Learn Hologram FX Video Workshop via Media Educator Holographer Jason Sapan

Learn directly from an expert in the mysterious art of Holograms and have your questions ready!

Jason Sapan, is founder of Holographic Studios, the world's oldest gallery of holography, located in Manhattan New York City, known for his immense knowledge in holograms and special FX effects and their use in Media.

Also known as "Dr. Laser", he is one of the pioneers of holography, a professional holographer for over 40 years in New York City. His career began in 1968 working at the first exhibition of holography (created by Bell Labs) at the Time Life building in New York City. He is best known for his holographic portraiture and laser special effects.
He has also worked as an educator, recording engineer, artist, blogger, and actor.

Jason created the laser eye for the opening of the CBS Sports Spectacular, he has shot Movie Holograms and Peppers Ghosts on 35mm and 16mm film and video in his many years in the field, portraits of everyone you can imagine: Alice Cooper, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Cronkite, Andy Warhol, Isaac Asimov, NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Prime Minister Edward Heath, Pierre Cardin, Sally Jessy Raphael,John Kenneth Galbraith, Phyllis Diller, Billy Idol, The Smothers Brothers, Phil Donahue, and John Cage.

His corporate clientele include commissions for Mitsubishi, AT&T, Tag Heuer, Goodyear, IBM and NYU Medical Center.

As a Professor, he has lectured and educated students at New York Univesity Tisch grad school and School of Visual Arts in NYC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ohio State University, University of Vermont, City College of New York, and various other schools. He ran a Summer class at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Grad School at NYU. As an Assistant Professor, he created a class titled "Hologram Hacks" in the Fall 2015 semester where students made holograms as an element of a project where the hologram served as a means to an end.

Sapan has been featured on national and local TV news, assisted on creating the HBO movie opening credits at the former Liberty Studios, and was even the first person ever to get an onscreen acting credit as the star of a nationally broadcast music video ("Talking" - Flock of Seagulls). He also served as a consultant for the film Vanilla Sky,and did laser effects for the ABC Weekend Special, Jeeter Mason and the Magic Headset. He became a member of the Editorial Board of the Lohud Exchange of the Journal News in 2016.

Before founding Holographic Studios in 1979, Sapan worked as an assistant recording engineer at Record Plant Studios in New York City, at a time when they were recording with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Dizzy Gilespie, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Tammy Wynette, George Jackson, Roberta Flack, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sapan produced the laser light effects for the original Studio 54 on CBS, the Flock of Seagulls music video, (It’s Not Me) Talking, also appearing in the video, and the cult film, Class of Nuke 'Em High.

He shares his story of surviving in the business without financing and by following his passion.

Edited by NEPAWIFT member Mellow Sorber

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