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there is no rig...no trickery or tomfoolery...
heh. Just put the scanner in a sideways position (I have a stand for it) and holding on to a neat little lamp I have, sat there and slowly moved as the scanner scanned me. It's easy! That's the beauty of it.
It's possible to do all kinds of things with it. You can try with no extra lighting, it makes some eerie shots. To get images of rooms or outdoors is harder...you need very bright light (though it can be done), unless you go ahead and modify the scanner (to take out the scanner light). It also works well for still life images - you get amazing detail there.
Would love to see others' attempts? Up to you...
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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