December 2008
18 posts
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 23rd
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I've been Flickr'd →
I finally caved and bought a pro Flickr account! For $2 a month, I suppose it’s worth the unlimited uploads, collections and sets. Not to mention there’s a whole photo community to explore and learn from. Guess this investment means I need to get out of the apartment and use my camera more actively. So far most of my photos are around-the-house images taken with my DSLR, but...
Dec 23rd
Dec 17th
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Life in plastic, it's fantastic →
For a few weeks I was debating on whether or not I should buy a toy camera, and whether or not I wanted the bargain priced Holga 135BC, the half-shooting full-fun GoldenHalf, or the fantastic new 35mm TLR blackbird, fly. Well, after a lot of research and discussion on a few forums, I made my decision to go with the 135BC for 50 USD. I grabbed what little money I had, sped on down to the nearest...
Dec 16th
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Cigarrete-pack flash diffuser test
A long while ago a friend linked me to the cig-pack flash diffuser DIY guide at Instructables.com. I pretty much blew it off, but now that I’ve been looking through all these $50-100 toy cameras, the idea of a cheap flash fix never sounded better. I went back to the site and decided to do a little test run. Frames one through three: These are shots of the setup. You can see on frame three...
Dec 13th
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Toy camera search
I’ve been aching to get my hands on a toy camera for a while now, and since I’m getting paid tomorrow, I thought I’d go ahead and get my goodies on. The only problem is deciding which camera I want to go with. My first pick was the Holga 135BC because it seems pretty easy to use, and because it has a built in filter that ensures all your photos have that classic vignetting...
Dec 12th
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The dreaded "Kiss of Deaf" →
Chinese “Kiss of Deaf” - (BBC News article.) Bwahahah—A guy making out with his girlfriend accidentally caused his girlfriend to go deaf in her left ear. The whole ordeal has sparked multiple warnings about the “dangers of excessive kissing” throughout the Chinese news media. The kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown...
Dec 10th
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Argentine ants →
Apparently, they’re the most successful species of ant because of their unique nature to not compete or attack other Argentine ant colonies. Whereas other groups of ants would attack any surrounding nest, regardless of species, the Argentine ants would work together and “mingle” with other separated nests. I read that in Wiki after reading an article about ants in the news, but...
Dec 5th
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My first instructional video
I made a quick vid on how to tune a sanshin, which probably won’t be of much interest to most people reading this blog, but I figure you can watch it to see how “goofy looking” I am. *Note that the embedded vid is high quality :D
Dec 5th
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Linking to high quality on YouTube
I don’t know why they don’t make this more accessible to users, but I found how to directly link to high quality videos on youtube. Linking Attach “&fmt=18” to the end of the video’s URL. Normal link: youtube.com/watch?v=9XfVAcexWLc High quality link: youtube.com/watch?v=9XfVAcexWLc&fmt=18 Embedding Attach “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18” to the end...
Dec 2nd