Saturday, September 6, 2008

Tiger Temple


Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by visitors.
It is the place where you can meet some friendly tigers, shake hands, pet them or rub their bellies. 2 hours drive from Bangkok in the Kanchanaburi province of Thailand, the Tiger Temple has been taking care of tigers singe 1999. Monks take care of the animals rescued from poachers, having around 17 fully grown tigers and cubs housed within the temple grounds.
Yes,you can take a photo with a grown tiger.

PAC-MAN



Pac-Man is often credited with being a landmark in video game history, and is among the most famous arcade games of all time.It was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.

Moving Illusion

The images below seem to have moving parts in it, but actually none of the parts in the images are moving.







For some amazing Illusions & Visual Phenomena
Visit: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

Rare piece of Art





Anamorphosis Portrait of JRD Tata at the Tata Steel Archives in Jamshedpur.
The potrait was painted by Awtar Singh Virdi,a world renowned artist and painter from Jamshedpur, who has found a place in the Guinness Book of Records by making the world’s Largest Anamorphosis Portrait of the U.S President George W.Bush (measuring 10ft X 10ft) in 2004, and is the world's only artist available for Anamorphosis Portraits.
'Anamorphosis' is a technique of viewing objects through an unconventional and direct medium. In this technique, when we see the drawing directly, it appears meaningless and some sort of distortion or unrecognizable odd strokes. But when it is seen through appropriate medium like a round mirror or cylindrical mirror, then the distorted image will start to take its original shape and size and reflects as a perfect figure.
It can be drawn in two ways, either mathematically or just by pure imagination, the latter being the more difficult of the two - Virdi does it the difficult way.
Virdi is one of the few free hand anamorphosis artists in the world. He has been perusing this art for over 45 years.
Leonardo Da Vinci did the original anamorphosis painting 400 yrs back in the 16th century.

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