hmm.. TTS chip, speaker, butane tank / valve, large coil for spark..
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Just my opinion. I'll ask Him when I see Him.
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Re:Just watch out... (Score:2)
Tim
the /. effect (Score:4, Interesting)
Mod up the above... (Score:1)
Re:the /. effect - Criteria for link non-posting (Score:1)
2) Cheezy colour scheme
3) Obviously "personal project" type page
4) "Server IIS running on Windows NT x.x"
Others?
Re:the /. effect (Score:2)
Re:the /. effect (Score:2)
A modest proposal (Score:1, Offtopic)
Hapless Victim: Hello?
Cmdr Taco: Hey, I about to post a link to your site which will cause it to get blitzed, causing your ISP to charge you big bucks for bandwidth usage. Howz about you pay me to cache it instead...
Ya get the idea...
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:1, Offtopic)
In the last Q&A CmdrTaco and Hemos held, this question brought up, and the simple answer is, they cant, because of copyright issues
Would a caching proxy really constitute a copyright infringement? Does the one in my house, or the one at the office? What about the ones that many ISPs set up to cut down on their upstream bandwidth costs? How about the browser cache on every computer? For that matter, what about the Google cache?
My theory is that /. doesn't want to increase their own bandwidth consumption when they can let others handle part of the load they generate.
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:3, Insightful)
Still, I think that /. would want to run ads or have subscriptions pay for each page view. I certainly think that it is one thing for someone to simple cache a page. It is another to cache it and show your own ads.
I don't think that Taco & Co. are worried enough about this problem to do anything about it. If they were they would have done something long ago. The copyright problem seems like an excuse. It would be a simple thing for them to contact small site owners and ask for permission to take a snapshot of a portion of a site and leave it up for a few days. They could even show the sites own ads in addtion to any ads that non /. subscribers see. Heck, if /. actually made $$ they could pay small sites a bit for the right to cache their content for a while.
Interestingly at least two stories today were from small sites that got hammered within seconds of hitting the front page. In fact, all the Lego (tm) stories that I can remember recently got /.ed so fast that I had to wait until a day or two later to view them.
I don't seem how anyone is harmed by temporary caching if done with some thought, do you?
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:2)
geocities.com/someguy123/manganatalieportmanleg
Tim
Re:/. effect solution? (Score:2)
Tim
One day... (Score:1)
How Much? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How Much? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How Much? (Score:1)
When bought in bulk and buying just bricks, you can get them for a little less than if you buy full sets (with lots of specialized pieces). Check out Lego Shop-At-Home [lego.com] for exact prices.
(I haven't been able to get to the featured site, so I have no idea how many bricks are used in the church.)
If I ever updated my Lego site [queue.org], I wonder if I could get a slashdot feature, too...
Not NEARLY as interesting as... (Score:5, Funny)
If it doesn't work (Score:5, Funny)
Make sure nobody enjoys it if you can't.
Text from the main page & one picture (Score:5, Informative)
"This project is dedicated to my cat, Precious, who passed away January 8, 2002, the same day construction was completed. May this church, of such amusement to My Little Chirper, express some of the joy she brought me.
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you" Philippians 1:3
About this project
I got back into LEGO building after a twenty-year "dark ages" as a means of dealing with grief after my first cat, Murray, passed away in June, 2000. I also adopted Precious, my third cat, at that time. She loved to be amidst my building from the start. She didn't disturb partially assembled LEGO objects, or even piles of bricks, so I only had to concern myself with cleaning up loose pieces when I was done working, and I could leave her to play around my assembled work without too much fear of damage.
My first project was to be a large house, about 4 feet by 2 feet in size. I drew floor plans, and then built much of the front wall as a test of concept. Then I set about creating a pattern for the floor that was to become the living room. I quickly came up with a double row of crosses that reminded me of the center aisle of a church, and building a church suddenly seemed like a more interesting project.
And so the Abston Church of Christ was conceived as my first LEGO project in twenty years. As the picture above shows, Precious continued to enjoy my building, and as you'll see in the Cats in Church pictures, she and her sister, Anya, made this project quite a lot of fun. Read about it in the construction log.
As chance would have it, I only had a few hours of work to complete after Precious passed away, so in her honor I wrapped it up that same day. I didn't have a chance to do some small revisions or to build a piano for the church because I wanted to leave it as it was on that day.
I hope you enjoy this church, because that's how I get to share the memory of My Little Chirper with you. I like to think of this as Precious's Church. "
Honestly, this is an amazing project, but the site gives me the creeps for some reason.
Re:Text from the main page & one picture (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, so its not just a lego church, it is a haunted lego church...now that's cool.
Re:Text from the main page & one picture (Score:2, Funny)
Another mirrored image (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not karma-whoring, honest. If I am moderated up, well, I'm on a 33.6 and I could very well be Slashdotted worse than the original host of this web site. =)
Re:Text from the main page & one picture (Score:3, Funny)
I think he probably forgets to feed the poor things while he arranges his bricks!
Re:oh man, (Score:1)
For those who can't get it (Score:1)
[129.7.201.70]
http://129.7.201.70/xcomputerman/legochurch.jpg
Re:For those who can't get it (Score:1)
<epiphany>My bandwidth sucks.</epiphany>
Re:For those who can't get it (Score:1)
Genesis 1:32 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 1:32 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Genesis 1:32 (Score:3, Funny)
The garden of eden website was slashdotted.
God saw this and realized it was bad.
He cast the leader of the slashdot and said, "Forver you will drink yellow substance and be denied sleep. You will also fear the sun and lack social skills"
the great and many slashdotters cheered and ran into thier underground cavern. God realized he made a mistake.
Precious :( (Score:1, Funny)
This AC thinks starvation was the cause *rimshot*
Re:Precious :( (Score:1)
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give a man religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
Dead cats (Score:3, Funny)
Trolling moderators (Score:1, Insightful)
The comment Does this make the 102nd use for a dead cat?
Question: How was his comment offtopic ?
Answer: Crack smoking trolling moderators
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:To go along with it beautifully... (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't remember afros in the bible, but i could be wrong.
Re:To go along with it beautifully... (Score:3, Informative)
The problem was, if a slave looked like free people, he could escape fairly easily. So in the American south, bondservants (white people who paid for their passage by agreeing to a limited period of slavery) would all too often simply walk away and take up land of their own out on the frontier, but africans couldn't travel even a few miles without showing papers. In other countries without a frontier, non-racial slavery worked better, but there were still problems in the long run. If slaves were used on a job, free men were reluctant to take wages for the same work -- in the antebellum south, there were poor whites that would be happy to take a job "overseeing" the slaves, but would rather eat clay and grass than pick cotton themselves. So in the long term, most societies evolve to either be mostly slave or mostly non-slave. E.g. in Medieval and Renaissance France, a poor man wandering the countryside was obviously a runaway serf. In England serfdom died away, then African slaves were imported for a while, but by the late 1700's slaves were so rare that it was easy to ban slavery entirely. However, in the Arab nations in the same period, only very important persons and desert nomads were free -- and when the Turkish empire extended from Bulgaria to Africa, legally _everyone_ was the Sultan's slave.
Re:To go along with it beautifully... (Score:2)
BTW, a new Lego-themed DOOM map was released this week. Snag it from http://www.duellist.net/ (No! no!! not all at once!
The Japanese really know how to honour dead cats.. (Score:1)
This may not be made of lego but its one hell of a shrine to dead cats [bonsaikitten.com]
/.'ed and robot.txt'd (Score:1)
Anyone else have a mirror? What I want to know is when will Lego go public! Keep buying, keep building. :)
Garth
Metal Church would've been cooler (Score:1)
Phase 2? (Score:5, Funny)
Phshaw (Score:1)
Of course the site had to be down... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Gah, do I have to do all the thinking round here?
4 Images Mirrored (Score:1)
church stats (Score:4, Informative)
Yep, this guy's stable (Score:5, Funny)
Some people deal with their emotions, some go into denial, and some build lego cathedrals.
I guess we should be more sensitive though, those must have been some cats and must have meant a lot to her.
Really good work, though; astounding detail on the pews, lights, crucifix, lighting...
I just hope she didn't actually entomb the cat there.
PS: I now realise that it is not a guy, I just thought that such obsession is usually a guy thing.
Ob. Grammar correction (Score:2, Informative)
Lego is the plural of Lego. Lego is the company. If you must add an 's', use "Lego bricks." The bastardization "Legos" grates on any true fans nerves. Please don't use it.
Re:Ob. Grammar correction (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ob. Grammar correction (Score:1)
This well may be grammatically correct, but it sounds dumb to me. What you're saying doesn't sound dumb, but, "I'm playing with Lego" sounds dumb when there are more than one of them. The vast majority of English speakers agree, hence the repeated use of it this way. I'm generally all for correct grammar, but there are times when the correct way is just wrong. This is such a case.
For the (hopefully) last time:
Nope, it won't be, for the reasons given above.
Please try not to let it get to you.
In the near future (Score:3, Funny)
For some reason this is the only story posted by
And J. Katz posts the story.
In unrelated news, the Washington (First?) Post reported today that Kraft Foods is phasing out production at its Life Savers factory located in Holland, Michigan. Life Savers will instead be made in Canada. This is not a joke.
Re:In the near future (Score:1)
It's complete... (Score:3, Funny)
Check this out.. (Score:1)
grr, not even cached (Score:2)
1) slashdotted
2) no google cache
3) no wayback machine cache - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.amyhughes
The perils of robots.txt. If she had only allow it we could have hammered google and not her lego box
Travis
Missing the real fun... (Score:2, Funny)
The gov won't approve (Score:1)
The building permitting and inspection requirments for such would probably be miles of red bricks, I mean red tape.
There are building standards, and the gov inspectors are *not* going to find this one in their standards book.
Poor kitty.
Some more pictures (Score:1)
Lego Animation in Music Video (Score:1)
I've been slashdotted (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I've been slashdotted (Score:3, Informative)
An idea... (Score:2, Funny)
Second, everytime a site gets slashdotted, slashdot should send out a "I got
Re:DDoS (Score:1)
getting put up.
moderators?
Umm, wheres the key to crack this code? (Score:1)
mmmkay?
Re:The site is still down... (Score:4, Informative)
at my previous host, and now I'm looking for a fatter pipe. My needs are
variable, and pretty extreme on the upper end (but nothing like BS, BL, etc)...
My normal traffic has been about a half gig per month, but I think it's going
to be in the 2-4 gig range for the forseeable future, with peaks of 2-4 gig per
*day*, about once per year for a duration of a few weeks. Summary: 4 gig/day
peek for a few weeks per year, 4 gig per month normal traffic.
My storage requirements are more modest - perhaps 50 meg.
I need all email addressed to @amyhughes.org domain routed to me, regardless of
address. I currently have access to procmail for mail sorting and don't want to
lose that capability.
I'd like to be able to control URL re-direction based on referer, and I know
how to do this in Apache, so I'd like an Apache host. I'll consider other,
working alternatives, but my requirements are...
1) prevent other sites from inlining my images
2) block links from some sites, using regular expressions or something similar
that is just as flexible
A Linux box running Apache meets all these requirements, provided the host
gives me access to procmail, directory-level htaccess and the apache rewrite
module.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Amy