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Ok guys, firstly I will be leaving on vacation on Monday (that is the reason I can't exhibit) and will be coming back the day before Brick Fair! I will be bringing stuff like my BA and Custom stuff.
I will be bringing my BA's and custom painted stuff. Don't be shy to say hi and tell me who you are! Hope to see you there!
More information below. ;)
Members of Rainbow Bricks were very happy to be able to support the first C4 Central Coast Comic Con @ Gosford NSW.
The event was a very successful day and work has already started on organising next years event.
Proceeds from the event went to a great cause - raising money for youth mental health on the Central Coast
The Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Company built and began operations in this building in 1906. Saniwax took over and renamed the building in 1950. In 1982 it became the Park Trades Center - a collection of art studios and other small businesses.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
just a test shot, but the (corner) 'symmetry' is happymaking.
test roll for pentax mx - film advance not the most precise, but no big deal.
pan f+, hc110e, 5.5' (negs a little thin)
February 6, 2013
I just liked the texture. And really wanted to take a photo because it feels like I haven't taken any real photos in a while.
Sign on a church wall. Only one thing could make this sign even better, and that would be including a threat: "Violators will be persecuted."
So...
Dan and I bought a house.
I know, I'm just as shocked as you are.
It's a 1920 brick tudor-style cottage on a tiny little block with six houses on it here in town. In the back there's a big hill and a lovely shade garden.
We close on June 30th, so fingers crossed until then!
uneven, rustic and, in my opinion, beautiful...and even more so with the sun throwing such strong shafts of light through the window...
LEGO started to produce plastic bricks in 1949. The initial design was based on the Kiddicraft "Self Locking Building Bricks" by Hilary Page. LEGO received a sample mould of those Kiddicraft bricks with the first injection-moulding machine that was bought. That design was only patented in a few countries, so LEGO was able to produce similar bricks without legal problems. Only a few minor adjustments were made to the general design. The edges were sharper, the top of the studs were flattened, and in addition to the bricks with two opposite slots a design with a single slot was introduced.
Initially the LEGO bricks were produced in a rainbow of colours and sold under the name "Automatic Binding Bricks".
In 1953 LEGO changed the name of the product line to "LEGO Mursten". New brick sizes were added and the number of colours was reduced.
By 1955 LEGO developed the "System in play" and the product line was renamed again. From now on, all sets and parts supplemented each other instead of being separated items. A key design feature that all LEGO elements share until this day. The sets were modelled around a single theme: town plan.
LEGO kept searching for improvements. New parts and sets were added every year. In 1956 the slotted bricks and the corresponding windows were replaced. The new designs no longer needed the slots and the bricks were replaced by the "hollow bricks". By 1958 LEGO patented a new interlocking system for these bricks and they were replaced by the "bricks with tubes". Care was taken to improve the visual appearance of the bricks.
The LEGO slotted bricks were produced in a few locations:
1) Denmark
2) Sweden (approximately 1950-1954)
3) Norway (1953-1962)
4) Iceland (1955/56? - 1977)
LEGO seems to have controlled the moulds and seems to have rented them to the different companies as a part of the licence agreement. As a result, moulds sometimes moved form one location to the next. Some odd colours or materials that were used prove this. That is why, in some cases, it seems to be impossible to tell where a brick was produced.