I went downtown today for an impromptu photowalk with some friends and we toured some of the Olympic venues. It’s amazing to see the transformation the city is going through right now…including the incredible amount of sponsorship advertising on display like the Samsung ‘billboard’ above.
Finally all settled in Austin for SXSW which starts later today. Very happy with the hotel I’m staying at this time which is basically in the shadow of the conference centre (which I can see from my room). Last year, due to booking the trip late, we ended up at a hotel out on the…
Derek tagged me in this internet meme so here’s my sixth photo on the sixth page of my Flickrstream which happens to be a photo of a gift certificate I got for the Crumpler Store for my birthday: Feel free to tag yourself and post your sixth photo on the sixth page of your Flickr…
Easily one of the busiest pavilions, the Royal Canadian Mint had fantastic crowds of people for one simple reason: they let you touch the medals! A coworker waited 9 hours in line to get his photo with the Gold medal! The Million Dollar coin (now actually worth about $3.5Million) Of course, I had to hold…
I just got back from my shortest trip to Hawaii ever…just four days. My pal, Marc Smith, invited me to tag along while he was on the last island (the big island of Hawaii) of his 30 Day Adventures in Hawaii. I’ve been to Hawaii many times but this was the first time back to Kona since I first visited 20 years ago. Fortunately for me, one of the events on his agenda was the 2014 Kona Brewers Festival. Because beer…in Hawaii.
I’ve only barely had time to play with the D90 video mode – let alone even get familiar with all the controls and options but here’s a couple videos taken with in HD mode (720p, 24fps, 1280×720) – nothing remotely fantastic, just what I’ve had time to do so far: A tripod would have been…
Yeah, it may be a pain to have to enter your passcode every time you want to use your iPhone, but you know what’s worse than that? Having your iPhone stolen and knowing some douchebag is using it and browsing through your personal shit. One cool feature of the passcode lock is that if enabled,…