Thanks for your interest... Great News! 30 hours of training video on DVD is coming in the next few weeks. We will also be providing a membership site with full 24/7/365 video access to all the Drawing lectures and resources. Along with that Myron just sent the first part of his book off to the publishers. Go to the barnstonestudio [com] website - sign up for the podcast or email list so you will know when the DVDs and book are available.
@w3bt3k I meant just one string, with a spider dangling from a cieling to it. What about light beams and crystals... What about the surface of the sea, technically it's a curve but you will rather use a ruler than trace a 6000 km radius circle segment to draw it. It's true that straight lines are rare in nature but not non-existent.
@y0schi TANSTAAFL. There is always a transfer of one thing for another. The sun provides light to plants. Plants use light and nutrients and transfer it into its own energy and oxygen. Everything has a price. Do you not ask for money when you work? Do your teachers at school work for free or do you pay them? Do they have to pay for food or does the grocery store give it to them?
I know. People keep jumping to that conclusion. The pride of mankind refuses to let them even consider that maybe there are, and people too often claim the absolutes in this world (universe) as relative and relatives as absolutes. But still, he's giving some good information, but folks should just realize that they shouldn't be so absolute on relative things--you suck all the joy from living in the free universe doing that! But still, this guy gives some very good information.
@synsei1 After I posted I read that you wrote dangling from a strand. There was another post about a web form @rbernardo1983. But regardless, if one measures all the way to an extreme (micro or macro), nothing is in a straight line, not even a spider hanging from a strand, the edges of salt crystals, atoms in molecules, the paths of elements in an atom. Even light does not travel in a straight line. We simplify things in our minds for a variety of reasons, but in reality they are none.
Why, Myron, would you not put out your knowledge for free? I've been looking at your videos and you seem very skilled in explaining and I would love to learn more. Yet online, all I find are short clips and a documentary where you only talk about yourself. I am very saddened by this hindrance of access to knowledge because I am sure an extraordinary amount of people would benefit from your excellent teachings. 1 website with a donation option - & all of your videos for free. the future
I think what they MEAN to say is that there aren't very many PERFECTLY straight lines in nature, because there doesn't SEEMED to be. But there are straight lines in nature--the webbing of spider webs are formed with straight lines, rock strata, light rays (didn't say they had to be visible to the naked eye), and I can go on.
Yeah I'm not sure about the straight line thing. I've heard that before and it does not seem intuitively correct unless you are speaking in absolute terms. In that case there are no straight lines period. At this scale where do we draw the line(so to speak).
I'm not sure what you mean about creating something "strait" [sic] that would eventually curve. There are no straight lines in nature. That's the point. We humans have a psychological need to simply, categorize, and label everything, otherwise we don't understand it or we don't even know it exists. Therefore, we reduce many things down to straight lines but in reality they are not straight. Like he said, it gets very, very complicated.
Continuing... Sitting in a chair on a plane you think you are going straight but you are actually traveling in an arc in low Earth orbit - even if the plane doesn't change altitude! Now toss a ball straight up into the air. If you could watch from outside the plane, you'd see the ball moving just as fast as you but with a greater arc than the plane. Oh yeah, and the Earth is orbiting the Sun, and our solar systems is moving outward from the center of our galaxy. Relative and complicated motion.
No. Everything exerts gravitational force on everything else, and everything is in motion. There is gravitational pull between your body and something you drop, but it moves towards the Earth because of the difference in mass.It really can get absurd, but if you step deep enough into or out of a system, you'll see nothing moves in a straight line. There's more but it would be better to ask a physicist.
@vargasarte Nature doesn't ask for money to use it's trees, the exchange happens without it. To put an imaginary value on knowledge is a hindrance to the development of consciousness. I'm not worried because knowledge will spread itself, with Myron's Lessons or without it. It does not matter. If you think that much that $100 makes you happy, leave me your paypal address and receive them from me. Maybe you will learn, maybe you won't.
the a is curves and one vertical the l is a vertical line only p is a vertical with a curve h is a vertical and a curve and a vertical b same as p just upside down e curve with a horizontal line t vertical line curve and horizontal line.
@w3bt3k Sure, I'm not saying the exchange medium is useless. I just don't like this type of business-model. I find it overly greedy and missing in value. Compared to khan-academy or the vastness of other teaching resources on the web like wikipedia or tutorial sites, I find this one extremely bleak. barely 1min of explanation and it's already asking for a penny. The donation-model isn't perfect, more work has to be done than just uploading videos but things like flattr exists for a reason.
