Perry Como against the cyclorama - NBC TV - 1959 This ran full page in the New York Times.
Good thoughts for the striking writers and actors. Stay safe and may you emerge victorious.
How many errors can you spot in this publicity still?
Portrait of Donna Mitchell when she was young.
Looking down the barrel of Bat Masterson's six-shooter.
Roddy McDowall as Ariel in The Tempest - I shot this for NBC
Portrait of Roz Kelly when she was young
Perry Como and friend - I shot this for NBC
Gene Kelly and Carol Lawrence
I shot this for NBC TV 1959
Hoagy Carmichael as a honky-tonk piano player. I shot this for NBC
Fine Ant Photography
Dr. Harold Edgerton, inventor of the electronic flash. Photographed by Ben Rose. Using a programmable multi-axis control system I designed and built in 1978.
- A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission - This was shot with a new Multimorphic (tm) cine lens. It's anamorphic in all directions.
Portrait of Donna Mitchell, when she was young. I shot this in 1961 using a custom-built lens.
Illusion -- A collaboration between a photographer and a computer scientist
A preview of our new data compression algorithm. Still working out a few bugs.
Meditation Object -- Do not look away
- A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission - This is the first cine lens to feature both a tourbillon and a rattrapante.
We built this one, but we forgot what it does. If you know what this is, please contact us
- A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission -
Data compression using unproven mathematical theory leads to unexpected results.
This is my Sci/Tech Award Submission
"A programmable computer-controlled zoom lens Used to shoot the opening scene of The Godfather" Also used on Doug Trumbull's film, Silent Running
Rejection from the Academy: "The submitted technology was used on a single film with no clear influence or impact on motion pictures beyond that film based on the application."
My entry is still marked: "Submitted Pending Review"
Also from the Academy: "While the committee members were very complimentary of your entry, they ultimately thought that there has been insufficient advancement over previously awarded technology."
Our year-end roundup of the 1734 new cine lenses introduced in 2023.
- A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission -
A new data compression method based on storing just the outlines. Here, an entire zoom is compressed into one frame.
Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans. Armored personnel carriers at the DMZ, Korea, 1964.
Copyright 1957-2024 Tony & Marilyn Karp
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