Have you ever viewed something that looked so simple.. so elegant .. you thought.. now why didnt anyone think of that before? Or .. whats the big deal.. I could have built that in 30 minutes with a trip to wal-mart. Such is the lot of many planetarium effects and projectors. They look elegant .. simple graceful lines.. yet I have built the HPA Emmons projector in the Museum, and it took me 3 years to dream up those simple lines. Years to think of, months to find the ingredients, and hours or less to assemble.
A thousand hours of thought. Go into the precise but elegant instruments of the stars. Consider that well as you watch that purveyor of the fantastic fade into to night, to give birth to the reason for its existence.. the backbone of the night.
And think occasionally of those dreamers who dreamed it up. Those engineers who engineered it. And help those children to their excited seats to see it come true. for they are the recipients of the Thousand hours of thought.
And who would have it any other way?
Monday, July 14, 2008
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