F1 Race Queen

One more day in Sydney and then I’m leaving Australia. Malcolm just came back from his work, with a box of Tooheys Old. “We celebrate Friday!” he said.

With a half bottle of Jameson whiskey we have left from the last night, it all sounds good to me. :)

Jen is coming here too tonight, so we’ll order some pizzas first, warm up with whiskey and Tooheys Old beer and then we go out. I think I better finish this article before the fact. Tomorrow I’ll probably be once again a holographic projection of my own body and mind only… and for the rest useless. :-/

Having said that, as an old SF freak, I was always fascinated by holographic projections. The oldest ones date from Star Wars movies (like Princes Leia scene while saying the line: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope!”, for instance). The newer and more modern, 2D as well as 3D projections you can see in pretty much all SF series and movies these days, like in Star Trek “Voyager” (hologram doctor) or in Spielberg’s “Minority Report” (holographic touch screens)… and not on the movies only, but also in real life. Just search YouTube for it.

Who would think that holograms these days would be as good as imagined and faked back then in the 70’s last century, or even better?!

F1 Race Queen, as a holographic projection

11th of August, Victoria and I were involved in Singapore’s F1 Race Queen video shoot. Victoria used of course Race Queen outfit and I did her make-up that day. The assignment was for Singapore’s company Grain and Pixel (www.grainandpixel.com ).

The end result will be Victoria’s interactive 3D hologram projection during Singapore’s “Formula 1 Race”, to entertain the public… As far as I understood from hearing Singapore’s guys telling, there is a special technology involved, so there will be a very real hologram projection (yes, just like in StarTrek series and Star Wars movies..), only in this case, using a single source!

Fascinating! Dieing to see the end result.

F1 race Queen, making of…

So, this is the backstage / behind the scenes, Formula 1 Race Queen video, that I shot after I did Victoria’s make-up. I screwed the introduction a little (wrong date, it should be 11th of August!) due to a glass or two too much whiskey while putting the scenes together. I did it within an hour, using buggy and crappy Winblows MovieMaker, so don’t expect too much. I’m not a movie maker, but a make-up artist anyway. :)

F1 Race Queen, making of…

Model: Victoria Franco (www.modelmayhem.com/172011)

More 3D holographic projections

You can see more 3D holographic projections on YouTube, of course. Take a look at these: a “hologram dancer” or even a “holographic touch screen”.

Holographic projection touch screen.

3d dancing hologram.

What can I say, but nice!
Good bye Malcolm, arrivederci Victoria …and farewell Sydney. It was fun!

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Victoria is a great Sydney cover girl model, who was featured on the front pages of many Australian magazines and has done loads of promotional work. On the 11th of August we were shooting this amazing “Singapore’s F1 Race Queen” together.

Right now Victoria is the new face of BAKSANA (www.baksana.co.nz) and the new face of “Uncle Toby’s Cereal” (www.uncletobys.com.au) coming out in August. Follow her also at:

http://victoriafranco.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/VictoriaF1985