Hi there,
I thought I would share this with you all since no one in this stupid house seems to give a crap about me or any of my hobbies like writing or LEGO.
I took up writing to avoid being bored. I'm unsure if I did the same with LEGO, but I know I only first bought some two years ago because my son liked it.
For the past five months, I have slowly purchased LEGO pieces from E-bay, The LEGO store here at Sherway Gardens in Toronto, and from partial sets given to my son Hudson from my cousin Mark Sands.
Slowly... I have just started building dioramas. My first effort is HERE.
Here in the photo's below, is my second effort... a forest scene that takes place in Feudal Japan when there were ninja and samurai and a blacksmith was considered a noble profession that everyone needed for the creation of pots, pans, weapons and armor.
I had no idea what I wanted to do in my diorama, but I knew creating a larger smithy was in order, and if there was going to be a water wheel, I would need a river. I built something in a few days, looked at it and put it aside. I needed trees, grass, a bridge, animals, people... so I slowly, piece by piece really, purchased and put together the scene... and when I finished it, I thought it looked good... but realized it could look even better.
It was too flat. Why was the ground all level? So I ripped up that work and literally spend the next five months spending maybe six hours a week scouring for parts, begging the LEGO store to order stuff for me (Hi guys!!!! You are all the best! Friends - not shop clerks!), and then even more hours a week to slowly put the pieces down.
Labor intensive? Yes. I had a plan in my head that I kept amending as I watched my diorama grow. I added fun scenes into it for no reason except that it's a slice of life (and death).
See the guy tripping on a rock on the path and having his hat fall off?
See the poor guy having a meal?
See the assassin looking to take out a courier?
The fisherman getting his lunch?
The old man getting a bucket of fresh water?
What about the frog under the lily pad leaf? I didn't take a photo of that, unfortunately.
The uneven roadway?
The funky trees? Have a look. I broke one when putting the diorama away after the photos... it went behind a very heavy book case, so that tree ain't happening again.
A bird? Chimney smoke? The painstaking hours (really, HOURS) it took to individually place the grass and flowers? The rocks in the stream? The water bubbles (froth)? The moss on the stone?
It's all quite insane, isn't it? But strangely enough, with my world turning upside down, building LEGO calmed me and my troubled mind. It kept me sane.
Hopefully you will all indulge my ego and have a look and enjoy my diorama made of LEGO... a look at a forest scene in feudal Japan. It's a slice of life in Japan as I see it.
Andrew Joseph
I thought I would share this with you all since no one in this stupid house seems to give a crap about me or any of my hobbies like writing or LEGO.
I took up writing to avoid being bored. I'm unsure if I did the same with LEGO, but I know I only first bought some two years ago because my son liked it.
For the past five months, I have slowly purchased LEGO pieces from E-bay, The LEGO store here at Sherway Gardens in Toronto, and from partial sets given to my son Hudson from my cousin Mark Sands.
Slowly... I have just started building dioramas. My first effort is HERE.
Here in the photo's below, is my second effort... a forest scene that takes place in Feudal Japan when there were ninja and samurai and a blacksmith was considered a noble profession that everyone needed for the creation of pots, pans, weapons and armor.
I had no idea what I wanted to do in my diorama, but I knew creating a larger smithy was in order, and if there was going to be a water wheel, I would need a river. I built something in a few days, looked at it and put it aside. I needed trees, grass, a bridge, animals, people... so I slowly, piece by piece really, purchased and put together the scene... and when I finished it, I thought it looked good... but realized it could look even better.
It was too flat. Why was the ground all level? So I ripped up that work and literally spend the next five months spending maybe six hours a week scouring for parts, begging the LEGO store to order stuff for me (Hi guys!!!! You are all the best! Friends - not shop clerks!), and then even more hours a week to slowly put the pieces down.
Labor intensive? Yes. I had a plan in my head that I kept amending as I watched my diorama grow. I added fun scenes into it for no reason except that it's a slice of life (and death).
See the guy tripping on a rock on the path and having his hat fall off?
See the poor guy having a meal?
See the assassin looking to take out a courier?
The fisherman getting his lunch?
The old man getting a bucket of fresh water?
What about the frog under the lily pad leaf? I didn't take a photo of that, unfortunately.
The uneven roadway?
The funky trees? Have a look. I broke one when putting the diorama away after the photos... it went behind a very heavy book case, so that tree ain't happening again.
A bird? Chimney smoke? The painstaking hours (really, HOURS) it took to individually place the grass and flowers? The rocks in the stream? The water bubbles (froth)? The moss on the stone?
It's all quite insane, isn't it? But strangely enough, with my world turning upside down, building LEGO calmed me and my troubled mind. It kept me sane.
Hopefully you will all indulge my ego and have a look and enjoy my diorama made of LEGO... a look at a forest scene in feudal Japan. It's a slice of life in Japan as I see it.
Andrew Joseph
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