My New DigiCam - Kodak Playsport ZX3

I got this from amazon the other day. Used but fair price. Some dent here and there. Built rugged. But so far so good... I like how clear it is. It almost captures the same feel as if you were back at the place where you took it. The downer part: it gets really pixilated in the low lights, looking like a regular mobile phone. And audio capture isn't strong enough (film are stronger for audio). Other than that, worth keeping, and worth buying a brand new one. Having three of these is cool if your doing some active projects (like sports and music blogs) and study your progress.



What's next on camcorders in my lifetime man. From 8mm film cameras, to VHS camcorders, to pinhole size digital surveillances slash camcorders. Next thing you know, they'll make camcorders to the extreme, digital atom camcorders built as contact lenses. Up to 100 TB memories. Not HD but 3D Blu-ray Quality. Transporting the captured videos to your main computer or digital storage would run trough bluetooth using speech codes recognition. Nothing has to pull out, insert, upload, and download. All in the air from your contact lenses. And hacked proof. In the future, they'll probably take privacy to the extreme. Prison time and everything, even death penalties in some other countries. What if that contact lenses also comes with additional apps - for instance, it can glow, used as infrared, see computer datas, and works for the blind perhaps? lol...

So thats that, Im still waiting for the fish eye lens for it. Along with a dock where I can place it in my windshield or on a bike and etc…

Keep On Walking

Found this on Facebook.

The Organs of your body have their sensory touches at the bottom of your foot, if you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the heart is on the left foot.

Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ it connects to.

It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here.

This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks.

God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated at all times.

So I guess keep on walking...

Digitizing Old Film Videos

This project is done. It was done maybe 3 weeks ago. Maybe a month now. Capturing a bunch of VHS, Hi8-8mm, and MiniDV tapes, unto the digital era. Sometimes I still use the Hi8 just because I like how the video quality is. All I need to finish up too now are to continue scanning a bunch of old 35mm film photos, mostly from a shoe box and family photo albums that are falling apart. I was thinking, what if 2012 is really an accurate predictions from the incas calendar as a world's end. I just had to preserve them all man. From old films, to old 35mm photos. Just don't plan on placing me in a mental institution yet though.. because regardless to that, I really need to preserve them digitally, whenever possible.

Anyways, If you also wanted to preserve your old film videos digitally, I would recommend El Gato Video Capture. It's pretty easy to use. But only works on the latest Mac or PC.

Here is a sample video. It's been taken from a low light but it's vivid enough to watch them on my computer. They can be burned on DVDs too and then watch them on your HDTV and whatever. But to me, I intended them to be watched on my computer and on my iPhone, or to be uploaded in Facebook or Youtube.


Here is another sample of me playing Black Ops - Nazi Zombies. I haven't played this game lately so level 9 is the farthest I've been for this video. I'll post more later, to document my progress. Kinda dark, only because it's been uploaded online, and the game itself is dark. The original video is much clearer.

Music Studio Racks

It's been a long while now.. I guess that would make it 5 or 6 years of me doing this music productions. Which started out doing track layering of loops from Gargeband with my first apple laptop computer. The G4 iBook. And then decided to go a little further. And a bit more further. Until the creative process is pretty close where I wanted to be. But then, to me.. it doesn't really matter how creative the tracks are if the sound quality is poor. Therefore, I research online about sound processing. My family have this stereo since the mid 80's and it has these racks with pretty similar fashion compared to my family stereo. Treble, Bass, and the EQs is nothing new, it's what I used to mess around with when recording mixtapes back then. So I took that same concept and hopefully they'll work the same way when I do produce and record tracks. These would be my studio racks.

So far I got these three.


Presonus Amplifier - it has all the basic needs.


Bass Amplifier.


Equalizer.

Just waiting for another one which would be this one here..

A Compressor.


And then this Rack Cabinet. This would go on top of my desk. Then cables of course. Even an outlet strip.

35mm Canon Sprint Photos

I finally had the advantages to test my canon sprint 35mm point & point camera. Getting it developed still a pain in my wallet but these results are well worth the surprise. Got it developed at Walgreens, same place where I got the film. And so far so good. I'll definitely be using this camera for other things, other than events. If I happened to be out taking pictures, this camera will also be going with me.

Abdi Farah - Work of Art, Season One

Just found out about the show titled work of art: the next great artist two days ago from Entertainment Magazine. And just finished watching the whole episodes season one through youtube.

Congratulation to Abdi Farah. I like how he took black charcoals to another level.

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RIP - Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
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The first computer I ever work on was of a Macintosh back in my 7th grade 1986, at Quimby Oak Middle School. San Jose, California. It had the floppy disk I first thought it was a small vinyl record inside of it. It was a fun computer. Made rockets out of the text and then print them out on papers. It could of been a PC too, but I do remember an Apple sign.



Again, what is up with number 5. Banks starts charging 5 bucks as well. It's funny how the world works sometimes in it's own rules. I was just tex writing my "private journal rants" in my iPone (instead of yelling it on someones face) about the difference between Eagles and Pigeons in my own opinions. And Mr. Steve Jobs is what I consider one of the eagles, along side with Bob Marley. That same day while at Rasputin record store, my second cousin Mike G told me Steve Jobs just passed away. Pancreas Cancer it is. Dammit I will never have the opportunity to see the man on stage. I wanted to work for Apple years before as a Quality Assurance Tech but I cant stand office politics. Actually, I never really pushed in to it. I am just a hardcore Apple user today.

May you rest in peace man…

Sesame Street Puppet Guy - Jim Henson

I was about to Google of a market place back at my home town in the Philippines. The market is called SM. It's a mall that seemed to be popular back in The Philippines. I was just checking if they have one in my home town. And do have it.. in Laoag City around eleven miles away.

Google showed this… pretty nice.



It's the creator's Birthday Today.
http://henson.com/

Tha Block Is Hot

I'm probably stressing more than this dude right now as he tries to get away from the sunny hot blocked fence. All these economic down-terms, foreclosures, terrorists threats from the medias, and from around the hood.. Not knowing whose who. I guess more and more are desperate for some bread and willing to get payed to screw anyone they want to. man o man... The blocks are getting hotter and hotter. And weirder... in a lame way. I feel like moving to Canada. Fly away and into the trees like this praying mantis... (sarcasm partly true).

Cruisin' 1974

Listening to an LP record I recently purchased from the record store. This is good bargain for only a buck. Like opening an old treasure chest. Im going to need two extra file crates for these vinyl records. Damn… my sound system are getting distorted here as I get my iPhone close to my monitor cabinet. It needs a compressor rack. Soon man, I'll have me a complete sound processor racks for my sound system.