I was always sort of typecast as the mad scientist amongst my friends.
It wasn’t like I planned to be a holographer.
I fell into it, sort of like that John Lennon thing:
Life is what happens between making plans.
Holography is not just another 3D gimmick.
Holography is a real technology.
Everything from portraits to presentations to art to science.
It’s an unlimited potential that has barely been tapped.
We’re the longest surviving holography business / laboratory / gallery around.
We’re all about recording the shape that light waves take as they are bounced off a
solid object.
Most 3D — if you go to a 3D movie — every seat in the house, it’s all the same 3D.
A hologram you can move around.
You can look above it, below it, to the sides.
It tells us that dimension really is a part of our life and it helps us to conceptualize
the world in a more dimensional way.
The scientific process of making a hologram is sort of an interesting story.
So we’re photographing the shape of a light wave, and a light wave is really small.
It’s a millionth of a meter cut in half.
So it’s smaller than an ant’s butthole.
How do you record it?
The trick is called interference.
If you throw two rocks into a pond where the two circles of waves cross each other — they
interfere.
That pattern is actually stationary.
Even though the circles are moving out, the crosshatch pattern is stationary.
It’s standing still so it’s called a “standing wave,” which is photographable.
Tell us what a hologram is.
I have no idea.
I don’t know!
*Laughs*
Oh my god!
I don’t even know!
Holography?
Try to imagine it’s 1968.
No one even knows what a laser is.
And a hologram?
Because of my dad, I grew up thinking that breaking-edge science was normal.
Unfortunately, the public did not see that.
The public never embraced what I was doing, and, actively, person after person would come
in and say, “Why are you struggling so hard to try to survive doing this?
You’re smart.
You can do almost anything.”
Well, yeah I can do almost anything, but this is what I want to do.
Because I’ve been in holography, I’ve worked with world leaders, famous artists,
music video stars…
All of these things have been afforded to me because I didn’t quit.
Yep.
I think we’ve done as good as we can do.
Yeah, I think it looks good.
It looks professional.
I think we all want to leave behind a legacy of some sort.
And to me, I think the most important thing I can do is sort of the philosophy of having
faith.
That the thing that you believe in matters.
Dr. Laser has taught me a lot about life and also science, and, you know, how to deal with
people professionally, but also what a hologram really means and how special it is to create
these illusions.
The commonality that binds us, generation after generation after generation — that’s
what drew me to this more than anything else.
When you think of George Washington — he was an oil painting.
Abraham Lincoln — he was a photograph.
Today, it can be a hologram.
It can tell a story.