2. Darth Samurai
"The fact is, the technology universe has always been a fabulous source of
wealth creation - and wealth destruction." - Arnold Berman
"As the Baby Boomer generation retires, the demand for young scientists
and engineers is expected to increase at almost four times the rate of all
other occupations. In 10 years there will be a major work force gap in
technical industries if we do not strengthen the interest today's young
people have in math, science, technology and engineering. The Design
Challenges are a vehicle to achieve that goal." - Bob Stevens
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3. Ode to the Chrysler
"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with
good manners." - Mignon McLaughlin
"This is New York and there's no law against being annoying" - William
Kunstler
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is
itself a detective story." - Agatha Christie
"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more
out of the New York Times." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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4. Infinity Waiting
"It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep
by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious
transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."
- Victor Hugo
"To infinity and beyond." - Buzz Lightyear
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5. Eye On You
"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For
the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to
approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search." -
Max Lerner
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6. A Study in Virtual Glass IX
"Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's
capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have
unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require
for its reconstruction." - George F. Will
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7. Insulating BP
"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the
energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the
struggles of working families trying to make ends meet." - Sherrod Brown
"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy.
We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our
eyes to the public corruption of our democracy." -Wynton Marsalis
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8. A Study in Virtual Glass V
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as
indispensable if one is to amount to something: I don't know where I would
be without it." - Thomas Mann
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9. Shell Game
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish
the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy
Adams
"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it
expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were
embodied in the Constitution itself." - Sandra Day O'Connor
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10. Upon Reflection I
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is
still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-
called backward peoples." - Emily Greene Balch
"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to
liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences: wrongly understood,
as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then
to despotism." - Barry Goldwater
"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities." - Harriet Ann Jacobs
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11. Upon Reflection II
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” - Jim Morrison
"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the
rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say -
exercised through the mass media.” - Noam Chomsky
"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the
media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.” -
Walter Cronkite
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12. A Study in Virtual Glass XVIII
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint.
The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.” - Walt
Whitman
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure
reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks
the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act
as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed
upon a definition of liberty.” - Abraham Lincoln
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose
Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life
and liberty for all who believe.” - Dan Quayle
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13. Insulated Crude
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right
when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.” - Margaret Chase
Smith
"Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process--
facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being
sentenced by the judge--the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the
black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd
character is treated worse than the orthodox." - Howard Zinn
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14. Upon Reflection XI
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but
you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent
illusion." - Albert Einstein
"Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just
mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with
new and unique powers of expression." - Marshall McLuhan
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15. The Echo Chamber Distortion – Dedicated
to Fox New
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually
come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State
can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to
use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of
the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels
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16. Sentient Spontaneity
"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the
barriers of nationality." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general: if you
become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter
and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso
"The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the
world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist
the artist was the myth." - Joseph Campbell
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17. Upon Reflection X
"Sustainability isn't about the quick fix or the cheap solution. Generally it
means making a commitment and trying, as best we can, to honor it. In any
worthwhile enterprise, from protecting the environment to preserving a
relationship, we are going to encounter difficulties. The good life is not a
problem-free life. In point of fact, the process of overcoming adversity often
produces some of the most rewarding experiences we will ever have. Human
beings need to be challenged to 'test their mettle,' as it were. Throwing in
the towel at the first sign of trouble or small inkling of distress may be the
easy thing to do, but it doesn't help our self-concept. Most of life's troubles
can be overcome if we are willing to work through them with patience." -
Michael A. Schuler
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18. Happy As A Clam
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or
acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a
pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
- Buddha
"Action may not always bring happiness: but there is no happiness without
action." - Benjamin Disraeli
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19. Green Warhead
"There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be
devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our
business as best we can." - Bob Woodward
"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than
mere economics: ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that
they must be called religious." - Garrett Hardin
"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them
to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." - R. Buckminster
Fuller
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20. Virtual Glass Sculpture VI
"I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four
Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." -
Margaret Chase Smith
"Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go
and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling
heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere." - A. A. Milne
"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in
favor of the status quo." - Max Eastman
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21. Upon Reflection IX
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing
just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." -
Aristotle
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes
longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you
lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
And so today I still have a dream. The Trumpet of Conscience" - Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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22. Corporate Licentiousness
"Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you." - Dr. Seus
"Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election.
However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For
then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for
election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for
office." - Niccolo Machiavelli
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23. Transmutative Progression
"In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated
information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized
monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without
any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse
them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic."
- Alvin Toffler
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas
Jefferson
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24. Upon Reflection VII
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race." -
Don Marquis
"Any culture that destroys its own life support systems and calls that
progress is totally insane." - John Croft
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource." - John F. Kennedy
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25. Upon Reflection VIII
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." - Benjamin
Franklin
"A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry." - Thomas Jefferson
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26. Upon Reflection VI
"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an
outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free." - George
Berkeley
"The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted
to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like
mushrooms!" - Robert Walpole
"For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay
for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not
funded." - Anthony Weiner
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27. Upon Reflection IV
"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic
emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer
art." - Remy de Gourmont
"All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an
attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person." -
Graham Chapman
"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all
the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the
gut. But you have to really mean it." - Anne McCaffrey
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28. Upon Reflection V
"A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle
applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and
becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion." - Sai Baba
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Voltaire
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only
the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of
the rich." - Jose Saramago
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29. Upon Reflection III - Jaded
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's
in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." - M. C. Escher
"I prefer to see with closed eyes." - Josef Albers
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since." - Salvador Dali
"All good ideas arrive by chance." - Max Ernst
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30. As a self-taught digital artist, I thrive on interpreting my ideas about our world and other
worlds beyond, mixing reality and mystery by using tools of the 21st
century to create
art. My work revolves around my love of sci-fi stories, history, politics, science, and
current events. While many of the landscapes appear to be photo-realistic, there are no
photos used in creating the scenes. Among some of my greatest joys is the opportunity
to create images that exist nowhere on this planet but within my own mind. Technology
allows me to emulate traditional art media and techniques through several computer
applications to create textures and shapes. I am able to create and then assemble
objects, skies, and terrains in the 3D graphics application, Vue.
Most of my images begin on a blank electronic canvas and expand layer upon layer. By
creating my own vegetation, atmospheres, objects and terrains, I can then combine
them into a myriad of land or seascapes. Just as any artist does, I pay particular
attention to composition, color palette, lighting, and perspective. Every day I have
dedicated time to creating art. I also keep up with new techniques via industry
periodicals and internet research.
All the images you have viewed in this eBook are available as prints, framed
prints, canvas prints, or greeting cards. Each image has a link to the print
on demand page for that image where you can customize the framing, the
canvas type, or just the size of the print. Every print has a money back
guarantee. Your satisfaction is of utmost importance to me.
Original and limited editions you may contact me with any questions.
Shipping is free within the United States using the USPS. For shipping
outside the United States, or if you prefer shipping via FedEx or UPS contact
me for shipping information. Feel free to contact me to check on availability
of limited editions, originals or questions about anything related to the
subject matter of this eBook.
Contact info:
Skype: bysilent
Email: thomas@broadfoot.biz
I would in closing like to thank you for viewing the artwork in this eBook
and have a great day.
