Re: Talking vs Doing

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997
>From: P3D John W Roberts writes:
>
>
>>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997
>>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.]

****  Are you implying that an engineer designed those commercials? :-) I
was thinking of certain CD products I've encountered off of retail store
shelves. When I read the credits on one in particular, it explained a lot
about why the product was the way it was...

>..................
>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
>

Trust both your cold technical judgement as well as your warmer emotional
judgment. Fully distrust your friend's judgment because it's not made with
full information and is biased against the unknown. I would question why
your friend has such a bias. Is it the medium itself or just their reaction
to some personal experience which may not have been ideal? Has your artistic
friend no sense of adventure? No urge to deepen the expressive envelope? No
inner artistic motives that are yet unexpressed? 

So maybe a parallel here is to look at flying lessons. When one takes flying
lessons, a prime issue is that you move in 3 dimensions instead of 2 as in
road driving. (relative to a surface anyway) Naturally some students have a
more difficult time than others in adapting to moving and thinking in 3D
space. These are important factors especially during air traffic control
around airports. Which pilot would you trust the most for a flight, the one
who has a flair for flying and feels at home in the air, or the one who
struggled for weeks to barely adapt to the 3D aspects of flying and would
far rather drive a car because it involves fewer decisions?

Larry Berlin

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