So, the filming is done, and the sound is half done. The reason the sound isn’t done is because we (Travis and I) need a better editing program than windows movie maker. Our friends told us about a good program (Cyber Link PowerDirector), but it’s $70. Which is money we don’t have right now. So the video’s release will be postponed for awhile.
Sorry, we just want to make the video the best it can be for our first video.
So it came…but a little different then I thought. It is much smaller then I thought…much, much, smaller. The size of my thumb!
And I thought the stand it came with was going to reach over the Lego table. And that would have been nice, because I was hoping it would be ground level with the set. But I was wrong.
The top of the table is just out of the picture, (I did that on purpose). Why you ask? Because there is a surprise.
I have tested it a little, and the quality is beyond what I thought it was going to be, but I’m only going to post a finished video. So when the surprise comes out, I’ll post that for all of you to see.
About a year ago Travis and I purchased a stop-motion animation program that came with a free webcam. We used the program for a while and realized the camera wasn’t very good. That webcam was the same one I used to make the video two days ago (the Logitech c200). We looked it up on Logitech’s website and found out why it was free, it is their WORST webcam. It said we can get up to 1.3 megapixels out of it, if you installed the software disk it came with (which we did not).
Logitech webcam c200.
So I decided it was time to look for another camera. My Mom and I went on Amazon and found another webcam by the same company that is $40. We saw all the features on it, including the one that said it had 8 megapixels. We ordered it yesterday and it said it will come in 5-8 business days. I’m excited to see how much better this one is, seeing that all my pictures I put on this blog are took with a 8 megapixel camera.
Logitech webcam c905 (red, which is the color I’m getting.)
I would like to start making brick films (like the one I showed you), that are good quality and funny. I hope I will have tons of fun with it, but don’t expect anything too big too fast. I’m probably going to start off with one minute videos.
I was going to pay for the webcam, but about two hours after we ordered it, my wonderful Mother came up to me and said “I’m going to buy the webcam for you, but I want you to make a video of how wonderful your mother is.” Exact quot.
So that’s the future for Jared’s Creations Made From Lego.
I’m thinking about changing my blog name too, if you have any ideas for what it could be, please suggest it in the comments.
Yeah…it kind of broke…when I tried to bring it upstairs to take a picture in natural sunlight…and. But I am offering you a once in a life time opportunity to buy me a plane ticket to fly to Texas and build one for in your house for the next Olympics! (You would kind of have to buy the Lego bricks too.)
(This offer is not available in stores.)
Okay, so yesterday I found a picture with a description and I decided to try it out. Basically you take 2x1x1 bricks and stack them like you are making a brick wall. Like so:
Then you keep stacking the bricks until they’re 75-100 bricks long. (It doesn’t really matter, as long as you keep it above 75 bricks. (Or the bricks might explode when you try and bend it.)
Then you bend the bricks into a circle and attach the ends. Like so:
I’m not sure how “good” it is for the bricks to be bent like that, so I unhooked the ends last night just to be safe. Anyway, I thought it looked cool to make so I did. You can too if you have: 225-300 any color 2x1x1 bricks and about 30 minutes to spare. I hope you try it!
So, yes I haven’t blogged in a while, but I haven’t had any Ideas lately. Also this blog is for ME to catalog my Lego creations for my future career. But now I have come up with one of the greatest ideas since sliced bread!
Yes to build or not to build, that is the question. And what a silly one at that.
I decided to work with basic shapes instead of making a life sized model of something. (Because I’ve thought of doing that before but realized we don’t have a limitless supply of Legos.) So I decided to build a pyramid but it kind of turned into a temple sort of thing.
I also tried to make a sphere out of just bricks but it’s hard to get the curve right when making it as small as I did. It is between the shape of an egg and a sphere.
The bottom view probably looks the most like a sphere. If I made it like 2x2 feet, it would probably look a lot more like a ball then it does at this size, but we just don’t have enough of the same color…wait another brilliant idea! I’ll blog again when it’s finished. (I really did just think of something as I was typing.)
This is a Lego I made about 2 days ago. It is an experimental Lego for a rocket in the book that I’m writing. There is not much to say about this except its made out of my Shuttle Adventure Lego set.
If a Lego minifigure is two studs high, then this is 476 feet tall. Which is Logical because it has to supply food to the Lunar Base on the back side of the moon for two years.
Please help me come up with a name for it. Just suggest a name in the comments.
This is a Lego I’ve had for a while. It is a 1969 VW Beetle with opening doors, a seat that folds forward to get to the back seat, a hood that opens to reveal a spare tire, and a trunk that has the classic rear mounted engine. I’ve been working on this Lego on and off, trying to make it as good as possible. It’s been about a year since I’ve made it, and it’s probably almost done. It’s one of the best Lego models I’ve ever built and it took quite a while to make.
It all started when, well, I guess right after we came home from church. I randomly had the idea to build something big. And I’ve always (since I started thinking about what kind of car I am going to get) liked the look of the old Beetles. So I decided that I was going to build one. I asked my Mom to print out some pictures of old VW Beetles, and she came up with a picture of one from 1969.
It took about three days to build because we had off school for the week. 
Overall though, I think it turned out great, how about you?
This is a Lego I made about a month ago. There is not much to describe, but I guess you could say it was inspired by my Bible book that I’m doing this year for school. I thought it was cool because I realized that the story of Noah’s Ark is not a children’s story, its one of the most devastating things God ever did to human beings.
Anyway, I originally wanted to make it scale to the Lego mini figure, but that would have been almost 10 feet long! And you can imagine I don’t have enough brown Lego bricks for that. In the end I scaled it down about 8 times to get it just over a foot long. And now we have almost no brown brick left in our boxes.
This is a Lego I made about a year ago. This one was much easier to make because it is a cube. The hardest part of this one was to make the handle on the back strong. I would say this one was one of the better models I have made because it’s pretty easy to make, but it also was very fun to make. The inside has just random colors inside so I didn’t have to waste all those black bricks. If you have or had a gamecube, you would know that the top does open. This one doesn’t sadly, but it does look super cool.
Ok, This is my first post, and it’s about a Lego I made in 2011. The At-At has always been one of my favorite vehicle from Star Wars(and I did not get the set).
This Lego is very interesting because it was fun, but tedious to build. I mean I like Legos, but this one just took forever! It also was frustrating because it just has so many pieces that you have to find, and, the pieces aren’t always in the box you check, so you have to dump out so many different boxes to find the piece. And you have to build 4 of the exact same legs. I also had to build it off the computer because I had to get the instructions off Lego.com. But, in all that, I finally built it, and it turned out great.
And Lena, she is holding her “microphone.” She thought it was so fun to sing into it(she build it herself).
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