Mini-Doku: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers


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Motherboard hat eine unterhaltsame Mini-Doku über Doctor Laser, einen der letzten verbliebenen Laser-Holografie-Künstler:
"In the heyday of holography, back in the 1970s, there were four schools dedicated to the holographic arts around the world, and five studios in New York City alone. Today, there are only a few left in the world ... Jason Sapan, as his birth certificate calls him, is sort of like a laser Doc Brown, and his cluttered New York studio-laboratory ... feels something like a time machine, a living ode to a seemingly obsolete art ... His laser lighting has been used at the original Studio 54, on CBS, in print advertising for Macy’s and Revlon, on Broadway, for book and magazine covers, and graphics at the original Studio 54, and a number of music videos, including a starring role in one by Flock of Seagulls, which landed him the first on-air credit in a video on MTV. ... While moving holograms that float in midair remain the stuff of science-fiction, Doctor Laser has pieced together a reality that’s much stranger: that studio in Midtown Manhattan, tucked into a former blacksmith’s forge, is a veritable wonder cabinet of dancing 3D imagery, flashing lasers and homemade holography equipment. He revels in that DIY-ness ..." Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers
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