P3D Re: New Member sends greetings (hobbies)

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>One can go "oo and aah" over someone's stamp collection or jar
>collection or teacup collection or something like that, but
>everyone seeing those don't go out and do it, even though
>*anyone* can do them -- there isn't any talent (as such)
>involved... mostly just takes the will and patience to do it.


I was going to let this slide by, but darnit Michael, you just like to
provoke me. :-)

These are even worse examples than Greg's.  These are collections.
People collect what strikes their fancy.  I've been impressed by
peoples' collections of tea cozies too, in a sort of "gee, why would
anyone think to collect 2,000 TEA COZIES", without the slightest
inclination to go out and amass my own.  That's the nature of
collecting; it's a personality thing.  It's impressive in the same way
that the "world's largest burrito" is impressive: sheer magnitude,
rather than any particular artistic or even practical merit.

Stereophotography is completely different.  It's an *activity*.  Greg's
example of woodworking was more on target at least in this regard, if
off-base in terms of the level of skill required.  Practically every
adult I know has, at some time or another, taken photographs, even of
the most rudimentary sort.  The translation from point-n-shooting flat
photographs to point-n-shooting stereo is practically nil.  Tape two
disposable cameras together and you've got it.  All the technical
claptrap we love to nit-pick over on this list aside, it really isn't a
particularly difficult thing to do to get satisfactory results.  If
people are really as impressed by a good stereo slide as they appear,
why don't more people take it up?  We're not talking about a massive
collection of salt-n-pepper shakers that took 25 years to amass, we're
talking about $14.95 worth of disposable cameras available at your local
Shop'n'Save and $.10 worth of tape to get started.

The original point of the posting that started this (now absurd and
growing moreso) thread was I don't understand why some people (like,
presumably, us) got turned on to 3D and are active participants, while
most others to whom we show our presumably stunning 3D work, can't be
bothered.  Although the more I think about it, the more I believe it is
simply "adult inertia".  Kids are MUCH more likely to want to try it
themselves than your average adult.


     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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