Thursday, June 23, 2011

Bionic - Interview & Battle

Damn... what an inspiration
Why is it that the best dancers I know (well some of them) always seem to do martial arts too... lol

Dizzy vs. Bionic (Second Dancer) @ R16 USA
^His second (@3:30) and third (@4:50) sets are pretty nasty.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Boredom begets creativity?

Actually, I'm not really sure how "creative" you can call this... but it's amusing to say the least :P

STUCK from Joe Ayala on Vimeo.
(From: Photographers-stranded-at-airport-film-themselves-having-a-blast)

lmao. (especially @1:38)

I swear.. I'm gonna do this one day...

...

if I ever get stuck in an airport alone... with my camera equipment.

Friday, June 10, 2011

DSLR Camera Body Tiers

For anyone who was ever interested in or is still interested in purchasing a dslr camera, but isn't quite sure which models suit them.. I just found this:

Nikon Camera Body Table (Specs)
Canon Camera Body Table (Specs)

This is as much for my reference as it is for yours--I've never quite understood anything about Canon's organization of tiers, so these pages were helpful for me at the very least. Man.. you never quite know what you can find on wikipedia, hahah.

Also, here's a good diagram for the origins/development of camera bodies from Nikon:


Anyways, hope this has proved useful for anyone interested in one day purchasing a dslr, or just anyone confused with the differences between the camera models. :)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Mic Check

Truth be told, for a while now I've wanted to learn how to sing--I think it might be something I will actively pursue now in my free time... along with my billion other hobbies, hahah.

I bought a usb condenser microphone a while back but never really had a good chance to use it until recently after I got myself a mic stand for it :)

Just made a recording to one of Buble's earlier songs.

 
  Michael Buble - "You and I", Practice Cover, mp3 ver. (6/09/11) by bicente

Excuse the horrible singing.. I pretty much butchered the song with my wimpy-ass n00b voice.. but hey, it's a first effort--not like I'm exactly looking to impress anyone.

[Self-Critique:]

- cannot vocalize loudly (but it would really be helpful if I had a soundproof place to practice or just a very isolated area with nobody around me..)
- my pitch wavers... a lot.
- my "vibrato" sounds fake and forced to me.. actually tried to limit doing it
- definitely went down an octave at the climax... don't have the capacity in my range to sing that high, haha (don't think I ever well)
- nothing special about my tone... pretty boring actually
^Bear with me, I like to keep a record of these kinds of things..

I had to make this at night in my family room so that I wouldn't bother the rents.. and also so they wouldn't notice that I'm doing this because it's kinda embarrassing, lol; you might also hear thunder and clock noises, haha, it was raining pretty hard outside.. and I was right next to that clock.. which was already pretty damn loud.

AAAAAANYWAYS... hope you enjoy! (or at least get a good laugh :P)



FORTUNE COOKIE TIME

Oh yeah, and here's a little something I guess I'm going to just try to start/continue doing.

(mostly because it amuses me)

Sometimes I wonder whether I should keep fortunes from fortune cookies and collect them in a little jar.. instead I've decided I'll just take pics of them and post them here.. I dunno, I really do get a kick out of what these things say sometimes...

The top fortune was mine, the middle was my mom's, and the bottom was my dad's.


When I opened it, I thought mine was bad... then I read the rest of them, hahah

None of these are actual "fortunes"... but at least I apparently have a "good sense of humor". :D