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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.

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Lake Heron, New Mexico, 1996

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Sunrise atop Mt. Haleakala, 1996

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

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E23 and friend multitasking at RadioValve global headquarters, 2000

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Observatory, Mt. Haleakala, Hawaii 1996

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Very Large Array, New Mexico, 1996

Quicktime VR of this image is here

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Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, 1997

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in 1996, I was hired to photograph 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

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

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EBV 1991, with AK-Hi8 Assault Camera

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

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This is a still from the original 3D animated Brian Kane logo, created in 1989 using Alias 2.

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