Dia De Los Muertos

Hi All,

On Saturday Betsy and I took the Metro to the Dia de los Muertos Sacred Migrations festival at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. One of the oldest cemetaries in Los Angeles, I won't name names but click here to see some of the notables buried there. It's worth a peek.

The festival was wonderful, beyond my ability to describe it, an explosion of costumes and color and fun, a warm, vibrant, traditonal tribute to ancestors and to death itself.

This image is a "tabletop phantogram", the easiest type to do. You could do them with a cellphone. A piece of paper makes up the target rectangle / stereo window, in this case a voter registration form. Lay an object, in this case an iridescent 3-D printed skull, on the sheet. Get centered, slide a little left, and shoot from an angle in which the entire object visually falls onto the sheet. Slide right a little and shoot again. There's an old tutorial for creating such phantograms at http://3ddigitalphoto.com/phantograms.pdf.

Showing it in anaglyph (red-cyan glasses) is tricky, because of the mix of colors, but I still thought it worth showing. Hopefully you can parallel-view or crossview and enjoy them in 3-D in full color on the bottom images.

As to the voter registration form, we were manning and womanning a table for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I took a lot of pictures of people posing with a tall cardboard cutout of Ms. Warren, and I'm happy to say that many signed on to do some volunteering later on.

Out of respect for the dead and the fine tradation of Dia De Los Muertos I won't rant political today.

Barry Rothstein

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