Father of the Laser Light Show

Studio 360

On the domed ceilings of planetariums all over the country, laser-painted psychedelic images move to the music of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. Ivan Dryer is the visionary behind the teenage rite of passage: the Laserium.

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