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September 2008 
I'm the Etch-A-Sketch Queen!
Posted on Dec 27th, 2007
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Quiche
Quiche
Etch-A-Sketch
I got my first Etch-A-Sketch for Christmas when I was seven or eight years old, I guess. My sister got one too. She quickly ditched hers (a replacement should mine ever break), but I kept mine and kept playing with it and drew stuff, not just right angled boxy stuff, but circles, triangles, curved lines, faces, landscapes, etc., whatever I felt like drawing. With a nifty digital camera, I can now save a copy of the pictures, instead of taking the Etch-A-Sketch apart, and removing the extra metallic dust, which I was never willing to do. My sister got me this pocket Etch-A-Sketch for Christmas.
The Etch A Sketch toy was discovered at a European Toy Fair in 1959 by Ohio Art president H.W. Winzeler. It was created by Arthur Granjean. Granjean originally called it "L'Ecran Magique" ("the magic screen"). Requiring two presentations of his product, Granjean was able to convince Winzeler to pay the steep licensing fee. In 1960, Ohio Art launched the toy for the holiday season with the name of "Etch A Sketch". With the similarity of a television itself, Ohio Art supported the toy with its first televised advertising campaign.[1] (from Wikipedia)
The Wikipedia article includes links to other folks who do Etch-A-Sketch art.
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Loraine, that's amazing! I can draw on paper but on an etch-a-sketch it always looks like jiggly, awkward little stair steps all over the place…
Thank you!
I hope you know what the real secret is behind the skill of etch-a-sketch from a metaphysical standpoint…..are you sitting down?
It means that you can create in both the visible and invisible planes the first time through with few errors, whenever you put your mind to it!
The ability is translatable into creating a great plan, while executing it on the fly without having to do a lot of research like taking polls, doing questionnaires, or marketing surveys to see if the plan will actually work.
Honestly!
Please remember: some skills that we look at as novel are actually translatable into another skill that is highly valued in the real world. Hope you take that seriously!
Let me know what you think about that.
Peace, Bryan
Thank you Bryan! I am grateful for my gifts, even the ones that can appear to be novel (:
“It is by long obedience and hard work that the artist comes to unforced spontaneity and consummate mastery. Knowing that he can never create anything on his own account, out of the top layers, so to speak, of his personal consciousness, he submits obediently to the workings of 'inspiration'; and knowing that the medium in which he works has its own self- nature, which must not be ignored or violently overriden, he makes himself its patient servant and, in this way, achieves perfect freedom of expression. But life itself is also an art, and the man who would become a consummate artist in living must follow, on all levels of his being, the same proceedure as that by which the painter or the sculptor or any other craftsman comes to his own more limited perfection.” -Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy, First Perennial Classics edition c. 2004, HarperCollins Publishers
I still look at life and approach it with a childlike wonder and awe- everything has it's magic, symbolism and mystery and is a reflection from above (:
Thank you Bryan and Namaste.
Amen to that, and kind thankfulness to you also!
Hey sis!!! Well, just so that you know… it was never that I was not interested in playing with it… just too hyper to sit down long enough to mess with it. You remember me as a kid don't you. Took me forever to calm all that energy down or more to the point to be able to focus on one thing at a time. Sitting down doing homework was difficult enough… I had to be doing 50 things at once to do one thing. Remember how I would watch tv and do a crossword puzzle while doing my homework… it was the only way I could get it done. At least mom never complained. I guess she figured I made good grades and as long as I was doing it, it didn't matter to her my method of getting it completed. Maybe I didn't really play with it because it required both hands and all of my attention. I guess we all had a bit of ADD… college was about the same… to sit in a lecture I had to draw or doodle to be able to retain what was being said….
Here's to ADD power!