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27 July 201928 July 2019

One-shot #32: Fast Day-A Horrible Intrusion (A Victorian Answer to Iron Maiden)

After attending an Iron Maiden concert last night, I was inspired to dig back into my archives and find this morality play in a single 3D genre image - in which a monk, having broken his fast, is visited by a demon and a spirit - which, coming back around, seems like it could very much be the subject of an Iron Maiden song!

20 July 201924 July 2019

One-shot #31: La Stéréoscopie Universelle (LSU)’s SDV division really steps in it…

Bad puns aside, LSU really screwed the pooch on a 45x107mm glass plate stereoview - not only did they print the image horizontally reversed, but they managed to rotate the right-hand frame of the stereo pair by 180º. In this post, we explore the printing process that must have been employed by LSU in making an extremely goofy glass plate.