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| Das Boot |
Ok, I'm now pushing it by extending to "same parent company", but she was rather proud of it.
It's strikingly nuanced, and I couldn't resist the pun!
Saturday 9 April 2011
Das Boot - serious competition for the Creator
Ok, I'm now pushing it by extending to "same parent company", but she was rather proud of it.
It's strikingly nuanced, and I couldn't resist the pun!
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Sometimes, tiny things just appear...
Sometimes, tiny things just appear....
Like these I found on the windowsill.
Very fragile; obviously a lot of effort went into them. The designs are a bit of a departure for the Creator.
They're gone now: sometimes it's like that.
Like these I found on the windowsill.
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| What exactly are these? |
Very fragile; obviously a lot of effort went into them. The designs are a bit of a departure for the Creator.
They're gone now: sometimes it's like that.
Sunday 3 April 2011
First Sighting
Here is what I believe is the very first creation from the Creator's little sister.
At her age, it's a bit of a habit of neurotic middle class parents to monitor them too much. And they can be good at "commanding attention" (euphemism alert).
So, when I heard the cry of "Yay, I did it!" and saw what she'd been diligently putting together, I couldn't resist taking a snap.
Now, I'd heard it said LEGO was targeted at the dexterity and available manual force of a 3-year old, so to see the mini Creator snap these together was a bit of an eye-opener.
I think also, that if you squint and look from the right angle, there's a certain aesthetic flair betraying itself.
Or is that fatherly pride :P
At her age, it's a bit of a habit of neurotic middle class parents to monitor them too much. And they can be good at "commanding attention" (euphemism alert).
So, when I heard the cry of "Yay, I did it!" and saw what she'd been diligently putting together, I couldn't resist taking a snap.
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| First Creation |
Now, I'd heard it said LEGO was targeted at the dexterity and available manual force of a 3-year old, so to see the mini Creator snap these together was a bit of an eye-opener.
I think also, that if you squint and look from the right angle, there's a certain aesthetic flair betraying itself.
Or is that fatherly pride :P
One of many: The Claw Monster
Ok: it's Sunday - morning - just, and it's time to explain myself.
Fantastic LEGO creations are everywhere.
I trip over them or sit on them or find them languishing under the sofa. They are left, gargoyle-like peering at us from bookshelves; sometimes they are arranged into baroque dioramas that require arcane interpretation from the Creator*; they come and go and fall in and out of favour - disassembled / re-assembled or mutated at a bewildering rate. They may or may not figure in the current narrative playing in the Creator's head, or might just be some whimsy realised in LEGO.
When my fancy takes me, and I happen to be passing past something that takes my eye, I snap it. Every year this just gets easier and easier as the cameras, smart 'phones and web cams proliferate along with the creations.
And as the Creator grows and changes, the variety in the creations both grow, though in some ways the themes stay the same. Some of these evolutions will be very familiar to an educationalist, but this is not an academic blog and I'm not here to generalise, merely document.
So, without further ado, here is the creation that was current at the time I decided to start this blog; the Claw Monster.
These things are quite small. and it's hard to do justice to the extreme nature of them, but trust me on this one: in real life close up in LEGO mini figurine-land, that's one big Claw!
To some degree I'm interested in what leads to the inception of these creations, but this is a forlorn hope; the moment will often have passed and all we have left is this evidence; a flavour of what was going on in the Creator's mind.
Occasionally I ask about these creations and sometimes I do get some kind of a consistent answer, which I note for fun.
Sometimes, we just have to observe.
* the Fantastic Lego Creator, that is.
Fantastic LEGO creations are everywhere.
I trip over them or sit on them or find them languishing under the sofa. They are left, gargoyle-like peering at us from bookshelves; sometimes they are arranged into baroque dioramas that require arcane interpretation from the Creator*; they come and go and fall in and out of favour - disassembled / re-assembled or mutated at a bewildering rate. They may or may not figure in the current narrative playing in the Creator's head, or might just be some whimsy realised in LEGO.
When my fancy takes me, and I happen to be passing past something that takes my eye, I snap it. Every year this just gets easier and easier as the cameras, smart 'phones and web cams proliferate along with the creations.
And as the Creator grows and changes, the variety in the creations both grow, though in some ways the themes stay the same. Some of these evolutions will be very familiar to an educationalist, but this is not an academic blog and I'm not here to generalise, merely document.
So, without further ado, here is the creation that was current at the time I decided to start this blog; the Claw Monster.
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| A Claw Monster: he has trouble standing up. |
To some degree I'm interested in what leads to the inception of these creations, but this is a forlorn hope; the moment will often have passed and all we have left is this evidence; a flavour of what was going on in the Creator's mind.
Occasionally I ask about these creations and sometimes I do get some kind of a consistent answer, which I note for fun.
Sometimes, we just have to observe.
* the Fantastic Lego Creator, that is.
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