Testing my New Camera Canon PowerShot S5 IS

Photography oh yeaaa... .
It sounds simple for some but its serious business when it comes to my field.Soon ill have more and more design gigs coming up,which means greater demand for pro photos.So I figured instead of paying a photographer i rather just learn photography on my own. I decided to get semi pro camera i had limited budget so i was choosing between Fuji film fine pix and Cannon power shot s5. I chose Cannon since it was capable of add ons such as adding lenses and,external mounted flash which, i will definitely need to upgrade in near future.

So i ordered it few days ago and it came in mail so i went to park by my house and took several test pictures and messed around with settings.I liked the fact that it has really nice manual setting that lets you tweak the back light and balance settings.


Such Image as this i was never capable of taking with my regular consumer electronic old Kodak camera.I took this while walking and with image stabilizer. Cool new feature that cannon has.











This one is great >>>>>>>
Just show you how dull this area can be . Its beautiful fall day, it has all these chess tables next to Hudson river, and beautiful Panorama of New York City, yet there is no people around. I guess they rather go to mall and spend times consuming then relax and play some chess outdoors. Its pretty sad when you think about it Hudson square park by my house its in Urban Area yet, its always half dead.










So this is the view of New York that I've told you about.Its over looking Hudson river and its perfect for anyone who wants to relax during the day and just enjoy outdoors. I did this which Stitch assistant. It lets you take several images and shows you where to take another one once they are uploaded on a computer you can stick them automatically without, time consuming Photoshop clipping. Which i think its a very nice feature for starter photographer.


This photo is my favorite It has that cold feel of blues to it. You know that its a cold November day just by looking at it.










This was one of the last pictures i took. It really caught my eye that tree is right in middle of steps so i figured it would make a nice peace.

So far These are pretty much first pictures that I've took with this new toy.I got plenty more that need to be taken so i can get better in this field of art. Ill try to catch up by the end of this month.

Revival of my working skills !

So hello there once again. I didn't write for a while since I been very busy these past few months. And then again i should of still took some time to write a blog or two but I didn't. I been pulling so many hours working two jobs it was ridiculous. speaking of jobs....

So It was August last time i wrote something back then i was penny less and disparate to find any kinda job and nothing was going on. So i found this gig city which was nice little pocket change but still not enough to make a living . And then on September 17 the day i got my drivers license strange thing happened. So i am in line at the motor Vehicle facility in Lodi ,New jersey waiting for my id to get printed and all the sudden phone rings.I don't usually pick up the calls of numbers that i don't know but this was different, since it was real early i know it was important call either a job offer or emergency. I picked up and the recruiter of an agency that i signed up for was on the line it took me a while to figure out which staffing agency it was since i signed up with few. So there it goes the same day i got licence i got my first design gig in Clifton New jersey. I was like oh boy this is good i feel like million dollars i cant believe this is happening . All summer it was nothing all i did was stay at home and pound on my play station since i didn't have much money to be hanging out at bars and so, and now i got two positive hits in one day. Life really comes at you by surprise. Just like bad things add up, one after another so do good things.

So busy times came. There has been so many things that happened this fall but it would take me two days to write it all maybe even more. All i have to say is that from this fall i really good great working experience. Speaking off that school ... yeah right I mean i learned alot in my high school and collage but no school cant teach you anything that goes on in real working environment. Only way to learn skill is to be around it on the field and network with people that are same profession as you. Regardless of their trade white or blue collar.

So I have to end this post soon because i am thinking about way too many things and ill end up just jumping from one subject to another.I'll try to be on blog more often so this random summarization of a whole 3 month period doesn't happen again. All i gotta say is Happy Thanksgiving and folks don't give up no matter whats the situation.

peace !

Oh yea! It will be Mine! Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable!!

It will be mine, oh yea it will be....
No kidding I just tried it out in the city at this record store Academy that lets you listen to the records before you purchase them, and it was like a love on first sight!

Just check out the specs:
Universally acknowledged. Built-to-last. Industry standard. Coin-of-the-realm. All of these phrases apply to this quintessential pro DJ tool. The SL-1200MK5 follows on from the classic SL-1200M3D with new features that include:

Non "click" Pitch fader

Pitch reset button

Recessed power Switch

New long life cue lamp

New increased anti-skate adjustment

Quartz Direct Drive accuracy, with continuous pitch adjustment up to 18%

Very high torque motor for quick start-ups (only 0.07 seconds stop to speed)

Custom brake speed control

Non "click" pitch fader

LED pop-up work light

Built-in anti-skate adjustment up to 6g

Arm-end scale for quick Weight setting

Molded aluminum diecast cabinet and heavy rubber base material help absorb unwanted vibrations from the dance floor

Includes Technics slipmat & scratch mat

Highly sensitive low-mass tone arm with gimbaled suspension

Includes removable hinge-free dust cover

Silver finish

Cartridge required -- not included

Its pricey but come on if you are real audiophile you wont really care much about cash.It ranges from
$ 400 to $ 600 depends on a seller.

Summer update!

Summer time of 2007 " good times" right i didn't do much at all it also had to do with my lack of motivation.Well anyways there are at lest few positive outcomes at the end of this summer. I got into Montclair state university and i finally went to the beach. Not just walked around the coast with full gear on boots and other crap. But I've actually dipped in the water.

Well So Here it goes on Saturday night at the rooftop party, Lauren asked me if i wanted to down by Garrets so we can all meat up and go to beach it sounded like a good idea so I agreed. Reason i didn't manage to go yet is that through out the summer something kept on popping up and I never managed to go. Well this time it actually happened.Lauren picked me up around 11: 30am and we, got to Garrets house in Jackson around 1:00pm. We figure that it would be a great idea to Invite Dan and Lizzy to meet up with us so we can go all together.Since Lizzy was down by the shore since past Monday, but on way to Sea Side Heights where Dan and Lizzy were at ( for all you people that are reading this and have no clue what Sea Side is, its Guido capital of New Jersey at least for me) there was way too much traffic so we just went to closest town around and went to the beach in town called Bay Side and figured that we will meet with them later on that night.

This might sound dorky but i really like sand and The Ocean and I finally get to take my sneakers of and set my towel on the sand and just dip straight into the ocean.

Oh man it meant allot for me its like instant release of stress and all the agony thats been building up through out of year.Well yeah so after first dip i laid down and relax on the sun. Good thing i brought my Boom box Lauren had some good tapes with her too i was listening Destructor's at first not really beach music but, once that was done we were listening to Gen X it was great.

Time went on after we where done with water we packed up all tired and tan went to meet up with Dan and Lizzy.As soon as we got to Seas side and the boardwalk we got some food.I got nice thick Angus burger with Cheese and Dollar beer on tap. Cant beat that! By the time we where almost done Danny boy and Lizzy showed up Dan didn't have a shirt on he was showing off his Tattoos well ,WHO wouldn't if i had that many tattoos i would be doing the same thing.Duh.
So we decided to play some game we went to Shoot the Geek ( Its American Board walk game which they give u 100 rounds of paint balls so you had this guy in protective suit and a mask who really looked goofy and pretty much all you do is make sure you hit is as many times all over his body. Girls got teddy bears for the price and me dan and garret got satisfaction!

Oh boy there is more to boardwalk story but i don't feel going through all the details because not all of them where that fun. We got back to Lizzy's rental house we chilled there for a bit and then went back to garrets.At Garrets we watched a pretty good Film it was called True Romance Quentin's Tarantino's directed it.It was great not as funny as Pulp Fiction but I really got into it. After movie we just crashed out i was so tired my hands felt like there where not mine, i didn't swim since last summer.

So yea my point is that I should of been more motivated this Summer for activities such as these. I just had too many things going on in my life that i couldn't think straight for past few weeks , thinking about fun times and going to the beach was a last thing on my mind. Anyways overall it turned out to be good Summer Conclusion so i hope that i will manage to catch one or two more nice worm beach days.

Waking up. My head Feels HUGE.

Dang so I've just got home this morning at around 6: 30 am eastern it was an interesting party that I haven't seen before yet. The building that we where at was an old warehouse turned into an apartment building and party was on the rooftop the way to get on the roof was by climbing these metal leathers that didn't look much safe.My friend Willy had this huge Box of Beer and he claimed up with it i was so I worried that he might slip and fall but it worked out ok.

Once we where all, uh yea excuse I forgot to tell you I was with Joe Will and Lauren so anyways, on the top there was at least 150 people ,party was huge I never seen that many people on a rooftop well, even tho this is one of my first rooftop party's but still. This was like a scene from a Independent movie it was really cool you could see New York and Brooklyn skyline from the roof and since it was outside it wasn't that hot because we got there at 12 am by that time heat calmed down and this nice smooth wind started blowing off the East River. There was wide variety of people there mostly collage students From all over and few locals that i didnt spot till later since it was kinda dark out.

So first things first we drank a couple of beers and i deicided to cruise around and check out people around party or any girls that i cant talk to. So far i talked to few girls they seemed kinda dull so i returned to the spot where Will was at, with our beer and grabbed one more beer. So we where talking for a bit and then all the sudden This Kid that I had no clue Ifhe was on some sort of pcp or whatever started Freaking out and throwing beers all over random people good thing it didn't get it on me I hate when strangers mess with my self.So night goes on I went around and bumped into Max! Brooklyn max 57 crew hehe first things first I didn't see him since Geo left for Greece which is more then a month ago so i gave him swig of my whiskey and he gave me nice big gulp of his Beer. I finally spotted there someone i know so i brought all my friends to hang out "with tha crew ya know".Instantly as soon as we settled down on the other side of roof by Maxes friends I bump into Tom from flash attacks and it was weird Because this is very Contemporary gig last thing that i expected is seeing someone like Tom or Max. There we had a little chat and stuff about things and how we miss the old times about Frank the don how he crashes his Buick's and Cadillac's so it was entertaining.

Time goes on so party is about to split I just knew it as soon as i seen these shady characters trying to sell me some shit. So around 2: 45 Joe and Lauren split and i decided to stay with Will and crash there.I also bump into this girl Rita from Fort Lee we are not like close friend but ok acquaintance's. As soon as Lauren and Joe left there was a cop car in front of the house .Everyone start packing up and yes I didn't get girls as usual. Ha so me and Will are just chilling there until pretty much me and him and the cops where alone outside on the roof so we figured it time to leave.We where outside of the building for 15 minutes after that talking to some drunken idiots.

We left and something made us go back probably the fact that we wanted MORE out of everything.We get back and its even worse then I thought me and bunch of these Phantoms are just sitting on the roof top while they where smoking weed, mood was soo Beat there was nothing there for us anymore. I tell Will: "Lets go man this is pointless, we will sleep on the train or bus on way to my house". On way back we missed our stop in stead of 42st we get out at 35th ( subways system at night is worst it can say F train yet it would be running on an A or E line.) we got out the Subway station and walked 7 city blocks.Blah i am hungry at this point so i get a Gyro at this place it was a WORST GYRO that i EVER tasted in my life.Meat felt like these sharp nails are scraping my throat and vegetables seemed stale and i almost puked after wards i couldn't finish it so chucked the other half.Willy was sleeping by this time on the steps while i was bitching about my Gyro.To make long story short so i finally get on this small Private bus that runs to my town well check it this one is actually not running to my town. Its running to Fairview. Through out bus ride Willy was sleeping i cant fall sleep while i am on a bus i was just looking out of window and checking people out.At night there are usually the most interesting people riding these buses.After 40 minutes we got off at 90th street in Fairview .Not to mention that cops closed the half the main bus route so bus had to find a Detour.

Dang
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Here we go again with walking we had to walk 10 more blocks to get to my house we get there and Will actually chose not to stay and crash , Just to get into his Ford and get back home, whatever i was fine with that .I get home and i don't remember how i got into my bad as soon as Willy left i blacked out. I woke up about a Hour ago and now am writing this. It was one of those days you know I just had to do something and have a great time.
So what did you do this weekend?

So i guess this is my first one!

Hey its there folks.
So today is Saturday afternoon and this is my first blog.

For a while i taught these things where waste of time and pointless but ,lately I've been reading my friends Adnans blog and i found it very interesting by everything he analyzed such as: His work, His trip to Edinburgh, weird myth about Bosnian Pyramids which is busted and so on.So i think this is good way to inform the world about personal current events and also to get things off my chest once in while.

Have a good night and Stay in trouble!