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Brendan Powell Smith (born 7 September 1973) is an American artist, author, and atheist, best known as the creator of The Brick Testament in which he illustrates stories from the Bible by photographing dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Image File history File links Brendan_powell_smith. ...
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September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Atheism is the disbelief[1] in the existence of any deities. ...
Adam and Eve from The Brick Testament website The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. ...
Lego Group logo The classic red 2x4 Lego brick. ...
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Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, Smith was raised an Episcopalian and attended church regularly with his mother, a Sunday School teacher, until his skepticism led him to become an atheist at the age of 13. Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the population was 28,587. ...
The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επίσκοπος, transliterated epÃskopos, which literally means overseer; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop. ...
Sunday school, Indians and whites. ...
Education
Though no longer religious himself, Smith retained a fascination with the dominant religion of his culture, and went on to study Ancient Christianity in college, studying under Paula Fredriksen and Michael Martin, and graduating Boston University in 1995 with a degree in Philosophy & Religion. Various Religious symbols, including (first row) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, (second row) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third row) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fourth row) Ayyavazhi, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual...
Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ...
Paula Fredriksen is a historian, and author of two books. ...
Michael Martin (born 3 February 1932) is an analytic philosopher at Boston University as professor emeritus. ...
For the unrelated Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ...
While at Boston University, Smith combined his interest in religion and his iconoclastic sense of humor to create the daily comic strip The Second Coming which was published in Boston University's Independent Student Newspaper The Daily Free Press from 1992 to 1995. The Daily Free Press, an independent student newspaper at Boston University, began its run as the largest continuing publication at BU in 1970. ...
Creations After graduating college, Smith wrote and starred in the independent action/comedy feature Vendetta: A Christmas Story. Lack of any promotional budget prevented the movie from reaching a wider audience until several years later when the advent of internet movie distribution led to Vendetta becoming a perennial holiday cult favorite. Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a highly devoted group of fans. ...
While Vendetta was still being edited in 1997, Smith moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he created his first website of note, BRAD: the game, a labyrinthine text-based choose-your-own-adventure style game loosely based on Smith's uncle Brad. Though originally intended only for the amusement of family and close friends, the game's bizarre sense of humor and raunchiness made it a popular pastime among college students. The Cave of Time, the first Choose Your Own Adventure book. ...
From 1998 to 2001, Smith focused on writing and recording songs from a home studio. His quirky, melodic, intimate and brief lo-fi songs are found on two solo albums, 1998's IDEAS FOR SONGS and 1999's LIFE & DEATH. In 2000 Smith formed the indie pop band The Human Heads with Lila Tene and recorded the 2001 album here come the heads. Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ...
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Since 1999 Smith has kept his personal website TheReverend.com regularly updated with the latest "news" about his life, some of which is true and some of which seems to be entirely fictional.
The Brick Testament -
In late 2001, Smith began work on what would become his most successful creative project to date, The Brick Testament. The popularity of the Brick Testament website led to a publishing deal with Quirk Books who have released three books in the Brick Testament books series. Smith has indicated that he plans to eventually illustrate the entire Bible in LEGO, and continues to update the Brick Testament website on a regular basis with new material, though recently he has not added anything new since December, 2005. Adam and Eve from The Brick Testament website The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. ...
Quirk Books is an independent book publisher based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Publications - The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis (ISBN 1-931686-45-9)
- The Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas (ISBN 1-59474-012-7)
- The Brick Testament: The Ten Commandments (ISBN 1-59474-044-5)
- Das 1. Buch L. (ISBN 3-7254-1336-3, German language version of Genesis)
- レゴで遊ぶ天地創造ものがたり (ISBN 4-576-04235-1, Japanese language version of Genesis)
- 레고로 만나는 창세기: 하나님 처음 지으신 세상 (ISBN 89-91290-10-8, Korean language version of Genesis)
- 레고로 만나는 예수 탄생: 크리스마스 이야기 (ISBN 89-91290-11-6, Korean language version of Christmas)
See also Adam and Eve from The Brick Testament website The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. ...
External links | Persondata | | NAME | Smith, Brendan Powell | | ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith | | SHORT DESCRIPTION | website creator | | DATE OF BIRTH | 7 September 1973 | | PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwood, Massachusetts] | | DATE OF DEATH | | | PLACE OF DEATH | | |
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