Showing posts with label monty python and the holy grail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monty python and the holy grail. Show all posts

Friday, April 04, 2008

the things they do with lego

i love lego. or legos as people here call them. they were my favourite toy as a child. red and white, with the occasional tiny yellow or black block, and the excitement of a sloping one that could be used for a roof, they were simple and fun. they are still a lot of fun now, and i cannot be critical of the prefab sets since my office desks had lego harry potter helping yoda to fight darth vader, and the window sill in my room right now has indiana jones jousting with the black knight while sir george and denholm elliot speed towards a nazi checkpoint on a motorbike with sidecar.

since the kind of imagination we had to use when i first played with lego is no longer so relevant, fans have adapted their imagination to contemporary ideas of fun. this could be an explanation for things like this.

nu today i found an article that presented famous photographs recreated in lego. my apologies that i have mislaid the url, but here is an example for you to enjoy:

Saturday, September 08, 2007

happy monty python day


the bbc reports that:

"Hundreds of fans from across the world are set to descend on Doune Castle this weekend for the third Monty Python Day.
The 14th Century keep was made famous as Castle Anthrax in the 1975 classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Tickets have been restricted to 500 for the event near Stirling, which sees fans taking to the castle's battlements to enact scenes from the famous film."

in the extras on my tragically damaged holy grail dvd there is a documentary in which terry jones returns to the site of castle anthrax. at one point he talks to the gentleman who runs the gift shop, and discovers that the man keeps a set of coconuts behind the counter for those tourists who wish to be photographed with them. grown people galloping around a 14th century scottish castle clickety-clacking coconuts. what fun!

grauniad article about the first day