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VSC Anniversary, August 2021
August 7, 2021

VSC Anniversary, August 2021

Hey, 3D friends! Please join us for our first anniver­sary this com­ing Sun­day, August 8th. We’ll share a fun, short 6‑scene 3D dra­ma cre­at­ed by Thomas Asch and inspired by “A Rake’s Progress” by William Hog­a­rth. Then we’ll open it up to all of you, our com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, to share a trea­sured 3D item or pho­to you’re excit­ed about dur­ing our pop­u­lar Show & Tell seg­ment. Can’t wait to see your faces and your cool stuff this com­ing Sun­day at 2:00 pm EDT / 19:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CET. Our meet­ings are always free — just reg­is­ter if you haven’t already. 

VSC announcements
Bright loose images for the Monumental Art series
July 30, 2021

Bright loose images for the Monumental Art series

I am record­ing and doc­u­ment­ing in 3D wher­ev­er I go, such as Gal­leries and Muse­ums, and espe­cial­ly, when a Mon­u­men­tal Instal­la­tion by an Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist, or artists takes place.

History, Taking stereo photos
How to Make Flush Mount Stereo Cards
July 21, 2021

How to Make Flush Mount Stereo Cards

Here is a step-by-step guide to mak­ing flush mount stereo cards. Flush mount means cards in which the art­work extends all the way to the edge of the card itself, as shown in the photos.

Taking stereo photos
Bugging Out!
July 15, 2021

Bugging Out!

I have always been fas­ci­nat­ed by ani­mals and since I’m able to take macro pho­tos, insects have become my favorite stereo subjects.

Gallery
Space handpainting
July 10, 2021

Space handpainting

The fol­low­ing six images show some of my ‘space hand­paint­ings’ that were cre­at­ed using the 3D paint­ing app Blender. I used to export them as a video and let the vis­i­tor ‘fly’ through my lit­tle paint­ed worlds. More recent­ly I’ve tried export­ing them as stereo­scop­ic pairs to enable vis­i­tors to watch them in real 3D. These are the first results.

Gallery
VSC Meeting, July 2021
July 3, 2021

VSC Meeting, July 2021

Hey, 3D friends! Don’t for­get that our July 4th meet­ing has been moved to July 11th to accom­mo­date the 4th of July hol­i­day in the Unit­ed States. We have excit­ing pre­sen­ta­tions planned — from astral stereopho­tog­ra­phy to 3D mon­u­men­tal art to mak­ing your own stereo cards! See you on Sun­day, July 11th 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST

VSC announcements
Nostalgia, Semiotics & Weird Stuff: A Guide to Collecting View-Master
June 15, 2021

Nostalgia, Semiotics & Weird Stuff: A Guide to Collecting View-Master

It’s prob­a­bly safe to assume that most peo­ple were intro­duced to 3D images via View-Mas­ter. Intro­duced at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the hand­held 3D view­er was a very pop­u­lar for­mat that sold lit­er­al­ly bil­lions of prod­ucts from the 1940s right on through the 2000s. Here you’ll find a brief his­to­ry of View-Mas­ter, some images from my col­lec­tion and key con­tent cat­e­gories that may be of inter­est to those look­ing to start or grow their collections. 

Collecting, History, Stereoviews
Historical Stereo Extractions
June 10, 2021

Historical Stereo Extractions

The scenes from his­toric doc­u­men­taries pre­sent­ed here were up until now only view­able in 2D, but thanks to the hor­i­zon­tal move­ment of the cam­era and/or the object with­in the video, I was able to ‘extract’ stereo pairs by com­bin­ing select­ed stills with­out the use of (arti­fi­cial) manip­u­la­tion. As a result, I was able to cre­ate 3D images from 2D video, in some cas­es almost a cen­tu­ry “after the fact”.

Gallery
3D Slices & Shapes
June 6, 2021

3D Slices & Shapes

The stereo of the tree with mul­ti­col­ored foliage below was my orig­i­nal inspi­ra­tion for this series: it has so many patch­es of var­i­ous col­ors that when you mir­ror cer­tain slices, dif­fer­ent col­ors abut one anoth­er, and it winds up look­ing like a pas­tiche of many trees rather than just one.

Gallery
VSC Meeting, June 2021
May 30, 2021

VSC Meeting, June 2021

We have some fun and infor­ma­tive pre­sen­ta­tions in store for you! Come hang with your fel­low 3D enthu­si­asts for a lit­tle while and enjoy some won­der­ful iPhone stereo pho­tog­ra­phy, 3D slic­ing and View-Mas­ter nos­tal­gia. Join us on Sun­day, June 6th 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST

VSC announcements
Deep Clouds
May 24, 2021

Deep Clouds

The fol­low­ing col­lec­tion is a small sam­ple of my favorite cloud stereo pho­tos from the last few years while fly­ing over Europe and the South­west­ern por­tion of the Unit­ed States.

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May 2nd meeting recordings posted
May 21, 2021

May 2nd meeting recordings posted

Check out the fab­u­lous­ly crys­tal-clear ver­sion of Diego’s infor­ma­tive stereo pho­tog­ra­phy pre­sen­ta­tion of our last meet­ing! There were band­width issues dur­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion but now you can see all his 3D imagery clear­ly. And if you missed Dominik’s pin­hole stereo cam­era pro­duc­tion tuto­r­i­al or Pas­cal’s Tax­iphote talk, please check out those, too — great stuff!

VSC announcements