I’VE always been interested in photography in all its various aspects.
I began my photographic avocation taking pictures of wild Alaska (when it was still a territory) with an old Kodak slide camera in hand. Several, like my “Sunset over Sleeping Lady” won local recognition. In college, I paid for my room and board photographing individuals for the school year book with a Canon Pellix given to me by a friend’s father for taking his foreign son under wing. Not long after college, I bought my first stereo 3-D camera, a Stereo Realist 35 mm camera, and took literally hundreds of stereo photos of the Bay Area, many of which I sold later on eBay. It was a clunky camera, difficult to shoot with as it required one to calculate distance-to-target to derive maximum stereo. I soon purchased a TDC Stereo Slide Projector and screen (with a hundred polarized glasses) which allowed me to do public showings. Later, I turned to the Loreo stereo 35mm film 3D camera and an individual viewer for point-and-shoot ease and proofing, finally settling on a digital camera and T-Bar, creating my own handmade, Victorian era style stereoscopic cards that could be viewed using a handheld Victorian style viewer. I sold many of the thousand or more cards for years.
Never enough, I toyed with purchasing a stereo 3-D videocamera and projector, but, in the end, my interests were directed at the idea of holographic images. In the mid 1970s, several years before Star Wars was released with its intriguing projected video holograph, I had the opportunity of visiting the USSR and meeting with Yuri Denisyuk, spending a whole day in his laboratory exploring normal light holographs together. I took home several glass plates we made, and the idea of projected normal light holography as the next ear replacing 3-D photography. Add to this the concept of vocally interactive normal light holographic video and you have the basis for my vision of education in the future, portrayed in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor.
I’m still intrigued by the concept of interactively being in another place with other vocally interactive normal light holographic projections, but these days have added another layer: the ability of the human sources of the interactive holograms to “touch” sense each other using digital sensory projection. It’s actually indirect touch, since the human sources themselves never actually touch. Heavens to COVID-19 social distancing! Someday, I predict, humans will indeed live and work on other planets, but perhaps using this kind of technology to replace robots with what A. G. Hayes started, and I have since with him taken to calling “AIs.” None of these AIs need be “real” in the physical sense, and given Deep Mind’s work on AI learning through experience, they would be much better suited to deep space exploration and living than us trapped in frail physical bodies. I suggest they might be the first explorers to travel to other universes, not having, like humans, to, as I have imagined, have die to do so. They would be the first to visit the myriad heavens and hells, the residences of human souls passing on, or even possibly where we came from before birth…
I began my photographic avocation taking pictures of wild Alaska (when it was still a territory) with an old Kodak slide camera in hand. Several, like my “Sunset over Sleeping Lady” won local recognition. In college, I paid for my room and board photographing individuals for the school year book with a Canon Pellix given to me by a friend’s father for taking his foreign son under wing. Not long after college, I bought my first stereo 3-D camera, a Stereo Realist 35 mm camera, and took literally hundreds of stereo photos of the Bay Area, many of which I sold later on eBay. It was a clunky camera, difficult to shoot with as it required one to calculate distance-to-target to derive maximum stereo. I soon purchased a TDC Stereo Slide Projector and screen (with a hundred polarized glasses) which allowed me to do public showings. Later, I turned to the Loreo stereo 35mm film 3D camera and an individual viewer for point-and-shoot ease and proofing, finally settling on a digital camera and T-Bar, creating my own handmade, Victorian era style stereoscopic cards that could be viewed using a handheld Victorian style viewer. I sold many of the thousand or more cards for years.
Never enough, I toyed with purchasing a stereo 3-D videocamera and projector, but, in the end, my interests were directed at the idea of holographic images. In the mid 1970s, several years before Star Wars was released with its intriguing projected video holograph, I had the opportunity of visiting the USSR and meeting with Yuri Denisyuk, spending a whole day in his laboratory exploring normal light holographs together. I took home several glass plates we made, and the idea of projected normal light holography as the next ear replacing 3-D photography. Add to this the concept of vocally interactive normal light holographic video and you have the basis for my vision of education in the future, portrayed in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor.
I’m still intrigued by the concept of interactively being in another place with other vocally interactive normal light holographic projections, but these days have added another layer: the ability of the human sources of the interactive holograms to “touch” sense each other using digital sensory projection. It’s actually indirect touch, since the human sources themselves never actually touch. Heavens to COVID-19 social distancing! Someday, I predict, humans will indeed live and work on other planets, but perhaps using this kind of technology to replace robots with what A. G. Hayes started, and I have since with him taken to calling “AIs.” None of these AIs need be “real” in the physical sense, and given Deep Mind’s work on AI learning through experience, they would be much better suited to deep space exploration and living than us trapped in frail physical bodies. I suggest they might be the first explorers to travel to other universes, not having, like humans, to, as I have imagined, have die to do so. They would be the first to visit the myriad heavens and hells, the residences of human souls passing on, or even possibly where we came from before birth…
The Edge of Madness
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