3 posts tagged “pictures”
It's a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 and it's basically awesome. I haven't figured everything out about it yet, but here's a few shots I took while geeking over it's crazy macro setting. Fair warning that thanks to this bad boy I'll be pic-spamming you all much more often than before!
The camera comes with a bunch of the usual scene modes that most point and shoots have nowadays with a few extras like Pin Hole, Film Grain and (MySpace) Self Portrait. Ha. Actually, those might be included in new point and shoots now, but since I haven't bought a new camera since...ohh... 2002, then I wouldn't know!
Big thanks to Zigadocious, my gadget guru extraordinaire and financial planner, for helping me acquire this awesome thing!
I'm entirely too brain dead to write anything besides this sentence (and maybe a few incomplete sentences following this). Here, have some pictures:
... what has been occupying the professional-side of my mind for the last week and a half. No, not The Shocker, but GTA, dork.
... the homies! AKA "I'm still tight with folks from high school." Also, I need a hair cut.
... this caught my eye while grocery shopping.
... this caught my eye (and almost blinded me) while at another denim warehouse sale today. What the hell, Ed Hardy?!
... Neeeeeeeeeeew kicks! I'm on a mission to have all of my sneakers have patterns on them.
Happy birthday, Judy! WOOOO!
I love purikura, those photo booths that you usually see in Asian stores in the US (and all over the damn place in Japan) that produce sticker pictures. When they first hit the US back in the late 90s I remember piling a bunch of my friends into a booth. The result was a set of tiny photos with even tinier pictures of our heads trying to fit into the frame. When I was in Tokyo a few years back, my friend and I took at least one set every day we were there.
Purikura is way more intense nowadays, whereas before you could maybe pick a border and color (black and white, sepia, etc.) now most of the booths come with light pens to decorate and add all sorts of ridiculous nonsense. Granted, most of the booths in the US are Japanese based, so during most of the decoration stage you're actually just trying to figure out what menu leads to what, but good times ensue nonetheless.
As a graphic designer, I should probably be turned off by the riot of color, effects (check out those lens flares in the second set... I added those!), and random imagery associated with purikura, but it's a whole different aesthetic. In these tiny framed pictures more = better and usually the frames that remain undecorated (usually because you run out of time) are the ones you like the least.
