I actually was going to laugh at this guy because it looked like it was going be one of those videos. But it turns out he actually had some smooth moves. And the funny cool... uh... weird? part is that he has 78 videos of him dancing to different songs. His song selection is pretty bangalangin though.

At first when I saw tectonik I thought it was just a cooler way to vogue. But it turns out everyone that's into electro is doin it. pretty fly. Just thought i'd introduce it to you because I noticed some people haven't realized it's existance yet especially when I ask around my friends. Gotta love morning Youtube Surfing.

 

*thanks to rie! for introducing me to tectonik! this is actually the first video i saw that she linked me.
    >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYhuwu614Y&feature=related 

microwavable walrus not included

just got all of that for the fair price of $30. I thought it was too good to be true. But the girl didn't know what she had. Her back story was her friend's dad use to be a photographer and she gave it to her because she thought she liked photography. But apparently she already has a Vivitar camera. 

It was kind of weird on how we had to meet each other since she didn't have a phone so I told her i'd meet her at a train stop at a specific time. I thought it was going to be too good to be true and i'd probably get shot mid-transaction. But luckily for me it was real. 

Minolta X-370, Vivitar Flash, 50mm f=1.7 Minolta MC lens, 28mm f=2.8 Five Star MC lens, 70-200mm f=4.5 Five Star MC lens, and 4 Lens filters that are oddly a size too big to actually fit in my lenses.

ALL FOR $30! It was such a good deal that I let her have $40. Because she obviously didn't know what she was giving up for so cheap D: 

Another good example of another mans garbage is another mans treasure. high five for garbage! oh and she bought a new battery for it already. PLUS there was a roll of 120 on it. XD 

You'd think I'd have pictures this time around, especially after such a fun & long (that's what she said) weekend.

 

 

..... well shit happens. (that's what she said)

what kind of shit?

the green kind. where the first roll of film from my new camera (more on that later. it's the minolta x-370) was torn due to my ignorance and lack of understanding for such an old model of slr. 

the watery kind. where my black and white film was not meant to be developed in C-41 developer. but was. so my developed film was just a blank reel of nothingness. my best regards to the wonderful employees of walgreens.

the normal kind. where the second roll of film for my Minolta X-370 SLR was snapped again still due to the lack of understanding for the camera. After the film snapping, I did learn the proper way to rewind the reel to protect my film from light. So it wasn't so bad. I did take the film out in a closet. There was a little crack of light when i removed the film and put it in a container and the container itself was a opaque plastic so the film might have been over exposed to light. I'll give it a shot when I develop it though.

 

That's 3 rolls of film. Wasted. 86 exposures.  24 exposures with a possible recovery. MAYBE. but hey. I learned a lot of things the hard way this weekend. 

All in all though I had a lot of fun. Went to Beer Garden in Jersey City had a blast. Saw a old friend and made some new ones. Got penis's and the like permenantly markered all over my face. Played Tennis. Played Baseball. Ate at Shake Shack again and. SAW SCOTT PILGRIM! PLEASE GO SEE IT. I EFFING LOVED IT. MICHAEL SERA...  SO HOT. Really good action scenes. Fun for the nerds. Fun for the old school gamers... Basically Everyone will love it  

And yeah. I'll get more into depth later. I just got home and it's 4am. I have to prepare for reality later in 12 hours. 

PA Makes me feel like such a explorer. It is kinda cool to find crap on the road on your bike. Going on the main roads then suddenly you find a trail often excites me. The first half of the roll is with me on my super stellar bike and then the second half was the creepy park I was talking to you about on my last blog. I'll just post my favorites on here though. You can check the rest out in my album >> here.

About the Maxxum 4: I lost my dad's first one in the philippines. I left it in the bus when we arrived at our destination. I asked if I can see it out of fascination in the bus.. tucked it under my seat.. And left the bus.. my dad was pissed. After we got back from the Philippines my dad dropped a pretty penny again to purchase the same camera this time with additions. After digital photography came out he long forgot about the camera.

7 years later. I'm sifting through the old crap in my parents house and I ask my mom if we had any cameras laying around. Less likely I thought. Then she told me how my dad had a SLR laying around.. with film! •__• i lit up. I felt kinda bad because my dad didn't really want to part with it since he's giving the camera to the same person who lost it 7 years ago. But I vowed I will use it and keep it under good care. I was pushing it too but yeah. sweet. Lenses are interchangeable with my  Sony Alpha as well so i'm excited

Thanks pops

My brotha

What ever happened to equal rights?

something I ask myself everyday

The Construct

I got excited over this. Secret little lake launcher. It's fun to stumble into.

A little river trail.

In the end of the river trail there was this railroad track. I got far I didn't want to continue exploring lol

Took a picture with my bike and turned around

Flowa Powa

Stopping to smell the flowers

Stopped by Cherry Hill Mall which is relatively close to our place. The second oldest mall in america

Found this during my jog when I took a breather

Life grows in lonely places

The Dead Life of Stump and Things

Where all the trolls Hang.

Ok. Now that it's morning and I finally had some rest. I think I was just over reacting in the late hours of my weariness. But I do have my reasons. One is that I was scanning at 4am lol. 

So my mom gave me her gps as a going away present after vacation and I decided to use it to get home from work one night. It was 1am and the roads were dark. The GPS took me to through the dark places of PA and I had to cross a bridge. The first time. It gave me the worst feeling of death in the world. CALL ME A PANSEY. I sometimes am. But I ended up calling some friends up to keep me company. Not like it helped. One actually made it worse... T__T you know who you are. 

Anyway. It's my day off and I just finished checking out this one camera shop ($3 for expired film ) and on the way home I had to pass by the bridge again. I finally passed by it during the day and it turns out there's a park entrance to the bridge! I made a quick U-Turn to check it out. 

The bridge during the day.

From the ground

I found a trail to get on top of the bridge

I thought it was pretty cool I got up pretty high

Found some used shotgun shells..

The bridge had rusted railings and had some falling off. Then I thought this would be a good place to suicide. I wouldn't be surprised if people have done it before. So I decided to take a picture as if I was going to suicide.

The people on the ground were just watching hesitantly as I took this picture lol. But after I scanned it... probably because my mind was so set on ghosts and how eerie it was, I kinda made that algae block my ghost.It kinda looks like a ghost?... right? as if the person already jumped? It's something I really wanted it to be. But I don't think I could be as lucky as Lani's photo. 

 

you will shit bricks. gotta love the philippines  

New favorite song. I was walking in Cherry Hill Mall and saw the music video playing. I was listening and was wowed. I stood still till the video was finished so I could find out who was playing and quickly jotted it down on my cell phone to be on my to be downloaded list. 

Now I just bought her 2 albums on Amazon :3 Both are awesome. Support the artist and buy it legitimately on Amazon It's worth the money. At least get her Wild Young Hearts Album. only $6.00! 

 

Buy the album here: Wild Young Hearts

I got lazy trying to make my own 120mm adapters for 35mm film for my Yashica-D Camera because... they keep breaking and I suck appearantly. So I decided to take the lazy way out and see if anyone else has made them. After surfing through e-bay for a little while, I came across this page.

link here

sadly the page didn't show anything of the item they were selling just photographs of what the item could make. It looked sketchy so I didn't care for it.....

.. until recently. I bought it.. for science! and for our curiosity, you and me both. your with me right?! your curious too right?! you like film too right?!?! I hope you do or you would've ignored this blog the second you read the title.

There are the Brackets and It came with a Piece of paper for instructions.

That's what it looks like plugged in.

It looks like... a waste of $12.50.... It kinda was. I was kinda pissed off when I opened my mail to find 2 pieces of crap and a piece of paper for instructions. But. It does work. for the most part. It's a little short for my bracket in my Yashica D and i'm guessing it would be for any other 120mm fim camera. I can see it pop off if your elbow was hit while holding the camera or something. But it will work none the less. Seeing this made me want to make my own version because of how simple it looks. But when will I have the time really. 

All In All. If you don't have much time and have some spare cash in your pocket, it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and buy it. If you have the time to make your own I suggest you do because I think you can make a better one yourself because it will meet your standards. This one did not meet mine, but it works. I'm not gonna complain. 

Oh and don't forget you'll need a 120mm empty spool as well to tape the 35mm film on there to wind the film.

 

welp.. those are my 2 cents. If you wanna get the adapter feel free to go to his store here. He has other adapters for 35mm as well but they all shouldn't be too far off from the ones above. 

Hey guys long time no see. 

I've been pretty busy again with work and what not so please forgive me. Actually there's a lot of other cool stuff going on and i'll post all about it. D: I PROMISE. First off was my vacation to FL to hang with my family whom I see only once in a while. We had a good time, went to bahamas on a cruise. Very relaxing and family-ish. All though there were times I wish i wasn't with my family then so I could properly speak to the ladies  

All in all! a wonderful time spent with family. 

Here are my favorite pics from the trip!

Arrived at Virginia Beach at Fire Ninja to eat with a old friend.

It's too bad the rest of the guys are at the boat. But it was nice seeing Alaina.

The sushi was fantastic along with the cool atmosphere!

1000 Miles Later lol

Arrived home with my very energetic cousins 

Benji is so cute

Then We made my mom breakfast for birthday

Look at the dirty waters of Florida. Feh.

My Father. The Tourist.

Food was inclusive! ALL YOU CAN EAT! AS MANY ENTRES AS YOU WANT!

Pretty Sunsets and neighboring Cruise Liners

My father. The epic Tourist.

Enjoying My view along with good music.

Our First Port Free Port! I liked their phone booths

Lobster Tails... I asked for 2 of them lol

Black Forest

PhotoCred to my Brother. He took a awesome shot.

Our tour guide was funny. From his speech I learned the bahamian dialect. lol.

Excitement in our Eyes

The Sun

And the Moon

Atlantis Hotel's Aquarium

This fish had Herpes hahahahahaha

Party Jellies

Bahamian Flowers

My brothers photocred. Kinda cinematicaly awesome

My father. The sleepy pizza crusted walrus.

The sharks were right below us on this bridge D:

My super sexy beach photo lol.

Why hello ladies.

LOOK HOW DIRTY MY SENSOR GOT!!! :'( I think i cleaned it up though.. as far as I know.

 

Sadly I wish I went and met up with you guys in the NY meet up D: I wanted to go so badly but it was right over my vacation :'( I'll be sure to make it next time it comes around! 

I WILL POST SOON XANGA! PROMISE! I have a lot to blog about lol. On my to blog list:

•Running Under the Influence
•My Vacation
•120mm to 35mm adapter from ebay 
•Dieting

I hope i can do it up soon! but there's so many pictures i took haha! you can sneak a quick peak at my facebook album though. If you really wanna stalk me out.

vacation pics are here 

 

miss ya guys!