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Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego
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. :)
Nice! It IS a silly place, but very fun.
That was really cool. Check out the 'Jewel Quest' (indiana jones)... i liked that even better.
Don't Tread on Me
I watched this once it popped up on Ain't It Cool News (aintitcool.com) yesterday. Imagine CGI but with Legos. It looked more fluid than the old stop-motion clay-based creatures, yet I could see no obvious wires or such. It seemed very fluid, and yes, it was freaky due to the level of (I hate to say it) professionalism.
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!
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
If you could somehow work Linux into the equation, 1,000,000 slashdot readers would jizz their pants simultaneously.
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...this is the new frontier of animation.
Slashdot has always been just kinda freewheeling anything that taco thought was cool links and stuff... not a serious political debate site.
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Thats what user preferences is for. If you don't want comedy pieces, filter them out. You wont even know they're there.
Well thank you, Mr. Wisdom! If you want to work through this shit that happened, it ain't gonna happen here. Try BadAssMofo (http:www.bamf.com/forum) for some good discussion of recent events. Oddly enough, they are really hashing this shit out really well, with lots of different opinions, points of view, and philosophies. There are even folks there that are being supportive. If you go there, look out for verve, that's me in that forum. May be it'll help to go and rant as much as you want (some have), talk about your feelings (many have), and just flip out and bust loose (some have, but don't be surprised if your post gets deleted).
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
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Look, _I_ happen to like legos and monty python, as well as intellectual discussions about current events, philosophy, theology and the like. I resent your attitude about what /. is or is not. For me (and I suspect many others) it is a place to gather information and broaden my horizons about things i know little about. so, just chill out and have a little fun every once and a while.
How can I play these on my Linux box? Is there a codec for xanim, or do I need a different player?
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Since when did stories like this keep more WTC stories from being posted? I think there is room for both. This is just like the I HATE ANIME argument. You can turn off whatever you don't want. Perhaps you should start by taking off humour on your preferences.
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.
can you do with the lego studio product out of the box?
I'm assuming things like the moving lips involve some kind of professional ($$$) equipment not included in the base/retail product.
I knew I'd seen this somewhere before...
Give it up.. Me for one is sick of constantly hearing about the WTC every waking hour of the day. First of all, it's offtopic for slashdot - if you want to talk terrorists, go to cnn. /. is precicely the place where posting links to monty python in lego is totally appropriate. Second, the WTC destruction has already been thouroghly discussed here. (also, killing thousands of human beings is obviously horrible, but it not like it doesn't happen every week. We don't stop our lives forever just because bad things happen)
-henrik "feeling like spending some karma" abelsson
2001-08-21 23:09:18 Monty Python and the Holy Grail animated in Lego (articles,quickies)
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
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?
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
finally, something to put my faith back behind the human race. figures it was monty python that did it. hehe.
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!
Funny, I went to see the MPATHG re-release in the theatre last night, and after the Camelot scene, my friend turned to me and said "I think I liked the Lego one better!"
:P
And yes, this has been here before
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
It's only a model.
[i]Blatently stolen from another poster on a another thread.[/i]
Woot w00t w007.
I know you can't hear it but I clapping VERY loud right now
This
I was really surprised and impressed at some of the thoughtful, probing discussion of the terrorist attacks on Slashdot. Unlike many of the respondents to your post, I really do think the discussion is important.
... well, honestly, I don't care a rat's ass about the Xbox, so I just skip those articles. This astonishing power of indifference is available to you, too: if you are sick of the WTC, or Legos, or Monty Python, or Jon Katz ... don't read the frickin' article! The editors of Slashdot can only suggest topics of discussion; they can't make people care. Geek culture will emerge on its own, in all its quirky multifacted yummy goodness.
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"
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.
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Evan "Who got far too little sleep last night" E.
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Another funny lego movie is Legos are not Enough. I saw this at a film festival, and it beat out all the other 'serious' films, even though it was made by a bunch of engineering students whereas its competition was made by people who wore a lot of black clothing.
First sketch-book style quake, and now Monty Python legos? /. page from last May! ;)
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until recent years, coinciding with the advent of political correctness and the hellish semantics it entails, the male pronoun was generaly accepted as appropriate for both sexes when speaking generally. rules change. people don't. so Ms. Wisdom, please, step down off of your high and mighty stead and join the discussion. if you don't like the atmosphere, the easiest and most sensible way to deal with it is leave.
as a side note, i suppose you'd be offended if i referred to you as a chick. oh well.
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/. had stories about the WTC crises when there were things we would do to help, and when there were new developments. But this site is supposed to be "news for nerds", and there's nothing wrong with posting a funny story. If you want to debate the WTC crises, excellent - we do need to talk about this as a society. But /. is not always the place to talk about it.
/. was made for.
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
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When will people realize that the great comedic genius of late 20th century England was Benny Hill, not these numbskulls called Monty Python!
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That was by far the best thing i have seen all week.
Maybe i need to get out more..
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Just b/c it's not linux compatable dosn't make it bad. Sure I would rather Have it in a Mpeg but it's still worth booting up windows or checking it out at work monday if your Linux pure at home.
Does anyone actually have a Java program designed to control air traffic, or for the operation of a nuclear facility?
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.
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."
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
I wanna see the black knight scene!
:)
We're Knights of the Round Table.
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.
How darest thou besmirch the holiness that is photorealist animation and its Japanese conceptors! The greatness of that form is infinitely beyond all others, and any likes thineself who should denounce it can repent for that infinite sin by enduring and embracing infinite suffering in life and after! They thou mayest praise the holy Squaresoft and its Master Sakaguchi, who art the true Lord and Saviour in this age, and every age. Amen.
http://www.lego.com/studios/screening/media/montyp ythonlg.mov
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On second thoughts..... let's not log on to slashdot - t'is a silly place!
This is now my favorite clip on the Internet. All I want to know is when the entire movie is going to be released in Lego-vision.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
If its open source what's stoping someone else burning pkg CDs with all the info in the book in a txt file or 2, then flogging it at half the price the Connectix or whatever programmers are flogging their pkg CDs for, & then not giving the coders a cut at all?
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.
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.
- jon
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX