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Wow, that looks great! I love it! *sweet* Have you already thought about putting some tiles on it to make it completely smooth? Could be worth a try! :-)

Just finished the Half-Life marathon, (HL, HL2, HL2Ep1). Now I need to get the Orange Box for Episode 2, but I am not willing to spend alsmost 50

Batcave for me! :-D *wub*

Let me tell you from a toy shop employee's POV: NO! Please let Christmas be only once per year! Or maybe only once per decade! Yeah, THAT would be great... >:-)

Ooooh, thanks for the compliment! :'-) But I fear I have to disappoint you here, I am currently in a real time management problem situation, got to manage a) my studies (30h of courses the week + ~20 hours of learning) b) my toy store job (25 hours) c) my THW job (voluntary position, 5 hours per week) and d) my projects at the advertising agency (~10 - 20 hours the week) This leaves me like 70 or 80 hours of free time, which I have to use to sleep, to eat, manage the household and use our great bus infrastructure ( |-/ ) to drive from A to B every day at least one or two hours) Long story short, no time for LEGO currently. :'-( Anyway, back to topic: What about restricting the sizes to a particular size of studs (independant from the aspect ratio) instead of a particular lenghts and widths of the creations?

Huh, my philosophic comments about vignettes lead to a messy discussion... 8-| Wasn't my aim. Yoda, my post wasn't meant to force those that build bigger creations to excuse, as you just said, the rules allowed it anyway. I was just thinking about that vignette idea in generall, I have the feeling that the orginal vignette spirit is slowely fading away. Originally the idea behind the vignettes was to build a particular scene / model / whatever at an given room (normally 8x8 studs). A vignette showed some sort of a 3-dimensional crosscut of the bigger scene it is supposed to be in. The use of vignettes nowadays seems to be another, especially if "building a vignette" is part of the rules of a contest: It seems more to be only some sort of limitation to make people build small to medium creations instead of really huge ones. As I said, this is not a point of critizing any of your creations (since there are some real great ones even if they are "too big"!), but critizing the usage of the word "vignette" and critizing the developements vignettes went through: I always loved vignettes because I think restrictions are always a great source for creativity. By restricting yourself (to particular parts --> alternates / to a particular size --> vignettes / to a particular amount of parts --> use-no-more-than-50-pieces / ...) you are often forced to do things you would never have done if the situation had been the usual one. You try new techniques, you do more "risky" things (e.g. color variation, abstract techniques,...) and so on. Well, why did I elaborate on this now? Gotta read the paragraphs I wrote... *reads*... Ah, okay, I know again! *wacko* My inspiration to write my previous posting was to make you guys think about having some sort of changes in using the WORD "Vignette", to refrain from having lots of vignettes contests (which don't follow the original spirit anymore) and to differentiate between a "Vignette" and a "Small Creation" again. Yeah, that's it... Again, no offence to anyone, I love your entries (actually I don't even know who build what... :-$ ) and I want to see more stuff like it, I just don't like it to be called "vignettes"... :-)

No offence to anyone, but looking at many of the entries in the other thread I wonder if you don't think some of you are lacking the spirit of real vignettes in your entrys? I saw lots of entrys much larger than 8x8 and just having a 8x8 plate underneath as some sort of an excuse, this seems rather wierd to me. Like putting a well-balanced 8x8 plate beneath the UCS Falcon and calling this a Falcon Vignette... *wacko*

Actually the imlication is more like "A really bad MOC comes most probably from a young and unexperienced builder", not "A young builder builds always really bad MOCs. This is a huge difference! And even if your are relatively young (for a forum with a 18+ "rule"), I guess you will have noticed this "fact" (the first one) many times yourself, in most cases bad MOCs come from newbies and in most cases those newbies are new to the LEGO business. You see, there are two high probabilities mixing up together resulting in the first "fact" I wrote down. Did this make sense? If not feel free to give construction criticism! ;-)

... I created a poster for a new music event here in Aachen and I did some photoshopping for a project related to a castle in Belgium... Oh, and I will have a nice trip to free beer party tonight! :-D (Finally after a looong time without of it...)

Happy Birthday buddy!!! :-D

Let's not talk about p*** movies in public forums! >:-) :-P

And there goes the scientific sense of this thread.... :-| :-P

Okay, we had a similar (though alot sleeeeker) poll in the past and I thought it is about time to have a new EB demoscopic (is it that called? *wacko* ) survey!!! Don't blame me for not including your country (if thats the case), I was limited to less than 60 poll options, so I had to sort out the smallest European countries (because I wanted to focus on the European nationalities here) and the list of non-European countries is a list of the 13 countries with the largest population + NZ and Australia. If you are from Europe please select your country at one of the first poll parts, selesct "other" at the other part and the last option from the third poll part. In case your country isn't shown select three times the last option and specify your country in the thread! Everybody else: select "other" in the first and second poll part and your country in the third part. In case it's not shown select option 16 to 19 and specify in the thread! Thanks for participating! :-)

Taxes for vehicles heavier than 3,5 tons (meaning transporters and trucks). No taxes on cars. For now. |-/ :-| I hope Holodoc has a bus driver's license cause he will need one to bring us all to Billund! X-D

Then we'll have a lot of fun together since I'm used to doing exactly the same! X-D

What happens if a man throws a hand grenade in the kitchen? . . . . . . . ANSWER: The messiness stays but the silly jabbering stops!

No no no nooo! I thought really much were to place it! Yes! I always do! I'm kinda philosophic about this! Because... you know, well... everything must fit... And it is REALLY important that the scenery is playing on a elevator band thing because... yes... erm, because there is Yoda too! And Yoda is well known as an... elevator band fetishist! Yes! That's the reason! And that's why I picked DoubleT as the second fig... Because.. Hm... Yeah, because he is a fetishist anyway! Yeah, that's the reason! And that yellow headlight thingie in my entry is supposed to underline that statement! Oh, and BTW, I tried to put as much elements in the proportions of the Golden Cut because I wanted to express my feelings that the world isn't neccessarely what it looks like in an obvious way, but that there is also another thing one doesn't see. Something.... purple and slimey. Yes, a slimey being nobody notices! Yeah, I hope this explains what I did and what the reasons for my doings were! X-D

Isn't this Adm. Giddens sigfig?

Actually I wanted to involve a most complete EB staff in my Whack'O'Line, but I hadn't the needed figs available. But whacking TT is always a good replacement! >:-)

Whack-A-DoubleT! Whack-With-Yoda! >:-) This is my Sigfig (with odd hair, because I didn't find any better last night...) whacking DoubleT by using Yoda and his stick! BTW, this is supposed to be setted in some wierd Geonosis factory environement... Whack ON gallery after moderation!

Flashlight? As in light from the camera's flash function? And snow? That is the night sky, is it not? Whatever it is it certainly does look dreamy...... Isn't it called flashlight? You know, that bright thing that comes out of the camera when it's too dark! :-P And it WAS snow I photographed! I'll attach some more pics from that shooting, they show the actual snow flakes somewhat clearer! ;-)

I've not really any idea about photographing techniques (which will change the next months when my studies of communication- and multimediadesign start! *sweet* ), but I made this spooky/dreamy picture: I was playing with flashlight and snow in the dark...

Looool!!!! Sounds great, as soon as I return home tonight I will see what I can come up with using my Mini collection! ;-)