Monday, April 28, 2014

Drawings created in the Paint program of Windows 7 Accessories, and sent to Willem Davis Van Bakergem, by mail, after being printed.

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Green car, created 6-6-2012
Drawings created on my computer, following work at Washington University in 1996.  W. Davis Van Bakergem had an online card company, called www.trina.net, and, his son worked a stand-alone booth of these cards at the St. Louis Galleria shopping mall.  After talking to some guy he had worked with, in the Central West End of St. Louis, I started submitting these drawings to "Dave", as he is known, for work, with a purchase price named in the letters sent with the drawings.  I have never heard back from him.  He was employed, more recently, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, in the Dept. of History.  I have seen him there, through the UMSL Continuing Education series, and, since I graduated from a reciprocal program with the University of Missouri, I have had Alumni-Friend membership with the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  I have participated in outside activities that are connected to these two schools - the "What is a City" continuing education series topic has been of importance to me, as a city resident, living on the city/county line.  In 1998, the development of Washington Avenue, in downtown St. Louis, opened up Live/Work Studios, and Art St. Louis had an Open Studios event, where I volunteered.  On June 25, 2013, I had my own home office, located in my city house, on the Open Studios event.  These are sketches.  The first drawings I submitted to him were of greater detail, and, I spent more time on them.  In 2005, my own car was stolen while parked in front of my house, and no one has ever been named as the person who stole the car.  I received a phone call, saying that the car was recovered, and I was told the car was parked outside of the parking lot where I was told to come see the car, in January, 2006.  According to a document I was shown, the car was recovered from a Pick 'n Pull recycling lot, and not from the street outside of the city stolen vehicles parking lot.  The police officer, who called me, named 'Shade', was the same officer who threatened me with a club after a neighbor called police, when I was unable to move out of a parking spot on Berthold Avenue, behind my house.  This police officer appeared on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, and was charged, in a large criminal case, involving many stolen vehicles in the city of St. Louis, that had been 'towed', after January, 2006.  
 

Shuttle car - created 6-9-2012

Tires car - created 6-9-2012

Maya Video Products, Inc. drawings - "Barco" projectors placed in spaces. All work created is mine.

Maya Video Products, Inc. " large room " created from floor plan of Grand Central Station in New York, in December,1990.
I was given this floor plan when I asked my employer for more information, one day.  This is all that he gave me.  I was never given any books, any previous computer drawings, any names of previous employees.  I was told the name of the company who had sold the computer and software to them, and called them.  The guy who talked to me on the phone sent a .dwg AutoCAD file of a chair, which is shown in the picture.  I found, when using the AutoCAD software in my home office, that this chair is created from an Autodesk program.  I had software in my home office because Dennis Orne, R.A., provided a computer and the software for me, in order to produce some drawings for him, after 1998.  The drawings were printed, in St. Louis, at a company that had a large printer and the AutoCAD software, in  early 1994.  I was unable to find a company that had the software and printer before 1994.  I brought the file back with me from New York, to have my own copy, when I left there, right before Christmas, 1990, after I was told to "go home for Christmas", was shown the door, and accused of stealing an electronic item from the back room, by the same man who I showed all of these drawings to, on their computer.  I showed him the location of the drawing files on their computer, and the program I had written to size the rooms and place the projectors in rooms of various sizes. I never heard from this company again.  I had never been outside of my area at the computer that they showed me to use.  I walked to the door every day for lunch.  In December, 1990,  my poster that I had created in October and November, 1990, for the A/E/C Expo was shown, in the Poster Exhibit, at the conference.  This was a red/green/blue poster, similar in mind to my thesis "Visualizing Order".  This was the only showing of anything thesis-related that I have ever had, since leaving New York, on January 15, 1991.   I colored these drawings, by hand, after 1998.  The colored drawings are posted on another of my blogs.

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"Barco projector" created from an original, in the office of Maya Video Products, Inc., with AutoCAD software.