Palm Springs 50s-Style in 3D (3D Video)

Posted on March 11, 2010

(Blue and Cyan 3D Glasses Required)
You may have to double click on image to get HD (A YouTube glitch)

I saw my first 3D movie when I was about 12, when Palm Springs was playground for the rich and hyper-famous. It was a soft-porn flick at a so-called “art house.” A pal of mine snuck in and propped open a door so the rest of us innocents could revel in 12 foot breasts protruding from the screen like Titan Missiles. Last week, in the spirit of James Cameron, I rigged up a homemade 3D contraption consisting of two HDTV-capable digital cameras and hit the road in search of depth. Palm Springs was perfect, as it is sooo 50s as I had to process the video in the sooo 50s anaglyph 3D (red and cyan glasses) which works on YouTube, is passable in black and white, but which in color looks like some chimp-created watercolor. I stuck the camera out the car window as Pat and I drove through the Palm Canyon area of Palm Springs, the former haunts of Elvis (his honeymoon cottage is the odd roundish house in the video), Marilyn and, oh dear, Liberace. One of his houses is for sale, along with its statuary. Just think Liberace and statuary and you’ll get the picture.

So reach back into a drawer and dig out those old Red-Cyan glasses (there’s probably a pair stuffed in your comic book collection) an see Palm Springs 50s-style.