My blog moved

Hey there :)

My blog moved to my website and this is my first post there http://www.tomomagija.lt/blog/?p=43

I am going to post there my thought about magic and magical :)

Hope to see you there :)

Tomas

Tomorrow We Disappear: New Delhi's Last Magicians Colony

Hey there,

One of my favorite magicians, Penn&Teller, talked about this place in one of their TV special. So I decided to share this with you. 

Produced by Jim Goldblum, Adam Weber, and Joshua Cogan, Tomorrow We Disappear explores the untold and remarkable story of New Delhi's last magicians' colony.

photograph by Joshua Cogan

According to the filmmakers, "For hundreds of years roaming artists traveled the Indian countryside, creating the stories, the mythological backbone that would unite a country. Before radio, film, and television, these artists helped form what we now call the Web of India.... In the 1950s the artists ended their itinerant routes and moved into vacant land beside a jungle in West Delhi. They called their new home the Kathputli Colony."

photograph by Joshua Cogan

Since then, New Delhi's magicians, puppeteers, and acrobats have called the slum, the Kathputli Colony, their home.

photograph by Joshua Cogan

But amidst the squalor is a remarkable tale of slum dwellers who have lived lives of the lowest degradation and of the highest luxury. Perplexing as it may sound, the Indian government bandies the community's greatest puppeteers and magicians around the world anytime they needs to showcase the cultural excellence of India.

photograph by Joshua Cogan

As the filmmakers told, "you'll sit in someone's ramshackle home and watch as they flip through photo albums where they are pictured alongside [former Prime Minister] Rajeev Gandhi or Laura Bush."

photograph by Joshua Cogan

In an ironic and tragic twist of fate though, the colony will be dismantled. Last year the government issued relocation permits to the colony residents; the slum is to be bulldozed and cleared for the development of a shopping mall. As the residents are relocated and their lives changed forever, the film ventures to ask if their culture will be lost to the passage of time or will it endure?

photograph by Joshua Cogan

The directors are raising funds for this audacious endeavor through Kickstarter in an effort to continue the project and document the uncertain future of the people of Kathputli.

photograph by Joshua Cogan

Hope you enjoyed :)

See you soon,

Tomas

Lego street painting

Hey guys,

Sorry for not posting for quite a bit - had some problems with my computer. But for now....an army of LEGO!

This amazes me every time :)

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Tomas

Vanishing Sliced Steel Sculpture

Using science and art, Julian Voss-Andreae creates incredible sculptures that can vanish right in front of our very eyes. Made up of a series of layered steel sheets, the sculpture forms a human image at a certain angle but then disappears at others. He calls this particular 8-foot high work of art Quantum Man.

"When approached from the front or back, the sculpture seems to consist of solid steel, but when seen from
the side it visually disappears almost completely," he says. "This fascinating effect offers a range of possible interpretations. In the context of quantum physics–inspired art it is natural to see Quantum Man as a metaphor for the wave-particle duality, the phenomenon that all matter exhibits wave-like or particle-like properties depending on the experimental question we ask."

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Tomas

Quantum Levitation

Hey there,

    I have been performing magic for a bit now and seeing some of the "illusion's" stuff done for real is just pure astonishment.

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Tomas

Can you see a baby?

A very beautiful piece of strange...Can you see a baby?

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Tomas

Plastic bottle giving Light

Giving light for those, who need it

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Tomas

Awesome milk trick!

This is like Windows Media Player :)

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Tomas

Spinning woman illusion - see her spinning to both sides

Hey there,

I was not able to make this lady to spin to both sides...but now I can :)

(click on this pic - it is a .gif file)

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Tomas

Make everything OK

Everything OK?

(In case picture's link does not work

http://make-everything-ok.com/ )

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Tomas

Snow under microscope

Hey guys,

These are some pictures of snow from really close. Absolutely stunning!

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Tomas

Amazing Dragon Illusion

Hey there,

This is kind of cute and creepy at the same time.

These are some templates, if you would like to do make your own illusion.

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Tomas

Quebec City Magic Festival

Magic for Marketing 

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Tomas

Create

Do you Create?

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Tomas

Cutting a bullet in air by Isao Machii

Have you ever seen how a bullet is sliced in a mid air while speeding? This looks really beyond real

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Tomas

Selyna Bogino doing the 5 balls juggling

Have you ever tried do juggling? Including legs? With 5 balls? Upside down?!

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Tomas

Large Objects Shot as Miniatures Using a Giant Coin and Tilt-Shift Effects

Norwegian design studio Skrekkøgle has a creative project called “Big Money” in which they made a giant 20:1 replica of a 50 cent Euro coin. They then placed the coin next to large objects and photographed them together, making the objects look like tiny toy replicas.


 

   
 

Finally, here’s a photo showing how big the coin actually is:



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Tomas

People working at the top of Empire State Building

Absolutely Crazy!

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Tomas

Ring Art

Isn't this amazing?

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Tomas

Illusions from Bill Nye

These optical illusions just show, how different our perception might be from the reality.

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Tomas