October 2009
1 post
August 2009
8 posts
November 2008
1 post
Developing film & photography
I took up photography as a hobby. I still don’t know what I’m doing aside from the things I can follow as procedure. My subjects suck. I’ve already formed an opinion though: I could spend a premium on a camera that will take the best picture I could envision but I don’t want that. I’ve embraced the manual world, I don’t want a motor or a sensor or anything taken...
September 2008
2 posts
Socotra Island
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html
I was one hell of a Hollywood makeup artist
Ok I haven’t done this blog thing in about a month so I guess I should use this, since there are poor children in Africa who would kill for some bandwidth and here I am not even using mine, letting it go to waste and such.
1996 was Independence Day; for any person under the age of 15 the movie was the New Testament in our lives. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, aliens, explosions (huge fucking...
August 2008
10 posts
Holga B&W
Holga 400ISO film w/red or yellow filters
Holga Color
Holga 120 and 400 ISO taken in various places
I stuffed a kid in a locker
We’ve all seen it on high scool dramas: the big ol’ bully corners the pathetic little nerd, gives him a wedgie, and stuffs him in a locker. The bully gloats while muffled nerd screams eminate from the locker followed by frantic banging and his nerd friends coming to save him. We’ve all dreamed of doing it. Some of us may have lived the dream, like myself. It was a classic case...
Glenn falls holgaroid
100 ISO fujifilm FP-100B holgaroid woop woop
More holgaroid
Cloudy day 100 ISO film had to do some multiple exposures to make sure they came out so we had fun with it
Getting used to the Holgaroid
First time using the holgaroid and testing out how the camera works, exposure, lighting, etc.
Dissecting the comedy gland
There are some nights you lie awake unable to sleep but too lethargic to get up out of bed and do something. Sleep is coming you just need to wait for it to arrive. Those are times of quiet reflection. Some people explore their spiritual meaning or sort their daily lives. I sometimes like to question myself, and this is something I brought up at one of my pre-slumber mental meetings. A lot of...
Some little tidbits
A lot of times when I’m thinking about what to write for this blog I get a brief idea in my head and realize I can’t flesh it out much further than a few sentences. I don’t think they’re too unimportant to write about I just don’t know what else to say about these things:
One time during a car ride with my mom and my cousin, our car was nearly hit and my mom yelled...
I was prone to running away crying in public
I guess I had some psychological issues because I was easily frightened as a kid. Sometimes I think I’m being too hard on myself because I was a kid and kids get scared easily, but then I recall a few times that I’ve been horrified in situations where my peers are absolutely comfortable or even estatic. Luckily back in those days you’re still pretty egocentric so only in...
July 2008
14 posts
You know I was a big hit in special ed
In third grade, once a month our entire classroom was herded downstairs to the special education room. We didn’t need any help from the room, we were just visiting. The school had implemented a program where general education classrooms would periodically visit the special education classroom to allow the kids with special needs to socialize with the gen ed kids.
By the way before I...
High school dances were the worst
I was never really a lady killer in high school, nor was I an ugly untouchable troll. I just kind of cruised through high school with no real major ups and downs but in my mind I was hoping for the best. I think at that age since you’re paranoid that everyone is looking at you (imagined audience) you’re hoping that you will score with the dream girl and be the coolest dude in the...
How to get your 2nd grade teacher to cry
Our 2nd-grade class desk arrangement was in a big U-shape so the teacher was in the center like some senator at a Roman forum. Except she treated us all like plebs so the effect was kind of lost. Despite having a doctorate in Polish nomenclature I can not for the life of me remember her Pollak name. What I do remember was that she had a short fuse on the end of a hair trigger that was attached...
One count of felony snow fence destruction
I loved to go sledding as a kid; I still do but the opportunities pop up less frequently. Snow tubing is the best because you’re not sitting on a rock-hard death sled that always takes the path of least resistance toward a tree. Not to mention they’re deflatable so you can pack like ten of them in the space where you would typically pack two or three hard plastic sleds.
One day...
If it's lamenated, it's official
Nintendo 64 was 1996. That puts me at 10 years old when I started playing it. If you were anyone that year you know all about the N64 so I don’t have to tell you that games like Starfox 64 and Goldeneye 64 were basically the pinnacles of prepubescent culture. I had a group of probably six or seven friends around my block and between us we had three N64s, meaning that we had our own little...
I voulenteered to be the odd man out
In yesterday’s entry I made a simile about my poor choices with toys, likening my decisions to that of an inept stock broker always coming up bust. I’d like to elaborate on that because I feel like with that statement I hit a vein digging into the goldmine that was my childhood. My days spent attempting to keep up with the fads and such that my classmates participated in were always...
I went through a domino phase
I like to reminisce about my childhood because kids like me were born during a pioneering era for children’s entertainment. It was probably all the computers that makes me think that. I’m sure anyone who grew up in any decade will tell you about how great that decade was and how they were entertained as kids, but the 90s was fucking great. I missed out on a lot of the cool toys,...
Sloths are terrible
Once every few days I get that spark of curiousity that any human gets and venture to Wikipedia to look up something I never knew before. I don’t depend on Wikipedia for 100% reliable information, after all it is an encyclopedia that has more knowledge on the subgenres of furries than the Roman empire. I do trust it for quick reads and facts that I need on demand. Monday I learned about...
This is kind of a running theme
I guess the running theme of my childhood was being scared to death of everything my dad could antagonize me with. Being born in 1986 means that any concrete memories I’ve formed and developmental trauma all occurred during the roaring 90s. Right in the middle of the 90s there was a movie called Twister. I don’t know if you heard of it, it’s a foreign flick with subtitles and...
I was super scared of Doom when I was little
Back in the day when I got started on computer games one of the first ones I played aside from solitaire was the Doom series. It was a pirated copy that my dad got from one of his friends at work, one that even included the bdoom mod that allows you to replace some of the enemies with Barney the purple dinosaur. For those who don’t know what Doom is or never experienced it, it’s the...
I was given a power drill for my 22nd birthday
Today was my 22nd birthday and since it followed a graduation and the start of a higher-paying job I didn’t ask for much. Mom approached me and asked what I wanted, and I couldn’t really think of anything I needed or wanted. I mentioned a few games I was thinking of getting but that’s about it. Later that day (this was a few days ago) I installed some blinds for her and the...