jeez, that's a bummer, odie, about the local painting sales. perhaps one of the indigenous groups has a ceremony by which yer inducted into their society. p.s. the old italian masters used the "camera obscura" on occasion. it doesn't tie in with poser at all, but larry w. originally wrote poser as a tool to actual artists who could actually draw already, who had already done life-drawing studies, but who didn't wanna hafta hire a live human model all the time.