Bali Kecak Dance in Stereoscopic 3D
Posted on July 15, 2010 - Filed Under Video, Culture, Indonesia | Leave a Comment
OK you flatscreeners, get out the red and blue glasses. We shot the Bali Kecak Dance we posted earlier in Stereoscopic 3D. Still the weird comic book 3D, but this is new territory and once shutter glasses become less expensive and geeky, we will re-post a few of these in less-hallucinogenic colors.
Read More..>>Meet the Beetles: The Goldsworthy Spire in Golden Gate Park
Posted on July 6, 2010 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment
Took a walk through San Francisco’s Presidio a couple of weeks ago and saw how artist Andy Goldsworthy managed to create beauty out of destruction. Cypress bark beetles made a feast of some 150 Monterey Cypress trees and Goldsworthy built The Spire from those felled trees to celebrate the history and future of [...]
Read More..>>Dancing With The Apes: The Bali Kecak Dance (video)
Posted on May 14, 2010 - Filed Under Video, Culture, Indonesia | Leave a Comment
I hate monkeys. Maybe it is just envy. Although there is ample evidence that our evolutionary stem has developed a superior brain, deep down at the coccyx of my psyche there may still exist the tail stub of an ape. Maybe I still have a repressed urge to play with myself in public, [...]
Read More..>>California Redwoods in 3D Video
Posted on March 15, 2010 - Filed Under Video, California | Leave a Comment
Step Right Up Folks! See Amazing California Redwoods in 3D!
red-cyan 3D glasses required – double click on video for HD
Regardless of what you thought of Avatar, the movie has moved 3D from the sideshow tent to the Big Top. Even though some of the live action shots have the hyper-stereo look of old Viewmaster frames, [...]
Sri Lanka Doorman Turns 90. Has Worked At Galle Face Hotel Since WWII
Posted on February 20, 2010 - Filed Under Photography, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment
A happy 90th birthday to K. Chattu Kuttan, the doorman at Sri Lanka’s Galle Face Hotel. He has worked there since 1942 when he witnessed a Japanese Zero crash land on the hotel grounds. I have stayed in the grand but musty old hotel a couple of times. In its days of glory The [...]
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