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.

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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, [...]

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Monkey Dance

Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Indonesia, Places | Leave a Comment

This is a Kecak dance, better known as the Balinese Monkey Dance. Recently, about 5 thousand people gathered, some whipping themselves into a trance, at Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia to pray for the return of tourism.
That may sound crass and commercial but tourism is entwined in Bali’s spiritual, cultural and economic life. I have [...]

 
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