This was a pretty good show overall (no pics, left camera behind). Franklin Londin (academy award winning animator on Spiderman 2, etc, and of Stereo Club of Southern California fame) and his two Hookah pieces (http://terryfic3d.com/Franklin-Londin_x5_sku453.html ) were a crowd pleaser. The hookah tubes stick out on stiff but flexible cables and have Viewmasters on their ends in place of pipes. It appeared that they simply had stereo slides on the inside and a small lamp behind them to illuminate the images. Many of the most impressive shots were of circus-like performers flying through the air, and others blowing and twirling fire. The hyper-stereo made subjects pop wonderfully, and the images were perfectly aligned. Aside from the sort of commercial-gimmicky feel of some of the shots (Spiderman 2 stereo renders, and a shot of a person cutting steel with spraying sparks) they were excellent pieces. Talked to Londin briefly and he seemed nice. He was snapping pics all night with a stereo camera consisting of a couple digital point-and-shoots that were attached and hand wired to expose simultaneously. The best was the holster he carried it in.

Miss Surex had a neat piece that used 4 mirrors that were aligned in a pyramid like shape with its tip cut off and pressed against a television (picture looking down a mirrored hallway with a television at the end) Because of the curve of the surface of the TV, the reflections made the screen look like a 3' diameter orb. A looping DVD of abstract visuals and soundtrack with headphones created a mildly interesting audio-visual display.

Bert Spangemacher took pics of attendees with a large-format Polaroid and transferred the negs onto some nice acid-free paper. The effect was beautiful in its jagged imperfections with a nice warm quality to the color. Prints were sold for $10.

To cap off the commercial tone of the night, there were the, yep, INTERACTIVE KIOSK'S, YAYY! Lent by the Keshot Corp. (http://www.keshot.com/en/browse_pictures.asp ), through a friendly bubble-gum GUI you could record video snippets of you and your drunk hipster pals and upload them to the web ( http://keshot.com/en/search/createfixate_browse.asp?location_code=createfixate ).

Overall nothing blew me away. Shots of overweight people on the beach with a flash, and poor children with big sad eyes just seemed terribly cliché (although it was something other than the normal paintings of an obese Mickey Mouse engaged in some lewd act with Ronald McDonald, or Low-Brow Retro Psychedelic works of children, aliens and hotrods that all seem to be painted by 3 or 4 individuals).

Alyssa Nicol Ragland small series of ambulatory adults with chronic mental illnesses were somewhat striking (the term ambulatory means that they are high functioning enough so that they do not pose a threat to themselves or anyone else). She took a series of photos herself of the patients, and then let the patients take their own photos and exhibited them side-by-side. The juxtaposition was intriguing, and one shot of a patient in his room with several (presumably self-made) images tacked all over his walls was particularly interesting. (http://www.alyssanicol.com/ look under Portfolio>Documentary>Image 2).

Despite the mainstream feel (although there was that punk with the exposed breasts) it was fun and I'd for sure recommend/attend the next one.

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