Just my week and random stuff

18Aug08

I really like this book, which you can find here:
 
http://www.amazon.com/Dawoud-Bey-Pictures-Jock-Reynolds/dp/1597110434/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219087527&sr=8-1

It’s a collection of photographs of teenagers and a little essay by them, describing themselves and how others look at them. I like this one the most, especially the last two sentences:

Omar

I know that I shouldn’t but sometimes I wonder how other people look at me. What do they see first? My brown-ness, my beard, my cap, my clothes, the color of my eyes, the design of my T-shirt? I think that people see my skin color first. They probably see me as a brown guy. Then, they might see my black beard and my white kufi (prayer cap) and figure out I am Muslim. They see my most early qualities first. Brown, that’s the very color of the earth, the mud from which God created us. Sometimes I wonder what color my soul is. I hope that it’s the color of heaven.

I recently bought a Lomography Fisheye 2 camera and am very excited to see the results. I almost vowed not to buy anything, or at least not to withdraw any more money…but I don’t know anymore considering I want to buy the colorsplash part of the camera and also a Holga. that would be cool.

What would be even cooler would be a digital camera that has all these features of a Holga, Fisheye, SLR, and an automatic camera. Someone should make that. Unless, someone already did and I just don’t know about it.
Well, they do have a fisheye digital lens..but extremely expensive.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05063001olympus_fisheye.asp

There is a tutorial to make it in less than $20 though.

http://www.dphotojournal.com/diy-make-a-fisheye-digital-camera-for-20/

And I also found that there is a way to make the Holga effects with a digital camera…

But still! they should combine all these elements without switching lenses and paying more money! Just like a simple digital camera! Maybe in 50 or 100 years. I hope to live to see the day.

I also went to see the opera Aida at Mccaw hall yesterday (sunday). The ticket price was really good because of Teen Tix. $7 only! (including tax) The singing was really good, but I don’t think I appreciated it as much as I could have if I was more awake. It was 3 hours long after all. There was this couple who dressed really modern…or at least spent alot of time on their hair. The only problem is that I was in the second row and I had to stretch my neck to see the subtitles. After 2 hours…my neck began to ache.

I was dying…simply dying on Friday. It was much too hot. I was carrying this humongo piece of graphic tablet and three bags while treking from pioneer square to a couple blocks north of the convention center in downtown. Okay, I confess, the distance wasn’t that bad, but the heat! the heat made me want to faint at some point. I felt my heart pumping blood into my head and I had a pounding headache. I guess my reward for doing all this excercise and feeling horribly achy the next morning, is eating crepes, getting new clothes, and seeing my friends. Oh, what I do for the people I care for. At the same time, I’m so out of shape and haven’t done like zero excercise

Oh yeah, I thought this was funny, it’s from the August 2008 copy of Vanity Fair:

 

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