The Rapture May 21, 2011: EVERYONE SCREAM AND RUN

In case you haven't heard tomorrow, May 21, is the end of the world. Take a moment to let this sink in. It's hard to believe right? But the "foremost authority" in the world on the Bible Harold Camping assures us that it is in fact the end. The chosen people, his followers, will ascend into heaven while the rest of us have to sweat it out on earth as it turns into a hell hole crawling with demons and natural disasters galore. 

Camping once predicted that the world would end sometime in 1994. Apparently he must have missed a teensy bit of information there because, well were not dead. But this time he assures us, the unclean, that tomorrow is in fact the end. I imagine that I probably will have to call out from work on Saturday, you know to crawl under my bed and cry in the fetal position. If your "smart" you'll do the something similar. Just some kind of wide spread panic is necessary. Maybe go rob a bank or jump out of a plane with no parachute, it doesn't matter really.

HOWEVER, if it turns out that Camping is a total f&#*ing crack pot (which is totally unlikely) then I saw\y we party it up super hard. Hell we can even make it national Harold Camping, on which you must panic in the most destructive way your little brain can possible conjure up. So enjoy this Friday....because it may be your last BAWAHAHAHAHA

Shuffling from dusk till dawn

I sure many of you have given that "rave music" a good listen to every once in awhile. Electronic music has really been on the rise lately. Heck I've even heard it as background music for some high end car commercials, like Lexus. Quite frankly I'm addicted to the music and I can't get enough of it. Amongst electronic music there are several other genre's like House, Trance, Dubstep, Triphop, etc. Anyway I wanted to share with you one of my favorite dubstep tunes so here we go. This one come to you from a New Zealand producer Mt. Eden.


Check out more of his stuff and an interview on http://www.themahoganyblog.com/

Pringles Can = Macro Lens?

Recently for my photography class I had to take some macro pictures. Whats macro photography you say? Its when you take pictures of objects super close to the object so that you can see the texture of the object in focus. Now you can take some pretty decent macro pictures with your average lens but to get a really good one most of the time you need to go purchase a certain kind of lens specifically designed for macro pictures. These macro lens can cost up to a grand for the high end ones. I'm a dirt poor college student so I definitely don't have that kind of money to just drop on a new camera lens. So there I was thinking my dream of doing macro photography was dead...until I found this video. Enjoy!

What an amazing planet

Once again I was stumbling through the internet when I ended up on www.amazing-planet.com. This site had quite a fantastic selection of photos from all over the world, not to mention a throughly well designed website. The got everything from the Aurora Borealis to sloths hanging out all slothy like in the trees. So I went looking and I found this image of the Aurora Borealis.

Takes your breath away right? If I can make it up to the northern hemisphere to witness something as unique and as beautiful as this I can drop dead right on the spot and truly be happy. We humans have been blessed with thee most gorgeous and strange planet to live on and it seems like most people just take it for granted. Everyday we are surrounded by beauty but were all moving so fast going here and there that we never truly see it. Even the most mundane scene can be beautiful if you step back and think about how trillions of tiny little particles held together by even smaller particles make everything in the world. Think about that next time your in a rush to make that meeting or when your cruising down the freeway. This world we share is amazing.

Incredible Surf Photographer: Sean Davey

So I was "surfing" the interweb today when I happened to stumble upon this gorgeous image below me.

The photographer responsible is none other than world renowned Sean Davey. He's a surf and surf lifestyle photographer who's been in the game now for over 20 years. The man has over 20 magazine covers with his photography on them and countless photos that will have you itchin for a nice sandy beach to sink those toes into. Honestly the guy knows his stuff and how he goes about capturing some of these images is beyond me. Anyway I thought I would pay homage to one of the greats in the photography business.

If you want to check out more of these awesome photos go to his website: http://seandavey.com/

Panoramic tutorial

http://youtu.be/WoQNL-VsvJA
Check out the link above to get schooled my ol' buddy from across the pond Nigel. Nigel is a bloody brit but he seems to know his stuff and he's got a ton of other sweet tutorials on his website http://www.whatdigitalcamera/.
Spot on Nigel, simply spot on. I fancy myself some tea now, earl gray of course, and perhaps I'll ajorn to my study to contemplate...I dunno british stuff.

I'll post the software stitching tutorial by WDC soon!

Always rep yo bliiiing

Wanna be gangsta? Do you wanna have a gold chain littered with ice hangin from yo neck? Well guess what...i have not suggestions on how to procure such an item nor would i actually want to carry around such a useless expression of my excess of wealth. What im talking about is your camera. In the realm of photography the only bling that should be hangin from your neck should be your camera. And you gotta have it with you at all times folks. Earlier today I was caught without my bling and let me tell you i regretted it.

As i was getting off the freeway today to get some  grub I passed by a patrol car with its lights ablazin. And you know who they pull over? An ice cream truck! I looked into my backseat and my bling was no where to be found. How classic of a picture would that have been? And I missed my oppurtunity all because I left my bling at home.

So let this be fair warning to all you photobugs out there, ALWAYS REP YO BLING. Who knows maybe you will catch a pic of the infamous ice cream truck killer (Dexter reference haha), or two mimes fighting at a zoo. And who wouldn't want that picture. I would pay good money to have two bloodied up mimes in an epic struggle. Hell I would frame that and hang it from my mantel haha. So don't stop repin that bliiiiing boys and guuurls.

Film or Digital

Photography has progressed so much in the last decade. These days you can take a picture of your self in one second and in the next have 12 posts on facebook when you make that photo you profile picture. But what if the sun was in you eyes or a wasp stung you right when you heard that *click*. The picture is RUINED...Oh well hit delete and try again. click click click click you can take an endless amount of pictures these days and it doesnt even phase people. Should that be ok? Or should the photo gods strike down with vengence for making their tool of art a frivolous means to end.
Remember the good ol days when film was king? Every picture would be composed so meticulously. Each and every element in its proper place. People actually cared about the other stuff besides their face in the veiwfinder. You couldn't just hit delete and try again, wildly swinging your camera in the general area of your target and pressing down. CLICK. No you made sure that every photo counted. And don't even get me started on finishing a roll. It was like your christmas letter to Santa and the developed photos were the gifts. There was so much more joy when you looked at that photo of June Lake you took over summer and realized you got the perfect shot.
So what does this mean? Should we the select chosen few hold the torch for film and secretly scoff at those chimps taking snapshot after snapshot so haphazardly? Or should we all jump head first into the future and light a candle for film's funeral? Honestly, I'm down with digital haha. But that doesn't mean im gonna just throw my old film Canon out. I fell in love with the dark room this semester and the hands on process of taking your film out of your camera yourself. But digital has almost limitless potential and is sooooo much faster its hard not to love as well. Now if we could just get the rest of the internet world to take a little more time with their photo composition and less time with that cowlick in their hair, then we should be golden.