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The Library has reached out to me to confirm that we will provide another Summer Reading Display. The theme is “Color Our World”. Set up would likely be Saturday, May 31 or June 7 and tear Down on Saturday, August 9 or 16.
I was actually discussing this with Krista the other day and I thought wouldn’t it be cool if we did something akin to the Movies Plesantville or The Wizard if Oz. i.e. build something that starts out in monotone grey and then transitions into an explosion of color. Could be anything. A building that is greyscale at the bottom but vibrant up top A minifig scene that’s grayscale on the left but gets more color as you go to the right. Or you could do something similar to Schindler’s list’s red coat girl (although hopefully a more upbeat subject). i.e. maybe a vibrant stained-glass that pops against a grey backdrop. This would also make for a good quarterly challenge and that would hopefully allow us to produce a plethora of builds so we can populate all the library displays in the summer (minus Northland that does it’s own thing).
Color Your World is an interesting theme – it reminds me of an old Sherwin Williams paint logo. Maybe the graffiti Pittsburgh sign and/or Tom’s mega snot brick could be incorporated into displays.
It is never too early to start planning!
I tried several times to post a reply in this thread, once it even said that it was a duplicate reply, but it never appeared? Could it be because I included links?
Regardelss, there are good youtube videos on Wizard of Oz builds from Brickworld in 2023 and from VirtuaLUG in 2013.
Another note: kids today might be more familiar with the movie Wicked, which had 9 million tulips grown in rows to resemble a rainbow in the background of Munchkinland.
This topic also reminds me of RVALUG’s build at Brickfair …
Oh I wasn’t saying do Wizard of Oz builds (although point of order that one of Madison’s favorite movies is the Wizard of Oz). I was more referring to the technique of the cinematic effect of starting out in “boring” black and white and the transitioning into “vibrant” color. i.e. a colorization of the world…just as that movie was intending to do by showcasing the new Technicolor capabilities of movies. Capturing that moment of wonder when audiences were forever introduced to a new realm of colorful movies. Pleasantville did the same thing but this time it was the characters of a black and white movie who were introduced to color and chaos gradually over time.
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