Editor 's note : The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice , an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn , New York . Motherboard.tv is Vice 's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology . The reports , which are being produced solely by Vice , reflect a very transparent approach to journalism , where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process . We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers . Brooklyn , New York ( Motherboard.tv ) -- Jason Sapan , as his birth certificate calls him , is sort of like a laser Doc Brown , and his cluttered New York studio-laboratory ( replete with devoted interns ) feels something like a time machine , a living ode to a seemingly obsolete art . But listen to him tell his story , take a look around his space , and you might agree that there 's no more accurate way of representing the world than with holography . The walls bear witness to his cachet at the height of the holographic era : Andy Warhol , Pierre Cardin , Cher , Bill Clinton , Sally Jesse Raphael , Ed Koch and Isaac Asimov have all sat for Doctor Laser . His laser lighting has been used at the original Studio 54 , on CBS , in print advertising for Macy 's and Revlon , on Broadway , for book and magazine covers , and a number of music videos , including a starring role in one by `` Flock of Seagulls '' which landed him the first on-air credit in a video on MTV . In 2001 , the producers of Vanilla Sky asked him to help them design a saxophone-playing hologram ( Rest assured : it had nothing to do with this . ) Watch the rest of Doctor Laser at Motherboard.tv . While colorful , moving holograms that float in midair remain the stuff of science-fiction , Doctor Laser has pieced together a reality that 's much stranger : his studio in Midtown Manhattan , tucked into a former blacksmith 's forge , is a veritable wonder cabinet of dancing 3-D imagery , flashing lasers and homemade holography equipment . `` To be able to take the ordinary , and work with whatever 's at hand , and turn it into a technological miracle '' is what Doctor Laser says excites him most . `` 'You could have picked this up at Radio Shack . Why are you building it yourself , Doctor ? ' he says , imitating one of his gaggle of mad , devoted interns . `` Because I can . '' However , being one of the last people at the party is always tough , and in spite of current 3-D obsessions , getting the world to come back to the party seems even tougher . But he 's not giving up . Besides providing lasers for wild parties , music videos , school trips and being commissioned by a former candidate for the presidency of Uruguay to produce eight original pieces , he 's determined to see that President Obama becomes the first sitting president to pose for a hologram . `` Delusion is n't always a bad thing , '' he says . Neither is illusion -- especially when it 's made with homemade lenses and lasers .
Jason Smith , aka Doctor X , has dedicated his life to photography . He has created holographic portraits of Andy Warhol , Bill Clinton , Isaac Asimov . His laser lighting has been used in print ads for Levi 's and a ` ` version of Seagulls '' music video .