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World Cup 2010

Just for a bit of negativity, coz you all know we feed off of it… I am not feeling the soccer world cup vibes… and I don’t think the ‘whole’ country is behind it. I have quiet a few friends who couldn’t care less, some even leaving the country during that period. I remember before the Soccer World Cup in Germany, Switzerland marketed themselves as a great holiday destination… cleverly however that marketing campaign was aimed directly at women, women who had men in their lives going to the World Cup. I wonder if Zim has been doing the same?

Evening Soccer by Katie@! of FlickrI actually cannot wait for the World Cup to be over, then we will really be able to take stock of how much good it has done for SA. I also wonder if I should be stock piling food, due to supposed price increases, like many of my friends (those friends who are not leaving SA) are doing.

On a positive note, the fixing of our roads is awesome! High Five to SA for getting that sorted, but did we really need a world sport event to kick us into gear to fix the roads? What about all these flower beds and trees that have been planted in and on traffic islands through out the country. Who’s gonna continue to look after those or will the flowers just die, weeds grow between all the rocks and the trees grow so big that they actually become a problem.

Yes, I know I am being ridiculously positive about it all!! Actually you know what I am keen to see… the World Cup filmed in 3D!

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Avatar 3D Styled Photography

3D Movies like Avatar use a system of creating the illusion of depth in a 2D image, this method called Stereoscopy has been around for quite some years now. Chances are that your parents might remember seeing images like this or even movies. Back in those days however the images were known as anaglyphs and were images separated by cyan & magenta.

Photo from Flickr: User - Seweryn Niemiec

These days however those same images are reproduced in modern cinemas using Polarised light thus removing the annoying colour variations.

What is exciting however is setup side by side, these sorts of images can be viewed without the use of glasses, this technique called ‘free viewing’ gives you the exact same results simply by changing the way you look at these pictures.

Two methods exist Cross Eye and Parallel… I consider Cross Eye to be superior simply because Parallel has a major restriction, being restricted to images whose combined width is no wider than the distance between your eyes.

I went searching across the net to find such images and was delighted to find groups on flickr dedicated to this form of photography!

For help viewing these images, click here!

Photo from Flickr: User - Kim Scarborough

Photo from Flickr: User - daikiki

Photo from Flickr: User - Seweryn Niemiec

Photo from Flickr: User - anobjectn

Photo from Flickr: User - daikiki

Photo from Flickr: User - anobjectn

Photo from Flickr: User - anobjectn

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