
Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego 193
slashdoter writes: "What could be better than combining Lego and Monty Python and the search for the holy grail? Well recording it and putting it online of course. Follow the link
and smile." Quicktime or Windows Media. Scary. Needs to be much longer. :)
It's only a model (Score:2)
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Very Cool. (Score:1)
Re:Very Cool. (Score:2)
For something they won't show on Lego.com, check out Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World [hypnotic.com].
It's pretty funny.
Awesome (Score:1)
Next thing you know, we'll have Connectix emulating Matrix, GI Joe re-creating the Gulf War, and Lincon Logs re-enacting the chopping of the cherry tree!
Good Lord (Score:1)
If you could somehow work Linux into the equation, 1,000,000 slashdot readers would jizz their pants simultaneously.
Re:Good Lord (Score:1)
Natalie Portman!!!!
(oh, and Hot Grits makes two important elements...)
Re:Good Lord (Score:1)
Re:Good Lord (Score:1)
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
Slashdot has always been just kinda freewheeling anything that taco thought was cool links and stuff... not a serious political debate site.
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
Thats what user preferences is for. If you don't want comedy pieces, filter them out. You wont even know they're there.
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
There are other, more "official" sites that can be used for grieving and talking, a bunch of which can be reached through the red cross web site.
Slashdot just isn't the right place to grieve. It is techy, it is geeky, it is scientific. These attributes don't leave much room for emotion outside of the tech world. I am sure these people care, but there are other outlets for what you are expressing.
I hope you come out of this ok.
Bryan
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
as a side note, i suppose you'd be offended if i referred to you as a chick. oh well.
thank you for the kind response (Score:1)
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Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1)
Just don't tell everybody else what they should be paying attention to as well. I find stories like this HELP during times like this, because it remdinds me that humans are capable of more than causing destruction and inflicting pain on others.
But to each their own.
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:2)
-henrik "feeling like spending some karma" abelsson
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:2)
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I believe that both are appropriate for /. The WTC tragedy is most definitely "stuff that matters," where as Monty Python and Legos qualify as "News for Nerds."
Humor matters (Score:3, Insightful)
However, humor is important too. It reminds us of our humanity, and keeps us sane -- which, in the current rush for military retalitation, is a very important thing. If we can laugh for a moment, we may find our perspective on the serious is a bit more balanced when we return to it.
Neither the serious nor the silly is out of place here. And as for the "attempt to create a geek culture"
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:2)
No it isn't. This *is* Slashdot. It's geeky stuff that's cool... when the war happens, we'll prbably be discussing all the cool nifty tech that used. That's who we are - people who develop and build stuff (hardware or software) because we think it's cool. You can bitch about trolls and l33t kiddies all you want, but stories like this are why I'm here, and why Mr. Taco and Hemos started the site.
Everything has its place - last week, at my local Rocky Horror show, someone lit a paper plane on fire and threw it into the on-stage tower during "There's a Light". There were plenty of horrible lines and funny ones. Two people got pissed, but they can bite it... the whole point is to slaughter every damn sacred cow, the more tightly held, the better.
That dosen't mean that Slashdotters don't care about recent or upcoming events, or that Rockyites are unfeeling bastards. It just means that we go on doing what we've always done.
Or to put it another way - I don't yell at people for spraying me down with water guns at Rocky, so don't yell at people talking about Monty (SPAM) Python on Slashdot. Don't walk into a LAN party and demand people start playing tennis.
the conclusions from them more lasting, if we post these stories instead of Monty Python crap
If you want a more lasting conclusion, you should have joined the military or gotten involved in politics long before now. Now you're limited to writing senators or joining up as a raw recruit. If these things are important to you, *do* something, don't just yammer about it on the web, mentally masturbating and deluding yourself into thinking that a logical conclusion on a text forum can accomplish anything.
Or, to drive the point home: Why the fuck are you talking to us? Go talk to a Senator, the President, the Prime Minister, NATO, or someone who can do something about the fire in your britches. In the meantime, I'll continue downloading video of little kn-ickets in modular plastic blocks, and enjoying it.
--
Evan "Who got far too little sleep last night" E.
This isn't intended to be wholly political site (Score:2)
This story wasn't posted to save the community or some such thing - it was posted because it is a funny nerdy story, the sort of thing
Re:This isn't intended to be wholly political site (Score:1)
Re:Sick of Lego (Score:1, Offtopic)
Forget Final Fantasy... (Score:2)
Re:Forget Final Fantasy... (Score:1)
no, this [louisck.com] is.
Remember Final Fantasy! (Score:2)
xanim, or what? (Score:2)
-russ
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:2)
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:1)
It's apparently not possible to download the Windows Media movie at all (it's a streamed thing, apparently), and the codecs in the Quicktime one (Sorenson, pile of crap...) aren't recognized by xanim, which my version of the KDE 2.1.1 multimedia player uses for Quicktime movies.
If you succeeded in playing the movies under Linux, please tell us how you did it? Thanks in advance.
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:2)
Oh, and yes, this is the only thing out there that works.
Re:A better idea (Score:1)
Actually, I don't have one around.
I've been using Linux for around 8 years now and I'll be damned if I'm going to blast away my OS for one that doesn't have the applications I need/use.
To be fair, some of those apps are available for Windows, but those versions always lag the UNIX ones. It's also a major pain-in-the-ass to install everything. I really cannot stand the endless download-install-download-install cycle just to get a usable system (for me, a fresh Windows install is unusable). My OS already comes with everything I need.
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:1)
I suggest you grow up.
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:1)
It has nothing to do with getting software without paying for it. It has everything to do with being able to modify the source to fix bugs, extend functionality, etc. The software I posted a link to has source available here [winehq.com]. The big difference is that Codeweavers, a major contributor to the Wine project, packaged it up nicely for me.
Hey, if you think programmers should work hard and not get paid, that's fine. That's your opinion, albeit childish. I'm a programmer at a Linux company and I like being able to eat. I pay for my Free Software and I get it packaged nicely, on a DVD, with books. Free Software developers end up getting paid this way, too.
I am totally convinced that you are either a troll, or less than 15 years old. Either way, people like you make the rest of us look like war3z fiends, which is not the case.
not necessarily (Score:1)
Re:not necessarily (Score:1)
On the other hand, the community prefers companies that pay the coders. Codeweavers, Troll Tech, SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat all pay people to do major work on Free Software projects.
Like many others, I'm only too happy to pay for that.
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:1)
I looked on the internet and downloaded&compiled some packages for linux who promised to play quicktime movies.
xmovie - compiled after a small patch, but failed to load this file.
mp2movie - promised to be able to convert quicktime movies to mpg, no go.
lamp - installed easily with
So I tried but I could watch it, doesn't seem to be a "normal" quicktime movie, the existing linux quicktime players could play.
Re:xanim, or what? (Score:1)
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_unsupported.html
So far I could find out this stream is coded using a "QDM2 Codec".
Re:way too much free time (Score:1)
:)
how much of this... (Score:1)
I'm assuming things like the moving lips involve some kind of professional ($$$) equipment not included in the base/retail product.
Deja Vu all over again! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Deja Vu all over again! (Score:1)
I appreciate the thoroughness of it. Even the background characters are fully animated. The skeleton is totally peaches.
Holy Grail DVD release in October (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Holy Grail DVD release in October (Score:1, Offtopic)
And at no extra charge: The LOSS OF YOUR FAIR USE RIGHTS*! Thats right you, the Consumer(TM) receive completely free the prospect of violating DMCA if you choose to make backup copies of your own fairly-purchased-product.
*Offer only available in The United States of America(TM)
Grrrr.... (Score:1)
I thought it worthy of only a quickie. Ahh well anyway....
This was done by a friend of mine, Tim Drage and his associate Tony Mines. Together they form [spiteyourface.com]
Spite Your Face Productions. Check that site for more Lego anim, including a condensed version of 2001.
And oh, they got paid to play with Lego by Lego itself. Neat, huh?
Re:Grrrr.... (Score:1)
Re:Grrrr.... (Score:2)
ahhh....gotta love the internet. (Score:1)
on a more sensible note:
i've read a few comments bashing both monty python and lego in the preceding threads. these people just simply need to understand that lego is news for nerds, and monty python IS stuff that matters. the original python stuff was mostly political satire and the like. it was funny...but it was also relevant. although it may have lost some of that relevance in its move across the pond to the states, the ideas behind the python group live on...the social satire melded into hilarious comedy. its something that works. don't bash it.
as for lego...we all grew up on lego. as we get older, the company seems to offer more and more toys for us to use...and we, as a community, seem to come up with more innovative ways to use them. personally, i believe that lego promotes problem solving ability as well as sheer fun. as i've said previously: don't bash it.
thus, only one conclusion can be drawn from this:
MONTY PYTHON FSCKING ROCKS THE LEGO HOUSE!
Oh the ironing! (Score:2)
And yes, this has been here before
bah. (Score:1)
[i]Blatently stolen from another poster on a another thread.[/i]
I realize it is silent (Score:2)
Another good lego movie: (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Another good lego movie: (Score:1)
Holy crap! That's me! That's us!
This certainly explains all the sudden congestion on our cable modem line. Everyone is trying to download our movie at once. I literally just ran up the stairs to tell my roommates (whom I made the movie with) that we were being Slashdotted. Wow.
I had thought about submiting our site (and movie) to Slashdot before. After all, the editors seem to be suckers for "LEGOmation" stories. I thought better of it, though. So, thank you for posting Mr. Anonymous Coward, sir. (Who are you, btw?)
For the record, though, we aren't all engineers. Two of us are studying Computer Engineering. One is studying Architecture, and the other is studying History. Also, let me just quickly mention that we won awards at that film festival for "Best of Show" and "Most Original."
Check out our website. It's actually http://4guys1brain.cjb.net/ [cjb.net], but I had to move it when our port 80 got blocked due to Code Red.
OK, I'm all over the road at this point. I apologize for this rambling, slightly offtopic post, but I think I'm going to hit submit anyway...
Now this? (Score:1, Offtopic)
I had to reload to make sure I wasn't reading a
Download Link (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Download Link (Score:2)
No, Thanks. Think before posting links that need registration.
Re:Download Link (Score:1)
Re:Download Link (Score:1)
As usual... (Score:2)
Are you a terrorist? Click Here! [amiterroristornot.com]
Re:As usual... (Score:1)
Benny Hill. Now there's comedy. (Score:1)
Come on, get with the program.
Support Ogg Tarkin (Score:2)
f you think it's wrong to have to pay to access video files then, heck, I'm sympathetic, but the only way you're going to be able to avoid it is if folks help to support projects like Ogg Tarkin [xiph.org].
Free software is something you give, not something you can take. If the CodeWeavers folks have done good work, there's not a thing in the world wrong with them charging for it.
OMG!! Awesome! (Score:1)
Maybe i need to get out more..
The Lyrics, in case you couldn't make 'em out (Score:1)
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
We're Knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.
In war we're tough and able,
Quite indefatigable.
Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.
It's a busy life in Camelot.
I have to push the pram a lot.
Download link from Lego (Score:1)
The best! (Score:2)
Re:What's even scarier.... (Score:2)