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This entire week was the cruise trip. 7 days of no internet and everything to do with water~ I place this trip as a 78% satisfaction, with points displaced due to 4th year design project on the line… but at the same time, the vacation opened my eyes...

Wake up at 5:45... go looking for a "bar" in downtown palinuro ("in paese") where I can get a croissant ("cornetto") and a expresso with a hint of warm milk in it ("eSpresso macchiato"). The run over to the port to take some sunrise photos of the boa...

The above movie takes you on a walk through Rome. If you like shopping, this is the walk you have to take... if you miss Rome, these are the places you used to visit on a Sunday. To make this video, I took over 300 photos (collages here), walking fo...

Three shots - bam bam bam! (Some advice at the far bottom). Took these photos at the Griffith Observatory. on a weekend the place fills up - a lot. Suggestions: drive up to the observatory at least an hour before sunset.  park on the road to...

I got the Manfrotto MKC3-H01 recently. It's a compact, super light tripod - while versatile, its main focus is being light and small. Here is my quick review. I dont know what professionals review tripods on, but I'll give it my best shot. Travel-f...

I Typically dont put in other people's posts into my blog - i.e. I dont "borrow" - but this is such a good link I think I might just go ahead and start doing it :) Useful advice on how to get more traffic to your websiteCreative Commons License Fee...

The past few weeks have been busy… not because I have a lot of work to do, rather just a lot of gaming and movie watching activities that take up my time to write blogs. This is Robo, everyday he has to kneel down to open the office door... FAIL The...

Piazza di Spagna... 1 am on a July night. Truth is, I really do like photos where I can capture beautiful surroundings and the people therein at the same time. People give the settings life. The setting elevates the people. Love it :) PS: more ph...

Above is what Anatole Broyard said about Rome (literally: "Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."). He could not be more right. The city is so beautiful and such a mess at the same time... there is magic and there garbage. Far from being a...

Ever wanted to go shopping in Rome? Here is a bit of "virtual window shopping" for those who love the historical center of Rome. For those who have never been, this is what you should expect. The collages below are made of  almost 300 photos of door...

Experiment time! I made this short video using the Picasa video tool - and now I can say... "not a big fan!" Issues: It does not let me play with giving different photos different "air times" - especially the final credit one. The copy slides have t...

さらば BITCHES!!!!!!! FINALLY. FINALLY! No more Robbers (aka Rogers) and Fido. FINALLY! BUT OMG…ANOTHER POST? …moving on~ So after using my N82 for god-know how many years (at least 6?), I finally got a new phone, the Google Nexus S. Why the hell di...

Went for a walk to ponte milvio to get a quick aperitif. Normally go for the Crodino, made the mistake of getting a Campari... it was ok, nothing more. But it did help with the extreme heat Rome is suffering. Above a photo of the locks that young co...

Really quickly from Cologne - a couple of photos "under the dome". Creative Commons License Feel free to use photos with credits and links. No commercial use without permission.

“YES I PASSED THIS DAMN PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!” OMG A POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! …anyway moving on. Seriously, that essay last time took my hair out. Mark just came out today, got a 75%. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Well one bad thing, since the essay is worth 25%...

Friday night was quite lonely the majority of the day. Had meetings at work and projects to finish before I leave. A lot of work crammed in a short period of time. At least I am enjoying my last work term and the few days that remains. At night, I go...

Piazza di Torre Argentina, in the historical setting of the center of Rome, is known for the large amount of stray cats that inhabit the ruins at the center of the piazza. Rome is known as the "City of Cats" and this is one of the reasons why - right...

"Where I found the Ohmu Shell" - Tokyo, Japan. I used the sharpening tutorial I found at the "Perfect Photo Blog" for this photo, applying it against some detailing and sharpening in Topaz Adjust. I hope you like the result. The photo was taken in T...

YES I REALLY REALLY ?:”{}@!&%) HATE THEM! So yeah, umm, wow…been more than 2.5 months since I last blogged orz. Now I usually spend most of time on Twitter, and there is nothing really worth blogging this past 2 months. Well it was terrible to say th...

Took a walk last weekend from Abbot Kinney to Venice Beach. On a nice day, half of LA throws itself down the 10 and towards Santa Monica, Venice and other LA beach towns. A walk from Abbot Kinney to the beach gives you the best of two worlds - first....

Here is the link and here is the page below :) This is a work in progress and my tutorials are quite "raw", but here is a bit of my experience shared. How to Make a Photo Mosaic - ever seen those photos made of hundreds or thousands of other photo...

August 4th, Saya's birthday It was a busy evening - 20 chiropterans had appeared on the outskirts of Sydney, so Saya had to work late. Meanwhile, on my end.... I seldom dress up, so felt a bit... Life, travel and subcultures on and off the int...

As I'm getting ready to go to the next Gamescom in Cologne,  I recently went back to see some of my old Cologne 2010 images (link, link, link and link). When observing this (above) image from last year I however determined it did not amaze me as much...

For those who remember the Piano Man photo, many people (uhm... more like a few, well... almost nobody, but they were important!) have shown interest into figuring out what most of thew crowd was doing, rather than listen to the Piano Man. Nothing e...