{"id":15465,"date":"2010-05-10T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:26:56","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-3d-miami-beach-charles-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-3d-miami-beach-charles-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 3D, Miami Beach & Charles Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\"aw,Viewmaster500_2477\"\n

With 3D all the rage today many people forget that the first ubiquitous mass consumer experience with the technology was with View-Masters.  Introduced in 1962, one could view seven 3D images as they spun around on a paper disc creating lifelike reality inside the mouse hole of two eyepieces. The earliest View-Masters featured popular tourist attractions like this one of Miami Beach, where I first started buying these.<\/p>\n\"viewmaster-miami_2063\"\n

When I was young my parents drove to Miami Beach from Detroit twice a year.<\/p>\n\"miami-mom,dad,aw\"\n

We stayed at the Carlyle Hotel.<\/p>\n\"carlyle-hotel\"\n

I bought every Viewmaster reel of Miami Beach I could find because the Deco architecture drove me so batty. When I had my first hit record<\/a> I immediately bought a house that reminded me of Miami Beach.<\/p>\n\"house,aw_1523\"\n

A frequent visitor to my house is Charles Phoenix, one of my best friends and Kitschmaster General of vintage slide shows and books featuring insanely on-the-nose location and human examples of living wheels of brie.  The last time he came over, Charles gave me a lesson in how to bake one of his signature Cherpumples, a cake with three pies stuffed inside of it.  As soon as I get done editing the footage we shot I will post our instructional film.<\/p>\n\"aw,charles-cherpump_0214\"\n

Something like the Cherpumple with M&Ms bubbling out of the pepto -bismolian-pink frosting and utensils at rest would make an excellent 3D photo if only we had the right camera.<\/p>\n\"cherpump_0210\"\n

Yesterday, I went downtown with Prudence Fenton, Nancye Ferguson and Jim Burns and saw Charles’ first ever all 3D retro slide show.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2409\"\n

We learned a lot about how 3-D photography and View-Masters came into being.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2435\"\n

We saw a lot of families in the 50’s learning how to not only use their View-Masters but make their own 3D reels.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2425\"\n

Of course, you won’t be able to see anything clearly because you don’t have your 3-D glasses on. As opposed to this slide from Charles’ show featuring an attractive threesome with a very clear view of the LA freeway when it was built in 1960 standing less than 10 feet away next to oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2453\"\n

I hope to have a clear view of the week ahead of me although it could go either way. I could feel like an outsider…<\/p>\n\"IMG_2427\"\n

… or I could choose to see the world in super enhanced, bigger than life 3D.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2441\"\n

Thank you, Charles for an excellent afternoon and thank you View-Master for putting 3-D in the palm of our hands.<\/p>\n\"IMG_2444\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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