http://www.lifeis3d.com Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:53:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife Wendy & good friends Jeff & Britney getting ready to see Bela Fleck in concert with his "Africa Project" in Orlando. Bela brought some musicians over from Africa, where he went to re-connect the banjo with its original roots. Wow, what a show!! An amazing musical interaction ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/07/16/bela-fleck-concert-crew-in-3d/ Put on your 3D glasses, and then cover your eyes quick because Moe Howard of the Three Stooges is ready to strike with his patented two-finger eye poke!! These 3D still images are posted in celebration of the fact that the only two 3D short films the Stooges ever ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/07/01/3d-three-stooges/ Here is one of many spectacular views to be had in Alaska... this was taken from a moving train on the classic Alaska Railroad somewhere between Girdwood and Seward, AK   (See more 3D photos of Alaska using the above's link to flickr) http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/06/15/3d-alaskan-train-ride/ A 3D shot taken with my iPhone from inside the yet-to-be-opened "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" theme park at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. It features faithful recreations of the movie sets. http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/06/07/3d-world-of-harry-potter/ My neighbor & I have watched many space shuttle launches from the ends of our driveways, a mere 50 miles from the Kennedy Space Center. This was taken about three minutes after the shuttle Atlantis began its final scheduled mission on May 14, 2010. http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/06/07/3d-shuttle-launch-audience/ If you haven't seen this new Tim Burton movie yet, rush right down to your local theatrer. Which theater, you ask? Why, the one showing it in 3D, of course! I have to admit, I was initially a little worried about the quality of the 3D that this movie would present ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/04/02/wonder-at-alice-in-wonderland/ Yes, as long as you have two properly working eyes. I don't know about ol' Bob here, but give him an 'A' for effort. Hey, ya gotta at least like his solution for monocular 3D! This is the cover image from "Bob's Big Break", a 3D companion short to the DVD ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2010/04/02/can-you-see-in-3d/ A monstrously massive mushroom I uprooted before it could put a dent in my mower (ha ha). I've posted 3 pictures of it, all taken using sequential exposures on a normal single-lensed camera. I had to vary the distance between shots depending on how close I was, mostly operating in ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2009/11/13/3d-mushroom-madness/ A beautiful rainbow stopped me in my tracks one day while walking past one of many lakes in Orlando. I obtained this photo by moving about 6 feet horizontally between exposures to exaggerate the depth. Since everything is so far away, depth perception would be lost in a conventional stereo ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2009/11/08/3d-rainbow/ Recently, we went to see Toy Story 1 & 2, which were both re-released in full, glorious 3D at last! I've always thought that any computer-generated movie could easily be converted to 3D - it's basically a matter of telling the computer to re-draw everything from a few inches to one ... http://www.lifeis3d.com/2009/11/03/toy-story-1-2-in-3d/