P3D Re: Al Truistic anaglyphs

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to:
> >but your generosity in sharing it, and the generosity of the other
> >people on this list like you has amazed me since I joined it.  Valuable
> >information is given freely in a community of warmth that is palpable.

Boris replied: 
> First and foremost, like many others on this list, I have become a
> PROponent of stereoscopic imagery.  It is difficult to describe the
> level of enthusiasm and optimism that I have for the medium as an
artist.

Which is a big issue, I think.  More difficult than getting 3-D hobbyists
to explore artistic approaches is getting traditional artists to explore
3-D media.  I think if we want to propagate this fascination of ours, we
need to target visual artists in general, not just photo-hobbyists (who
specifically are encouraged to ignore stereo cues and see flat
composition, as the flat camera does).  How many sculptors, who are
endlessly complaining that their work is poorly represented in flat
photography, have ever seriously explored making a stereo portfolio of
their work?   How many architects have created multiple design "models" by
generating phantograms?  How many stage designers/directors have used
stereo projection? (More than you may guess!)  How many painters have made
stereo paintings: cross-viewed pairs or anaglyphs or Chromadepth
abstractions?  Not enough yet!

> When I first discovered stereo photography, I thought I had stumbled
> into a great business opportunity.  In the two years since, I've nearly
> bankrupted myself trying to make a business of it - big mistake.
> But in the interim I discovered it to be the ideal artistic medium for
> me.  I am satisfied and very happy with the artistic opportunities and
> recognition that I am receiving.

I try to remember money is a form of transportation, not a destination in
itself.  Or as someone said "Money can't buy happiness, it just takes you
to places where you can hunt for happiness."

The real objectives are: Stimulating and enriching experiences.
Camaraderie.  Discovery of the world's underlying order.  Self-expression.
Experiencing life through others' eyes.  When you can achieve those things
without the sticky tricky tyranny of the middle-man Money, so much the
better!

> 
> The upshot: where I used to think (as an intellectual capitalist) that
> new ideas in stereoscopy needed to be protected, so that only I (as the
> creator) could profit from them, now I have learned something quite
> different: stereo as a medium needs all the help it can get!  I will
> never succeed as an artist in the medium, until the medium itself
> get some positive recognition.

> As such, if I can help others to improve their stereoscopic
> presentation, that can only help my own efforts with the medium.

My philosophy is that my ideas, like children, are not my own - I'm just
borrowing them from the universe.  For the pleasure of giving them life,
seeing them come to maturity and, most importantly, letting them out in
the world to be seen and expanded.  Folks who hoard their intellectual
property long after they add to it are like parents who never let their
kids cut the apron strings.  Their work's greatest potential never
happens.  The point isn't to have "new" ideas to take credit for (Seems
most of my "new" ideas on P3D turn out to have been presented by Gabriel
long ago, upon archival excavation!), or to stick a prifit straw in them
and live like a slurping lump.

The point is to give ideas new shape and new life.  If I can't bring an
idea to fruit now, I'll do it as soon as possible.  If not later, then
I'll see if someone else can or will.  That pesky idea has its own life,
which is bigger than mine, and longer!

Blaspheming the capitalist gods and corrupting the newbies,
Bruce





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