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2007
	"Bee Girl" She is fascinated and disturbed by the antics of her mechanical bee slaves. But the pollination must continue. As seen on the wall.
	"Lakshmi and the Golden Walnut" Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of beauty and wealth. The walnut has no particular significance, but reflected light from it was helpful in filling the shadows under her face. A different angle here:
	"Homeland Hijinx" Space Kitty is trying out some Enhanced Noogie Techniques on the Wee Lizard. The walnut halves and exclamation point symbolize the Lizard's anguish.
2006
	"The Ecstasy of Bendable Edna" So this wiry lacey lady is flying around at night, drifting through space with her eyes closed, looking kind of blissed out... In answer to the many enquiries that have come my way, the celestial object above her is a crescent moon - not a banana as Fruitian mythology would have it.
	"Eggy" Here we find Space Kitty rustling up some breakfast, much to the displeasure of Mama Dino. We always knew the Kittster was a nervy little egg-sucking kind of guy. A slightly diffrent angle
	"Heaven" So I was furious and went down to the basement to create a scathing antiwar hologram and came up with this scintillating bit of holographic hyperkitsch. I don't get it either. Another view and a wiggly stereo version! Wiggled (requires Flash & JavaScript)
	"Sleeper" or "Travelling Without Moving" A simple decorative thing. It made me think of the pilots or navigators or whatever in David Lynch's film version of Dune. These were giant fetal caterpillars that lived in cast-iron watertanks and transported the Empire spaceships by psychedelic willpower when fed sufficient Spice. I have since learned that they were Stage 3 Spacer's Guild Navigators. OK, OK - It's just a sleeping kitten on a velvet bed of stars... Another view Update: A Strange Coincidence ??? http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com/2006/07/greatest-nancy-panel-ever-drawn.html
2005
	"Three Vertebrates and a Phonograph" This was inspired by an amazing chapter in Mikael Niemi's "Popular Music from Vittula" in which the two boys sneak into Big Sister's room to play their new Beatles record. Good book.
	"Crazy Jane and the Lizard II" The first one came out a bit greenish and the pose seemed too uptight, so here's another try.
	Title: "The Apotheosis of Winky" Apotheosis is elevation to godhood. Winky is the cat. The maidens are former fridge-magnet angels. This one was done on a 4x5 inch BB-640 plate. I was recently reminded that Salvador Dali did a 1945 painting called "The Apotheosis of Homer". It's pretty good, but not the same at all.
	Hulagram 1: Title "The Scholar and the Hula Angel " 4X5 Yves Gentet Ultimate plate, red sensitive 15 nm grain size 70 nm preshift A hulagram is a hologram that incorporates Hawaiian elements, especially the hula dance and/or philosophy. In this and the following case, I just focused on the superficial elements available as fridge magnets at the Honolulu airport.
	Hulagram 2: Title: "Tropical Hot Dog Night" Ultimate plate as above. The camera exaggerated the color saturation here, will fix it later. I do not claim credit for the invention of the word "hulagram" - I believe Western Union at one time sent out shivering grass-skirted maidens from door to door to chatter out telegrams while shaking their hips. But maybe for holography it is a novelty? The term "mammogram" also has interesting possibilities, probably more so for telegraphy though....
	(Not a holo, just a little tabletop photography extravaganza) Happy New Year from the cast and crew! Full size version (733K) here.
2004	Single beam Denisyuks with ColourHolographics' BB-plates. Expensive and a bit tricky to use, but they can produce very nice results.
	"Crazy Jane and the Lizard". I guess maybe I have a thing about blondes and critters. I found Jane hanging by her hair from a tree at Art Knapp's Plantland and had to rescue her. The usual technique.
	"Snakelady". Blondie is a former fridge-magnet angel (wings removed). Her companion reptile is named "Sid", but is not vicious at all. The usual technique - 4X5 BB-640, 660 nm laser, single beam Denisyuk, TEA preswell - I've lost track of the percentage as I'm always tweaking it. About 12 second exposure at ~100 uW/cm^2. Lighting for pic was an Optiled amber LED.
	"Death of the Wee Lizard". My attempt to miniaturize tragedy. The glycerin tears on the kitty must have moved during the exposure (15 sec, BB-640 660 nn laser), creating a peculiar Pokemon effect. It also brought to mind Oedipus Rex, post gouging. For concerned wee lizard fans, let me point out that this is only a hologram, and that he will be back. In fact, the sequel was to be the Wee Lizard waking up in bed next to Space Kitty and talking about his awful dream. But I think it will be unneccesary....
	"Valkyrie". According to Funk and Wagnall's: "In Norse mythology, one of the maidens that ride through the air and choose heroes from among those slain in battle, and carry them to Valhalla".
	"Workin' out with Irena" Same technique as usual. Yet another appearance of the cheap and tawdry Tom B. holographic flame effect.
	Stereo version. Might be harder to merge since it's landscape format. It seems to work if shrunk down small enough
	"The Birth of Showbiz" (H1) It started off as a sincere homage to Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", but kind of got sidetracked when the little octopus guy kept trying to cop a feel. So I went with it.
	"Holokitsch Phantasia" (H1) - "Those are pearls that were his eyes - Look!"
	"Playing with Matches" (H1) demonstrates that you can't leave those critters alone for a minute.
	Untitled (H1) Uh oh.. those varmints are messing around in the ammo box again. Must ... have... the shiny ring ... I like the way the wee lizard is laughing his fool head off as he strives to blow them both to kingdom come.
	Another stereo pair. Left eye image on left, and vice versa. Zoom or shrink the image size to 2 or 3 inches across, get close to the monitor and try to merge the pair. Being nearsighted helps a lot. Adjust image size for easiest merging.
	"The Holographers" (H1) - Space Kitty and the wee lizard cooperate to make a hologram!
	"fishdream" (H1) Medium: BB-640 4x5 plate, 3% TEA pretreatment Setup: single beam Denisyuk reflection, Brewster angle Laser: Panasonic LNCQ05 660 nm diode, cylinder lens for 8 degree X and Y divergence Exposure: 15 seconds at 100 microWatts/cm^2 (1.5 milliJoule/cm^2) Chemistry: Metol/Ascorbic acid developer, Brilland bleach Lighting for pics: OptiLeds Amber LED at about 3 feet Camera: Kodak DC3400. Holo is slightly oranger than pic. Fish credits: Tub o' Ocean Animals Inc. Cat artist: Lesley Anne Ivory Winner of the First International Holographic Porcelain Cat competition
	A stereo pair. Left eye image on left, and vice versa. Zoom or shrink the image size to 2 or 3 inches across, get close to the monitor and try to merge the pair. Being nearsighted helps a lot. Adjust image size for easiest merging.
2002	Experiments with Ultimate film in a crude reflection transfer setup. The field of view was very narrow since I was using 4x5 masters for 4x5 H2s. Too bad my photography technique at the time was so bad...
	"Space Kitty fondles shiny ornament, get unpleasant surprise" (H2) when the wee lizard hatches, ready for action.
	Untitled (H2) - so cute I could puke, a sure sign of greatness.
2001	Mostly PFG-01 plates with CW-C2 processing
	June 24th, 2001. My very first hologram. If you peer carefully, you might see the dim image of a limited edition pewter figurine of a demonic Cheshire cat which accompanied the initial release of "American McGee's Alice" PC game. Handed to me with quiet ceremony by the EB employee after the game purchase. The game was sometimes brilliant, but the hologram was dim. I was absolutely fooking thrilled to get ANYTHING at all on the first attempt.
	Only one month and many dim plates later, "Space Kitty, marooned on the desert planet, signals frantically for help" finally showed evidence of improvement.