I woke up after dreaming about a life sized lego house. It all started when somebody wanted to include see-through bricks, a bit like real glass bricks that are used to let light in, but plastic. “No” I said. They make look trendy now, but in few years time they will just look brash and urban. Angry. The problem is the plastic surfaces. The only way to get a bit of texture out of this medium is by mixing up the colours. And so I laid down the following stipulation:
Rules for building the life size lego house:
The last two words “and size” are a refinement, a slight relaxation of the original rules, to allow for the occasional small continuous pool of monochrome when it is of irregular shape and scale. So a single large green brick may be entirely surrounded by small bricks of mixed colours, one or two of which may also be green without breaking the intent of randomness.
Andy Roberts is a writer who initiated DARnet. Contact me on aroberts@gmail.com or @aroberts on twitter
