Today I must announce that we have to say good bye to a good friend: the “Daily Mini”. It’s been a while since I dropped the “Daily” anyways. Let me explain.
Ukoonto had been getting a lot of press lately and the orders for building blocks started pouring in. In order to get the orders out the door as quickly as possible (to prevent any screw ups by the Post), I had to spend a lot of time figuring out how process’ can be sped up. Things are going very well and on average it takes 2.5 days between receiving an order and it going out ther door. This was not without sacrifice and I had to find more time in the day.
The Mini was really time intensive, about 1 hour to get everything done:
creating the building
making the photo
editing it if necessary
posting the photo to flickr
embedding it in the home page
posting about it in the blog
posting it on facebook
and all the little troubles that come along with it
After dropping the “daily”, some people thought that the “Mini” was a specific set of blocks that we are selling. We are only selling one set at this point, and it’s anything but Mini.
However, there is a replacement though :-) I am still posting pictures of new creations with the blocks online, which you can view in a slideshow, which is linked right from the front page.
For now, I’ve got to go back to the North Pole and be a little Santa Elf.
I tried to make a pirate ship, but it’s actually pretty hard to make it in small scale. I should get a few sets of blocks together and really try to make a massive one (breaking the one set only rule ;-) ). I’m pretty sure this is very inspring though.
Todays Mini is some sort of a castle. It’s really weird how buildings never turn out the same, but still have similar looks. I should try to deliberately create something of a different style.
Todays Mini is right on the table saw in the workshop where it was created. I set this up for a newspaper interview that I had today for a local newspaper. You can see the online post of the newspaper right here.
A cathedral like building. Looking at this after the fact, I could have made some cooler stuff, maybe even put a circle in the clock tower or so… maybe I should try to make something like the Tower of London. !Idea for another time! :-)
