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I  thought of this idea while re-watching the the movie Jurassic Park with friends. It goes back to an oft done joke about how powerful tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs were, but with one obvious physical deficiency. I joked how T Rex porn would highlight that and how it would be subversive and scary to society and they would make movies like Refer Madness about the problem.

I haven’t done any real writing for a few years, so I’m rusty. This may be a little clunky and not as funny as I’d originally hoped, but I like the idea and it’s good to be writing again.

On the Dangers of Unattainable Perfection in Fantasy Imagery and the Effects on Saurian Body Image 

by Will A. Sanborn, 11/01/12

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I don’t have as much of a personal presence on the web as I used to, with time going to other things these days. Here is where my creative work can be found on other sites.

My photography can be found on flickr.

My writing can be found in spoken-word form in these podcast episodes, and in print form in these books: New Technicolor Dreams, That Old Time Religion and The Journey.

I run a small press, Anthropomorphic Dreams, focusing on story-telling with anthropomorphic animals. I have published print and e-books in single-author novels and collects as well as multi-author anthologies. I continue to publish stories in spoken word on the podcast.

Reading the eulogies on the passing of Steve Jobs prompted me to comment on my thoughts on Apple and my relationship with their products over the years.

When I was in college, my impression of Macs were that they were toy computers. It was certainly true that in the early 90s, the price differential between Macs and PCs meant that you could get a lot more computing power for your buck on a Windows machine.

Back then I felt that people should be smart enough to use a computer and not have it dumbed down. Macs were used by hippies, or “illiterate bikers” as I quipped to my machead friend Steve after watching one of their commercials back in the dorm at RPI. The whole “Think Different” ad campaign struck me as arrogant, yet I ignored my own engineering-biased hubris.

It’s funny that as I dabbled in writing and video editing and then digital photography, that I didn’t appreciate Macs earlier. I remember being seriously underwhelmed by the desktop video solutions of the late 90s; I’m curious how it would’ve been on Apple products back then, if I could’ve afforded the hardware.

I was first exposed the “Apple Virus” as one independent Macintosh store salesmen called it when I purchased an iPod Gen 4 back in 2004. I smiled at the notion then. The virus was slow to infect, but it got me in the end. I bought an iPhone 3G in February of 2009 and they slowly had me hooked.

I replaced my aging Dell laptop last December with a Macbook Air and the speed and lack of weight were well worth the money. I grew to like and was impressed by the Mac OS as well. This June a hard-drive crash pushed me to finally get the iMac I’d been pondering for months, and I haven’t looked back.

Back in the 90s the power of the machines mattered for the number crunching work I was doing, but in time processors got powerful and cheaper. It’s amazing what we have for computers today and now what matters is the user interface and quality of the software tools.

Steve Jobs understood what took me years to figure out and appreciate, that technology as tools should be simple to use, not as dumbing down, but empowering users to do more with it. After getting tired of crappy software, underwhelming consumer products and complicated tool chains, Apple products stand out, along with Garmin auto GPS units and the TiVo, as shining examples of products that just work.

Thanks for pushing for quality, Steve.

I’m in the process of updating my old website to run on WordPress. While I’m re-building things and adding back the content, here are the links to my old Photos and Stories archives.

There’s also Anthropomorphic Dreams my publishing site which contains work from me as well as other authors. There are book anthologies as well as a free audio-fiction podcast.

The Colors of My Dreams
Written June 2007

What is the nature of creativity, and what is the price of that gift? If you had to decide between a life of safety, or possibly-dangerous inspiration, what would you choose?

This was a screenplay I wrote as for the  Script Frenzy project. It combines character drama with some speculative fiction in a story that examines the creative process.

As this was my first screenplay, the writing is a bit experimental and has not been polished up. I know there are some typographical and formatting errors in it, but it’s presented warts and all for anyone who might be interested.

Screenplay: The Colors of my Dreams