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 Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 02:15 PDT

Hawai'i '08

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Friday, December 12 2008 @ 10:38 PST
Contributed by: Alvin
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PhotographyFirst photos in a long time, more due to not uploading them than not taking them. Here are some select ones from a trip to Hawai'i in the spring, my first trip to O'ahu. This is the first batch that I did post processing on, so while most are subtle, there are a few that were kind of boring, or that I had multiple of, so I intentionally over-processed them.













You can go here for the full gallery.
 
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Geography Lesson

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Wednesday, December 10 2008 @ 11:30 PST
Contributed by: EZ
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General NewsUSPS,

Richmond, CA is fairly close to me. West Sacramento is not. I was puzzled to see that my printer ink went from Richmond, CA to West Sacramento on the day it was supposed to be delivered to me. But now that I see it's back in Richmond, CA, two days later, you must have gotten a do-over on your geography exam. You aren't doing your part to save energy, but perhaps it's a lesson learned. Hopefully this isn't the beginning on an infinite loop where it goes back to West Sacrmento.

Now give me my damn printer ink.
 
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Salvaging Bland Photos

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Monday, December 08 2008 @ 11:21 PST
Contributed by: Alvin
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PhotographyInspired by the fiancee, I've been reading up on digital photo processing and learning curves. I came across one article on cross processing, simulating a high contrast special effect from chemical photo development.

http://blog.dannyngan.com/2005/08/01/tip-cross-processing-in-photoshop/

As I'm processing the photos from my last Hawai'i trip, there was one cool, but blurry photo.



Pretty boring because of all the blur. I liked it mainly because of the circumstances behind it. It wasn't planned. I was trying to take a picture of the tunnel behind us. A friend in the back seat was trying to get the tunnel ahead of us, we just happened to do it at exactly the same time (she has my hand and camera in her photo). So, I threw it into the pile. Then, preparing for the processing I came across the above article. So, when I came to this photo, something I probably would have tossed, I get to play with it a bit.

I think the results change it from boring except for the story behind it to a pretty nifty shot.



Cross processing is my new friend for boring photos.
 
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Do Until Others

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Tuesday, December 02 2008 @ 09:49 PST
Contributed by: Alvin
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Thoughts
 
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I was wrong

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Friday, November 28 2008 @ 01:58 PST
Contributed by: Alvin
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General NewsAbout there not being any shopping related deaths on this coast.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/28/state/n123739S87.DTL&tsp=1

(although technically it's not clear if it's really shopping related or just happened to occur in a toy store)
 
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Black Friday indeed

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Friday, November 28 2008 @ 11:57 PST
Contributed by: Alvin
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ThoughtsOn the way back from Thanksgiving awesomeness, all of a sudden the right most lane came to a dead stop. I got out of it, thinking it was only a matter of time before I hit a mysterious traffic jame.

But no, it was just that one lane. I wondered what horrible accident must lay ahead. Then I see it's cleary going to an exit. And wondering if there's an accident on Montague Expressway, or if perhaps that glow of light is a horrible fire.

Then I remember that today is Black Friday and that's the exit to the Great Mall. At first I thought it was people who were going to camp out until opening. I found out later that the Great Mall opens its doors at midnight, and it being just past midnight, made those people only slightly less crazy.

But at least people weren't so mad with consumer savings that there were any deaths. At least, not on this coast.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html
 
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Toy Monster Truck Rally

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Wednesday, November 26 2008 @ 11:46 PST
Contributed by: EZ
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MoviesA highly detailed stop-motion monster truck rally?
Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. Actually, it's the real deal using time lapse and tilt-shift fake miniature photography.
 
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Controversial reviews

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Monday, November 24 2008 @ 10:38 PST
Contributed by: EZ
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Video GamesFrom: http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/21/uk-tomb-raider-underworld-reviews-under-810-silenced-until-monday/

Eidos UK PR firm Barrington Harvey has confirmed that British sites are being asked not to post Tomb Raider: Underworld reviews with scores lower than 80 percent until Monday.

The game releases today for 360 and PS3.

Gamespot UK journalist Guy Cocker revealed the tactic in a Twitter post on Wednesday that said: “call from Eidos–if you’re planning on reviewing Tomb Raider Underworld at less than an 8.0, we need you to hold your review till Monday.”

Said a Barrington Harvey rep on the phone this afternoon: “That’s right. We’re trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos.”

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This is the latest in ongoing scandals at game review sites. Game publishers shower favors on magazines that promise a certain level of positivity in a review, rumors of payola, bad reviews being pulled, and so on.

I'm not familiar with this sort of scandal happening in music or movies or any other entertainment, even theatre which seems to thrive on reviews (although any review can be better than whether it was good or bad it seems).

There's a lot of gnashing of teeth among gamers about how horrible this all is. But I'm not so sure. It seems to be that publishers taking reviews so seriously as to spend all this money to try and influence them is a good thing. A lot of good games still do slip through the cracks, and mediocre games still become big sellers. But it seems to be that game reviews (and thus the quality and fun) playing a huge part in the concerns of production is overall a good thing. And if quality is that important to success, then I think something is going right.
 
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Must get the high score!

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Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 10:59 PST
Contributed by: EZ
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General NewsI just discovered the GPS device tha my wonderful Fiancee got for me keeps track of things like miles driven and longest trip travelled and such.

It also notes your fastest speed. Why would they do this to me?! Now I see that I haven't broken 100 with it yet, and only have gotten up to 82.2, and much rectify that.
 
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What will life be like in 2008?

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Tuesday, November 18 2008 @ 08:00 PST
Contributed by: EZ
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General NewsRetrofuture for you. Some stuff is surprisingly accurate (especially if you are a bleeding edge consumer).

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/

IT'S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper - which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car's dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.
 
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