Karen Abad
Adventuneer, daydreamer, and collector of moving images.
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California Man Uses Social Media To Find Bone Marrow Donor
By Christina Hager, WBZ-TV (via CBS Boston)
Hurry and get better Amit, adventures are to be had! Love you!
I decided to check my Klout, because of Ian’s last post. And guess what, I still have no idea what the hell it is.
Happy Birthday Mom!
You’re the best! I love you very much! Thank you for supporting and encouraging my creative endeavors!
<3
My x10 and I decided to go for a walk down the beach this morning so I could get to know her better. (How weird is it that I have somehow established that the gender of my x10 is a female and the x100 is male?) I realized the the x10 handles like an extremely ergonomic point and shoot. I wish that the view finder was electronic as well as optical, like that of the x100. The viewfinder on the x10 is pretty useless to me since the framing is off and there’s no information in it. There are a lot of things I like and dislike about the x10. I really like it for wider landscape photographs. If you want a shallow depth of field, forgettaboutit, you can’t get it unless you zoom in and shoot in macro mode. Oddly enough, I like the weird camera special presets. (This is weird because I rarely, if ever like camera presets.) The 360 Panorama is pretty fun. Also, I had some fun shooting some low-res high speed video. It can shoot 70fps (640x480), 120fps (320x240), and 200fps (320x112). As far as the quality of the photographs, you can see them here for yourself. They are pretty standard, if not, slightly better than that of point and shoots that I’ve used before. I think this camera is fun to just carry around and use in low-key hang out sessions because of its small profile; but I think if I want to stick with the SLR quality in a compact camera, I’ll use my x100. That larger sensor gives enough of a kick for a shallow depth of field.
I still need to use the x10 more to get more familiar with it and learn to use it better, so stay tuned for more updated reviews.
I can only justify buying/keeping this camera because I got it for over $100 lower than the MSRP, on Ebay, pretty much brand new. I don’t think I would’ve shelled out for it at normal price.
Also remember that a photograph is only as good as the person taking the photo itself. I can take an alright photograph with pretty much any shit camera. And at the same time, a better camera isn’t going to make me a better photographer, I just want different cameras for different things.
CHICA-GOGO! [via fishel]
You can see my lack of dance moves in the background somewhere there.
Last Saturday my friend Dave was in town and did one of his dance blogs (http://daveydanceblog.com/). Dave is really awesome and I hope he comes back to Chicago so we can actually catch up and hang out. Austin and I participated and Preston and Joel shot some footage for fun on the Epic and Scarlet. Davey’s dance blog from Chicago should be out sometime this week. I don’t know what Preston plans on doing with that Epic footage, but let me tell you right now that Dave dancing overcranked (96fps) on the Epic looks fucking fantastic.
Here are some more photographs taken with my new x10. On the very last robot picture, the lens was a centimeter away from the actual robot. A centimeter!!!!
I just got a Fuji x10. It is the baby brother to the x100. Tonight I cooked some broccoli cheddar soup and decided to take some photographs.
(Keep in mind that I JUST got this camera, about 10 minutes before I started taking these photos, so obviously I still need to get more familiar with its functions. Also, I will be comparing it to my x100, but REMEMBER: The x10 is $600 and the x100 is $1200, that’s HALF the price of the x100. The x100 has a larger sensor and will therefor handle better in low-light situations.)
The x10 is essentially a souped up point and shoot. (It’s actually more comparable to my Olympus Pen mini, minus the interchangeable lens.) Compared to the x100, it autofocuses faster and the super Macro is INSANE! I can get up to 1 or 2 cms in front of something and still focus on it. While I was taking photos of the soup, I was having a really hard time getting anything in focus because there is such little light in my kitchen. As you’ll see in the pictures below, the x100 had no problem at all. Both have the lowest aperture of F2. I really like that in order to turn the camera on, you simply turn the lens. The buttons and menu are just like that of the x100, so that was really nice. The x10 has a lot of Presets that are actually quite useful. I found out later on, that there was a low-light, night mode that actually makes the focusing easier. To be completely honest, I got really frustrated mid-shooting my cooking and switched over to the x100, but that is because I am more familiar with the x100. I know that camera like the back of my hand. It gets use almost every single day.
To be more fair, I will take the x10 out tomorrow and take some photographs and see how it handles during the day. The more I play with it, the happier I am with it as a more compact alternative to my x100. I just have to keep reminding myself that this camera costs half as much as my x100 and I can’t expect it to perform as well as it.
Check out the post below for photos from my x100.
Here are four photographs that I took with my x100. They look so much cleaner and crisper than the x10. But like I said, the sensor on the x100 is larger than that on the x10, so it handles low light better than the x10.
I love my x100 so much, it has become my favourite camera. It can be finnicky at times, but I feel like I am most comfortable with it on a day to day. I hardly ever use my dSLRs for day-to-day photographing anymore, and I’m okay with that.
Actually, for this particular roll, I lazily took it to the Walgreens 1 hour photo and had them process it. The images online are digital scans of the negatives.
I don’t really care for OK Go’s music, maybe just one or two songs, but their videos are absolutely amazing. They are not just musicians, they are true artists and innovators. I don’t even know what to think about this video. I am just thinking about how much work went into planning and executing this. Everything else is irrelevant right now.
The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com andhttp://www.okgo.net. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars.
Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr.
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
Editor: Doug Walker
Producer: Luke Ricci
OK Go - “Needing/Getting”
In the world of Tumblr, there is really no need for me to post this. You’ll all see it numerous times by the end of the week. I’m aware. However, this is a true “music video”. I’ll even say they redefined the term. And yes, it is all real:
“The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck.”
(via sircreate)
Austin and I met up with Preston, Joel, and Eric and we shot around Chicago with the Epic and Scarlet for a while. At some point we met up with my friend Dave (Daveydanceblog.com) and Austin and I participated in one of his dance blogs while Preston and Joel shot some footage of it for fun on the REDs. All in all, a good day of hanging out with some friendos in a chilly city.
Here’s a photograph I shot from the view of Preston’s hotel room that I recommended he stay at.
Chicago, you’re a fun, cute, quaint, little city.
Another lost 35mm roll of photographs I took during the Fall of 2010 with my Nikon N65. I miss Jon, Michelle, and Greg a lot.
