Now a word "from our sponsors" about ARROGANCE:
A great popular Romanian poet, Tudor Arghezi said that he would rather have people asking him "why are there no statues of you, who deserve such celebration" than to have them ask when they see his statue: "who is that supposed to be?" One of my favorite American writers, Mark Twain, said something very similar and profound. The point is of course, that it is generally considered best not to blow your own horn. But those words were written at a time before corporate images. Before PR. Before marketing and consumer protection. Before science and engineering were applied to manufacturing products with quality as the sole objective. Now, there are companies like Mercedes that make the best automobiles ever engineered by man. They can make that claim because it is TRUE, abosolutely true. Nothing on wheels exceeds the structural integrity and quality of a Mercedes. No car built in my American homeland has ever equalled the quality of those made in my ancestor's homeland bearing the 3-ponted seal of perfection. Sorry, but any Jap that thinks differently is watching too many absurd gras sumo "putere Japoneza" commercials and hasn't ever driven both a Mercedes and a Lexus to see that the latter is just a cheap sloppy imitation of the class, quality, performance, and perfection of a Mercedes. So, would we expect Mercedes to be humble about their success? No. They should be proud, and marketing their cars effectively requires pride. They must wave their flag to demonstrate the difference between Mercedes and all other automobiles. Car magazines that compare Lexus to Mercedes are just elevating an imitation to the throne, comparing the trashman to the Queen. 100 years ago, to say your personal product was unequalled (even if it was) was merely boasting. Now it is a necessity make your claims to merit and title known because so many cheap Lexus imitations exist. Artists are also product manufacturers whether they find the term offensive or not. Marketing is a required tool for any product manufacturer. Today, there are some instances where individuals exist in the same field with manufacturers. Art can be one of those disciplines if technology is incorporated into the art. And when marketing quality, there is no tolerance for humility. The humble inherit competitor trampling, the meek inherit nothing but obscurity. Quality demands arrogance. It requires audacity just to make perfection an objective in a world of fractile chaos that undermines mechanical and architectural creations with powerful eroding environmental and physical forces.
Therefore, I adopt arrogance in the one new field of expertise I possess and seem to be the only master. I hereby challenge you to show me something impossible! I will give you a 1000 dollar reward if it meets my criteria. Why? because I offer you the following challenge: This site is about (for lack of a better term/category) creating the impossible. On call, ready and willing for worldwide instant construction of monumental art, murals, sculpture, illusions, or technical/special effects feats that others would claim to be impossible. Utilizing vast professional experience in art, science, and imagination as a unified problem solving tool, I can accomplish what others (claim) is impossible. For example, consider all the specifications of the Castle project above:
I single-handedly designed and built a two story castle with animated human features (moving 1-meter eyes) that floats! NOT ALL, it also functioned as a multimedia theater for 18 passengers, all electrical systems are powered by sunlight, then I made a breathing, blinking, thinking, speaking robot host to narrate the show inside, and the system was so well-designed it was licensed by the USCG as a passenger ship. Yet, to defeat detractors, skeptics, small-minded rigid institutions like FEMA, and all nuisance bureaucratic permits, I built it ALL ON WATER with my own resources (way under my projected 6,000 dollars!) Yet, I still completed all project components in under 3 months, well below my 14 week projection. The ship was later moored on the Colorado River and survived an El Nino 6-month assault of the highest flood stage in 100 years. That is ENGINEERING. If you doubt the facts, visit the webpages. Look at the pictures, consult the newspaper records and archives. This is no fantasy, it is history. When you want the impossible done, and not just done, but done fast, yet to last, there are few (if any) humans on this planet with my unique combined expert (MA/MA/MA/US Army/PhD/MFA, resp..) skills AND experience in science/physics, engineering, electronics/computers, Philosophy, and Art. I intensely study new advanced materials and know what will work best in any environmental stress or situation. I exploit lightweight materials that allow single suspension point levitation illusions, yet structurally sound enough to roll down a hill intact -or survive 3 million cubic feet of hydraulic force per second, and the assaults of cars and mobile homes that come with such floods! Conceptual integrity and structural integrity, when unified and maintained by one competent mind exceed and outperform the scattered entrophic chaos of any bickering team of experts NASA can possibly assemble. I am THE doctor for curing the IMPOSSIBLE on THIS planet. Fact. The website and newspapers prove it. Sorry, no room for humility on this claim. I chose art as the focus of my life (allowing for free will) but I have incorporated all the knowledge I acquired along the way into a new art synthesis, with life itself. Life is a State of Mind, and Science is a matter of proofs. I stand my mine. Call me arrogant, call me egotistical, call me any names you wish, I don't care at all... as long as you call me! Provide a challenge to my abilities. If you succeed in being the first to provide sufficient capital and specifications that I cannot deliver or solve, I will put your name here too. You earned it. A part of me is beginning to long for a technical defeat so I can better taste the triumphs. Please show me something I agree cannot be done (restriction: something that is economically desireable or conceptually functional). Explain my terms? OK: Human travel to Mars is economically desireable AND conceptually functional (it has defineable targets and benefits) Travel to the sun is neither. It is stupidity and certain suicide. Science challenges adherents to disprove claims, then submits with gratitude. Before the twisted and corrupt NEA, Art also had to meet the test of TRUTH. I prefer truth to falsehood, even in my claims. Therefore, show me one technical EQUAL to my excellence in this combined category, anywhere on this sphere and I will gladly include you/him/her on my domain/website for free. Meanwhile, like the spot ad says, if you want to order the impossible, then set yoursef free from all boundaries, and contract me. Labor cost does not exist for anything that cannot be delivered. If I accept your challenge, you stand only to see it realized, or gain my reward fee. Want to make the world's largest whatever? The first whatever? Somebody said you cannot accomplish that dream? Contact me, define the task, contract me, get the skeptics out of my way*, give me the resources I say I will need, give me one gopher with authority to immediately provide my material needs, and it WILL be done. It is a wonderful feeling we will share when we prove them all wrong. I cannot begin tell you how gratifying it is to prove to confined minds how boundless they can become once they are set free.