P3D Space Dog Stereo

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxx>]

If the space dog event was staged for artistic purposes would if be more
art than if it were done by children for Halloween?  Do you recognize an
industrial wasteland as art?  A rotting bird?
Is there a message?  Does circumstance create art?  

Today I hiked a ridge with a friend.  We came down into a wooded canyon
shaded by bay and oak trees.  A narrow trickle of water cascaded down
some rocks into a pool.  Above the pool were circular indentations in
the flat seating rocks that overlooked the small pool.  Volvon natives
ground their acorns there.  The place felt special.

The light was fading and the day was gray.  My Realist was carried but
unused.  I will go back to that spot when the light is better and the
colors are brighter.  I will carefully compose and expose the shots. 
They will remind me of the place and how it was to be there.  They would
be unlikely to inspire most people.  Too bad.  The photos will be for me
and for my sense of life as art.

Art may be either intended or perceived.  Any candid and casually
proficient use of technology, verbiage, mathmatics, oil paints, bronze,
body work, microtechnology, optical design, product development,
marketing, whatever, can be an art.  Recognized arts are too limiting in
scope.  The best stuff is at the edges where fields begin to link - the
hyphenated fields.  So art is what you make of it - or where you find
it.

If you photographed space dog in stereo it would be art to my measure.

John Toeppen
http://members.home.com/holographics/