It’s a wrap! The LA 3-D Club had a great time and did a fantastic job presenting 3-D Imaging at this past weekend’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. Maker Faire is the world’s largest festival of do-it-yourself science and art. Club President Eric Kurland curated a space called The 3-D Village, which featured a number of exhibits related to stereoscopic 3-D and other immersive technologies. Thousands of people visited the 3-D Village and stopped to look at the displays and ask questions about 3-D. Quite a few visitors were from Los Angeles, so we may even end up with some new club members.A special thanks goes out to Sean Isroelit, Cassie Kaufman, Lawrence Kaufman, Susan Pinsky and David Starkman for running the club table and sharing their knowledge and expertise with the eager public. Sean brought a cool robot with attached stereo GoPro cameras and shot time-lapsed 3-D footage of Maker Faire. Cassie and Lawrence brought a variety of 3-D displays and gave lessons on the basics of 3-D photography. Susan Pinksy brought her homemade copy stand and demonstrated digitizing 3-D slides. David Starkman showed slide bar DIY 3-D and how to use StereoPhoto Maker to combine the images. I’m so proud to be part of an organization with such smart and talented people!
Barry Rothstein and Eric Kurland each had their own exhibits in the 3-D Village. Barry sold lots of his phantogram cards and books and demonstrated the making of phantogram images once an hour. Eric showed the OK Go “White Knuckles” video and displayed the Canon TX-1 cameras he shot it with. It was quite popular and people asked lots of questions about the process. Congratulations to Eric for winning a blue ribbon from one of editors of Make: magazine.
We’ve been invited back to Maker Faire 2012 and possibly even Maker Faire New York in September. We will start planning even earlier this time and I invite all club members to start thinking about participating. The club members who went to Maker Faire took lots of 3-D photos and video, which I look forward to seeing presented at a future club meeting.