Jonathan Schlaepfer is an American computer programmer. He is known in brickfilming for founding the website Bricks in Motion in 2008.
Founding of Bricks in Motion[]
Main article: Bricks in Motion
Schlaepfer served as a programmer for Brickfilms.com and was also a co-creator of the Brickfilms Podcast. Upon Joshua Leasure's sale of Brickfilms.com in 2007, Schlaepfer became the chief admin of the site, while the new owners initially played a hidden role. In 2008, amid complaints within the community surrounding added advertising, site changes, and uncertainty and suspicion over the intentions of the new owners, Schlaepfer thought the future of the site looked bad and decided to begin development of a new brickfilming community website. The discovery of this led to his dismissal as admin of Brickfilms.com, initially with this reason not explained to the community, leading to confusion and anger over his sudden ousting. Schlaepfer launched his new site soon afterwards, under the temporary name I ♥ Brickfilming, and the community began to migrate to it.[1]
The site was planned to be renamed to Brickfilmers.com but, following a Cease and Desist letter over the use of the term "brickfilm" in a website name, the name was changed to Bricks in Motion, reviving a name previously used for the personal site of Thomas Foote. Schlaepfer launched the finished version of the site, co-developed with Grant "LegosJedi" Butler, at the end of 2008. In early 2009, feeling he no longer had time to run the site, Schlaepfer passed control of the site to Philip Heinrich. He continued to provide hosting for the site until 2014.
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Motorcycle Race[2] | |
| 2004 | The Birds Trailer | |
| 2004 | Just a Political Brickfilm | |
| 2004 | The Twelfth Labor of Hercules | |
| 2005 | The Odyssey: Books 21 and 22 | |
| 2005 | TV | |
| 2005 | "Untitled" |