are we live we are live hello everybody
ah welcome welcome to my cave on this smokey uh
it is very smoky outside i think the the smoke levels are finally going down
after days and days and days of uh really abysmally toxic levels
of particulates in the air everything in san francisco is covered with ash
it is uh very it's very strange it is very very strange and last week
san francisco did an unbelievable cosplay as blade runner 2049 so full
marks to california for breaking out the
the summer con season with uh with a full weather based cosplay
yeah i know that's dark uh okay so i'm gonna set this up so i have text
cool kayla i'm ready to receive text when you're ready to send them
so uh we're going to start hello everybody
we are going to start today with a uh a a one day a quick build um i have here
some lovely parts and pieces lego pieces and this is a build invented by a fan oh
my goodness his name again
steem paul is the lego aficionado who is responsible for the
pile of legos in front of me and the fast and furious 56-page
instruction manual here and i'm going to put this together
we have we've already teased what it is it's
it's it's going to be my rickshaw my spot rickshaw which is not here
because this space is too small um in fact i will tell you that when i was
um ideating the the rickshaw and various members of the tested team
um became aware of just how big the rickshaw was going to be
everyone only wanted to know um where where is this gonna live it's they're
all
which is a really valid question and right now it's in my storage space i
have a i have a a reasonably sized storage space here in
the mission not too far from my shop and i was not able to bring the rickshaw
out in time but we are going to enjoy a virtual
rickshaw here with this beautiful lego build
um it is ah right and i wanted to talk about
i wanted to use this build to talk a little bit about
fair use copyright uh transformative artwork
and try and just help um advance the discussion
about culture because this is what's this is a classic
transformative thing right i i built and designed that brickshaw from scratch
from my brain so by default by us law i hold a copyright
on that design now this uh steam paul who put this together
i there are so many occasions of people suing each other for
copyright violations in cases where there is no violation
and if i got bent out of shape about steen paul taking my design and making a
lego kit out of it i don't personally i don't think i have
a leg to stand on because one of the tests for copyright is
it's not just an imitation of the work is it is it a transformation
of the work and that's the copyright looks at these things in terms of
culture is this advancing our culture or is it
just moving laterally and someone else is trying to make money on someone
else's dime and the fact is is the transformation
which is to take the design i did and put it into lego that's a
fundamentally different medium a fundamentally different execution and it
is completely within fair use so there shouldn't be any issues about
it but copyright is one of the most misunderstood misunderstood uh
things on the web and it behooves us all to have
reasonable discussions about it because it's really important it is
really important one that creators get paid for their work
for a period of time not too long not disney long not mickey mouse long sonny
bono law long but a reasonable amount of time but
then after that it's really important that that work transfers into the public
trust so that we can then explore that sort of
thing okay there's my little upfront copyright
rant and there'll probably be some questions
later i i'm not an expert in copyright law
not by any means but it is a particular sort of obsessive bellywick of mine and
i pay a lot of attention to
it because actually to me uh copyright law
dovetails really importantly with privacy law
which dovetails with our actual genuine real personal
liberty um the you know some people's ideas of how to enforce
copyright law violate all sorts of uh uh all sorts of
chunks of of the bill of rights yeah okay
okay that's the end of my rant now i'm gonna build here we go step one
uh let's see i need this is clearly generated by the lego build
software which is really cool amazing that one can do this nowadays
and i am looking for let's see i'm looking for a yellow ah
there it is the yellow slinky hat and i'm looking for three of those
little lanterns that's what i these little one here these little one
by ones with the exterior pips on all four sides
i think of those as lanterns because they look like lanterns
okay so one and two and that and that and then another one the monologue
of my building lego is always the same it's always
that and that and this and this and this to that okay
on to step two now two
oh a one by one smooth tile smooth tile uh
another one by 2 smooth tile and then a little grippy grabber
okay oh and then i guess i do the same thing
on the other side
wait oh it's the three on the other side there we go
that's why i was confused now we have this goes on an angle but this
is fascinating i so i'm not sure what i really don't know what part
of the build i am currently building with what part of the rickshaws so i'm
kind of curious okay so that connects to that
and then that connects to the pistol oh that's neat
and then that connects to another one of those
oh i do this multiple times oh this is spot that i'm building
i'll bet there's a 4x here somewhere no okay but i'm building yeah okay so
i'm building several of these one two three and then one
two three i bet my friends at boston dynamics were watching this and going
you dummy you're building spot can't you tell
spot i know covid's been boring for spot i apologize for that
we want to get going with some more spot videos it's just such a um
what we'd set up with such a set of collaborations
and the one thing that kovid made difficult was
collaboration uh but he is still an amazing piece
of machinery and deserves uh a a wider and more variegated skill base
and i aim i aim to achieve that four spot
before too long
i love the word variegated okay so uh right let me do
that's one oh this is a lovely little spot
this is great oh
yep there's that and then this actually does feel a lot like spot
look at that there he is
i didn't mean to give the white one but
okay so i've gone ahead done all four legs yep great now
stand up on your own stand up for yourself
uh okay let's see here we've got
let's see oh i fascinating so with this software doesn't necessarily okay so one
and two got you touching it
and wow what is oh fast you've seen that part
building with legos is so relaxing
it was funny though as i sorted out the legos and
i would talk to people about it they're still from a certain number of people
there still was like that there still was a little bit of uh uh
you're still building with legos are you the answer is yep still building with
legos still one of the kings of all toys i've said there is a
on twitter there's somebody who every time i post a a
build of frequently castigates me this person
for playing with childish things i find it entertaining that they follow
me in order to correct me
clearly they have my well-being at heart one of those and then
oh okay so i turn this over like that
and i use two of these one these are fascinating these are one
by threes with two pips centered on them that's really neat
okay and i have these guys
you and dos
oh and ye oldie laser guns that's what i think of this part as wait
where's there it is i think of this this part
that to me is a laser gun because those were the laser those were
the guns on the early uh space program uh the uh
nasa space legos in the 80s okay one this is literally like each instruction
is like one or two pieces there's one there and then there's
another there i mean i get why the software does this
it really wants to make sure it doesn't miss anything and that makes sense
oh oh there's some you know i one of the things about lego design
that's amazing is that is the memory of lego designers for all the different
parts and pieces that they can use to solve an engineering problem
that's the part that blows my mind oh look he's even done we've got some
little color variants clearly i'm making the seat here and we've got some brown
color variants because the decoration
okay
so i don't quite understand that oh right it's because i right okay i
just got ahead of myself that's all
i recently did a lego one-day build of the razor crest which we'll put up
soon um but one of the one of the things that i i came up with
some suggestions for lego about chiral builds like the two like the the
legs of spot here they're bilaterally
symmetrical and like whenever you have to build the same thing multiple times
in lego it always says like 4x so you know to build it four times but
when something's chiral when it's a mirror image of each other they often
just walk you through those same steps again they don't let you know it's
coming and that i tend to get a little bent out
of shape about that so i always like to know when i'm doing a build that's
like that and then i can set them up and do them
okay so knife there that goes there this guy comes up here
and a second one by one
that's great
oh we're gonna do the canopy yep saw that one coming
interesting okay one two there it is
three and turning it over oh this brown
i know that this is not a common color because i was
when i was sorting out my legos i ended up with some very
small amounts of surprising colors and there is a particular green for which
there's very few pieces um but the multi-colors
it's the um the source of all of my super weird and esoteric multicolored
pieces is without a doubt the yellow submarine build
all right
and what is that thing oh weird okay oh that's like they've done a
little lantern there that's so hey
hey don't you fall okay so i'm gonna do a little
little dangly earrings okay
oh right okay i'll bet there's yeah i see how this is going it's walking me
through one side but i can tell it's the same for both so we're going to do
that and that and
that because they're the same and then right i've got these
technic struts
and look at that they come right on there
it doesn't look like they attach to anything that's cool
all right
oh nice and those guys
dude this actually looks they're very respectable
and lovely rickshaw yep another oh right the long the long
arms of the rickshaw and got the little grabbers out there
oh nice and then that i'll bet this goes right here that's cool
i know the resolution on this is not as high as i would like either
but such as it is yep yep and then
and then the wheels is that let's go here
oh
uh that's just another view and then it connects up to
spot and then there's just one last picture of spot
so here we go there it is and then spot comes on
wait wait wait i'm missing one piece i'm missing one piece
there's this one piece oh it goes over here on the other side of spot
it's the diagonal yellow coat of covering
okay so that and then spot
look at that
i want to use a blank sheet of paper so you can clearly see it and i think
nope everything's covered there we are look at that lovely here we
go i'm going to give you a better view wait wait wait
look at that that is beautiful um steam
paul thank you this is freaking delightful
this will get a pride of place we'll post a picture of it in my
in my cabinet of lego builds i am i am not going to dismantle
uh and uh i will see if i can't find a minifig of me to stand next to this
that is just gorgeous i love that all righty there we go
it's super super lovely
um and uh oh yeah since uh since the last um
since the last live stream i did since the last time anyone's seen a picture of
me i went and got a haircut
it was an outdoor haircut it was all safe everyone was wearing masks
man i am so happy to have all of this matter removed from the top of my head
it doesn't it doesn't have any bearing upon my ability to make stuff but for
some reason all that hair it gets in my way man
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