Somehow, chilly overcast days seem colder and darker in Florida, so we came home Sunday afternoon and saved the mini vacation for another day.
Enjoyed my fourth Florida Symposium esp. laughing & scratching with old friends and meeting & greeting...and eating with new ones. The facilities were fine and the demos were interesting and well done, tho the auction seemed interminable. Of course I realize that financial support is necessary, but drawn out auctions are not my cup of tea. I escaped and watched the football play offs, not that I was missed or that anybody cared. I'll never tell who else chose games over the auction. You know who you are and who's teams won and who suffered the agony of defeat. :)
There was a gallery piece that I think employed holography for an interesting effect; the lid that wasn't there. No intent to start a 'traditional vs innovational' brouhaha, but have any of you ever incorporated holograms in your turned objects? With so many photographers and inventive scientific people among us, I should think so.
As usual, I got excited about something I knew nothing about and have found a paperback primer and a 'how to do it' book on three dimensional objective illusions. Fascinating stuff to me, but ain't the zeal of someone who has suddenly made a late discovery tiresome?
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