Because you don’t have to be quiet on weekend afternoons
Also, the new design looks ridiculously plain without an embedded video/photo.
Site Re-Design Ongoing
Site re-design ongoing, so bear with me.
Things I think I should do:
- Blog more.
- Put up a blogroll up again. Be friendly with other bloggers.
- Advertising?
Random thought: Minimalistic-designed blogs work best with photos. I’m not in photographer mode until “some matters” get settled. These matters are filed under Positive, so no worries
Last update: Decided to use the Cutline theme, which is really a throwback to the “classic” two-column, widget driven setup. And if anyone’s seen this blog’s redesigns through the years, this isn’t a surprise: I used to always prefer the white, minimal style.
To-dos: Bookmarks/links and Archives (optional) page.
Latest update: Yesterday’s theme was admittingly ugly, so I went for ‘The Journalist‘ theme today, which is, for the lazy in me, thankfully widgetized! Let’s see how long this lasts.
On Sleeping Better At Night: Podcasting, Schmodcasting
Yes, this podcasting thing I’ve been doing is real nice and stuff, but I figured out its better to be safe than sorry.
So here’s the plan: I’ll try to figure out a better, less can’t-sleep-at-night way of sharing music, in podcast form, or otherwise. I’m liking blast.fm, and its Twitter-meets-Muxtape form.
As for the episode archives, I’ll do some work and take out the links to streaming and downloadable episodes. If you want to get a copy of a particular episode, leave a comment on the post.
So the show’s dead?! I hope not. I’m reading up on some alternatives to safely continue the show.
HOWDY!
Hey dear reader. Yes, its been a long time since I posted anything of personal relevance. And as you can see from my Flickr account, there’s nothing much happening there as well.
Why the losing interest on photography? Its still there, it won’t just go up in smoke. The last band I took photos of even asked for copies of my shots for press releases. And premiere local gig photographer Mari Arquiza met up with me to pass on her high-school camera, a Spotmatic, and two M42 lenses: a Super Takumar 50mm/f1.8, and an impressive rarity, a Takumar 200mm/f3.5. The DSLR is bound to be happy with that adaptable bounty, if only I didn’t discover that my main AF lens has fungus again, and sadly, this time, the infestation is nastier. I called in the local service center and I was told their technician is out for two weeks. So thats more than a month of waiting, including the time for actual repair. Hence, I think I’ll be back to the kit lens for the meantime. Oh, and I took off the vertical grip from the camera as well, and the damn thing feels like it lost half its weight.
So kids, I got stubborn again re lens care, so learn from me: make your own drybox to store your precious camera gear. No, you can DIY it, stop pestering your mom for money. Get one of those airtight food containers, big enough to store your gear (and future gear), a hygrometer (look at mall hardware stores, at the car accessories section), and a dehumidifier (they sell it by pack at those 88 peso everything Japanese stores). That’s less than 1000 pesos, and it works. Yes, I already have one, but being on photography hiatus, I left the gear on the camera bag, and now I will suffer for that mistake. Boo!
What else is up? The past Friday’s have been spent organizing and recording the podcast. Sometimes, I think long and hard why I should bother, but I do think its one project I can look back to and proclaim that what I did was real -for lack of better terms- cool.
This came in the mail last week
I was contacted a few months back by a photo researcher re this photo from a gig I shot in Shanghai, China. Permission was granted, and photo credit will be made. I think there was some compensation agreed upon as well, but I guess I have to follow up on that detail of agreement.
I was promised a copy of the book as well. About a month ago, I was contacted by an online friend that he received the book (since he had some photos published on the book as well), and he wasn’t very pleased about how the conditions he arranged with the researcher wasn’t realized, since he had some photos published on the book as well.
And my copy of the book just arrived last week.
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