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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283327/#p283327</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I started out in the middle of this ''golden age'' thingy. Funny enough I've never experienced it like that. XD]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[tom.gudde@gmail.com (T.G-Tom)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow. Thanks WhiteDragon. From what I've read, people were a bit too guerrilla in their responses to TaaB. Though that's painting a broad brush, because other members of the community wrote intelligent, well-thought-out posts to convince TaaB of what she was doing wrong. But she never really seemed to grasp the concept of what the community was arguing for, and telling her about what she'd walked in on.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The biggest reason for the fallout was that brickfilms.com wasn't just a site that hosted a community, but rather had been built by the community. Brickfilms 2.0, if you will, was the result of the community from [url=http://brickfilmsforums.yuku.com/]the original forums[/url] banding together and [url=http://brickfilmsforums.yuku.com/topic/1995/Winter-2002-Brickfilms-com-Redesign#.UERT_LJlROI]putting together a PHP based site that could join the forums and the rest of the website[/url]. It was members of the community that built and later maintained the new site. Throughout it's life, it had always felt like more of an ongoing project by the community than a site owned by one person (even though one person technically did).

When TaaB took over, it became clear that the site no longer belonged to the community, and therefore, the community no longer belonged to the site.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (WhiteDragon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283259/#p283259</link>
			<description><![CDATA[After reading the article, I finally understand why it all happened:
RevMen sold brickfilms.com to a network because the site wasn't doing to well. The network's representative and the new owner (TaaB) was used to handling business sites, so she didn't know how to handle a community site. She even stated that she was handling it in a business manner. The members of a community need to know what's going on so they understand. The opposite happened: TaaB kept the community in the dark, misunderstandings happened, and chaos arose. Most people left, this site was built, and everyone came here. Now, the only reason anyone would want to go back to brickfilms.com is nostalgia.

(Read that if you TL;DR'd the article.)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (minifig051)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283252/#p283252</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow, this is all incredible. It may sound weird, but it's inspiring me to really throw myself in to the community. There's so much behind it. BiM is like a cult of people all devoted to this great hobby (with a few exceptions - not pointing any fingers). This backstory is really interesting, and I'm guessing that film Eddie was going to make never got made, but now I'd really like to see it done! Thanks for posting all of that RotU, I'm learning a lot.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283250/#p283250</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When I first started getting into brickfilming websites earlier this year (I've been brickfilming for quite a while but had never looked it up online), I wanted to know what had happened to Brickfilms.com. I looked around, found a lot of old threads and spent a bunch of time looking at how these sites were using the Wayback Machine. When I found that article, it was awesome because finally everything made sense! Here are some of the other things I found:
[url]http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/8182/the-day-the-brickfilmers-rebeled/[/url]
[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20080624073742/http://www.bricksinmotion.com/refugeecamp/topic/908/[/url]
[url]http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Abrick_films&sort=-publicdate&page=1[/url]
There's more, of course, and the refugee camp is really interesting to look around in. Gotta go.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[unreelrealm@gmail.com (Realm of the Unreel)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283249/#p283249</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow. I just read that entire article, and it was extremely interesting. I knew there was controversy surrounding Brickfilms.com (vs. BricksinMotion.com) but I had no idea all of the juicy details. Thanks for posting that, Realm of the Unreel. It's really cool learning the history of this hobby. It seems that in the olden days of Brickfilms.com, brickfilming was more authentic. There were more thought-out works being distributed. I think that the reason for brickfilming becoming more popular, for better or for worse, is the evolution of the internet. YouTube makes it easier for people to find brickfilms, learn about it, and make them, whether they're 9 years old or 20 years old. That article was written in 2008, so it would be cool if someone would write an updated version, with that same information and then more info on the years that followed, up until now. I know I read somewhere in the forums that people were starting an official brickfilming wiki, so I'd like to see where that goes.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283245/#p283245</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow, I knew there was a lot of controversy but I had never read that article before. I am stunned at how insane things had gotten. Wow.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283243/#p283243</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Realm of the Unreel][quote=FlyingMinifig]
Just wondering, what happened to Brickfilms.com in the first place, that it became inactive and everyone migrated here?[/quote]

[url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080803012211/http://loneverse.com/index.php?title=Brickfilms_Chronicle]This.[/url][/quote]


Wow. o_0]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Mr Vertigo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283233/#p283233</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=FlyingMinifig]
Just wondering, what happened to Brickfilms.com in the first place, that it became inactive and everyone migrated here?[/quote]

[url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080803012211/http://loneverse.com/index.php?title=Brickfilms_Chronicle]This.[/url]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[unreelrealm@gmail.com (Realm of the Unreel)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283228/#p283228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Lechnology]How dare you, JK, how dare you deny our holocaust--I mean Golden Days.  We lived through it.  It happened.  Many of us have even survived the Exodus from Brickfilms.com and the 1000 millisec journey to BricksinMotion.com.  You have no right to say it never happened because you were there too!

Apologize to the Brickfilmian people![/quote]


Just wondering, what happened to Brickfilms.com in the first place, that it became inactive and everyone migrated here?]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Mr Vertigo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283216/#p283216</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Back in the day", brickfilming simply wasn't as easy to get into. The hardware wasn't commonly owned, the software wasn't as accessible, and there was the ever nagging problem of where the hell to host your films. There was a lot of effort spent just being able to get your film made and out there.

Nowadays, a lot of kids already have the gear to film, and with a few clicks, their work is hosted for a global audience. Hell, you don't even have to wait for the film to download, it just streams. While this is great for exposure of the hobby, and I'm sure plenty of talented people have started this way, it does also lead to a much higher number of 'low end' brickfilms floating around.

Quite frankly, I'm extremely out of touch with this community nowadays though, so perhaps I'm not the best one to compare the two... :)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (WhiteDragon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 06:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283037/#p283037</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow, thanks for all of the great insight everyone! Some very good points have been made here. I suppose people could be being a bit too nostalgic. Then again, the community did seem to be tighter back then, with more professional work being dished out. And it is harder to find a truly stunning brickfilm nowadays. When I've been on this site, I do find there are several releases a day, and usually a majority of them are fairly poorly thought out. I don't really have a problem with younger kids getting in to brickfilming, and they tend to not know any better than to make what they make, which is generally not great work. Just maybe when they get older we might start to see better films from them? The fact that they join this site might be because they think that they are actually very good brickfilmers. I know that when I was 10 and started to get in to brickfilming, I thought all of my films were really impressive; amazing pieces of art. Of course, they were not that... at all. Some of the brickfilmers from this 'golden era' are still around (Smeagol, MindGame...), but it seems like others have been drifting away (Nathan Wells, Nosniborus...). I wonder if that's because of the changes that have happened over time in the community? Or, merely a loss of interest... I love hearing everyone's thoughts, this is a really intriguing subject for me. Keep 'em coming! :D]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/283017/#p283017</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There was definitely a 'Golden Age' of the community and that was brickfilms.com 2000-2006 I'd say. The site back then was the biggest brickfilming website at the time and therefore one of the only places to find lego animation and webcams weren't so prevalent then as they are now meaning that mostly serious people would make brickfilms and some lucky children whose parents had cameras they could use. The amount of quality animation being made then is probably the same now though nowadays you have to get past a lot of other films to find a gem.

My favourite brickfilm will always remain The Magic Portal though and that was made in the 1980s.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (RP Hoogle)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: The Brickfilming 'Golden Days']]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/282999/#p282999</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Like some people have already said, as the group of people who make brickfilms has gone up, a much higher percentage of those are young kids who don't take the hobby seriously. With youtube the all end up on the internet, and they pop up all over the place, many of them here. I didn't post anything on BiM or even join for awhile because I saw it as a community for serious brickfilmers and the only videos released here were films of at least decent length and quality, stuff that was worth watching. The reason the film directory failed was because of tons of submissions of 30 second shorts that the creators didn't put much effort into; so yes, the community has gone down hill, starting before I joined, that's for sure. I also believe that most of the people here who post other places beside putting a film in the release forum really are trying to improve their film making, I know I am. It's not that there arn't still good brickfilms coming out, just look at the amount of work the BuilderBrothers are putting into The Squire and the Scroll; it's just that there are a lot more, lets face it, bad brickfilms being spewed all over youtube in between the good ones. (I myself have been guilty of this in my earlier stages in brickfilming).]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[backyardlegos@gmail.com (backyardlegos)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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