LEGO - This year's competition

The club has a long tradition of modelling competitions to the number of one, not two, not five but one, one is the number and the number shall be one; except when we have this year's and that's open now and then the number shall be two; and not one ever again. Which is sad, especially when you are as fond of cardinal numbers as I am.

Anyhoo, you can see our past efforts here

http://bpsfc.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-ping-pong-balls-and-handful-of.html

and

http://bpsfc.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-ping-pong-balls-and-handful-of_26.html

This year's compo, in an attempt to nobble the people with real talent, is famous scenes from science fiction and fantasy crafted from basic LEGO. No use of the special Star Wars or similar sets allowed. No bigger than a shoebox either.

We are also, for the first time, throwing this open to our friends on the web. Same rules as above, submit photos to kev_the_mole (at) hotmail.com by the end of April 2011. One photo should show the submittee with their model and a current newspaper as a timestamp. Winners in the various categories (to be made up later) will get the usual nebulous club prizes.

To inspire us all, a random selection of inspiration below

Doctor Who from www.dolphination.co.uk



Blakes 7 from www.dolphination.co.uk



This one's a bit big

Are Eebs the Ood?

Yep they both have two vowels and one consonant and are both slave races. Check out Eebs at Spacetrawler at http://spacetrawler.com/new_readers/.

Lovecraft gets everywhere

Jon Rosenberg is like unto a Webcomic Demi-God. He was the pensman of the now seemingly defunct 'Goats' webcomic. The Goats multiverse is inhabited by satanic chickens, cyborg goldfish assassins and is well worth losing a large part of your life to at www.goats.com.

However Jon has branched out into his nearly daily 'Scenes from a Multiverse' and this little gem turned up http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/03/hot-chocolate/

The short series continues with

http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/17/a-cocoa-conspiracy/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/31/go-ask-your-father/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/07/polterguest/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/11/best-friends-forever/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/18/in-the-afterlife/

ENJOY!

Webcomics, Moutains of Madness & Cult of the Claw

It's a long time since I've posted since I'm a "lazy blogger" and I'm finishing up a 300 page technical translation from German to English. If you ever want anything to take over your life I can recommend something similar. NOT!

Two brilliant webcomics, that recently appeared on my horizon are Bird Boy and Watcher of Yaathagggu.

Bird Boy has the most perfect drawing style/art that I have the pleasure to come across in a long time. Part Mayan, part Amerindian, part the artist's own style. I love it, so take a look here Bird Boy

We 'heart' Lovecraft here and a new (to me anyway) Lovecraftian webcomic is a thing of joy. Another individual drawing style and perhaps a little too much colour for this topic but try it yourself at Watcher.

While we 'heart' Lovecraft, we don't take well to people and dumb studio execs messing with the Master's works. The rumour is that Del Toro’s "At the Mountains of Madness" is binned again. The studio wanted a PG rating and Del Toro rightly insisted on an 18. Hopefully it won't die now as it's got some traction and the same dumb studio execs realise that pretty boy Tom (Cruise)is no good for the part and it should be given to Ron. We like Ron Perlman here too!

You may have seen the Cult of the Claw post on the Monsters thread. At the moment the jury is out on 'real or hoax' but if there is a Purbeck Historic Film Society then they'll be flushed out by your intrepid blogger as soon as the poxy translation is finished.