Graveyard in a Box: Another Use for The Photographic APRO (Artificial Parallel Reality Orb)-Distance Mourning/Remembrance

Walking Thru Graveyards by Keith Jason Carlock

You danced, you sang, you sat upon the earth.

Your life was magic, and God was at your birth.

The joy, the love, the heart, the dove.

The peace you claimed you dreamt of.

All that's fallen in the autumn evening.

Birch trees that birds make their nests in.

And your laughter keeps on ringing.

Thru the graveyard that you now rest in.

Graveyard in a Box

This is a rehashed old idea of mine, but I'm sure it will be new to all of my latest connections and to the newest members of the groups where I post my articles.

Even on the low-tech photographic level at 26-maximally filled viewing angles, the three main constituent components of an artificial alternate reality still exists. The three basic components of any visual reality are invisibility ( the blending-in of the artificial portal to its background environment), holodecks ( the backdrop scenery) and holograms ( the apparently solid photographic hologram illusions that exist within each low-tech holodeck)

In the case of a portal Graveyard in a Box, the invisibility component is suppressed, unless it were on site at the cemetery itself. Otherwise, it would stick out like a sore thumb in its portable position within a living quarters or someone's backyard.

A postcard from the grave

Think of this use of a Photographic APRO as a fully-realized postcard. And what does a postcard do? It gives the distant viewer a sense of place with whatever pictures or illustrations that adorn the surface.

This fully-realized postcard from the grave is one giant step closer to actually being there, a portable portal to the grave of a departed personal loved one or of the famously beloved.

This is the best that you can ask for, from such a neat low-tech assemblage of photographic murals.

The imagined memorial of Kurt Cobain and the grave of Jim Morrison

The imagined grave of Elvis

A Graveyard in a Box with a photographic hologram of the departed loved or beloved one inside

It would be a bit of a morbid request to have a person pose, to be photographed in the graveyard that they'll one day be buried in, but sample photographs can still be added to their final resting place later. Or to any place that holds fond memories between the two of you that you both shared together.

A warning: The photographic hologram even being a mere 26-viewing angles, with the right cubical cell resolution of the box, would appear to actually be standing amidst the graveyard scenery when you visit them inside the Photographic APRO. It might be unnerving, to wake up in the middle of the night to see your loved one or a photographic hologram of any famously beloved, standing there among the graves of others in their final resting places inside the portal box.

This is just another facet of our world that my Photographic APRO can produce: A final tribute to a departed soul within the holodeck of my low-tech Photographic APRO.

Danse Macabre, Camille Saint-Saens

Keith Jason Carlock, theorist/inventor of pre-portal technologies