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• PHTG 1048: Week 3 – Still Life in the Studio
  May 16, 2012
  This week we were asked to bring our camera gear (camera, lenses, tripod, camera manual), not that I haven’t been bringing my gear to each class anyway. Our topic of the week would be Properties of Light and we would be photographing still life items with a variety of constant light sources. There would be 4 setups and the requirements for this par …
• review: samsung behemoth
  May 16, 2012
  I had a great big review half-written for my Samsung Behemoth, but I scrapped it – I didn’t like how my finger words were coming out. I will instead sum up my thoughts in one sentence (followed by some additional sentences): I like my Apple devices better than this particular Android device. If you’re looking for a reasonably priced device to get i …
• Photowalk Before School
  May 16, 2012
  I was done at BCIT at about 1:30pm and needed to kill a few hours until my class at Langara at 6:30pm. So what would one do for 5 hours? Well, if you’re like me, you would probably decide to do a photowalk. Of course, you would have also needed to bring your camera gear (which I had on me). So, my journey around the downtown core, is one of my typi …
• lie back and think of england
  May 15, 2012
  I just sold my 5 3-day PAX 2012 passes to a co-worker. I am a sad, sad monkey. It’s for the best – vacation days are at a premium for everyone, we just bought a new car, I don’t want to impose on Doug and Ali to house my band of merry men during the ‘con, we didn’t really enjoy last year, I can use the money for London instead. It still sucks ENORM …
• excitement
  May 15, 2012
  Friday is payday (my first full payday at new job) It’s a long weekend The sun is shining, and promises to do so for a while Sunshiny times = super awesome scooter riding Don’t wanna ride solo? MINI MINI MINI MINI MINI MINI MINI I should be excited about all or any of the above, but I’m not – I’m too busy being excited at the thought of holing myse …
• John Cleese talks about Creativity
  May 13, 2012
  
  Great video.
• Comments Update
  May 13, 2012
  Due to the large number of spam comments coming through on this blog, I’ve changed the way that comments work:Comments from unknown sources will now wait in moderation until they are manually approved.This may delay some comments appearing for some time, between when they are posted and approved. But it should eliminate the spam comments appearing. …
• 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Third Round Predictions
  May 13, 2012
  The upsets continued in the second round of the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Los Angeles Kings have now sent the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the West (Canucks and Blues) to the golf course. And who thought the troubled Phoenix franchise would make it to the Conference Finals for the first time ever, Winnipeg included? In the East, the No. 1 New …
• another british invasion
  May 13, 2012
  So, we kinda bought a Mini Cooper S: :D :D :D My name suggestion of “Minibator” was shot down in favour of “Cini Mini”, but that’s okay. She’s a 2005 Mini Cooper S in British Racing Green with a 6-speed transmission, dual sunroof (it took ten years for me to get one), and is so much fun I could – and do – squee all over myself when we drive. MINI ! …
• VIDEO: Colour Haze – Live at the Crossroads Festival (2007)
  May 13, 2012
  Colour Haze Live at the Crossroads Festival by the WDR Rockpalast at the Harmonie in Bonn, Germany, 18 October 2007. 1. Aquamaria 2. Moon 3. Z.E.N. 4. Sundazed 5. Outside 6. Peace, Brothers & Sisters! 7. Tempel 8. Love …
• for the record, i’m totally against you
  May 11, 2012
  .. but secretly, you’re TOTES ADORBS (whatever the fuck that means; I was going for “cute and useful”): cute, damnit. Truthfully, I loathe the trend of putting pink flowers and crap on everyday items then marketing them to women, as though a woman would never have use for a normal man-hammer (but if you shrink it for delicate woman hands and cover …
• mixed up muddled up shook up world
  May 11, 2012
  I can’t see my scooter, and it’s freaking me out. I’m chopping off my mullet after work today, so I rode Lola downtown. While on the bus the last few days, I took note of places I saw motorcycles parked and which locations that still had spots available around 9am – so I left at 8 this morning to make sure I’d get one of the coveted spots closer to …
• Quote Of The Day – Iggy Pop
  May 10, 2012
  What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down? [Source: Iggy Pop album shuns 'humiliating' record labels - Telegraph] …
• EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  May 10, 2012
  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! (details, complete with consonants, coming soon!) …
• One Reason Why You Should Always Protect Your Phone
  May 10, 2012
  When I first picked up my Apple iPhone 4, I thought about getting a case for it, but with being a student, I found that spending $40+ on a case for my phone was a bit high. I’m really good with taking care of my electronics, and I didn’t think that having my iPhone 4 caseless would be a big deal. Silly right? Spending $40 to help protect a $800 pho …
• choreographed dance fights
  May 8, 2012
  This entire post a) has nothing to do with the title, and b) is going to come off sounding pouty and smacks of “I’m taking my ball and going home”, but it really isn’t – you’re just going to have to take my word for it that my motives here are not ulterior, posterior, interior, exterior, anterior, or otherwise; they’re coming from a good place made …
• tempting fate
  May 7, 2012
  It’s been over SIX MONTHS since I’ve ridden my scooter to work downtown (to be fair, I was unemployed for 4 of those months and working in Burnaby for the other), but not much has changed. The weather was finally nice enough for me to forego the hated bus and ride Lola in, so I got up nice and early this morning to a) rinse the henna out of my hair …
• 6th Annual Spot Prawn Festival
  May 6, 2012
  This weekend, I took my mom to the 6th Annual Spot Prawn Festival at Fisherman’s Wharf near Granville Island. The Spot Prawn Festival raises awareness about the sustainable prawn options right here in our backyard. BC’s spot prawn season runs from 6 to 8 weeks starting in May and you’ll often find many local restaurants bring on special menu items …
• Review: Think Tank Photo UrbanDisguise 35 Camera Bag
  May 6, 2012
  One of the things that I am quite picky about when it comes to camera equipment is camera bags. I have multiple ones (Robyn says I am a camera bag horder) and each one has a specific purpose. I probably could not have too many of the either. With this past school year, I purchased a Macbook Air for school, but I also wanted to find myself a great b …
• i go both ways
  May 5, 2012
  So, this happened: blah blah aren’t the droids i’m looking for blah It’s a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0. Why? Well, two good reasons: I hate the fact that there’s a widely-used OS out there that I know nothing about, so I wanted to try out Android for myself Part of my job will involve diddling Androids, and I much prefer diddling my own instead of th …
• LinkedIn and Slideshare sitting in a tree and we get a-u-t-h-o-r-i-t-y
  May 3, 2012
  Fine, my skill at lyrics leaves a lot to be desired, but the first thing I thought about when I saw the VentureBeat piece on LinkedIn buying Slideshare was—this is going to rock for establishing authority and expertise in a topic area! The subsequent post on the LinkedIn Blog—Linkedin Blog » SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals and …
• Evernote planning an IPO—I had a gut feeling months ago.
  May 3, 2012
  This morning TechCrunch is reporting that Evernote is going to prep for an IPO offering—Evernote Raises $70M At A $1B Valuation To Prep For An IPO, And The Next 100 Years—the interesting thing is that while I was writing an online social media course for UBC I wrote the following in February: Evernote Evernote (www.evernote.com) has become the de f …
• My slides for Macs At Work (in a PC world)
  May 2, 2012
  Last night I gave my (very short—maybe too short) talk on using Macs at Work to the Canadian Women in Communications meeting. I was inspired to try my hand at drawing my slides for the talk (I did this once actually for Northern Voice a couple years ago) using the iPad app Paper by FiftyThree (I got the idea from this TNW post). As is my usual pres …
• New Course: Langara Digital Intermediate Photography
  May 2, 2012
  Yesterday evening I started my photography course at Langara; Digital Intermediate Photography (PHTG 1048). Ideally, I would like to take their Practical Lighting course, but was told I would need to take this course first. I did get to skip over their Basic Digital Photography (PHTG 1049) and Basic Digital Workflow (PHTG 1057) which is nice and I …
• The iPad as a laptop replacement is a step forward
  May 1, 2012
  I’ve posted about my own preference to bring my iPad instead of a laptop recently and I plan to keep to this when I give my (short) talk on using Macs in a PC world on Tuesday, still Shawn Blanc provides even more reasons why iPads are the “new laptops” (or portable computers) in his recent post: I once again find myself using two computers. Except …