The Preservation of Stereoscopic History & Cultural Heritage is a cornerstone of the PARALLAX-SHIFT framework. P-SSC officers & many of our members are actively involved in a number of stereoscopic history & cultural preservation projects, independent academic research & even include some of the only active practitioners and creators to photographically captured integral images (one of the rarest stereoscopic physical formats).

PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club officers actively engage in academic research projects and our members pursue individual interests and activities outside the club and share their work, personal knowledge and wisdom at our meetings, activities & events. The initiatives listed here are priorities PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club officers and members are involved in- in both individual and group efforts. We hope to share our efforts with the world on here on our website, though posts on the Blog, through articles for our NEW multi media magazine theSHIFT. 

You can support our cultural preservation efforts & ongoing organizational initiatives by simply reading, watching and sharing the content we create on these particular subjects, by becoming a Worldwide Member of the PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club, purchasing products from our 3D Shop, by making a donation or volunteering for upcoming production needs in NYC.

*This page is still being updated as of 8/24/2023*

PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club Prioritized Initiatives for 2022-24

Preservation of Stereoscopic Processes, Skills, History & Cultural Heritage; Club to Club peer-ship with the Depthmen at The Church of The Third Dimension

On October 23, 2022 NYC Members of the PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club embark on a trip to The Church of the Third Dimension to educate our members through in-person learning experiences at one of the most legendary stereo-history & cultural preservation destinations in the world, to learn endangered skills like stereoscopic projection, survive oral histories and promote club to club peer-ship (& to have a good old nerdddy time 😉

Preservation of Stereoscopic History & Cultural Heritage; Documenting the work of M. Henry Jones and his contributions to Stereoscopy & Integral Imaging.

Communication of Stereoscopic History & Cultural Heritage; Exploring & Recording the Chester Burger Stereo Slide Collection at NYPL & NYHS

Carlos Becerra spearheaded this initiative and it is catching the interest of practically all P-SSC officers & members- to explore & report back on the MASSIVE & HISTORIC collection of Chester Burgers Realist format slides, housed between the NYPL & NYHS. These stereoscopic treasures document the some of worlds the most important events yet they remain unknown to practically the entire world. Very little has ever been published on them and we are trying to document and publicize the collection so it may get the attention it deserves. We are taking measures to record our findings casually and are inventing new methods to capture and digitize some of the collection via smartphone. We hope to get P-SSC treasurer Sam Dole’s family, who owns and operates Cultural Preservation Technologies involved in this process to digitize this monumental collection for the institution so it can be shared with the world. UPDATE! 8/24/23- We have devised a suitable method for capturing stereo slides at the NYPL at a recent XLCR 3D meeting. Please see our post here https://parallax-shift.com/2023/08/24/devising-capture-devices-for-the-chester-burgers-realist-stereo-slide-collection/ to read about our capture method and see preview examples of what’s to come. P-SSC officers and members are invited to contribute to our ongoing research efforts and may borrow the copy prism we will be using to digitally capture the stereo slides via smartphone any time they make an appointment to view the collection at the special collections program in the research library.

Stereoscopic Education: Matt Infante teaches Stereoscopy at NYC Public Schools for the 2nd year in a row.

Everyone at PARALLAX-SHIFT applauds Matt Infante for his wonderful and continual efforts in Stereo-education at NYC Public Schools. Matt was invited back in 2023 (after a very successful class in 2022) educating and inspiring middle school students with a variety of stereo formats and works ranging from anaglyph, traditional stereo views & viewers, realist format slides and even polarized stereo productions that the students recorded and projected in class 🙂 We couldn’t be more proud of him 👏👏👏We hope to be featuring an article on his experiences in the Shift very soon, but needed to at least mention it quickly here. Thank you Matt! You are preserving Stereo history & heritage in the best way possible, by sparking new interests in future generations :))

Preservation of Skills, Language & Lexicon; Reintroducing Traditional Hologram Making Techniques & Reinforcing the Lexicon of Traditional Laser Holography.

While many of the P-SSC officers as well as members and guests have created their first holograms as a club activity at a PARALLAX-SHIFT Stereo Club meeting, I HIGHLLY RECCOMEND pursuing any serious interest by making an appointment with MY holography instructor Jason Sapan a.k.a DR LASER, who has taught generations on the process of creating holograms, for over 40 YEARS. Visit Holographic Studios on 240 East 26th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves), New York, NY 10010 tel: 212 686 9397 email: holographylab@gmail.com Holographic Studios is also the OLDEST holography gallery in the world and has an ENOURMOUS collection of Integral Holograms, all made by Dr Laser himself, of course. It’s one of the highest rated destinations on Atlas Obscura, Trip Advisor and more and its located just around the corner from NYC’s Penumbra Foundatrion, where most P-SSC meetings and events are held 🙂

PAST P-SSC CULTURAL EVENTS & PRODUCTIONS

The gallery below is just a sampler of PARALLAX-SHIFT flyers & outside involvements.

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS INDIVIDUAL PAST PRODUCTIONS & INVOLVEMENTS

2022

CARLOS BECERRA’S AN EVEN EXCHANGE

Carlos Becerra’s “An Even EXCHANGE” featured a curated selection of realist format stereo slides on display in a pair of Airequipt magazine viewers.

2015 – Ilicia Benoit

  • Two time host for NYSA productions, recorded as hd stereoscopic video and released as stereo and monoscopic digital media formats.
3D Minimus Arcestra with Ikuo Nakamura and Heyes Greenfield

Link to SBS Stereoscopic Video HERE

100 Years of 3D Film, Centennial Celebration at the Astor Ballroom/Marriott Marquis, Times Square, NYC. 1915-2015

Designed commemorative TShirt with anaglyph placement graphic of historic and present day Times Square a century apart- leveraging the disruptive 2 channel passive color filtration method for the design (which actually was employed in advertising ephemera of the time)- and produced a limited run for day of event.
*This page is still being updated as of 8/24/2023*