P3D Re: I haven't a clue!

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The tip about the moon was just something I felt compelled to pass on.  I 
received it from a friend.  Took it at face value.  Thought Bill might know 
something about it.
I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about most of the  time,  It 
took me a half semester to figure out what they were even talking about in 
trig class, (and here I am trying to think in 3D), but I hung in there 
figurin' that it would be an easier class when I retook it the following 
semester.  Think I ended up getting a B in the class.
So, I'll hang.  

I'm so happy to find myself in an environment in which I can exercise the 
english language without feeling that I am intimidating someone.  I'll try 
not to slaugher it.  Remember Norm Crosby? Wasn't it Norm?  Whatever happened 
to him?
 
I deliver pizza for a living and if I ever said "tenacious" in reference to 
anything,  I have the feeling that most of the people I work with would never 
speak to me at all.   But you might be surprised at some of us who deliver 
for a living.  We have a really great poet on board and a high school 
psychologist who actually remembered the anniversary of the Jonesboro 
massacre and one lady reads all the time; several aspiring musicians who are 
teaching me to appreciate rap music and a gourmet 
who is teaching me to cook greens and a lot more.    It's just that, for some 
strange
reason, we don't like using big words in conversation and I think that is 
kind of sad, because I just love the English language.     One of the kids 
came home one day,
(my stepdaughter), thinking she could get by with using curse words.  I told 
her that she was not allowed to curse because she was developing her 
vocabulary and that if she started cursing she would never have a vocabulary. 


I didn't understand the databank idea.  I couldn't pull up any of the 
articles.  Explain? 
Is there a glossary that comes with all these technical terms?  I'll have to 
check the 
info packet Dr. T  sent me.  Maybe it's in there. 

This may or may not apply to Larry Berlin, but I have observed that most 
artists don't like being bound by rules.  But I have read that we can break 
the rules more effectively if we know and  understand the rules first.  Don't 
know whether I agree with that.  I just like to experiment, myself.  Try 
aiming your flash parallel to your subject instead of directly on it, or 
bounced, for example.  Right now I can't put my finger exactly on the 
difference it makes, but I discovered it by accident one day and it does make 
a very pleasing difference.  Wasn't it Rembrandt,  though, who said learn as 
much as you can and forget everything you know?  Fuller, of geodesic dome 
fame, invented his own geometry, they say.  Wonder how much he knew about 
geometry to begin with?  

Which brings to mind another subject.  Sometimes I just like to daydream.  I 
really think they should make one hour of daydreaming a required course in 
school.  Of course there's study hall, but every time I ever tried 
daydreaming in study hall some 
dedicated staff member would scold me for it and tell me to find something to 
do, as 
if I were not doing something productive.  Probably due to the Biblical 
reference that 
an idle mind is the devil's workshop.  How can one be expected  to be 
creative if their 
mind is always busy and never still or allowed to wander?  Yesterday I was 
daydreaming and invisioned  a  3d puzzle of the earth.  Today, finishing up 
my Christmas shopping, I saw one in the science store at the mall.  That was 
a great confirmation for me.  I love to see my ideas shared by others.  I get 
really excited by seeing someone else's photographs being so similar to mine 
that I could have taken them myself.  To me that does not indicate a lack of 
creativity, but a state of oneness of spirit.  Seems like I read somewhere 
that the light bulb was invented in 2 different parts of the world at the 
same time, neither inventor aware of the other.  

I heard a story once about Ford hiring an efficiency expert for his automobil 
factories.
After looking around the place his first recommendation was to fire this one 
particular 
guy he described as doing nothing but putting his feet up on his desk and 
staring at the ceiling. Ford told him, "I can't fire him; he has made me a 
very wealthy man!"    

I have invented something that I haven't exactly seen.  I call it photomobil. 
 I have tried marketing it myself and I just don't have the knowledge or 
capital to do it, so I'm seriously thinking about just giving it to the 
world.  I was living in an efficiency apartment  at the time and wanted to 
put my photos up, but loving the spacious feeling bare walls create I set out 
to come up with another way of displaying them.  
Puposefully daydreaming, I came up with the idea of photomobil- a spinoff of  
Alexander Calder's mobile.  My mobile features picture frames, each 
displaying 2 photos.  Funny thing about that.  About 2 months later I was at 
the doctor's office 
and picked up a Highlights magazine and there was a page in there showing how 
to hang pictures from a mobil-not frames, but pictures.  I delivered to an 
elementary 
school about 3 years later where the kids had built these mobiles, but 
instead of 
making a picture on both sides of the paper, so that when gravity and wind 
made them rotate you saw 2 pictures, they had only hung one picture .  
Oneness!  We are 
all one people!  We are one spirit!  Isn't that wonderful?  Definitely worth 
celebrating.  
I still think Milton Bradley would be more effective at putting out Fuller's 
World Game
than anyone else.  I guess that's why I' m willing to give up ownership of my 
own modest invention.  First of all, I know other's could market it more 
successfully and 
besides,  I can't wait to see what people are going to do with it creatively. 
 I'd like to 
see it develop and change.  Look how many ways we have already used Calder's 
idea.  I don't really need the money and my only child tested in the top 10% 
of the nation, so he, I'm sure will be able to make it on his own.   

I loved your art, Larry Berlin, and am sure you will one day be very well 
known!  I don't think that I will be able to fully appreciate it until I get 
ahold of some glasses, which I am working on doing.  

I saw the pictures of the sun, Bill, but,  again, I am not sure that I saw 
them in 3D
because I have no glasses.  

Has anyone heard from JVapor7?  He wasn't feeling well, the last I heard from 
him.  
J if you are out there, I hope you are well.  Just wanted to tell you that I 
bought myself an Etta James cd today. 

I would like to try to build a website displaying the  diffent types of 
photography-digital, conventional, panoramic, stereoscopic and alternative 
processes.  I would like to invite all photographers to choose their own  
works to display without any type 
of judgement process-like best photo of the day, etc. Is anyone aware of this 
being done anywhere currently?  Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this 
would work?    

Bye everyone.  

                                                                -Teri