Machine Project

Saturday, October 30th, 2010
1-5pm

Taught by Chris Weisbart

SPECIAL REGISTRATION AVAILABLE NOW for all students who previously took the Haunted Mansion: Madame Leota Effects Workshop. All students from Chris’s previous Haunted Mansion workshop will receive a discount on the upcoming Pepper’s Ghost class. Regular prices for the upcoming class are $60 for Machine Project members, $75 for non-members, but your price is $45.

Special price $45

Of all the Victorian-Era stage illusions, the simple use of an angled piece of glass to create phantasmagorical effects developed by John Pepper seems to have survived the longest. It has been adapted for use at haunted mansions, museums, modern day rock concerts and even in heads-up displays for aircraft. In this workshop, multimedia designer Chris Weisbart will lead a class through the required principals and construction techniques for developing your own pepper’s ghost using commonly available materials. Open your mind to the endless possibilities of integrating cool optical effects into other art or media displays or simply use what you’ve learned spruce up your Halloween haunted house!

The workshop will include a brief introduction on the technique, a build-it-yourself shoebox size mockup and a collaborative construction of a full-sized Pepper’s Ghost Effect.