Ocular Magic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:25:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/b97d4b764d7ae73333fb85bc588a3396?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Ocular Magic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com Wee Planets: 3D panoramic photographs of Paris (PICS) http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/wee-planets-3d-panoramic-photographs-of-paris-pics/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/wee-planets-3d-panoramic-photographs-of-paris-pics/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:25:14 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/wee-planets-3d-panoramic-photographs-of-paris-pics/ ]]>

Alexandre Duret-Lutz, a French photographer, specialises in creating what he calls “Wee Planets”.

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This video shows all the changes that were made for the 2009 F1 season. Sebastian Vettel talks us through all the new design changes and the new rules. I know very little about F1, but even I understood this.

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]]> http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/new-f1-rules-explained-in-amazingly-simple-cg-video/feed/ 0 ocularmagic Toys That Made Us Uncomfortable At NYCC http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/toys-that-made-us-uncomfortable-at-nycc/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/toys-that-made-us-uncomfortable-at-nycc/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:18:28 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/toys-that-made-us-uncomfortable-at-nycc/ ]]>

NYCC has come and gone, but the thing that still haunts our dreams are the creepy and crazy toys. So we rounded them up in all their strange lactation bondage-y glory.

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]]> http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/toys-that-made-us-uncomfortable-at-nycc/feed/ 0 ocularmagic Medieval Suits of Armor [PICS] http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/medieval-suits-of-armor-pics/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/medieval-suits-of-armor-pics/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:33:23 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/medieval-suits-of-armor-pics/ ]]>

Back in the good old days — which everyone pretty much agrees were pretty damned rotten — what you wore was a matter of life and death: simple rotting cloth was common, leather was rare, but for the gentleman of standing, it was armor or nothing.

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Directed by The Purchase Brothers, The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life series from Valve. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.

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]]> http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/half-life-2-as-a-movie-escape-from-city-17/feed/ 0 ocularmagic Sneak Peek at ‘Batman: Gotham Knight’ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/sneak-peek-at-batman-gotham-knight/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/sneak-peek-at-batman-gotham-knight/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:53:09 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/sneak-peek-at-batman-gotham-knight/ ]]>

Video sneak peek of BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT, the prequel anime to The Dark Knight.

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]]> http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/sneak-peek-at-batman-gotham-knight/feed/ 0 ocularmagic The Silverfish Aquarium http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/the-silverfish-aquarium/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/the-silverfish-aquarium/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:31:02 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/the-silverfish-aquarium/ ]]>

One of the coolest fish tanks I have ever seen.

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Dimensions’ proprietary Syndimation process to convert the original 2D painting used in 1977 to promote the Star Wars. This unique, deep 3D lenticular poster is 47cm x 67cm (18.5″ x 26.5″ approx) requires no 3D glasses.

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Behold the coolest LEGO creation you
’ll see today: the insanely cool head of Predator space hunter by Brickshelf user MisterZumbi. The details are amazing: check out the dribble of green blood …

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]]> http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/predator-lego/feed/ 0 ocularmagic Huge Battles Using Hundreds of LEGO Star Wars Spaceships http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/huge-battles-using-hundreds-of-lego-star-wars-spaceships/ http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/huge-battles-using-hundreds-of-lego-star-wars-spaceships/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:18:29 +0000 ocularmagic http://ocularmagic.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/huge-battles-using-hundreds-of-lego-star-wars-spaceships/ ]]>

Instead of building a huge Millennium Falcon out of thousands of LEGO pieces, Tim Goddard decided to use a thousand LEGO blocks to create 200 hundreds Star Wars mini-sets, from Star Destroyers to TIE Interceptors and Snow Speeders. He then uses these mini-scale ships to recreate famous movie scenes. Interview and HUGE galleries after the link

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