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Staggeringly Amazing Church of Lego
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.
all those bricks.. should have used them in my next mindstorms projects.
This is one of those people that I'm very happy to have seen on the web, but are too scary to meet in real life.
Brings up thoughts of Misery.
where's the lego tv crew and the lego phone number overlay?
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
were at FP and it's already slashdotted
So this is like the second or third post, and the link is already slashdotted. Sigh. Mirrors anyone?
Do you not check those links?
You should be going here: http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/
My Journal
I guess their server was built from lego too...
Curch made of Legos. Not Curch Of Legos.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Next on "let's bring the Slashdot Effect down on the kind, poor and hapless," the readers of Slashdot bring down the servers of three orphanages, a school for the blind, two hunger project centers, and a sweet little old lady's home-based DSl-linked web server that she uses to organize day trips for the terminally ill.
I hate to suggest it, but perhaps links to sites that can't sustain a /. load shouldn't be posted? Besides the fact that nobody can check this site out after 2 minutes, it's undoubtedly difficult for the webmaster of said site (especially if they have bandwidth limitations, etc).
-- Patience is a virtue, but impatience is an art.
I will live in a house completly made out of lego blocks, fully automated and linked to my computer for additionnal control. I'll even have a lego dog running around. Yeah!
AND HURRY!
John Ashcroft will be pleased because only
Christians, Jews, and Muslims know that the
source of liberty is God.
Thanks for this uplifting news article.
I'm just a bit curious as to how much it COSTS to build a castle out of LEGOs... I remember when I used to play with LEGOs, (like 4 years ago...I'm not that old ^_^) I had a hard time scraping enough money together to build a decent castle (for the little LEGO people, that is...) The site is /.ed, so I can't see if it says there - does anyone have figures as to how much the Church of LEGO cost?
-Jaybird144
Lego Porn...
not necessarily on topic, but a good point
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Just press your refresh button as fast as you can. And don't give up. Just keep on pressing it. Faster!
Make sure nobody enjoys it if you can't.
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
Since it is already slashdotted, here is the main page. I managed to grab one overhead of the church, you can see it here
"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.
the editors tell me how amazing something is, knowing all the while that chances are I will never see it
Here's a picture:
http://129.7.201.70/xcomputerman/legochurch.jpg
Am I a hipster-doofus?
Also known as a Distributed Denial of Service attack.. And they say 'hackers' are the problem.. Ha!
~RaGe
www.outrigged.com
And on the eighth day, God created plastic, and he saw that it was good, and he made little teeny-tiny blocks out of it to give geeks something very cool to play with.
sorry but for every story now comments like this are
getting put up.
moderators?
They are the ones with the legs on backwards, for obvious reasons.
"And like that
This AC thinks starvation was the cause *rimshot*
1) Created by FrontPage
2) Cheezy colour scheme
3) Obviously "personal project" type page
4) "Server IIS running on Windows NT x.x"
Others?
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Im not sure if this idea has been suggested before, but i haven't heard it. How much of a stretch would it be for /. to cache and mirror most of the links, at least for a few days while the traffic dies down? /. effet and bring it up over at slashcode.com? ....
They could be archived several links deep, untill the story cycles off the front page, or the olderstuff tab. This would be a great convinience for the users, and i cant see that it would cause much of a problem for the servers.
Perhaps we could pool suggestions on solving the
Anyways, thats just my $.02
Does this make the 102nd use for a dead cat?
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Did the email cause Steven King to have a heart attack and die?
Check out The Brick Testament
Complements it quite nicely.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
the lego church is astonishing Christened as a monument to dead cats, no less
This may not be made of lego but its one hell of a shrine to dead cats
Anyone else have a mirror? What I want to know is when will Lego go public! Keep buying, keep building. :)
Garth
This is pretty cool. But would've been a lot cooler if it was a Lego concert hall with these guys playing.
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
the lego church is astonishing Christened as a monument to dead cats, no less
The comment Does this make the 102nd use for a dead cat?
Question: How was his comment offtopic ?
Answer: Crack smoking trolling moderators
How long until the Lego church folk start to attack the Harry Potter lego for evil wizardry? Or until little Lego missionaries try to convert the pirates and the spacemen to their side?
That ain't nothing. My ex-brother-in-law done built hisself a entire house down by the river under the old bridge using some cardboard boxes and some newspapers he found in the dumpster.
Via our friends at netcraft
/. generated slashdot effect (number of users who hit the link) is these days......
The site www.amyhughes.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b on Linux.
Perhaps its running on a lowend computer in her house with possibly a less than ideal connection to the net.
I wonder what the high end of
There really wasn't any need to start subscriptions here on /. now was there, Taco, when you could simply have charged hapless siteadmins in exchange for rejecting submissions linking to their machines...
Gah, do I have to do all the thinking round here?
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Check here. Please be kind... 8(
Str8Dog
using System.Darkside; public
from her site: It contains approximately 75,000 pieces, including almost 4000 windows, seats 1372 minifigs and is about 7 feet long by 5 1/2 feet wide.
Actually, it's amazingly comfortable once you get settled. All the little bumps and points sort of massage you if you distribute your weight. (Still hate stepping on bricks, though.) I used to do it when I was a kid, and would nearly fall asleep. I guess it's kinda like laying on a bed of nails.
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.
And to the schools with all the child molesting teachers. And to the families by the way with all the child molesting parents. Ad nauseum.
/Pedro
I don't visit websites who's forums are in the Chinese language and make an ass out of myself, so why don't you do yourself a favor and and learn the language first?
mmmkay?
5) if they use blink tags
6) if they use l337 green on black colour schemes
7) Any site hosted on geocities type sites
8) Server running on old/weird hardware, i.e. potato powered server, ZX81 web server etc
For the (hopefully) last time:
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.
Ideas in this comment are smarter than they appear.
How about this fellow? Equally scary, yet interesting . . .
The Brick Testament
Very funny, if a bit irreverent . . .
"t only a few weeks of age, a kitten's bones have not yet hardened and become osseous. They are extremely soft and springy. In fact, if you take a week-old kitten and throw it to the floor, it will actually bounce! We do not recommend that you try this at home. The kitten may bounce under the furniture and be difficult to retrieve, as well as covered in unsightly household dust."
Wow I better do this outside on the concrete then
If you want irreverent, look closely at the figures in the background of the first image in the Flood story.
o od/gn06_11.html
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...
Hehe... see? Now I'm gonna have to go over the site carefully, lookin for stuff like this.
There goes an hour or two.
Hilarious.
Great idea. Even better, slashdot (which needs the money) could charge the sites for this service. The conversation might go like this:
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...
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
ROFL. I wonder if Unicode has a smim?
This project is dedicated to my cat, Precious, who passed away January 8, 2002
Forget about building a church out of Legos-- just naming your cat "Precious" is enough to qualify as a kook.
c-hack.com |
Sometimes, amongst the thousands of posts about how We hate Copy Protection, Lawyers Stink, I oppose the DMCCYAYYCCY Law Which Prevent me from Downloading Phr33 StUph, there is actually an article about News For Nerds with some cool pictures. I suggest that out of common courtesy, or compassion perhaps, Slashdot will kindly mirror sites with such pictures on the SlashCache, and have the Slashdot article refer to the mirror.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
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. =)
This "Reverand" guy is way out of line, any black people see the bible bit about slavery, or any women see the bible bit about women? Sick. Or maybe I should put the blame where it belongs, the Reverand didn't say it. The ever right all knowing most popular book on the planet said it, the Reverand just copied it. Figures, I have yet to see a physically relevant and/or original thing either spoken or written come from a religous person. Maybe "modern" religion truly is for the weak of mind and spirit who cannot handle life on there own.
I thought that it was a religious-themed site to promote Christianity through Legos, then I read "Treatment of slaves" and "Women in the Church"
Funny stuff.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
An (assumed) American telling us how to speak English! Ha ha!
It's 'some lego', not 'legos' because it's not 'a lego', it's 'a lego brick'.
I'm making cookies using (some) 'flour', not 'flours'. Jeez.
I could also argue '1 sheep', '2 sheep' etc. but its probably banging my head against a brick wall.
Even better are the Instructions for Marriage.
Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
Delendae sunt RIAA, MPAA et Windoze
The site actually has a pretty fat pipe, but traffic started to spike a couple days before slashdot even got the story. It looks from emailed comments and the web log like it's being discussed in email, "online journals" and other forums. Traffic has been doubling every day. Would it have survived a slashdotting a week ago? I dunno. I'll get a fatter pipe before I announce the next project :-)
In any case, when the server comes back up there'll be no church pictures for a while.
Amy
..Gaudi had had Lego. Maybe he would have got finished with Barcelona.
<fnord>OBEY</fnord>
I was kinda afraid to look in the first place.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
An (assumed) American telling us how to speak English! Ha ha!
Correct assumption. I have been speaking English for as long as you assuming that we're the same age so your point is?
It's 'some lego', not 'legos' because it's not 'a lego', it's 'a lego brick'.
My point is that "some lego" sounds stupid.
The proper way to say it would be "Some Lego brand building bricks". This is ungainly hence you simplify this.
The vast majority of people simplify this further to legos. Does the Lego company make anything besides legos? No. Hence there is no ambiguity.
I'm making cookies using (some) 'flour', not 'flours'. Jeez.
Of course. A mass of ground wheat is called flour. Where's the problem?
She knows.
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=1589
Or an even less serious one: Lego Porn!
Han-Wen Nienhuys -- LilyPond
Another point of view might be this:
When someone says they are going to photocopy something, they might say "I'm going to Zerox this". Or they might ask for a "Klennex" instead of a facial tissue.
Lego wants to protect their name. The problem is that people go to the store to buy "legos" and get Mega(crap)blocks. After all they are building bricks so they must be "legos". Or at least that is their train of thought.
Help Protect Lego's brand name, call them "Lego Bricks".
-J
For those who don't want to cut'n'paste:
http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/
*does the fish slapping dance and then smacks BrightBlade with a wet trout made of many lego*
These cats are not even dead, they put airholes in the glass-tubes!
Damn, and I though MY apartment was cramed.
Yeah but you've got to admit its a pretty funny site, not as good as furniture sex but not bad
First off, the church is tre's cool and tre's spooky.
/.ed and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!" t-shirt to the owner(s).
Second, everytime a site gets slashdotted, slashdot should send out a "I got
The entire domain is *totally* /.ed heheheh
:P
nope still dead.
Sigh. The poor lady.
-THIS SPACE FOR RENT!
We Slashdotted the hell out of her site! Yesterday it said that connections were being refused. Today it says: 'no address for host www.amyhughes.org'. Whatever we did must have killed her server. And, unfortunately, she set up her "robots.txt" file to ban all robots. Now, we may never get to see this goddamn Lego church!
If you look at the main website, you'll see that the whole thing is just parody....So, with that in mind, lighten the hell up.
The church site (amyhughes.org) is down for the count. I over-stayed my welcome
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
...Create something incredibly cool and lose your site. Thanks to thesolo for mirroring a couple of pix - this thing is AMAZING. Two weeks ago I sold my collection of 60,000+ LEGO bricks (re-entering my "dark ages"), but I never managed to do anything that cool with them. I did get around to a 100 square foot train layout with pneumatically powered switches, compressor, and regulator (all LEGO) but this puts my stuff to shame.
For those who have been out of LEGO for a while (15+ years), there is some pretty amazing stuff out there now. Mindstorms is quite cool, some of the larger Technic sets are amazing, and LEGO seems to be catering toward its growing Train fans by releasing neat sets like the Sante Fe Super Chief. On the other hand, unfortunately, they are also licensing Harry Potter and Star Wars. Feh.
Some other links to Slas^H^H^H^Hview are:
Lego Castles
The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club
the Brickshelf Gallery
The LEGO Users Group Network
Hopefully the traffic'll die down soon so I can see the rest of Amy's site. Nice work, Ms. Hughes, and may your cat rest in peace.
DoC
Perhaps I already know the difference between "who's" and "whose" but I didn't remember it when I typed this reply. Does not remembering something make me an idiot? No. I'm sure that you've forgotten things in the past, are you an idiot?
Thinking that you know everything makes you an idiot because everyone knows that nobody can know everything.
I do not appreciate being called an idiot because I do not pretend to know everything. You, on the other hand, must think that you know everything to be calling me an idiot. Therefore, it is you who is idiotic, not I.
You are also (obviously) a Coward.
ahahahaha i found that post and this via metamod.
nothing like making a statement with your moderation tag...
(i said it was a fair mod)
It's like when somebody makes a serious argument and gets modded "funny"...