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You can bring your old glasses to the office of Dr. Kisling at 181 West Boardwalk Suite 201 or visit  fcgov.com/recycling/centers on the internet for other locations. We can recycle most old glasses and lenses to the Lions Club who will send them to parts of the world where they can truly make a great difference in someones life!

My son signed me up to help and receive a back stage pass for for Video Games Live Sunday night in Fort Collins,Colorado at the Events Center. What an impressive show introducing the Fort Collins Symphony and the Larimer Chorale to a young generation of gamers and exposing the multi-talented creativity that goes into video game production. Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall put on a flawless performance. I was entranced by the piano playing of Lee Ann Leung. As an optometrist I have done some vision therapy training on eye hand coordination but this was way beyond anything I have ever seen. Her hands move so fast they are a blur and it does not seem possible to hit the notes at that speed. This is a show worth seeing. And BTW, make sure you have an up to date pair of eyeglasses or contact lenses or you will miss just how fast those hands fly over the piano!
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Tallarico entered the video game industry in 1991, working on more than 250 games Jack Wall is an American video game music composer. He has worked on video game music for over thirty games including the Myst franchise, Splinter Cell, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect.Currently, Wall is the conductor for Video Games Live, a concert featuring popular video game music performed by live orchestras and choirs. He along with fellow game composer Tommy Tallarico and many other industry leaders have worked over five years putting that show together. In another collaboration with Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall is also co-founder of also known as the Video Game Pianist or the Blindfolded Pianist, is one of the first pianists to gain worldwide recognition for playing popular video game music on the piano, both in concert venues and in online videos.

Unlike many recognized musicians, Leung’s breakthrough occurred almost entirely online when, on May 10, 2004, a video of him playing the Super Mario Bros theme blindfolded appeared on numerous viral video websites.
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Fort Collins, Colorado is hosting Video Games Live for the first time. As an optometrist, the visual effects and laser vision light show sounds like fun. I have to admit the live version of Asteroids-well it was the addicting video game to me. Video Games Live is an immersion concert experience event featuring music from the greatest video games of all time. The Fort Collins Symphony will join the show that includes video footage, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussion, live action and unique interactive segments. This is a concert event to help encourage and support the culture and art of video games.  The show starts on Sunday night at the Budweiser Events Center at 7:00 pm. No, the lasers won’t melt your contact lenses to your eyes! In case you did not get a chance to see the game tonight the Colorado Eagles won again tonight at the Events Center in Northern Colorado and are looking good for the championship. No names but I did fit one of those guys in contact lenses so I contributed my eye doctor part if they win.

A fun new movie I recently went to see was Monsters vs. Aliens. It started just before a wedding with a bride growing (not glowing) from meteorite exposure, to enormous height and strength. Reese Witherspoon supplies the voice. Not a great movie but it is fun and the technology is fascinating. Monsters vs. Aliens was released on almost every 3-D screen avaible today with a count over 2000 and growing.Projections are for 40 new 3-D films within the next three years. RealD technology utilizes circular polarization, a technique with the polarization varying in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. In Optometrists offices, polarized lenses and images are utilized in one constant plane tests for lazy eye (amblyopia) or crossed eyes (strabismus). Eye Doctors also use polarized equipment when treating binocular dysfunction for eyestrain, double vision, and convergence insufficiency causing vision related reading problems. Quality sunglasses enhance vision by using a fixed plane polarization to block reflections that occur most frequently from the surface of water. The RealD technology is comes with a high price tag costing theatres $50,000 to $70,000 per screen for the digital projection equipment and additional licensing fees. That’s why there is a nice little surcharge ($2.50 in Fort Collins) for the special eyeglasses needed. The neat thing is the circular polarization helps you maintain binocular vision and lessens eyestrain when you tilt your head, unlike older technologies. Less squinting and your eyes won’t leave the theatre with dry eyes from staring throughout the film trying not to see double. The first 3-D film shown to a paying audience was The Power of Love in Los Angeles in 1922. It was projected with anaglyphs, which involves showing a green image to one eye and a red image to the other which are shown from slightly different view points. Anaglyphs are still used by Optometrist in vision therapy for problems like Computer Vision Syndrome. Looking to the future, Steven Spielberg started work on a 3-D system in 2005 using plasma screens that is supposed to work without any special glasses! Coming to a TV near you some day.

Nothing to do with eyes but then again it is healthier than the local fast food burger and a lot better. Visit Five Guys Burgers and Fries  in Fort Collins for a taste treat and completely fresh burgers. Look for Matt -and vote if you have better choice after visiting. Feel guilt free (sort of)- they don’t use trans-fatty acids so it’s probably not going to contribute to macular degeneration!