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Re: all in one
Fernando Costa Pinto 2008-May-28 19:14:00
Hi Yuv,
It is in reply for a letter ZKM send me
here it is ...
Dear Members of the World Wide Panorama Project,
at first I would like to thank you very much for your time dealing
with our request and for your replies, your comments, suggestions and
for voicing your concerns.
As requested by some of you who wrote to us, we would herewith like to
withdraw the phrase saying that we assume your consent, if we do not
receive any comments from your side. We would like to thank you for
alerting us to the fact that many members of the World Wide
Panorama-Project might not agree with this paragraph.
Attached to this mail, please find the document that was changed
accordingly. We'd be happy if those of you who might under these
circumstances be willing to give us their consent would send us the
agreement form by e-mail or by fax.
We'd also like to state again that, of course, the crediting of the
individual authors of the panoramas goes without saying and is of
paramount importance to us.
For the sake of good order, please note that we have not received
monies or entrance fees for the Globorama Project so far. When it was
presented to the public, it was free of charge. As described before,
ZKM is a public institution. The financing of the project was ensured
by the Information Technology Funding program of the federal state of
Baden-Wuerttemberg. This is a non-commercial project the purpose of
which is purely scientific. The goal of Globorama within that context
is to present the objective of the research activities in an intuitive
way and to attract people to the possibilities of large-scale
projection systems and to the possibilities and fascination of
VR-technology.
Since it is already a sensation to travel around the world using a
novel panoramic image transformation for satellite data, it makes it
even more attractive for visitors to enjoy the beauty of surround
photography and visit distant locations in a panoramic environment.
ZKM understood that this was one of the purposes and a concern of
World Wide Panorama Members and we are more than happy about every
author who gives his permission to use his images and to contribute to
Globorama.
Once again, thank you very much for your time and your feedback,
Sincerely,
Bernd Lintermann
Head of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Yuval Levy <#removed#> wrote:
> Dear Fernando,
>
> thank you for showing this letter - but it was in reply to what exactly?
ZKM
> who is Bernd? sorry, for me it looks like a nice letter out of context,
Bernd Lintermann
Head of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
> can you help me understand?
Sorry if I confused you .
Fernando
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> Yuv
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> Fernando Costa Pinto wrote:
>> Thanks Yuval,
>>
>> I already joined the group.
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>> Look the answer I gave when they wrote me yesterday. I am worried.
>>
>> ......
>> Dear Bernd,
>>
>> Let me congratulate you for the technologies developed . I can't wait
>> to see a spherical projection.
>> That will have several and great applications.
>>
>> I also think that you should buy the Tours you show.That is the way
>> to great and directed art productions. Even if you say ...." For the
>> sake of good order, please note that we have not received monies or
>> entrance fees for the Globorama Project so far. When it was presented
>> to the public, it was free of charge."
>> As I understood you did had many and strong sponsors , and you should
>> include the art producers on the costs involving the all project .
>> Most ,you should include the WWP as the major participant.
>>
>> For sure you don't think that it is the same thing to look to a work
>> in a computer or in a gigantic screen. Otherwise you would not build
>> that gigantic screen...
>> Because of the risk of stealing the WWP can be seriously hurted
>> .Severall panographers ( yes , different than photographers ) can
>> start thinking ...well ...should I put my work in the WWP ? For others
>> take advantage ?Without even an ask ?
>> How far can an artist go in the pursuing of his art ? Do you think on
>> that ?The sacrifice sometimes needed?
>>
>> It is not fair to say the less that an respectable Institution
>> contributes to the decline of a great project, the WORLD WIDE PANORAMA
>> .
>> You must think ! First - WWP ,second , the panographers.
>> I don't need to tell you this , but anyway . If it was not WWP there
>> would not have this group of artists, and this is a great group . And
>> the organizers do this absolutely for FREE. I had never to pay a dime
>> to them . They received me at their house happily .
>> They deserve my deepest respect and admiration, for the vision , for
>> the discernment, for the high intelligence, for the fantastic themes ,
>> etc, etc, etc...
>>
>> I insist on this because I did not saw a reference in your letter
>> referring the WWP.And that is a must.
>>
>> Beyond this , I wish that we can make several things together in the
>> future.
>> Fernando Costa Pinto
>> Salvador , Bahia
>> Brazil
>>
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