My wife was in the comfortable chair beside the couch and I was sitting on the couch – She was focused on the TV – watching a movie of money and the loan brokers that caused the financial melt down on 2008 – was it true?  of course not – it was a story. I was not focused on the TV. Instead, I picked up my Apple IPad, and began reading a true story about Allen Turing. I told you of that evening, in front of the TV, because I wanted to tell you of my exploration into our love of theater, movies, and TV stories and our love of true stories told through photographs that have been modified by hours of digital editing just to tell the true story.

First I explored three tales that make me feel good about things I never seen and do not understand.

Do you believe the tale of Isaac Newton. You know, he was sitting under a tree – got hit on the head by a falling apple – was prompted at that moment to develop his theory of gravity.

Isaac Newton said: “That apple bounced off my head – let me think about that”.

The tale made sense and it gave comfort to know we could accomplish greatness if we  pondered things unknown.

We all know the tale of Adam and Eve and the apple.  That story gave us comfort to know were we came from.

Next, look at the apple logo on your Apple computer. There is a fake story about that logo that Steve Jobs never denied.

Many of us at IBM, a competitor to the Apple computer, wondered how did the Apple Company pick such a great logo. We were told it represented the energy of emerging technology.

Alan Turing, a British mathematician is viewed as the founding father of computer science.  Allen Turing committed suicide—by biting a cyanide-laced apple at age 42.

Years later, we were told, Steve Jobs wanted to use Mr. Turing, as a basis for his companies logo.  The tale says, Steve chose an apple, with  rainbow stripes representing cyanide-lacing and a bite taken out of it.  This is how the Apple logo came to be.   But this Apple logo tale doesn’t hold up. The logo was just a creation of the mind of the art director, Rob Janoff. The tale of Turing  as an influence was never true. In fact, Janoff had never even heard of Turing when he worked on the design.

However, Steve Jobs never denied the story.

He understood an important facet of our minds. We like a story that tells us where things come from.  It is comfortable for our minds to have these stories for things unknown.

The Adam and Eve story tells where we came from, Newton’s story tells how science started, and  the Turing story tells how the popular Apple logo came to be. These tales comfort our minds.

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Movies, too, give our minds comfort to explain wanderings that never happened.

Now, lets look at a few of my of my own photos of the recent Titusville Airshow. These photos are, of course, not representing the true happening – They are my modified  photos that document the tale my mind wants – there is comfort in seeing a documentary photo that is the way you want things to be.

Thunderbirds – all American perfect precision team – each pilot and each Line officer is in perfect synch. To show perfect perfection though, I had to PhotoShop the arm straight on officer #3. That is my documentary photo.

Four in tight formation representing our country. I wanted to symbolize our country with more then fighter jets – I want to see the flag and the eagle. That is my documentary photo.

Instead of the disturbing roar of the jet engines, I wanted to see the peaceful love of two of God’s creatures in the sky.   That is my documentary photo. 

I wanted to see that we can hold to the peaceful, quiet, slow culture of the buggy and still fly Fighter Jets.  That is my documentary photo.

A show, a tale, a photo – true or not – gives comfort to our mind by explaining things the way our mind wants to see them. Yea for theater, movies, and digitized documentaries. Our minds are better for them.