Parks Stephenson's Marconigraphcom

[Parks Stephenson]

I have gone through and updated entire sections of my website at:

http://www.flash.net/~sparks12/titanic.html

If you've visited before, you might want to check it again for changes.

Parks

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Parks, been there, gone over it, liked it! I can only imagine how much hard work went into researching the new material.

To anyone else, if you haven't been to Parks website, this is a very good time to go over for a look see. It's well worth it.

Cordially,
Michael H. Standart

 

[Parks Stephenson]

Thanks, Michael. Did you see the new tiles I put up this morning?

Parks

 

[Michael H. Standart]

I probably did. The trouble is that I was so absorbed by the material, I wasn't really paying much attention. Talk about not seeing the forrest for the trees!

If my faulty memory serves though, some of the tiles appeared to be a darker color...

Cordially,
Michael H. Standart

 

[Parks Stephenson]

Michael,

The biggest challenge with the tiles is trying to guess what the original colour would have looked like new, instead of after decades immersed in salt water or as pictured in an artist's impression. The person performing QA on my renditions is Ken Marschall...once he gives the OK, I'm not making any more changes. That having been said, onlt a few of the tiles pictured on my website have gotten his final OK. The rest are still in work.

Parks

 

[Nigel Bryant]

To Parks,

What tiles have been given the OK? Has there been any more news on the DS tiles or is your depiction the final official version?

Regards NB

 

[Parks Stephenson]

Nigel,

I probably misspoke myself. Ken has stopped making comment on the first 5 tiles on my webpage, so I'm assuming that he's satisfied with the rendition. Ken, however, is a perfectionist, and never stops critiquing even his own work, so there's no guarantee that he won't re-evaluate at some future date. The other tiles are still under discussion. And, no, the 1st Cl. Dining Saloon tile is still in work; in fact, I just re-worked the entire tile and have started over again.

Remember, these tiles are merely a diversion. They started out as background decoration for my website. We may end up with a catalogue of the floor tiles known to have been used aboard Titanic, but we're not going to rock the Titanic world with that information. That's why I don't mind posting them as works-in-progress; also, there is no rush to complete the project. These tiles are going to be in flux for some time to come.

Parks

 

[Parks Stephenson]

I have recommissioned my Titanic website. For those of you who saw the old website (the one before the Rosarito Beach pictures), the new one will look both familiar and different. Please visit at:

http://home.flash.net/~sparks12/titanic.html

If anyone had my site bookmarked, the address is the same, but the title has changed somewhat.

Parks

[Moderator's note: As of February 009, Parks Stephenson's Titanic-related material is online at http://marconigraph.com/. MAB]

 

[Colleen Collier]

Superb! I am wondering where the past 3 hours went!

 

[Inger Sheil]

Parks - Bloody Brilliant! Given the overwhelming amount of internet dross regarding the Titanic available on-line, there is a need for as much quality work out there as possible. And yours, IMHO, is among the very front rank of the front rankers. A much welcomed return.

 

[Dave Gittins]

Speaking of good sites, what has become of David Billnitzer's thoughts on Californian? When checking the links on my own site recently I found his had vanished.

 

[Parks Stephenson]

Dave,

Billnitzer's Californian site had an address change:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dnitzer/titanic.html

I found that out in much the same way you did...while checking my own links.

Parks

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Parks, my hearty congatulations on getting your site going again. It was sorely missed! That section on the wireless looks really good BTW.

Cordially,
Michael H. Standart

 

[Parks Stephenson]

To Ing, Colleen and Michael: Thank you for your kind words about the site. Comments like yours make all the work worthwhile.

Parks

 

[Inger Sheil]

I was particularly glad to see the White Paper you co-authored with David Brown accessible again - I know there were quite a few queries about it after you took the site off-line for a while. Am going to go back and read the tech stuff s-l-o-w-l-y to see if I can absorb it...perhaps even an old troglodyte like myself can grasp it all eventually.

~ Ing