We got enough snow to go play in last night. Too bad we had to go out at midnight to enjoy it, but that is when it came.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I missed blogging for around a month and so I am dropping some pictures to let you know what I was up to. We started our final thesis productions, so I have been very busy working on my classmate's films. We have been to Putnam Conn, where Ben is from and then back to NYC where we have been freezing our tails off.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Hey Everybody,
A quick letter to concert goers accross the world. As you will read I have been to a couple of concerts recently and I have noticed a disturbing trend in camera use ignorance. Now when one gets the urge to capture a moment in time a digital picture is usually the medium of choice due to the ease of the technology and the handy portability of the modern device. So let us say we are in a dark concert hall and this person gets the urge to capture the moment their rock heros are blasting eardrums and cleverly twisting the english language to music. Now I have noticed the intuition of this goer is to grab that digital camera and start flashing pictures left right up and down, which is not only blinding everyone with multiple red-eye reducing flashes, but also not capturing the moment to their dismay. School Time: a typical camera flash is meant to illuminate the photographed subject from between five and fifteen feet (various models will yeild varied results), but the point is that around fifteen feet or so is as far as that flash will be effective in brightening your image. Even if it does show up on the subject at various distances beyond that maximum mark. So as I watched many a young rocker shaking their head in distress and then quickly throwing their hand back in the air to try agian, and again, and yet again to capture rock hero swooning a hundred feet away. School Time part-2: A camera captures an image by allowing light in through the lense to expose a celluloid strip (film) or a processor that digitally captures the image in zeros and ones. The lense controls the amount of light let in by opening in diameter more or less, which is called aperture. The point for fan boy rock star is that if the camera is set on flash it's aperture is set lower because the image, if within the correct distance, should be quite illuminated. Sooo... if the subject of your photograph is beyond the capabilities of the flash your picture will actually be darker than if you would have left the flash off to begin with. Which when used properly would save my eyes, as a fellow concert goer, the bands who I am sure would appreciate a lack of popping bulbs, and your photos, which will be dark, will be brighter and better in no time flat.
Your Friend
Eric the concert goer Strahl
A quick letter to concert goers accross the world. As you will read I have been to a couple of concerts recently and I have noticed a disturbing trend in camera use ignorance. Now when one gets the urge to capture a moment in time a digital picture is usually the medium of choice due to the ease of the technology and the handy portability of the modern device. So let us say we are in a dark concert hall and this person gets the urge to capture the moment their rock heros are blasting eardrums and cleverly twisting the english language to music. Now I have noticed the intuition of this goer is to grab that digital camera and start flashing pictures left right up and down, which is not only blinding everyone with multiple red-eye reducing flashes, but also not capturing the moment to their dismay. School Time: a typical camera flash is meant to illuminate the photographed subject from between five and fifteen feet (various models will yeild varied results), but the point is that around fifteen feet or so is as far as that flash will be effective in brightening your image. Even if it does show up on the subject at various distances beyond that maximum mark. So as I watched many a young rocker shaking their head in distress and then quickly throwing their hand back in the air to try agian, and again, and yet again to capture rock hero swooning a hundred feet away. School Time part-2: A camera captures an image by allowing light in through the lense to expose a celluloid strip (film) or a processor that digitally captures the image in zeros and ones. The lense controls the amount of light let in by opening in diameter more or less, which is called aperture. The point for fan boy rock star is that if the camera is set on flash it's aperture is set lower because the image, if within the correct distance, should be quite illuminated. Sooo... if the subject of your photograph is beyond the capabilities of the flash your picture will actually be darker than if you would have left the flash off to begin with. Which when used properly would save my eyes, as a fellow concert goer, the bands who I am sure would appreciate a lack of popping bulbs, and your photos, which will be dark, will be brighter and better in no time flat.
Your Friend
Eric the concert goer Strahl
Camera Obscura
Concerts seem to happen in pairs for Amber and I. Two days after a fantastic Shins concert we had the pleasure, along with Lucas, of seeing Camera Obscura play in Brooklyn. They are a Scottish pop band that I have been trying to get everyone I know to listen to, It's even working in a few cases. Anywho the band was a lot of fun and put on a very good show. So check them out they are a blast.
Concerts seem to happen in pairs for Amber and I. Two days after a fantastic Shins concert we had the pleasure, along with Lucas, of seeing Camera Obscura play in Brooklyn. They are a Scottish pop band that I have been trying to get everyone I know to listen to, It's even working in a few cases. Anywho the band was a lot of fun and put on a very good show. So check them out they are a blast.
Holy Shins
Amber and I stood in the cold for an hour and a half to buy the new Shins album @ 11pm the day before it was officially released. In doing this we were awarded the opportunity to stay until midnight and see the band perform in the Virgin Mega Record Store Cafe. After standing outside for about an hour Amber questioned whether or not this would all be worth it. That was until the band came out and began the first song of the forty-minute set, Sleeping Lessons, the first track from the new album Wincing the Night Away. It was one of the coolest concert moments I've experienced. It has the most rockn' guitar The Shins play and the song sets it up very well. All I can say is buy the CD listen to the first track and then think about that song ten times better because it's live. Anyway the band played a great set and even played most of the theme song to the Golden Girls TV show becuase the third season was being released on DVD the same day as there CD.
Amber and I stood in the cold for an hour and a half to buy the new Shins album @ 11pm the day before it was officially released. In doing this we were awarded the opportunity to stay until midnight and see the band perform in the Virgin Mega Record Store Cafe. After standing outside for about an hour Amber questioned whether or not this would all be worth it. That was until the band came out and began the first song of the forty-minute set, Sleeping Lessons, the first track from the new album Wincing the Night Away. It was one of the coolest concert moments I've experienced. It has the most rockn' guitar The Shins play and the song sets it up very well. All I can say is buy the CD listen to the first track and then think about that song ten times better because it's live. Anyway the band played a great set and even played most of the theme song to the Golden Girls TV show becuase the third season was being released on DVD the same day as there CD.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
BEST OF 2006
Albums:
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins-Rabbit Fur Coat
Camera Obscura-Let's Get Out Of This Country
Cat Power-The Greatest
Pearl Jam-Pearl Jam
The Killer's-Sam's Town
The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
The Decemberist's-Crane Wife
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Show Your Bones
Looking Foward to in '07...
The Shins
Arcade Fire
Block Party
(fingers crossed) Interpol
Movies:
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Marie Antoinette
The Fountain
United 93
Thank You For Smoking
Brick
The Proposition
On My Way To The Theatre To See...
Children of Men
The Good German
Worst Movie Of The Year (Maybe of all time?)
X-Men III
Dark Horse for Best Movie of the Year come Oscar Time...
She's The Man (Amanda Bynes is sooooooo funny)(No seriously you guys get it on video and tell me you don't love it)
Favorite New Hobby of '06:
Listening to Podcasts on the subway-Creative Screen Writing & Filmspotting- Two Faves
Albums:
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins-Rabbit Fur Coat
Camera Obscura-Let's Get Out Of This Country
Cat Power-The Greatest
Pearl Jam-Pearl Jam
The Killer's-Sam's Town
The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
The Decemberist's-Crane Wife
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Show Your Bones
Looking Foward to in '07...
The Shins
Arcade Fire
Block Party
(fingers crossed) Interpol
Movies:
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Marie Antoinette
The Fountain
United 93
Thank You For Smoking
Brick
The Proposition
On My Way To The Theatre To See...
Children of Men
The Good German
Worst Movie Of The Year (Maybe of all time?)
X-Men III
Dark Horse for Best Movie of the Year come Oscar Time...
She's The Man (Amanda Bynes is sooooooo funny)(No seriously you guys get it on video and tell me you don't love it)
Favorite New Hobby of '06:
Listening to Podcasts on the subway-Creative Screen Writing & Filmspotting- Two Faves
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