07-01-09 – In Memoriam: Thar Be Dragons

I didn’t know Pangolyn, but I do like dragons. I also don’t want to do anything to dishonor her or anything, which is why I’m going to ask my question. We don’t have any dragons in the house, but I have a couple of ideas. My first idea was with my son’s blocks. He has letter blocks and I was thinking of spelling out dragon or something like that. Maybe one has a dragon on it, I would not know as I have not looked at them in a while. Secondly, I do have Legos and was thinking about trying to build a Lego dragon, but I’m really not sure how well that would turn out, though I do have an budding engineer in the house who could possibly help. It’d likely be a white dragon as those are what I have most of.

I know this one is about paying tribute and if my ideas would not do so, then I won’t, but they’re all I have right now so I thought I’d ask before I just did.

Edited to add: Also, would a dragonfly count? We have a mechanical flying dragonfly that I think would be cool, but if that’s too much of a stretch I’d understand too.

Thinking outside the box is what makes farktography so great. Just when I think I have figured out all the variations of a theme someone comes with with something totally off the wall.

I thought my 11-year-old daughter would eventually grow out of her dragonophilia. Seems she might not. That’s kinda cool, too.

From “Collections” – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Dragons_3516.jpg

Yeah….. Your girl’s got a gifted pencil hand, too…. I remember showing that photo to Pangolyn when it came up. She gave an “ooooh” of approval.

I’m going to be back in VA this weekend for the memorial service, and I’m going to try to photograph some of Pangolyn’s artwork (and hope it’s not too much of an inside edge).

personally, that’s kind of iffy. It really depends on how the pics turn out.

I’d probably shy away of pics of books, but that’s just me.

I wasn’t too into the idea of the books either, but the series does have dragons. Hence my thought on it.

TBH, after I gave up the thought for a couple of hours, it popped into my head that I’m likely thinking too big and with too much detail. Maybe I was trying to use the blocks that are too big and I’m going to scale down and instead of making 1 bigger dragon, I’ll try some smaller ones and see how they turn out.

I’ve also had the thought of making one out of tin foil and spray painting it or making a stuffed dragon, but either one of those would likely take longer than the legos. Once their made the fun part will be taking the pictures anyway. I realized that probably in asking I was making one of those n00b-ish mistakes, sort of like asking for the secret recipe. Time to get my dork on and go have more fun with my legos (I found my lego horse last night). Maybe I’ll get my 3-year-old in on it with his legos too.

I realized that probably in asking I was making one of those n00b-ish mistakes, sort of like asking for the secret recipe.

You’ll be surprise to know that Farkers share a lot with each other. I’ve learned and am still learning just from reading the discussion threads. Don’t ever be concerned about asking a question. You will always get answers. Participants will even show a possible entry on the discussion thread and ask for opinions. And they get them. The more technical members have always treated my sometimes “dumb” questions with much respect.

I didn’t think I could get anything for this theme, but then I wandered down to the local castle, and asked if they had any dragons.

Ok, that sounds really cool. And they did have a few dragons.
I also realized that the local castle I went to in Colorado had a dragon head for the smokestack.