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I was in Nevada in Nov / Dec of 2007 with Team Q-Spheres in the Las Vegas / Lake Mead area - here are some photos. Find out more about Q-spheres.

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1954 Fallout-Contaminated Movie Location

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on February 28, 2008

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Center For Land Use Interpretation | Conqueror Film Location Site

“In 1954, a dust-filled movie called The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Kahn, was shot in this valley, on ground that had been recently subjected to fallout from a series of nuclear tests at the nearby Nevada Test Site (especially dirty at this time was the 1953 above-ground test code-named “Harry”, which spread fallout over the down-wind portions of Utah).

…and around half (more than 90, at last count) of the cast and crew of 220 contracted cancer, many of whom died of their illness, including Susan Hayward, the director Dick Powell, Agnes Moorehead, and John Wayne himself. Statistically, this number should have been around 30.”

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The world was a different place in 1954, in the infancy of the nuclear age…who knew?

I like to think the tragedy of the events stemming from this incident is due to ignorance and not evil intent; worst case negligence. Jump forward, we are over fifty years in the future. We, the public, know a lot more now about the effects of nuclear fallout and radioactive contamination. The obvious lesson to be learned is that location scouts and production alike would do well to keep their eyes and ears open and remain aware that we do in fact, live in a chemical/nuclear prevalent time and no location, regardless of aesthetic potential or potential financial saving to production is worth putting human life or well being at risk.

Wikipedia | Nevada Test Site

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News :: Q-spheres

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on January 15, 2008

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Q-spheres Website

(above) Quicktime output of Q-sphere of Team Q-spheres at Lake Mead, NV, December 2007 (c) 2007-2009 Q-spheres.com

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us is now a qualified provider of Q-spheres HDRi 3d digital imaging services.

In association with LocationExchange, Locamundo, and Team Q-spheres qualified associates worldwide, we aim to build on our collective traditional location scouting and location management services skills and location archive assets and resources, going forward to provide an even greater range of services to not only keep pace with, but rather lead the way in rapidly changing digital imaging technologies for the still photography, motion pictures and 3-d gaming and animation industries.

Our current digital imaging system, developed by Locamundo founder Jo VanHove (Brussels, BE), provides the fastest currently-available methods for generating the highest-quality, full-dynamic-range, 3d, image-based lighting models (lightfields) and HDRi backgrounds. Our worldwide team of expert imaging and production professionals strives to keep abreast of and implement as we might find productive, new developments and available methods - adapting our imaging technologies to provide the highest-standard services and products with regard to not only imaging quality, but with considerations toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well.

Q-spheres can be hired to provide assignment-specific imaging and also maintains an archive of rights-managed post-ready high quality backgrounds and lightfields.

Please contact us for your next imaging project and let us show you how Q-spheres can work for you!

Q-spheres Official Press Release, July 2007 (pdf)

Q-spheres Associates Worldwide (Alphabetically, by company or last name):

Meuleman Manu (brauhaus.be / Antwerp, BE)
Thomas Duchnicki (creativelocation.de / Berlin, DE)
Rickard Molin (fixmolin.se / Stockholm, SE)
John Cody, Dan Uneken (fotofilmvideo.com / Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
Francoise Huvelle (Q-spheres.com / Buenos Aires, AR)
Scott Clark (iwerken.com / Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Jo VanHove (loc8, locamundo.com, locationexchange.com / Brussels, BE)
Locations Portugal (locationsportugal.com / Lisbon, PT)
Peter Orth (planetorth.com / Los Angeles, CA, USA)
R. Richard Hobbs (rrhobbs.us / New York, NY, USA)
Francesca Carapelli, Leonardo Semplici, Stefano Tinti (scout.it / Siena, Italy)
Mark McMcKennon (scoutman.com / New York, NY, USA)
Frans VanDenBemd (vandenbemd.com / Prinsenbeek (Breda), NL)
Clare Beresford (worldlocations.com / Paris, FR)

In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.

(above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members

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The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV

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The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV

“The Neon Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit neon signs and associated artifacts to inspire educational and cultural enrichment for diverse members of our international community.”