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Physical ASCII Mosaic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-not-liv-tyler dept.

An anonymous submitter, who might be Eric Harshberger, writes: "Some of my past LEGO whackiness seemed to make a few Slashdot readers chuckle, so I thought I'd pass along this link to my latest creation: A mosaic built of thousands and thousands of tiny little letter bricks. Kind of a weird turn on the ol' ASCII artwork." You may remember this guy from the famous Lego desk.

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  1. Slashdotted--but here's some information by kenneth_martens · · Score: 3, Informative
    His server is slashdotted already, but I managed to get a few paragraphs describing his experience with Legos. It doesn't apply directly to the particular Lego creation that prompted this story on Slashdot, but at least it's something. Enjoy.

    I can clearly remember receiving and playing with my first LEGO toy. It was back in the mid-70's, and the set was a simple 'Rescue Unit' white helicopter and ambulance. For the next several years my birthday and Christmas gift lists were dominated by LEGO toys, and throughout the year I would dutifully save my allowance and then trek up to the nearby hobby store (through the woods, over the railroad tracks), and eagerly pick out my next set. This was during the age of the Classic Space sets, the 'Yellow Knight's Castle' (which I never had, but my LEGO-and-longtime-friend Steve did), and such.

    I was careful with my LEGO bricks... I never threw them about, or lost them, or tried to feed them to the cat. In fact, after all those years of feverish play, I think only 5 bricks were misplaced and 2 or 3 broken.

    Unfortunately I was not as meticulous with the original boxes (who thinks of being a collector when one is only 7 or 8 years old?). Most of the instruction booklets I kept, and I even sorted many of the pieces into separate containers (though, back then, I sorted by color first, which I have since realized is not the best way to go).

    They were those containers through which I rummaged before school, waking up my parents ('rattle, rattle, scrunnnnmmmm, rattle') as early as five o'clock in the morning.

    But alas, at some point other diversions came into my life and the LEGO toys were put in a toybox and virtually forgotten (well, not forgotten, but certainly ignored).

    Then, in mid-1999 (I was now 28 years old), I extracted the bricks from my parents' home, and my LEGO renaissance began. I rebuilt all my old sets and started buying bricks in bulk so as to create large sculptures. Such sculptures had bounced around in my head ever since reading an article about the original LEGOLAND (in Denmark) in a National Geographic WORLD magazine as a kid.

    As an adult (AFOL -- Adult Fan of LEGO, as the terminology goes) I was no longer really interested in buying the LEGO sets (the new space sets, the ninja sets, the rock raiders...); they did not seem as cool as my childhood sets (I won't digress into that ongoing debate). No, I just wanted to build sculptures.

    And so I did (and do).

    And, of course, I had to make a webpage to document my renewed LEGO habit...
  2. Mirror by Score0,+Overrated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of just the finished thing
    http://calista_lego.tripod.com/calistalego

  3. Re:Goddammit! by Score0,+Overrated · · Score: 5, Informative

    A few of the pictures are here in a cheesy tripod default page!

    http://calista_lego.tripod.com/calistalego

  4. Another Mirror by Rain · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've thrown up another mirror at http://ericharshbarger.bluecherry.net/. I'm mirroring the entire site (I say in the present progressive because the mirror is still running--the posted site is quite saturated), and the portion that's linked to in the article (effectively here)

    As I don't have loads of bandwidth, I'd like to ask that other people mirror it and post their mirrors as well.

    Please refrain from killing the server :)