My son Sean had to write a paper about Pixar Studios, and when they create
the graphic films, one of the steps is to go through it and make sure there
are little errors, like a scatch on the hood of a car, because life's not
perfect and if there were no imperfections in their films, they wouldn't
look as realistic as they do.
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From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 13:14
Subject: Re: [BP] Department of the Inferior


> > I went
> > at it with a sledge and banged it around a bit to make it look like
> > authentic shit.
>
> Tried and true technique.   At Blackcreek Village historic town museum in
> Toronto, a carpenter working there was given the task of making a
> reproduction bedroom dresser.   He was really a furniture maker at heart,
> and put all his love into a finely crafted replica of perfection,
dovetailed
> drawers, hand planed and carved details, the whole nine yards complete
with
> hand-rubbed finish.   The day after he delivered it, he saw the display
> department crew dragging the dresser across the parking lot behind a
pick-up
> truck "to make it look more authentic" as they told him.
>
> Funny how many have such a hard time stomaching the idea that these old
> things once looked shiny new, preferring the distance and mystery created
by
> patina, even the modern artificial type of patina (or is that the wrong
use
> of the word when applied to the pick-up truck technique?).
>
> cp in bc
>
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