DecoJim

Greetings, my name is Jim

I was introduced to the fun of building things out of legos at about age 5. For the next 10 years I constructed all sorts of buildings, airplanes, bridges, and rockets. I noticed that I was a little bit better at Legos (or at least more enthusiastic) than my friends. After reaching adulthood. I put the legos aside where they sat for years. When I moved to my own house, I put them in the attic thinking that I would give them to one of my nephews (which I never did).

Now many years later, having become somewhat jaded and cynical about the machinations of the adult world, I longed for something simpler and pure. After seeing the Lord of The Rings movies, I for some inexplicable reason desired to build the Tower of Isengard out of black Legos. I pulled out the old legos and discovered that there appeared to be fewer blocks than I remember as a kid. The resulting tower was not very towering at only 1.5 feet or 45 centimeters high. The Meijers store chain just happened to have a sale on basic lego sets and I purchased quite a few of them. The result was a new tower almost 5 feet or 1.5 meters high.

I now had large number of legos of other colors. I tried to build the World Trade Center but I ran out of blocks after completing 2/3 of just one of the twin towers. With all due respect to the late architect and the people lost on 9/11, the buildings are quite architecturally boring when built in Lego. My favorite type of building it the Art-Deco skyscraper which say its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. Therefore my current project is the construction of a replica of the 1928 Fisher Building of Detroit , which won a silver medal of design from a New York Architectural magazine at the time. If you are interested, you can view the lego Fisher Building which is pretty close to minifig scale.

My interests include:

• Architecture
• History (including military history)
• Computer and traditional gaming
• Gardening
• Classical music

I also used to build platic model kits, run an HO scale railroad, and fly model rockets.