My twin brother is a former swimmer and current artist, and I told him about the "Meaning of Swimming" thread on this forum. I also told him how at night when I try to get to sleep, I will sometimes visualize myself flowing through the water, very relaxed, effortless in the blue water.
John has been working on digital art in recent years, and he did a semi-abstract animation that gets some of this feeling across. I invite one and all to take a look at his website:
www.jrtart.com
Once you log on, click on "animation galleries" and scrowl down until you see one with a picture of a sunset, then play this.
It probably works best if you have a cable or DSL modem, otherwise it can take a while to view it. If you check it out, let me know what you think and I will forward your comments to John. He said he may try to do some more swimming art in the future. Thanks.
Former Member
Originally posted by jim thornton
I also told him how at night when I try to get to sleep, I will sometimes visualize myself flowing through the water, very relaxed, effortless in the blue water.
Funny, that you mention your visualization technique to get to sleep. Sometimes when my mind is actively thinking about things and keeping me awake, I start thinking about swimming technique. It keeps my mind distracted from the problems of the day and knocks me out pretty quickly.
BTW, your brother is doing some interesting animations. He should make some screensavers.
Hi, Jim. I am positive my brother would love to hear from anybody about his art/swimming animation/ etc. and I also suspect he'd be more than happy to post your poem.
One comic animation he did--and I am trying to get him to post this--allowed a cartoon version of me to "race" various teammates in various distances of freestyle. My brother rigged it so I always win!
It's nice to have a genetic duplicate looking after your best interests.
Since I last posted here, he updated the abstract swimming animation slightly. I invite everyone to check it out.
Wow! That website is really cool! I bet your brother enjoys fractal geometry a lot! (being an artist and mathematician).....Did your brother make any comments about our poetry thread here? ....and can we submit a poem or two to him via e-mail (or via his website)....or do you think that would be too intrusive? (I'm sure he doesn't want to be bombarded with tons of poems from all over the place).....I have one poem that I wrote on the poetry thread (page 4 or 5 of the thread I believe) that I actually like somewhat (my other poems posted there were "just for fun" poems and joke poems more or less)....I will send it to you in a PM.
Newmastersswimmer
Originally posted by jim thornton
It's nice to have a genetic duplicate looking after your best interests.
Jim,
I'm sure your genetic duplicate feels the same way. Which kind of creates a paradox, if you would believe that each feels the exact copy of himself if fueling his copy's best interests, creating, in a sense, a mirror trick where by he would actually be looking out for his own best interests. The paradox being, by looking out for his genetic identifier's best interests, he is identically looking out for his own.
But, of course, you are two different people, and I just enjoy torturing you, Jimbo.
Steph
I just want to mention that I have really enjoyed perusing around your twin brother John's Website....I have become particularly attracted to the "Cameron Prints" there....They are extremely fascinating to me.....The Cameron Print line contains such a wide variety of textures and color schemes that portray such a wide array of emotions (IMHO).....I have written several different reviews of some of the prints I was most drawn too. If anyone else is into this kind of thing I highly reccommend checking this website out!.....
ALSO There is a really cool article that Jim Thornton wrote for the Men's Journal a few years back on Masters Swimming posted on the Website in John's Blog along with some very interesting poetry......Jim's article really got me pumped up about Nationals this year!.....Thanks Jim for making the article available to be posted on John's Website!
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. the link to John's Website is in the first message of this thread.
Continuing with your theme on the twin brothers connection between Jim and John.....I wonder if John also felt a sharp pain in his foot (way out in New Jersey) the moment that Jim had his accident in PA?
By the way, since you know Jim personally (being a teammate of his), I guess you must have some interesting stories to tell about Jim.....Maybe you can share on or two of them with us sometime....(I'm sure Jim wouldn't mind).
Newmastersswimmer
