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Staggeringly Amazing Church of Lego

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cathedral-of-the-bizarre dept.

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.

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  1. the /. effect by mcspock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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).

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  2. How Much? by jaybird144 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

    1. Re:How Much? by infinite9 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It depends on what it's made of (I can't see the site either). In general, you can get lego bricks from bulk ordering sites for 1-25 cents. Of course, they go way up from there, but most aren't too expensive. I once ran a lego brick auction site. 35,000 bricks. I invested $2000 up front. I made back $4000 gross and had 6000 parts left over. To this day, I have a massive herd of lego horses. :-)

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  3. A slightly -less- serious religious lego project by MaxwellStreet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about this fellow? Equally scary, yet interesting . . .

    The Brick Testament

    Very funny, if a bit irreverent . . .

  4. Re:/. effect solution? by rherbert · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about building the cache on top of Squid? Write a program so links would reference, say, http://slashdot.org/cache/www.amyhughes.org/lego/. This program then requests the URL through Squid, which takes care of making sure that the site receives the appropriate number of hits. (Squid checks to make sure the data hasn't changed, and if it hasn't, the data isn't downloaded - this results in the site registering a hit, but not having to transfer any data other than the header response.) If a site seems like it might get slashdotted (and I can usually guess when a URL will be slashdotted), the editor clicks a button and POOF - the URL in the story is automatically changed and the cache program lists it as a valid site to cache (so that people can't use it to bypass pr0n filters at work). This can't be THAT difficult, can it? Squid does all the work for you, and who needs permission from the site to use Squid? Are there any implications (described in the FAQ or otherwise) that I haven't addressed (besides non-relative links in the HTML needing to be rewritten)?

  5. Re:To go along with it beautifully... by Richthofen80 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The most disturbing part of this is the lego illustrations on instructions of slavery. The slave lego people are all black, and some are sporting afros.

    I don't remember afros in the bible, but i could be wrong.

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  6. Her comments on being /.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    She knows.

    http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=1589