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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.

Lake Heron, New Mexico, 1996

Lake Heron
Lake Heron, New Mexico, 1996

Haleakala, 1996

Haleakala Sunrise
Sunrise atop Mt. Haleakala, 1996

RadioValve, 1998

RadioValve 1998

Dev, E23, and Stacy spinning live at the orginal RadioValve HQ. Boulder, Colorado, 1998

RadioValve 2000

RadioValve, 2000

E23 and friend multitasking at RadioValve global headquarters, 2000

Observatory, Haleakala, 1996

Haleakala

Observatory, Mt. Haleakala, Hawaii 1996

Very Large Array

Very Large Array

Very Large Array, New Mexico, 1996

Quicktime VR of this image is here

Ground Zero

Ground Zero
Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, 1997

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General Motors EV-1

In 1996, I was hired to photograph in QuickTime VR the General Motors EV1 Electric Vehicle for gmev.com, and it remained online until a few months ago (2006), when a less than positive film about the EV1 was released. I haven’t seen the film, so I can’t comment.

I also had the good fortune to drive the vehicle. The pickup was amazing, and it was utterly silent. Awesome ride.

Below are links to the QuickTime VR movies of the EV1 which I created. I have the source files, film, and video from the shoot, so someday I may create a higher resolution version of this project.

On a geek note, the QuickTime VR files for this project were assembled into a standalone application which was authored with mTropolis. Unfortunately, the presentation will no longer run on a modern Mac or PC (gotta love progress). So most of the “coolness” for that project is gone forever. But the images and animations still exist…

See EV-1 Interior

See EV-1 Exterior

Upper Deck Pro 3D

Upper Deck Pro 3D 1994

Upper Deck Pro 3D Trading Card set which I designed, 1994

Full Metal Oxide

bk EBV 1991

EBV 1991, with AK-Hi8 Assault Camera

Gardner Post took this cool 3D picture of me at the Lollapaloozah in 1991

Tim Leary

Tim Leary Quicktime VR

This is a picture from 1995 with Jay Haynes, Tim Leary, and myself. This was from the day we shot QuicktimeVR’s of Tim’s house.

The Tim Leary QTVR is here

I still have the film on this, so it would be fun to rescan it and stitch a new movie. If anyone is interested, let me know.

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