DUBSTEP

I am interested of trying to experiment on to this type of music. It may sounds a little funny to some folks, but to me it sounds more like Transformer meets Vultron in a breakdancing battle. Really aggressive and intense type of music. I've already done few wobbly basses experimental sessions on my synths, but it's not quite the ones I want. Making me wish of having a Korg MS2000B to grab some of that rugged wobbly bass sounds. And then lay that out to my MPC. Then bring it back to Logic Pro to lay other sounds to it.

I know you can pretty much use any synthesizers to make a dubstep track, but here are the gears I would use:


Korg MS2000B


MPC 1000


LSDJ


Reggae Samples


Logic Pro


I don't dance like this dude here on the video, but it's awesome to see some youngsters out there dancing to it. All poping and crumping like a machine.

MINOLTA X700 - Photo Results

I had the chance to try out the Minolta x700 camera somewhere around the neighborhood yesterday, instead of just around my house. The results are okay. All shots I took came out. It's not really what I expected to look. But it does has it's own quality. Maybe because I got it developed from Walgreens instead of the Photo Labs that focuses only on photography, which I am going to get it developed on my next session with the camera. Including using a high quality 35mm film, or even a slide film from a Photography Store. Photo Labs like Wolf Camera, and they are located not too far from my house. The camera was set in auto aperture, the only manual was the focus. Therefore, I got to learn few more functions about the camera later. Bottom line, the results are pretty interesting. Sorta americana from the 60's. I bet it looks cool on blondes or redheads with freckles, or people with really dark dark skin tones. Even golden brown skinned people. I like it how it's bright. Not the typical smooth effects that most digital cameras has but that's another type of photography. This is a under 150 bucks SLR camera. With an interesting results that brings you back in time.

I used two rolls of the three 12 exposures that came with the camera. I am not going to use the last 12 rolls man. I had to pay the same amount as of to pay a 36 rolls of films. That would be cool though, if they invent a portable film developer and you just pretty much scan the films, with professional result.


The 50mm 1:2. FIlm scan.


Another shot of the 50mm 1:2. Not a film scan. Last roll of the 12 exposures Kodak film.


The Zoom Lens Vivitar 85-205mm 1:38.


The Zoom Lens Vivitar 85-205mm 1:38.


The Zoom Lens Vivitar 85-205mm 1:38.

Next to test-out is my Point & Shoot Canon Sprint 35mm Film Camera.

4th of July - 2011

This was taken from the front yard, but I missed the big finale.

SIGMA 18-200mm Lens - Unboxing

I waited for over a year for this lens. At first I was going to buy me a Tamron 17-50mm. The Tamron is a good lens, specially for Rebel users. But I still need to carry a zoom lens regardless. For now, I just want a standard walk-around lens where I can only use one lens for almost anything I want to photograph: from standards, macros, to zoom. At a price range from 300 bucks to 500 bucks. I say, I picked just the right lens for my Canon 20D, which is the SIGMA 18-200mm. Optical Image Stabilizer (only in good lightings or with a flash, it can take steady shots even when lens is shaky). I got it from Amazon for under 400 bucks. Used, but still looks brand new.



June 30th, 2011. The box arrived.


Packed pretty securely, with popcorns and bubbled wraps.


There it is. Typical SIGMA design.


With the Lens Hood, @18mm.


With the Lens Hood, @200mm.


The Sigma 18-200mm Lens with my Canon 20D.


Lens Hood gives richer color for your captures, and protects from sun flares and glares. But flares and glares isn't so bad once a while, so I keep the hood backwards like this, It also gets in the way when using the built in flash indoors.

FOCAL LENGTHS
Weak point is low light areas. Blurs badly when subject is moving, even when I set the shutter speed to Sport Mode. Unless using a flash, or have some good photo studio lightings.

Around the same price range, I picked this lens over these lens:
-Tamron AF 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3
-Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS
-Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
-Canon EF-S 18mm-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS


@18mm


@63mm


@173mm


@78mm


@200mm


@18mm


@78mm


@78mm


@200mm

I also recently bought this old school point & shoot film camera. Canon Sprint 35mm. I won it from eBay for under 11 bucks.


I still haven't shot my Minolta X-700 yet. I will post some results on that later.

MINOLTA X700 - Unboxing

I always like 35mm manual cameras. I am a DSLR user as well but there's something about the old school SLR cameras, or the regular 35mm cameras, that the DLSR cannot replicate. You can digitized an image to have that 35mm film quality look, but that would be just bogus. 35mm film processing is like a dying art. And there's not much Photography Lab Stores as it used to be. There are drugs stores, but they usually have drugstore owned 35mm films, rather than the high quality standard 35mm films. It's really not that hard to learn it. If you are used of the DSLR camera, all you gotta do is learn how to use the Focus and Aperture. Loading is pretty easy, just be patient. The rest are common sense later. It's also cool to hear the real manual sounds of a SLR camera than the digital effect sounds.


This box arrived yesterday from eBay.


The seller sealed it pretty good.


Camera's Sling Bag, Camera's Strap, and some 35mm Films.


Camera Bag's Strap, Manual, and Etc.


Some Films included. 400 Speed. Only 12 Exposures. Sorta like Practice Films.


And there she is… It's a Minolta x700. Built in 1981. Got it on eBay for under 150 bucks. The lens is a regular Minolta 50mm 1:2. Missing lens cap, and no UV filter or any filter to protect the lens. I'll get that later.

I already owned a Honeywell Spotmatic Minolta and that too is an awesome camera. Just lately I've used some expired 35mm films. Most of it turned out okay. It has that experimental quality. You can check them out in my Flickr account.


It came with a zoom lens Vivitar 85-205mm 1:38. Wow.. it's sorta heavy. This is the part where I'm glad how these metallic lenses evolved to plastic DSLR camera lenses as far of weight goes.


It's even heavier… what a difference man. Well, will see what it does...

1982 Television Commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz_Kyf5dgrQ

Some samples of what the camera can produce. Please do click on the photos to link you up to the photographers who posted them:

Mambo Italiano! - Rosemary Clooney

I'm posting this now, next thing you Beyonce is gonna make a cover song or something like it. It's a damn cool song.



A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute, something's wrong
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano
Go, go, go you mixed up sicialiano
All you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a
Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
Hey mambo, no more a mozzarella
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lab and then a
Hey goombah, I love a how you dance a rhumbah
But take a some advice paisano
Learn how to mambo
If you gonna be a square
You ain't a gonna go nowhere
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Go, go, Joe, shake like a Giovanno
Hello kess-a-deetch-a you getta happy in the feets a
When you mambo italiano
Shake-a Baby shake-a cause i love a when you take a me
Mama say "stop-a or I'm gonna go to papa"
And a hey ja drool you don't a have to go to school
Just make-a wid da beat bambino
It's a like a vino
Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' till you
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up Siciliano
it's a so delish a ev'rybody come copisha
How to mambo italianoooooo!
'Ats nice!
UNH!

WASR 10/AK 47 - Fire Test

I went up to the hills shooting some shit monsters with nice shoes!!!

Naaaah… Me and Ralph (relative), went to the outdoor range to give my new WASR 10 a fire test. It's a Romanian AK47. A semi-auto. Base from reading reviews through the internet and watching YouTube post about the WASR 10, I think it may be designed for slow firing single shots only. Rather than rapid firing. It can't really function like the real Russian AK47, where it can take any type of 7.62x39 ammo, and any brand of AK 47 magazines. It can also be fired rapidly, to full auto, and to auto burst (usually 3 shots per trigger squeezed). I use to have a Bulgarian version and it has no jamming issues at all, as far of rapid firing. Anyway, the first shot of my WASR 10/AK47 went off smoothly, but the second one jammed. Like 2 cartridges going in the chamber at the same time. I fixed that, and the rest went smoothly. No jamming whatsoever. I sorta fired slow since my focused next was fixing the site. I also brought my brother's 9mm Beretta. I didn't score much that day, I just got off from a grave shift, sorta tired, and unfocused, but I'm satisfied the WASR 10 fires pretty smooth.


WASR 10 (romanian AK47)

For some targets, several empty milk jogs filled with water (or colored liquid), and cheap soda cans. The range has their own tin cans (used), but we brought our own. All you gotta do is singed in, write down your license plate number, and pay $15.00 per person ($7.50 for youths 17 and under) per day. @ Los Altos Rod & Gun Club.

Daft Punk 130 Videos

This is a lot of Daft Punk! 130 videos...



Makes me regret for not doing the $Robot at this Photobooth from My Cousins Wedding.
From 05/21/11. It's supposedly the day of rapture that some believes.

Manny Pacquiao vs Sugar Shane Mosley - 2011

I want to congratulate my fellow pinoy Manny Paquiao aka Pacman for wining the fight last night, against Sugar Shane Mosley. The third round was awesome, it's too bad Pacman's legs buckled after that round and cannot rush into Mosley's clever stand backs and run counter attacks technique. Hit and run type boxer. Most fighters who faced Pacman lately, does the same. As if they only wanna get few blemishes on the face, hoping they'll make it to 12 rounds without embarrassing themselves too much, and get the money. Hardly any toe to toe boxers like the previous fighters he ever fought before, when the winning price was pretty even. I probably do the same man lol. You never know what type of scientific voodoo magic has been implanted inside Pacman, after all those years of training to maintain his crown, you just never know (sarcasm). Plus the dude is loved by everyone, even people from Hollywood. You just can't hate on the guy.

Except when…… it comes to politics. I mean common dude. Are you serious? Filipinos, well not just Filipinos but Mexicans, even Irish folks probably walk off the arena right after you mentioned your passion in Philippines politics. That's like a slap on the face for some filipinos to be honest with you. Because there's gotta be tons of Filipinos in the Philippines, from the US, and in any other part of the world that are waaaaaaaay more qualified to take that place as a politician. They just don't have the same fame like you do, or like some of the well known comedians from the Philippines who moved towards politics. I don't mean to say negative about it. I mean it's awesome that a Filipino straight from the belly of the Philippines has made it this far as a professional athlete. From 106 lbs class to 145+ lbs class. And became the top high paying athlete in the wold. You made history dude. Like some kind of hope. Either that, or there just wasn't enough action for what they payed for. Sold out expensive boxing ticket.

I say, rather put that energy in opening up some Boxing Schools, or placing local libraries on certain barrios all over the Philippines. Few local Clinics. Stay in Merchandize business and maybe place jobs in the Philippines and abroad. Business, man… business. Thats even better than a politician. Your more of a modern Raja that way. And safer too.

Anyways, I could be wrong in all this. Just a quick opinion of mine about his move towards politics. If his for it then, it is what it is.. He will be whoever he wants, other than a boxer that the whole world known him best.

Here's the best round of the fight. Round number "3".
 

Osama Bin Laden - Dead

May 1st, 2011. As I went to the kitchen between my sleep before going to work. My family were watching CNN. The television screen shows a live footage of the White House (night time), and at the bottom screen is says "PRESIDENT OBAMA CONFIRMED OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD" it was written something like that. There it is again, what's with numero cinco man.


Osama Bin Laden

May 2nd, 2011. My own opinion. I give props to the Navy Seals. But what if the Pakistanis or foreign Islamic Community done it themselves? Then again, whichever sides killed him, don't make much of a difference. The terrorists attacks regardless, if they see an opening. Justice man. Justice is what matters for now.

And... proof please? Because throwing the body at the deep sea, seems too fishy a size of a smelly dead whale for the public.