Check your email, Quasi.
BarnOwl,
I checked it, but all that’s there is something about engorging my penis. That wasn’t you, was it? 
Are you sending to 1_2005 address?
Quasi
Fuck you, Quasi.
It was about Camera Lucidas, and I was doing you a major favor.
Be goddamned if I’ll offer again, you moron
BarnOwl!!! Noooooooo! I was trying to be funny! PLEASE don’t take offense. I am very SORRY but you misunderstood!
I checked my e-mail but didn’t see ANYTHING from you!!!
PLEASE forgive me!!!
SO SORRY!!!
Bill
I sincerely apologize, BarnOwl! I have a strange sense of humor, and I meant no harm. Not at all.
This has me all shook up, because I did not intend to hurt your feelings at all.
Please answer.
Thanks
Bill
You’re on my Ignore List, you piece of shit.
I tried doing something very nice for you and you post something that holds me up to ridicule by everyone at SD who reads your post?
Good bye asshole.
Okay. I’m sorry. That’s all I can say. I wish I hadn’t written what I did.
I don’t have so many friends that I can afford to lose one, but if that’s the way it has to be, okay.
I don’t know what else to say except I am sorry, and I did not intend to hurt you.
You know better than this. It’s against to rules to announce that someone is on your ignore list; so is insulting other posters. This is an official warning.
Gfactor
General Questions Moderator
I am totally devastated, y’all. Tomorrow, I’m supposed to go home to Rothenburg for a week, but how can I enjoy my vacation knowing I have hurt a fellow Doper?
My reference in what I wrote to BarnOwl was because I receive so many of those “penis enlargement” e-mails that I thought he would make the connection, but like I always say, no one can gauge your intent with the written word, and I guess I broke that rule.
I sincerely apologize for going over the line. I really meant no harm. It was just a joke.
A terrible one, apparently.
I am sorry.
When I was a student at University of Washington, I went to a talk about Hockney’s theories. The lecturer pointed out that the paintings Hockney speculated had been made with the aid of a camera obscura (or other optical devices, I seem to recall others being mentioned) didn’t have accurate enough perspective to have been made with a camera obscura. Also the light levels in the painting were too low to have produced an image.
Message received.
Actually, I didn’t know The Ignore List rule. In fact, I don’t even know how to implement putting someone on an ignore list. But I am sure all of what you said is true.
For future reference:
This is how: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/profile.php?do=ignorelist
But the first rule of the ignore list is you don’t talk about your ignore list.
Don’t confuse camera obscura-based drawing with photography. When a camera obscura is used for drawing, the camera need only contribute the lines of the picture. If he (or she) so chooses, the artist can exercise complete control over the scene’s lighting, color, and texture. He can render a bright scene darkly, or a dim scene brightly. And the human eye is far more sensitive to light than most photographic processes.
Likewise, the artist doesn’t have to use the camera obscura for the whole image. As others have pointed out in this thread, artists could (and some certainly did) piece together pictures from subjects drawn at different times, in different places, and–if the artist so chooses (or neglects)–with different perspectives.
As I mentioned before, I sometimes make drawings based on photographs, and I myself have settled for drawings with jankey perspective because there was no way I could photograph all the components in the same time and place–and I haven’t the artistic skill to “fix” perspective.
“I am the Milky Way man, and I know everything!”
TY.But don’t even want to know how.
I will unsuscribe to this thread and take a week off from SD.
I am still so pissed maybe I should take a month.
Did you not get the joke? I thought it was funny.
Yeah I’m baffled here. BarnOwl: nothing was said that would set you up for ridicule. Quasi said that he didn’t get any email from you. He said that the only thing he had in his email was Viagra(type) spam and then jokingly asked “that wasn’t the email you sent me, was it?” kind of thing. Essentially, he said “unless you sent me Viagra spam, which is the only email I got today, then I haven’t gotten your email yet” and he tried to verify that you were using the correct email address to determine why he hadn’t gotten your email. I think most people would realize that the reference to the Viagra spam was simply a way of saying that he just had the usual crap in his inbox, and that he was being funny. Why so hostile? It doesn’t even begin to make sense.
–Opal, who is totally, totally confused by this reaction
This. Except I hadn’t thought enough to figure out the intricacies of Quasi’s joke. I guess I haven’t actually woken up yet.
This thread has turned into a referendum on a matter irrelevant to the OP. I believe the OP has been answered. Therefore, I will close the thread.
Gfactor
General Questions Moderator