P3D SI - the review pt. 2

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

While Ray Hannisian and Ray Zone are contemplating what, if any,
improvements could have been made to the SI 3d swimsuit issue, I continue
to ponder my page by page review.  Which may include some very specific
recommendations for improvement, and some _general_ recommendations.  I
mean general, as in why should the art director know anything about
stereo...  As it is getting late here on the east coast, I will have to
postpone that daunting task yet another day.

But the comments by Dan Shelley about what the general public might
perceive in the 3-d issue are right on the money, and they remind me of a
little parable.

I was working mid December on finishing the cover artwork for OVERDRIVE
magazine when the art director finally had to pull the plug on my efforts.
The cover art was already approved, everyone at the mag was happy, very
happy with it.  But I had found one more thing that really needed to be
fixed.  (Now, I will leave the finding of this thing an exercise for the
reader).  I am a pretty picky critic, and no more so than of my own images.

The deadline had passed, but I kept calling and emailing the magazine,
begging for them to let me send a file with the improvement.  The press
date was still two weeks away, so I thought surely they can take another
file.  Finally the art director called, and sensing that I was very
agitated, told me this little story.

Some years back, he had discovered a dog that could talk!  It was able to
form basic sentences and make its wishes known.  The grammar was not very
good, and every now and then the pronunciation of a word was off.  He took
the dog around and showed it to many people.  Without fail, everyone was
totally amazed.   People had never, or only rarely, seen or heard a talking
dog.  But more importantly, he pointed out to me, no one ever said anything
about how occasionally the grammar was off, or a word was mispronounced.
It just didn't seem to bother anyone.

This set me at ease.  Good night.

Boris

- Science is the part of culture that rubs against the world.
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-                                     Stanislaw Lem, _His Master's Voice_

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