SchlosStudios
On Line Art Gallery
The
Floating Castle of Imagination History Album
This web page provides background history and photos
about a project I created called the "Floating Castle of Imagination".
It was originally built on water as a licensed ship, with four outrigger
"oil-rig" type electric drives. At its second home, it was caught
in the 1991-1992 world record Colorado River flood which lasted nearly
a year at full flood stage, and extended levels 26 months. Built of lightweight
advanced materials, rigid carved urethanes, and carbon fiber polymers cast
into brick molds (the same permanent materials that the stealth fighter
is made of). The Castle was moved in two sections on a flatbed truck (it
unbolts) and once, it was lifted and transported by air crane (helicopter).
It weighs less than most small automobiles. The Castle survived the assault
of drifting trees and mobile homes until I removed it from the river and
located it on land in 1993 at "Schloss Cafe" which became one
of the first internet cafes. Inside, the castle seated 18 people in the
round for multimedia shows about Science, Art, Mythology, artificial intelligence,
imagination, and solar power. These shows were hosted by "Emcee",
a 6 foot robot parrot that talks and thinks and breathes. See
more about Emcee by "biting the first apple" at the SchlosStudios
Home Page. The projectors, engines, and the
robot were all powered by the sun (the castle's solar power panels). There
are also some interesting technical details about the castle's floating
history in the last photo on the DigiMagic page. This page will have a
more extensive history text about the Castle and more photos soon. Come
back and visit ! Click on the 2 thumbnails
below for a larger photo of the castle or Schloss Cafe to view.
(click on photos for a larger
detail view)
Inside of the castle, viewed from above. Seating
in round, floor hatch opened to show fish swimming below decks. Viewing
this after a show was always starling, because it was easy to forget you
were in a floating vehicle! Seeing the river bottom moving slowly below
was profoundly beautiful.
"Life is a State of Mind" -Jerzy Kozynsky;"Being
There"
Copyright 1989, 1996, 1998, 2000. danasaur/SchlosStudios.
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of these images except single person, on-line use is illegal. Let me make
that very clear: if you send this page to your printer and show the print
or display it to anyone else, or if you open the page from disk cache or
save to a disk, and show that to anyone else, you have committed a crime.
You have distributed a reproduction of my images. Use of a single* copyrighted
image under new Federal and International law is a CRIMINAL offense, and
carries a minimum fine of $3,000. I aggressively seek judgments and obtain
money from anyone who "steals" or "borrows" my image
"creations". I have an automatic gopher process program that
goes out and searches the web for my stolen art, and since I made the files,
trust that there are id's inside the jpegs that make that an easy task.
So if you are looking for picts to rip off and put on your page, better
look somewhere else. That * means I get a PER "image" fine. .
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DanaSaur Articles
and Essays about Art, Arrogance, Computers, IT History, and the Internet:
The
History of Computing. 5 thousand years of events that led to the Microprocessor
and the Internet.
"Arrogance"
A 1000 dollar reward for something useful to do, yet impossible
"MACWARS",
a wide-reaching story about the castle, internet cafes, Computer evolution why I despise Microsoft.
