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Re: Just curious
Douglas L. Urner 2005-Mar-13 19:16:00
I've been "lurking" since last equinox. I didn't actually join the list
until I thought I'd be able to participate. For me the schedule has
been a pretty big constraint -- both the shooting window and then the
production window can make it tough to fit the project into an already
busy life. I was real disappointed the first time I couldn't make it
fit, then I was pleasantly surprised at how soon the next event came
around! So busy cuts both ways . . .
For me the topics are a challenge, and for me that has been good. It
has taken me a while to warm up to the idea of Marketplace, but the
longer I keep noodling on it, the more excited I get by it. Just for
fun, some ideas:
- A typical market in your area. One of the wonders of panoramas is
their ability to let the viewer "get into" another part of the world, so
indeed an aisle in a local supermarket could be quite interesting. Even
if your local market seems completely boring, it might well be
fascinating to someone from around the world.
- Children playing store -- the next generation showing how they see
markets and learning how to participate in the marketplace.
- Someplace where people share ideas "the market place of/for ideas"
that we hear about (at least in the US) from time to time. If I lived
near a university, I'd be tempted to go check out the men's bathrooms.
There used to be some quite interesting debates going on on the walls
when I was a student.
- Figuring out how to combine old and new markets in a panorama --
possibly by "artificial" means.
- The new electronic markets are intriguing and a real challenge to
capture in a panorama. The ideas that have come up on the list are
quite inspiring to me: the E-bay machine room, the inside of a server
done with a mirror ball, the views around the facilities that define or
support electronic markets.
One thing that has happened to me as I think on this one is that I'm
much more aware of the words "market" and "marketplace" when I see or
hear them. Whenever they come up now, I try and think about what images
might go with them and how I could make them work in a QTVR. I'm really
liking the challenge -- it is a good stretch for my rather literal mind.
I think it is also possible that many of the people on the list are
quite happy being lurkers -- i.e. they are interested in the project and
the process and results, even though for some reason they can't or don't
want to participate themselves. I'm glad there is so much encouragement
to participate, but being part of the "audience" is an important role in
the arts too!
Doug
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Douglas L. Urner <#removed#> Port Orchard, WA +1 360 769 5565
Landis wrote:
> Following up on John's original post, I'm wondering: what are the
> reasons that more of our group members don't participate?
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> When we did WWP Sanctuary we had about 500 members of this group, but
> only 193 people who submitted panoramas. Now I realize that not
> everybody can participate in every event, but I have a feeling that
> it's more than just your schedule.
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> So what's stopping you from joining us and contributing? Seriously,
> I'd be interested in hearing why. Because if you're nervous about
> some aspect of this project, maybe others are thinking the same thing.
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> Are you concerned that you don't have the right equipment or that you
> can't find a 'good enough' subject or... ? If you don't want to,
> that's fine, but I just wanted to let you know that any subject can
> be made interesting. A supermarket in Germany might seem boring to
> you, but to someone like me who has never been there it is
> interesting.
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> Just pondering out loud.
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> We currently have 573 accounts subscribed to this group. Think we
> can make it past 200 this time? Or maybe up to that magic number of
> 360!
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> -Landis
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