Post 776 - An Update to Post 654 - Brandt Rowles and Stereophotography

I keep uncovering gems as boxes get shuffled around the Archives here - these are a couple more stereographic cards by Brandt Rowles, of NSA founder fame, as referenced in post 654 in this ongoing series of visual and typewritten distractions:

 

Post 654 - Another Good One, Gone - Brandt Rowles, FSC Prof from the 1970s

 

Brandt was one of the best teachers I never had!  My first meeting with him came on the heels of his departure from Ferris, when he came down the sloped auditorium aisle, hopping up to tap each of the TV monitors on the way.  We had a conversation first about creating educational videos, then to his side-hustle writing for pharmacy-based journals, and he really lit up when I mentioned interest in old photographic methods.  

That led to a visit to an Ohio NSA convention, experiments in free-viewing, and my first Realist.  We swapped cards throughout the 1980s and kept in frequent touch through our shared literary contributions to Stereo World and random discussions on mounting techniques, dangers of Fixative, and whether Cal Stewart will ever be a popular recording artist again.  

Our last conversations were about his health-inposed downsizing, whether being the King of Ebay is all that regal, and volumes of some of the most delicious, egregious puns ever committed to email.  I sensed a tear in space-time when his energies faded, and shed a tear when they completely dissipated after last spring.  I am sure Charon was kept convulsed all along the river Styx.  Rest in Peace?  Make that Stir the Place.  Long live the King of the Funderworld!

Post 575 - Harry in 3D for his 95th

He would have been 95 on the second.  The Eternal Gardener in moments  of repose, here in the THIRD DIMENSION.

With the birds, 1979:

 And with the oddly doglike cat, Saomi, 1980:

Post 497 - Battle Creek in the 1980s - World Hot Air Balloon Championships - IN STEREO!

Various 3D photographs from 1981-1986 from The Event for the Surreal City at the time - where everyone first complained nonstop about all those bothersome crowds but then noticed afterwards they'd done a month's worth of business in three days.  They complained, nonetheless, and it was a shadow of its former self by the early 1990s.  But it was fun while it lasted, and your humble blogger had the good fortune to have press access, first as a grip for an early CNN reporter in the area (thanks, Joe!) and later, as a gaffer for a local videographer (thanks, Al!).  I took along an 8mm movie camera and a Stereo Realist, even then an outmoded bit of technology.  

(c) 2022 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

(use with permission only, please - I like to know where these things end up)

A video montage of the events is available on my Vimeo page - https://vimeo.com/775219731