Archives for January, 2007

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  • Dolphins
  • Lightrix
  • Prince
  • Dale Earnhardt
  • Holograms

Holography

From 1987 through 1995, I designed many comercial holograms. These were mostly embossed foil, although a few were photopolymer, like this Terminator Boxed Set.

I had the good fortune to work with Craig Newswanger at Applied Holographics on many of these projects.

The “Alias – More than teapots” hologram was made for Siggraph 89. This was one of the first 3D rendered holograms ever made.

The work was mostly done on SGI Personal Iris PI-20 computers running Alias 2.0, which was very high tech for the time.

I have lots of these holograms, and they are pretty hard to photograph. Here are a few samples.

Parthenon Dodecacore V12

Parthenon

Outstanding dodeca-core performance for todays power hungry executive.

With its twelve execution cores, the Parthenon Dodecacore V12 computer is optimized for multi-threaded applications and multitasking, such as word processing and email.

Command the power you’ve earned.

HP Brunswick 300

HP Brunswick  300
HP Brunswick 300 portable computer w/ enhanced Round Format HDADHDV monitor for tight focus.

Kustom Classic

Kustom Classic

The computer that goes up to 11. Fat Panel sold seperately.

Things-o-contemplation

Things -o- contemplation

Resurrected from the attic of Grandma’s Labs, Mark Blank has unearthed part of the original “Things-o-contemplation” tablets.

Worth contemplating …

1986

  • WGBH Websites
  • WGBH Online

WGBH Online

Two sets of websites I created for WGBH Boston.

The first is a set of updated media players from 2006. This is an interesting design in that it is completely modular and templated. All content is syndicated as XML and transformed for display via php and xslt.

The second, from 2000, is the WGBH Forum Network, an online video lecture website, and the WGBH Radio website.

8 Track

8 Track was an experimental distributed music piece created for the Boston Cyber Arts Festival, 2001

“Using Wide Area Collaboration (WAC) technologies, 8Track allows multiple people to create a unique musical piece which is unpredictable and live.

Bouncing a signal around the world, 8Track uses the internet as a global digital delay, thus using the net as a musical instrument. “

Joanne's Silver Top Diner

Joanne’s Silver Top Diner

Joanne’s Silver Top Diner, Providence, RI, 1985
Infra-Red Broiling – Vaculator Coffee

Chupa chups

Hello whirrled!

Welcome to Brian Kane 2.0 (now 3.0!) You are still here …

Magritte

Magritte, a film by Mark Blank, performed by Calvin Thomas & The Special Touch with Mike Oatman. 1984.

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