hot hot hot today. the kind that makes you weak.
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Jul 09
trains in Japan are THAT fast
I think this is caused by slow scanline processing on the iPhone cam ( just guessing here). I wonder if the same problem still exists on the 3GS.
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Jul 09
Windows Explorer on the iPhone
Well, not really. I was browsing through stuff on Google News. From some news site, a dialog box opened, warning that I had a virus and asked if I wanted to clean it or not.
Yeah, right.
After pressing the Cancel button (I don’t think it mattered which one you pressed), the following page appeared. The bottom part is animated so that it “seems” to be scanning.
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Jul 09
firetruck
went to the city hall this morning to get some certificates. saw a shiny firetruck on my way back.
how does one take a head-on photo of a reflective surface?
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Jan 09
[004/365] Nightlight
City’s Nightlight. Heaven’s Nightlight.
Went bike riding and photowalking near the Arakawa River. I got some nice long exposure shots of the river and the cityscape.
Tomorrow, work starts. I fear I won’t be able to take photos again. Good luck to us all!
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Jan 09
[003/365] Body Clock
My body clock is fried (grilled?). And vacation is almost over. I was up until 10am this morning before I hit bed.
I’m gonna have to force myself to sleep in an hour or so.
On the other hand, I’ve almost finished organizing the photos for last year. Almost. There is still a big batch of photos from the Asakusa Samba parade that I have yet to look at.
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Jan 09
[002/365] Commute
Central Gate, Ueno Station
Aileen, a friend coming back from a holiday trip to Yamagata asked to be fetched from the Ueno station. The handle to her huge huge bag broke and she needed some help carrying it. I needed the exercise too, so I walked from Minowa Station to Ueno Station.
I borrowed Meema’s fisheye lens and took a few shots along the way and on the station. While waiting for Aileen at the ticket gate, I played around with long exposure shots. This is 2.5seconds at f/22.6, handheld.
There was a more interesting shot: a man was standing still amongst a blurred crowd of commuters. But I was too far from him (he was inside the gate) and the wide angle of the fisheye made him really small. Oh, well.
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Jan 09
DAY 1/365 Out of the Comfort Zone
2009/01/01
Yes, I’m doing a Project365. For the first shot, I tried all the usual things : the moon, sunset, landscape, food, feet.
Then it hit me. This should be all about experimentation. This should be about getting out of my photographic comfort zone.
It’s not as polished a shot as I had wanted, but here it is: Flowers in my lens.
Those are the room lights being relected/refracted on a Sigma 170-500 5-6.3 APO Lens. I shot this with the cheapo 50mm1.8.
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Dec 08
Finds 12-31
Vintage Ads from the 60’s.
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Saudi Telecom’s Wireless Route/Vase
I like it. I’m sure everyone can relate on how routers, network drives and all those AC adapters are hard to place in the house. Wake up call to manufacturers!
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Font Park. Play with fonts, drag glyphs around, transform, combine, make pictographs. (Having worked on a project that requires layouting text, subsetting and embedding fonts, I have come to love(and hate) fonts and typography.)