With the Easter hols in full swing and not wholly holy one
of my tasks is to teach the youf of today about vanishing points and
projections in drawing, so sticking to the simplest projection where all the
horizontals and verticals are straight parallel lines but there is one
vanishing point at eye height i.e. half way up the page on the right hand side.
Which means the artists eyeball is directly in front of the
vanishing point, with the questions to the youf being:
1 what happens when the artists eyeball gets closer or
further away from the page?
2 what happens if the vanishing point for the hole viewed
through the holes is on the left of the page?
3 what about horizontals that are not drawn horizontally and
verticals that are not drawn vertically but don’t point to the vanishing point
and how near to pointing towards the vanishing point is where a square changes
from being badly drawn or wonky to one of its lines becoming involved in the
perspective?
After yesterdays post http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/cross-optical-illusion-or-not.html
where the youf drew some wholly unholy crosses they are becoming convinced that
it is the adults who don’t understand this sort of thing properly.
Sticking with the theme of the youf of today, one question
that old piple (anyone over about 30) ask me as a bookseller, about the youf of
today, is do they buy books.
Well one of the most virulent diseases in graduate lane is
acute skintitus, for many years students have been asking me, how much will you
pay for my textbooks? As I urgently need to buy more beer.
Today with Easter Day probably going to occur tomorrow, many
young piple have been frequenting the 5 and 10p section in my bookshop, buying
Easter presents for old piple who they hope will give them chocolate in return.
Some young piple have gone even further in these acts maternal
and paternal piety and been buying books from the 50p section.
Type of thing, the children at these schools tend to
excel at reading, possibly because their teachers have to read the books to
write the questions.
Of course what the old piple are really sayin is do young
piple read books? And I guess the answer did anyone read Harry Potter just
isn’t the answer they want.
My family has run general bookshops in ordinary towns for a
long time, much longer than my lifetime, and a big factor here is there are a
lot more and a lot better children’s books around.
Things have come a long way since Bigears first went out on
his bicycle and felt a little queer.
The key here though is with the schools, the ones where the
children are expected to fill in a questioner:
Is this a xxxxxx I see before me?
A; rice pudding
B turnip
C dagger
D knife
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