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A lot of times the difference between a “good” picture and a “great” picture is pre-visualization. I have heard that Ansel Adams, one of the premiere photographers, became so good at pre-visualization that he would determine what filters he would use and how he would process the shot in the darkroom even before he set up his tripod and camera to shoot that shot. And then he would wait for the light that he had pre-visualized.
I imagine that the same pre-visualization techniques are used in other artistic ventures. Painters, whether an impressionists or candid, benefit from the ability to have an idea of what they want to share with us before they start. If the artist does not employ some of those techniques of pre-visualization, then what would be the difference between their art and that of an elephant painting? And yes, there are folks that want to sell you some “Elephant Art” (paintings created entirely by elephants). Yet when I consider how some elephants act towards their kind, and then the way some artists acts towards their kind, I realize that elephants seem to be much more intelligent then artists. So maybe elephants do pre-visualize?
If you (the royal you, meaning each one of us) really appreciates a ‘work of art’ whether created by an elephant, a spider, or even a human, do you (royal again) not have the right to call that work as art, or even fine art?
I recently heard an opinion that fine art can not be something made by a computer. I can not concur with that opinion. For I believe, 1st of all, that art is what you think is art, and secondly, art is made by man or beast no matter what the process includes. Art can be a spoken word (poems, come to mind). Art can be a table or dinning room hutch made by a craftsman. Art can be a frail spiderweb highlighted by the morning dew and spotlighted by the Sun. Or art can be as simple as a Mother’s smile while holding a new born. Fine Art is feeling, Fine Art is emotion, Fine Art is sharing.
Okay, I am stepping off my soapbox.
Scenes fromtthe 2007 Illegal Soapbox Derby in Bernal Heights, San Francisco
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Scenes fromtthe 2007 Illegal Soapbox Derby in Bernal Heights, San Francisco
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Sometimes you don’t have to think outside the (soap)*box* when *racing* into the next round! Anyone have a car on their bingo card with mudguards as the seed part?
My third build for Iron Forge 2025. The seed part is "any mudguards that have only one wheel arch". I used (50745) four times.
Scenes from the 2007 Illegal Soapbox Derby in Bernal Heights, San Francisco
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Since I have a calculator and all that, I thought I would share.
Figuring that the average baby uses 8 diapers in a 24 hour period.... although newborns use many more, perhaps as many as 10-12 per day....
This adds up to 2920 diapers a year, or roughly 36.5- $20 packages of diapers for an annual total of $730.00
Multiply that times the average of two years that each child is in diapers and you have $1460 of diapers for one child, for a total of 5840 diapers that go to landfills and leach their waste into our groundwater.
Have three children and you are putting an average of 17,520 diapers into landfills, at a total cost of $4,380
And that doesn't even count baby wipes.
When you do the math, it's really quite insane.
Okay, off my soapbox now.
Scenes fromtthe 2007 Illegal Soapbox Derby in Bernal Heights, San Francisco
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