for rick: Meeting information

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Just sending via the board list, so it's archived...

Rick, if you're going to send out an announcement about the meeting, 
here's the relevant bits regarding the video (which has been safely picked 
up, along with VCR and speakers, but missing a single RCA-to-RCA cable to 
hook to the projector, by Paul).  Clay, you can also use this by way of an 
introduction at the meeting.  I figure there's other things you guys want 
to include about the meeting, so I didn't want to send it directly:

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Last November I (Erik) had the pleasure of attending the Aquatic Gardeners 
Association convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The guest speaker was 
Takashi Amano.  Mr. Amano is famous for his Nature Aquarium World books 
(some of which can be checked out of our own GSAS library), his amazing 
photography skills, and for bringing the concept of aquascaping to an 
entirely new level.  Mr. Amano gave two presentations, including the live 
aquascaping demo which we will be showing at the meeting.  He started with 
a completely empty aquarium, and followed the entire procedure of 
substrate, driftwood and rock selection & placement, plant selection, 
and planting techniques, ending with the fully-planted aquascape ready for 
display.

I found some of the ideas presented intriguing, especially Amano's 
techniques for foreground planting, and ended up completely ripping apart 
my own aquarium last winter to try them out myself.  I hope that you will 
find things of similar interest from the videotape I have put together of 
this presentation.  The running time is about an hour.

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-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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