| Glenn Seaborg |
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i was working late
in the computer graphics lab at the jet propulsion lab on 4 august 1981 a friend asked if i wanted to go down to pasadena filmforum where some guy had an exhibition tying dogs’ feet of 3-d film installations this guy named david wilson had this amazing show wherein he constructed small models of oil refineries and other industrialscapes each model was made twice in exact duplicate in excruciating detail and then there were viewing optics allowing you to fuse the dual 3d visions one in each eye giving you… uh, 6d? it was a remarkable series of arcane little creations of arcane little worlds when i finally spoke to the artist there was this instantaneous connection an immediate sync like i’d never known before we chatted away forever when the gallerist finally shooed us out david insisted i meet up with them at “the bakery” where we yakked for hours more |
when the night finally came to an end we exchanged numbers his wife was shocked to see us do this since she’d assumed all along i was some old friend that she just hadn’t met yet after this big introduction we never did become close confidants or collaborators instead we’d just bump in every couple of years at an smpte conference on optics & vision or some such thing and have another amazing discussion and then drift off again then one day he got this idea for a museum… the museum of jurassic technology it’s the most extraordinary museum i have ever set foot in sometimes visitors there get hung up on whether all that unlikely stuff is true —apparently it all is— but that’s not really what matters for me it’s the “museum of the dark and curious” i’ve never elsewhere experienced a museum where laughter and tears are so thinly separated |
| Museum Founder |
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9 May 99
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