Re: Talking vs Doing

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:20:09 -0500
>From: P3D Larry Berlin  <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Talking vs Doing

>I have to agree with him to a large degree as I've noticed how many computer
>oriented technical artistic presentations (commercially marketed) lack
>artistic merit and are obviously written by persons who are engineers first
>and hardly even pretend to be artistic. 

Yeah, I've noticed how those Intel Pentium commercials on prime-time TV
are so dry and technical. :-)  :-)  :-)
[For those who haven't seen them, the commercials feature disco music,
flashing colored lights, and dancers in stylized clean-room attire.]

But seriously, I think it's being increasingly recognized that technical
presentations can benefit from some artistic content, especially if they
are intended to reach a less-technical audience.

>I've often felt that the engineers
>would get better marketing mileage from their technical creations if they
>would bring the artists *IN* to use the hi-tech gear instead of *locking
>them out* deliberately. 

But a prominent scientific visualization person (in other words, an artist
who was deliberately brought in to use the high-tech gear) that I know of
is dead-set against 3D. So should I trust his artistic judgement that 3D
is a waste of time, or my cold technical judgement that it has merit? :-)

John R


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