Comments on: A change of generations…

By: chanson

chanson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:45:37 +0000

Genewitch — Here’s the connection: I’m an American who was born and raised Mormon (and later stopped believing). As an adult, I married a French guy and moved to France. Nico was born in France, so he has dual citizenship and speaks both French and English.

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By: genewitch

genewitch — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:34:23 +0000

Forgive me for being a drive by commenter… I can only hope that the children who i may have recently taken the responsibility of caring for in the future will have such a fondness for science.

Perhaps, if someone has the time, they could explain the whole mormon/french connection? Has mormonism spread to france? or is this in canada? (but Nico doesn’t seem a very canadian name!)

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By: aerin

aerin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:56:37 +0000

I thought I saw it being built – it wasn’t complete. Can’t remember if I saw the photos or not.

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By: chanson

chanson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:56:00 +0000

Thanks CWC and aerin!!!

Yeah, that lego Nauvoo was cool!!! Did you see it in real life or just the photos?

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By: aerin

aerin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:49:10 +0000

Some day – someone should post the photos of the entire lego replica of Nauvoo (built to scale).

These are great, btw – both John’s and Nico’s.

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By: CWC

CWC — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:22:42 +0000

That picture is FAB!! And so is your earlier work about the BoM! Love it.

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By: chanson

chanson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:23:13 +0000

For this chart, I think Nico was mostly influenced by the primate episode of the French kids’ science show C’est Pas Sorcier (It’s Not Magic). They show a primate family tree, and Nico has drawn other diagrams where he followed the family tree from the show more closely.

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By: John Hamer

John Hamer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:14:54 +0000

Nico’s drawings are wonderful! He did that from watching a documentary and not from a printed chart of primates?

I love that they are all in profile except Homme. This reminds me of watching a show called “Animals, Animals, Animals” on Saturday morning in 1979.

The theme song included the line, “…man is just an animal who has managed to survive…” and I remember singing that to mom. And she reminded me that “we don’t believe that.” I remember being dubious. I did believe that; it made perfect sense.

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By: Guy Noir Private Eye

Guy Noir Private Eye — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:22:29 +0000

O.K. Stone me….
Does the leadership of tscc show up on these drawings?

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