To: Joana Tides  who wrote (2 ) 9/3/2006 5:54:20 AM From: Joana Tides  Read Replies (1)  | Respond to    of 25  @jt A&I: re: the IDEA "A LIGHTBULB MOMENT' riding home on a dark road in silence thinking about tomorrow today going over jobs/errands/appointments on the ToDo List grooving on the late-summer nightsounds serenading the minimalist beauty of streetlamps wildflowers shadows by the sides of the yellow stripe on the black road it mixes its colors and paints itself or it's a finished sculpture on a pedestal in a cityscape or you're picturing how some simple gizmo that should be right in the middle of similars but isn't would make that job tomorrow so much easier and suddenly from straight out of the mind's eye A LIGHT BULB IN A THOUGHT BALLOON IS FLYING ALONGSIDE THE CAR inventors - WOW the reason the THING can't be found might be because IT doesn't exist on the market, and IT can jerry-rigged for the job, tested, researched, perhaps developed. artists - WOW the objet with plans of how to bring IT to be came flying in all by itself as it so often does  ASAP! we exit the road to capture the idea so IT is not lost! Large For Home, Small For 24/7 Briefcase/Car Idea Kit Supplies For Art & Invention (tailor-made for the Specialty may include) journal/sketchbook/smallfolder for cut paper & acetate squares a small tape recorder, cellphone/digital or polaroid camera  stiff/graph/black/cardboard/color/watercolor etc paper squares cut down a sheet of acetate to-size smaller squares for Kit try to find acetate graph sheets/pad with non-photo-blue lines cut sheet brown casting wax in squares & saran/stack a small lump of white (reusable) jewelers-beeswax a small lump of modelling clay or kids clay/playdoh pens, pencils, colors, sharpie black & opaque white markers clear small ruler, compass, browse templates  small tape measure, tweezers, emery boards stanley or xacta knife or Leatherman tool - small scissors kite string, dental floss, needle & thread, cloth squares straight pins, toothpicks, thin wire, bendable armature wire popsicle sticks, small square & round balsa dowels, balsa sheet tiny things: toys & chains etc, from gum machines & the casings model airplane parts, springs, screws, nuts & bolts all shapes  aluminum foil, saran wrap, ziploc bags, velcro, avery dots wrapping tissue paper, newspaper, brown/kraft paper clearplastic drink cups, styrofoam & paper cups  glue stick, craft cement, elmers glue,  clear/duct/masking/electrical/brown paper tape, stapler cotton balls, q-tips, bandaids, wide & narrow gauze  nesting plastic boxes (or ziplocs for 24/7 kit) A Dremel Tool Deluxe with many bits, accessories, attachments hobby shop/toy store/craft shop/ art supply/ browse The Depot etc etc going wild  abbreviate the mini-Kit for 24/7  keep the rest of it at home Model-Making for Prototypes Learn From The Master at Museo di Vincileonet.it  Visit The Museum (click) (click) The (words) Route and Halls - to the left Visit the Ground Floor, 1st & 2nd Floor See Models of Leonardo's Inventions