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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.
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.
I mirrored a few, here you go (be gentle!):
:P
1) Overhead of the Church
2) The Altar
3) Lego Priest giving a sermon
4) Lego Organ Pipes
5) Her cat, Precious, inside the church (you'd think laying on legos would be uncomfortable!)
Should I be amazed or afraid?!
Check out The Brick Testament
Complements it quite nicely.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
As you've stated, the LEGO(R) trademark is an adjective not a noun. A LEGO(R) legal page has more information about this, under "Proper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site."
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