Sorry, I'm really bad at photo docs of anything but my legally required
treatment reports.  Something about looking at the world through that little
eyepiece I could never stomach.  I think it's the esthetisizing requirement,
the need to transform boundryless reality into a rectangular format, to
compose, restrain, judge, select.  I just can't do it.  George Santayana (I
think) wrote that the artist was the Whatever remains of most my life
resides within the rapidly deteriorating
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From: Jack C. Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 7:44 AM
Subject: Newby/Italian millwheel


>>From:    Mark Rabinowitz <[log in to unmask]>
>
>>    I once spent a long weekend working with a group of blacksmiths in the
>>hills of Tuscany changing their waterwheel.
>
>
>If you have some jpegs of the wheel, I'd be interested in seeing them.
>
>Scaling up from 4 ft. to 8 ft. is an interesting exercise (and I am
>running the floats in the correct direction for rotation.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jack
>
>Jack C. Thompson
>Thompson Conservation Laboratory
>Portland, Oregon
>USA
>
>503/735-3942  (voice/fax)
>
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