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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.
where's the lego tv crew and the lego phone number overlay?
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
I guess their server was built from lego too...
Lego Porn...
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.
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.
They are the ones with the legs on backwards, for obvious reasons.
"And like that
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 --
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. :-)
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
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?
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.
Overview
The CERN/CC has received reports of a new web DOS attack, called the Distributed Slashdot Denial Of Service attack. Rather than depending on exploits readily found in certain HTTP servers, this attack utilizes social engineering to bring down sites that appeal to the technically savvy. Within minutes of the target site's URL being posted on a publicly accessible web site, the target site is bombarded with connection requests. This can result in the complete blocking of even the most robust web farms.
Workaround
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)?
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