Mike, (All)
The idea of a portal is another example of using one's imagination (which I
endorse wholeheartedly and am an avid practitioner of). Isn't that what
some claim certain types of art should provoke... making it possible for each
person to "see" something different?
When something can be perceived differently by different people, it lends
itself to more variety, interest, appeal, and ultimately higher value.
As adults we tend to use our imagination much less than when we were young
and hadn't been taught (conditioned) completely about how and
what to think. There are some individuals however, (won't name
names), and everybody knows at least one or may even BE one, that has not
let go of that precious area of the brain that cancels out boredom and engages
inventiveness. These individuals are readily identifiable because of
their sometimes "offbeat", unusual, or even eccentric traits. You
know the ones... walking a different path, the beat of a different drummer,
the path less traveled, thinking outside the box! Labeled as "Strange",
weird, awkward, or freak, they are often misunderstood and shunned by
society because they dare not only to be "different" but to stay different
(yes, sometimes it is a choice!) because that makes them true to
themselves. Extreme examples may flirt with crossing that "imaginary"
line between sanity and insanity. Some harness it for a career in
entertainment (Jim Carry) or writing novels like "Harry Potter" (JK
Rowling). Others use it to create scientific wonders (If you can dream
it... you can do it). Still others channel it into art! In
fact, where would our world be without it?
Albert Einstein said... ?Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know
and understand.?.
While one might think of the OOF as a portal, which someone previously
stated "HAS to be ROUND" for scientific and technical reasons, (I love it!),
others may think of it as magic, or illusion which creates a world where the
impossible seems possible. You can tell some folks who don't fully commit
to the idea of an "open mind", because they want to keep you in check by holding
on to old ideas, afraid of change, walking the straight and narrow. They
are more comfortable with familiar ideas and a stringent way of thinking.
Since it seems the majority of society falls into this category, they far
outnumber the socially challenged "weirdo" and "free thinker", and tend to try
and beat them down.
Wherever your mind takes you, I'm flattered and pleased to tag along!
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere."
-- Albert Einstein
Because of this discussion, I'm prompted to repost my idea of a
"portal".
Keep thinking my friends...
Imagine that!
Brian
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:22
AM
Subject: Re: [Anaglyphs] Jami - (OOF)
-> Portal Violation, Brian and Ken
Brian,
Now here is a novel concept . . . the PV
(portal violation). I like it.
Hands would have to curl around
the frame from within and then across the front. My dinosaur pic would
be in real trouble, exiting, as it did, behind the frame and re-entering
from the front. (I think I'll re-post it later).
It raises the
question, do we consider the frame a frame, or a portal to another world
as I did with the Hyper-Cube (2004) and with the 4 Dimensional Cube
(2007), both of which I will re-post later if I can make them work in
anaglyph.
Perhaps we have two classes of OOF; ROOF's (Regular
OOF's) where the frame is just a frame and it is treated like a trellis
which our subject can approach from any direction and walk around and
through; and POOF's (Portal Out Of Frame) where the frame is a portal
from/to another world and the subject has to come/go through it
properly, like a porthole in a ship. If the subject fails to do so
properly, that would be, as Ken points out, a PV.
Mike Beech
;-)
--- On Mon, 11/22/10, Kenneth Nellis
<nellisks(-at-)verizon.net> wrote:
From:
Kenneth Nellis <nellisks(-at-)verizon.net>
Subject: Re:
[Anaglyphs] Jami - (OOF)
To: anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com
Date:
Monday, November 22, 2010, 7:00 AM
The biggest problem with this image is PV: portal violation!
The white frame through which the woman emerges is clearly the portal
connecting the two worlds, however, the man's left hand
violates this by entering her world from behind the frame, not
through the portal, before returning to his world through the
portal. Please, no more PVs!
?Ken
On Nov 21, 2010, at 3:18 AM, Brian Wallace wrote:
Jami
(Cancun Cantina, 11-12-10)
OOF (Out Of Frame), also known as OOB (Out Of Bounds).
W1, SPM, PS, IrfanView.
Cheers,
Brian
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