this week lets talk about The Prank, the Oil Disaster
this week lets talk about The Prank, the Oil Disaster, and using creative people to solve the problem
Welcome to another week at Bogworld. Sorry it was sort of a update free week last week. I was pulled in ten different ways and all ten seemed to pull me away from my drawing table. Hopefully this week will be better.
The Prank
I know many of you have been kind enough to purchase my book. The positive response has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact a couple of weeks back The Prank won the Indie Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. How cool is that?
Since loyal Bogworld readers are the best readers in the world. I would like to ask one simple favor. If you have read The Prank, or if you plan to read The Prank (and you should), please take the time to use your favorite modes of social networking to review the book for all your friends or buddies or twitterers. Lets see if we cannot start a fun wave of buzz for the Prank by using the tools we use every day!
I would appreciate the effort.
Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.
In the last couple of weeks, a few people from Hollywood stepped forward to offer their assistance in the Gulf Oil disaster. These offers seemed to be mostly met with laughs by the media and by Washington. I was a little disappointed that these folks were so quickly dismissed.
Albert Einstein, widely considered one of history’s most intelligent minds once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” I love that quote. It by far my favorite quote of all time. It’s the admission of a very very smart man that all his brilliant ideas mean nothing without the dreamers to implement them.
In the cases of James Cameron and Kevin Costner, these are people that have some experience with the sea. Cameron has been shooting underwater nature documentaries for years. He took his considerable fortune from Titanic and put much of it into experimental submersible vehicles and gear. He might have the best funded underwater equipment on the planet ready to help.
Costner might not win any academy awards for his legendary flop Water World, but it sparked a love of the sea that led him to invest in some state of the art water/oil separation machines. They are the only machines of their kind. They use large centrifuges to spin the oil saturated sea water. The differing weight and densities of water and oil separate themselves in the centrifuge. Its able to separate millions of gallons of water and oil. But because Costner is an actor it seems there is a reluctance to take this option seriously.
Its time we start listening to the creative people we have.
The Prank
I know many of you have been kind enough to purchase my book. The positive response has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact a couple of weeks back The Prank won the Indie Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. How cool is that?
Since loyal Bogworld readers are the best readers in the world. I would like to ask one simple favor. If you have read The Prank, or if you plan to read The Prank (and you should), please take the time to use your favorite modes of social networking to review the book for all your friends or buddies or twitterers. Lets see if we cannot start a fun wave of buzz for the Prank by using the tools we use every day!
I would appreciate the effort.
Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.
In the last couple of weeks, a few people from Hollywood stepped forward to offer their assistance in the Gulf Oil disaster. These offers seemed to be mostly met with laughs by the media and by Washington. I was a little disappointed that these folks were so quickly dismissed.
Albert Einstein, widely considered one of history’s most intelligent minds once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” I love that quote. It by far my favorite quote of all time. It’s the admission of a very very smart man that all his brilliant ideas mean nothing without the dreamers to implement them.
In the cases of James Cameron and Kevin Costner, these are people that have some experience with the sea. Cameron has been shooting underwater nature documentaries for years. He took his considerable fortune from Titanic and put much of it into experimental submersible vehicles and gear. He might have the best funded underwater equipment on the planet ready to help.
Costner might not win any academy awards for his legendary flop Water World, but it sparked a love of the sea that led him to invest in some state of the art water/oil separation machines. They are the only machines of their kind. They use large centrifuges to spin the oil saturated sea water. The differing weight and densities of water and oil separate themselves in the centrifuge. Its able to separate millions of gallons of water and oil. But because Costner is an actor it seems there is a reluctance to take this option seriously.
Its time we start listening to the creative people we have.