The painter, Max Beckmann, once stated that movies had destroyed peoples' vison. But I think the real issue is that vision is conditioned by the prevalent media, which is rather McLuhanesque, but true. How artists and media craftspeople are going to deal with that issue as we move into the "flat screen era" is a thorny subject.
A generation that has grown up on mp3's played on an iPod is likely to have little appreciation for the velvety acoustic presence of a live orchestra space even if it's Prince singing a capella rather than the Philadelphia Orchestra.
RA Friedman R&R Coordinator, Historical Society of PA
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My point was, they don't even want to see in 3D. It's an experience of no interest to the younger generation. Their interest are convenience and instant/random access.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:54 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Slides and inconvenient media (was spin it again)
> Providing one can see in 3D. > > > Roger > > "Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Fine" >> Stereo slides are amazing and my father took many of them. Yeah, I'll scan em > so everyone can have >> digipix, but I already took the viewer and restored it (battery had corroded > in it but it was >> fixable) and will be keeping those boxes for myself one day. >> >> As for slide shows, a well-edited showing of slides is great but few people do > them well. I'll >> probably end up with the carousels and the projector so I can enjoy them from > time to time. The >> digitization is important, in my opinion, so the neices and nephews have some > idea of where they >> came from and what their grandparents were like. Kids today have no experience > with slides or indeed >> with almost any imagery beyond movie theatres that is not displayed on a CRT > or LCD display, so they >> have no reference to "miss" a slideshow. This is akin to the fact that we now > have an adult >> generation that never experienced LP's. >> > My father (who was a bit of a "photography nut" in the days when he had > money) also owned one of these "stereo" cameras. As I recall, the make was > Stereo Realist...and the format simply paired two standard 35mm slide > images using a "dual slide" mount. They could be projected, but NOT in > 3-D...and NOT by standard slide projectors. > > However, the images, when properly viewed (as with ViewMaster 3D "discs" > and old double-picture "stereographs") certainly add to their impact! > > We're still waiting for an image/viewer format that will allow the > display of true 3D images on existing computer monitors...! > > Steven C. Barr > > > > "If you're not on somebody's watchlist,you're not doing your job" > > Dave Von Kleist > > --------------------------------- > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. >