Its safe for now, but we need help, mostly by writing proposals, and making calls to Museums, to get it a permanent home.
Some on needs to help with some Social Networking so we can find it a good home. PLers, this is a chance to get involved.
Steve
Creaky Old Award Winning Bastard Technologist
Its safe for now, but we need help, mostly by writing proposals, and making calls to Museums, to get it a permanent home.
Some on needs to help with some Social Networking so we can find it a good home. PLers, this is a chance to get involved.
Steve
Senior Member
hmmm
Based on the image in the first post I think I have seen recordings of the out put from this system. Bill Benner invited me and another friend to a laserists spot in SF, think this was 1999? But someone asked if we wanted to watch some laser video output. The laser art work I saw that day was insane! Least I think it was out put from this sucker.
Last edited by Picasso; 10-18-2011 at 13:13.
Yes, the entire system is intact and has been carefully packed and stored in a climate controlled environment. I was planning on partially restoring the system as in replacing the missing galvos, cleaning the system and getting it back to it's original condition but time and family issues have not allowed for this.Originally Posted by mixedgas
It is a truly awesome piece of history and is awaiting it's final placement in a facility where many can appreciate it's quality and legacy.
If anyone has an idea or can facilitate in getting this system into a museum or other public facility, please contact Steve or I so we can arrange a home for this system.
Thanks!
Adam
Senior Member
Have you tried the California Academy of Sciences? They have a wonderful new building in Golden Gate Park, and the Bay Area is very tied up in laser history, what with the first public laser show ever being in Oakland...The Exploratorium, up in San Fran, CA, here, would also be a great home, but alas, they're 'moving' inside of 2 years, and it's chaos, right now, for them...
they said "call us in 2.5 yrs..."
el gringo loco
brilliant!
OMG, Of-course!! How could I miss doing that math, and I was just there, this past-Monday! I will be talking to them, in the coming weeks, and I will most-certainly bring it up, at least... we're looking to (...possibly... no assumptions, here...bring-back, *ahem* 'certain laser-shows' to the Morrison...
We'll see... but yes, I will mention to them, Thanks for the suggestion...
..and, ps, anyone who has not visited The Planetarium / Museum / Aquarium / Amazon Eco-Ball, there... GO - the place is awesome, I could spend an entire day in the aquarium reef-room there, dive-reminiscing... Undersea *is* outer-space...
Thx...
j
....and armed only with his trusty 21 Zorgawatt KTiOPO4...
Jr. Woodchuckington Janitor III, Esq.
the day i figure out how to make abstracts like that....
Based on the image in the first post I think I have seen recordings of the out put from this system. Bill Benner invited me and another friend to a laserists spot in SF, think this was 1999? But someone asked if we wanted to watch some laser video output. The laser art work I saw that day was insane! Least I think it was out put from this sucker.
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
el gringo loco
..we might have an 'idea or two'...marketing a Laserium-branded / fx-library populated 4-port 'Mini Rail Projector, with up to 4x4x4x4 (..sorry, don't know how to do a 'superscript' power in PL-text..
permutations, for variety.. Think if it as a super-compact '4-port Mobolazer', with 4-high expandability - on each port - and zero 'wonkiness', due to very-HD construction, mashed-up with a mini-version of this system...
NOT 'spamming', here, just sayin' - in part, the 'answer to your question' is having a such-like pj with 'variety' / flexibility, as it's foundation.. Then, as has-been so truthfully pointed out in a sublime sig-line, 'it's not what you've got - it's what you DO with it'..
Once the Exploratorium settes-in, a bit more, will be giving them a 'bump' about display / preservation consideration for this legacy-projector (the Cross-sys..).. and, CalAcad, also.. we'll see..
Oh, yer doin just fine, m8..
j
I just added to my collection a poster for the performance of this Video Laser III projector in Mexico City in May, 1976. If the system is in the way, I'm in a position now with the space to store it along with the rest of the collection. Also starting to get serious about putting together a permanent public home for them, likely in Silicon Valley.
Here's a pic of the poster:
el gringo loco
Hah! That's just great.. Love the 'new definition of LASER', lol.. It still 'works', actually.. "Light, Art, Sound, Electronics, and Beams (Rays)" ..'bout sums it up..
Great touchstone, Bob.. thanks for posting..
j
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