What the...:-)

Way to go, Arvo!

You can see the entire car at the gallery.

It's a beaut, but it's Arvo, so that's kinda expected:-)

Certified Professionals At Work...

Nathan Sawaya has a display in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the local paper has a story.

A little earlier in the month, Sean Kenney was in New York building an alligator at FAO Schwarz.

Progress on website...

I added graphics to three more articles, and an extended gallery. There's a long way to go, but I got a couple of articles that actually look like something I want!

I created a web article for the Squidmen that not only has a photo gallery, but also has video from the creator's films he did for BrickFest last year!

The photos are going to kill me, it appears.

If you are wondering what all of this looks like, drop me a line, and I will invite you to the test site. It's very much a work in progress, though.

Here's something I have been wanting to do, and hope to see in the BrickJournal website - a video podcast review!

Thanks to millionaireplayboy.com and Joe Fulton over there for point me to this!




Another reason for a website:-)

Website progress report...

BrickJournal.com is in its first stages of growth, with intial pages being placed, and a site map slowly growing.

While some things are obvious to do (archives, for example), there are other things that are, well....not so obvious. The service that I am using also is having some interesting issue - at this point, I need to get some forms up, and they can't do it yet. Hm. And photos can only be seen by members of the webiste (which isn't a bad thing, but not necessarily a good thing either)

All of the article copy to Issue 7 has been placed, but because of the photo problem, there are only a few pix so far. All of them have also been tagged so a user can search by author, issue, article title or subject.

I will also be placing galleries of pics I didn't use in this so everyone can see more than the magazine:-). Not to mention video if I can get it - I plan to do video of FLL next week, for example.

And BrickJournal Germany is already beginning, as well as BrickJournal Italy. I will be doing what I can to creat an international site, so I am open to ideas and thoughts on that.

Both BrickJournal Germany and Italy are going under BrickJournal, but I will not the the webmaster - community leaders of hte respective countries are working with me on this. I really appreciate their efforts  and hope that  other  countries will become  represented in the magazine.

3-D printing....

or stereolithography, is being used more and more, and the technology is dropping in price, as noted in this article in the New York Times.

The LEGO Group already uses this to make prototype parts, so it might not be too long before others join in!

Off to Atlanta!

Next week, I'll be going to Atlanta to cover the FIRST LEGO League World Festival. It's a really neat event that is something of a secret, as participants are not AFOLs but middle school children and  their parents. But there are people from around the world visiting, and it's a lot of fun!

I wrote about the event in BrickJournal and will have a couple of other people helping me out this time. I am also considering doing some video too.

And I am still building - built a plane and a...aircraft carrier???