This quote has been enshrined in the Planetarium Museum in Big Bear Lake California, the hall of fame of classic projectors if you will.
Objects to be used in the dark .. can be of fantastic and unlikely shape and hue ..
for they aren't really there anymore when they open their portals onto infinity...
What other created 'thing' boasts these advantages? Exotic projectors, if home built or saved from the classic period, require exotic solutions .. but most products we build, we aim for sleek lines .. hide the workings, the innards if you will, where no one can see them .. stuff the wires .. compartmentalize the switches into a remote .. simple and elegant .. and true to form the modern trend in planetarium projectors is just this, simple globes that inspire no awe .. for in building or preserving the planetaria of yore, the instrument is as much part of the mystery as the projected sky .. hand in hand they walk in creating an impression never to be forgotten .. IF .. IF .. they themselves are not forgotten ..
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
In The House
IN THE HOUSE
Youve bought one, a toy, an antique, youve found one at a boutique in the shape of a mewing kitten perhaps, or a valuable relic like a Spitz Jr. Either or, whether you have an a rare Cosmorama or Zoo or something built for the kids, youve got a plantarium in the house IN THE HOUSE
you are now an educational institute, whether you know it or not. you COULD give an educational 20 minutes to a group of kids and they'd walk away babbling about a couple constellations. whether they saw them on your stove pipes and macrame hanging above the fireplace or on a sculpted dome.
you are adler, a field location. hayden . you are in the fraternity of star projectors. once you project a dipper.. a shining belt .. you qualify .. its not hard to get IN THE HOUSE ..
but as those of us who have collected.. lovingly restored.. driven uncounted miles in trucks .. worked yearss.. can attest.. its getting some wide eyed kid that 'last mile' to see your canis minor .. your canis venaciti.. your dogs of the stars. that may prove to be the hardest mile
collect your stars to be sure.. get them IN THE HOUSE> .. those few of us who do applaud and congratulate.. now join the rest of us wondering how, once collected, we can give those stars BACK
weve got them in the house.. now its time to give them away .. gare
Youve bought one, a toy, an antique, youve found one at a boutique in the shape of a mewing kitten perhaps, or a valuable relic like a Spitz Jr. Either or, whether you have an a rare Cosmorama or Zoo or something built for the kids, youve got a plantarium in the house IN THE HOUSE
you are now an educational institute, whether you know it or not. you COULD give an educational 20 minutes to a group of kids and they'd walk away babbling about a couple constellations. whether they saw them on your stove pipes and macrame hanging above the fireplace or on a sculpted dome.
you are adler, a field location. hayden . you are in the fraternity of star projectors. once you project a dipper.. a shining belt .. you qualify .. its not hard to get IN THE HOUSE ..
but as those of us who have collected.. lovingly restored.. driven uncounted miles in trucks .. worked yearss.. can attest.. its getting some wide eyed kid that 'last mile' to see your canis minor .. your canis venaciti.. your dogs of the stars. that may prove to be the hardest mile
collect your stars to be sure.. get them IN THE HOUSE> .. those few of us who do applaud and congratulate.. now join the rest of us wondering how, once collected, we can give those stars BACK
weve got them in the house.. now its time to give them away .. gare
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