I took the Mixed Media exhibition offline and fitted it out with a bunch of sorta 3D sculptures.

They look okay, at least for an introduction. There’s nothing like the personal experience personally experienced of going into the orb and walking around and under the sculpture, and in some cases, actually climbing it to the highest point — it is possible, when the sculpture is built correctly.

There are a number of sculptures in the grand hall exhibition orb, and they’re almost all at least somewhat climbable.

It’s really quite simple to achieve a 3D object effect, although it’s actually a “flattie” that turns with the viewer, but it does get the idea across.

What you do if you’re in Paint or a similar program, you duplicate the layer, then tag off the background.

You’ll use the wand to pick out an area to blot out, then hit the “delete” button, again and again, until the offending stuff is thoroughly gone.

Of course, there’s always those little bits and pieces that you have to go after with a 2-pixel eraser, which is about an hour’s job for me with the complex backgrounds I have to erase.

Rest assured, I’ll be using much simpler backgrounds and ground, so it’s a cinch to erase it for the virtual gallery sculptures, but you’ll want to enrich the background before you release the orb, so maybe two versions, eh?

I want to remind you that I’ve ordered some incredible bulk tea from my importer friends, and they’re fresh and here and ready to ship. These are the real thing, not the common market variety you get at the supermarket.

They come in $5 and $10 bags, to make it easy to order several, to wit:

• DARJEELING — very unusual, expensive, and getting harder and harder to get.
• CHAI — the real stuff, actual chai, not just something called “chai”.
• EARL GREY — Probably the most popular tea in the West.
• ENGLISH BREAKFAST — Second-most popular tea in the West.
• IRISH BREAKFAST — Popular with any Irish person I’ve ever met.

I wasn’t able to post yesterday’s exhibit, so I’ll include it here:

Okay, it’s time to boogie on out to breakfast and then to the zoom room.

See You At The Top!!!

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