Someone was saying the other day that some plane movies drawn by computer effects look weird because the footage from the 'cameras' is from weird unrealistic angles. From inside the pilot's ear etc. Interesting idea and not unreasonable

The balloon has surely got to be the 'right' way up or deep down the viewer will find the image unsettling, distracting my psychiatrist tells me. His marketing friend agrees, images must burst fully-clothed from the head of Zeus into the viewer's imagination without delay. Wonderings about orientation and turnings of the observer's head get in the way of enjoying the superb image above. All of them \:\)

Balloons must not appear to defy the law of gravity. The image above with the planes the right way up but with the balloon rotated into its 'correct' position would be an ideal balloon-busting image. And the sky rotates with the balloon of course \:\)

On the head of Zeus thing back then gravity was explained by suggestions that things find their 'proper place' in the world. Stones fall because they desire to find their proper place in the world. Clouds and water move around seeking their proper place. They had a real thing about proper places \:\)

But it's a useful thing to bear in mind. If something looks 'wrong' it fixes the mindset very quickly and nothing looks wronger than something we know well being in the 'wrong' orientation. Water may run uphill (and does in some alleged sims) but then one wonders why the artist was standing on her head to paint it?

"It's a post-modern aviation painting Ming you Luddite!" ok fair enough \:\)

Ming


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