Killing a belgian with food and lomokev

Lomokev and Uka acting natural

As hinted in earlier posts, uka paid England a visit and took a eurostar (an eurostar sounds weird) to see us british folk. For those who don’t know him he’s an amazing photographer who does ickle macro photography and lomo photography. He’s got his own style down to a science and pays quite a lot of attention to detail. But yes, do check his flickr account and see for yourself. I personally love his macro photography but right now he’s getting into the serious world of film and lomo photography (which is also brilliant). Anyway, he had a whole trip planned out in which he made sure he visited all the famous London sights (ie Topshop) and meet up with a few photography friends (including me, Alice and Inn). To be fair his visit was originally to visit Alice but I managed to find a way of yanking him over for a day in London to meet up with the other folks.

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Drinking google, listening to digg & wiping facebook

Wipe your Face(book)

Yup, facebook napkins!

Bob has been drinking google, listening to digg and wiping facebook.

One of my rather cryptic messages I posted on facebook a while ago. Don’t think people really got why I said that, so let me explain in a form of an event I went to. I was invited by Stuart to go check out diggnation, a geeky show talking about articles found on digg hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. It was once again, one of my geeky days where I felt like checking out proper nerdy events, even a coworker was going so it had to be worth visiting. The actual event held was talking about Web Apps and whatnot but most people were merely interested in the Diggnation event which was free (and we love free events don’t we!!! YEAH we do!). So yeah, on with the show.

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Shearwater and the love of birds

Shearwater: Jonathan Meiburg

Man, this is a blast from the past. Anyway, a few weeks ago (we’re talking 19th September haha) I went to a gig near Bush Hall to see Shearwater, for those who don’t know much about Shearwater, the band was formed when band members of Okkervil River Will Sheff and Jonathan Meiburg wanted an outlet for more mellow and quieter songs. The cute thing I like about the band is that quite a lot of the names are based on birds, this is because Jonathan studied ornithology and knows his stuff about birds, so the name shearwater itself is a birds name :) . Anyway, I knew they were playing at an ickle venue so I decided to catch them live at good old Bush Hall.

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6 Million Dollar Home Crumpler Bag

6 Million Dollar Home Crumpler Bag on me

A few weeks ago my coworker went to New York, and I was in a gear buying mood (having asked to purchase a 28mm f1.8 USM lens from another coworker earlier on) so I did some camera bag researching since my current Canon one was a bit dated and crumply (funny how I should use the word crumply). Anyway, after much research I found out these “Crumpler” bags which were not only built for cameras (so filled with compartments and waterproof etc), but look very stylish and avoids screaming out the typical “I’m a LOWEPRO CAMERA BACK, I PROBABLY HAVE SOME HARDCORE GEAR INSIDE SO COME ON IN! STEAL ME WHILST I’M OFF PHOTOLISING MYSELF ON TOP OF A HEYSTACK!” (apologies for the painful use of caps and apologies Inn to her lovely shot of her on a heystack (but it defintiely made me think about random farmers coming to steal your gear whilst you’re on top of that thing). The selection was unfortunately limited in the UK so I thought I’d venture into the US for my dream camera bag, and out came the 6 million dollar home.

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320 gigalobytes of fun!

New 320gb Harddrive

mmmm 320 gigalo bytes

Ickle post, I bought myself a lovely 320gb 2.5inch hard drive to replace my PS3′s harddrive. I wanted to fit a lot of TV shows, photos and videos on my ps3 and felt my PS3 is really struggling with the capacity.  It was bugging me, if I wanted to watch a film or whatnot I would have to copy it into a CF or SD card and actually play the thing on the flash card instead of the HDD since it was brimming with videos and whatnot. Games were also starting to pile up so I thought it was best to start investing in a bigger hard drive for my multimedia needs. I bought the badboy from play.com and it arrived pretty promptly at the office. Everything was fine and dandy until I started trying to upgrade the damn HDD. After removing all my music from my ipod to backup my PS3 I was stuck trying to unscrew the damn screws that was securing the HDD to the caddy. I pretty much stripped all 4 screws, leaving the thing stuck. Crapsticks. A lot of searching for alternative screwdrivers was involved and I ended up staying up till 4am finding screwdrivers until I gave up, I resorted in synching my ipod with a fixed playlist of music since my backup stuff were still in the ipod and I didn’t have enough room to store all my music (which was why I was stubborn enough to go searching for screwdrivers in the middle of the night because I wanted to have my music back). I went to sleep, hoping I will be able to solve this damn mess.

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Cold War Kids at Rough Trade East

Cold War Kids

Mmm wide angle shot

Starting to really look up sites like Rough Trade East and Pure Groove Records, they do quite a lot of instore gigs and it’d be a shame to miss them. So tonight I went out to go see Cold War Kids play a quick acoustic set at the Rough Trade East before they jetted off to their proper sold out gig in astoria. It was a quick 4-5 song set but nonetheless a good show to catch in my books (plus it was free, mmm).
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Noah and the Whale live at koko

Noah and the Whale singalong

Tonight I went out to see Noah and the Whale after work, they’re a LONDONium indie folk twee band (based in Twickenham). Not sure why I went to see them but I did, the only song I really knew and liked was 5 years time and 2 atoms in a molecule. The name of the band is derrived from the Squid and the Whale and Noah whatshisface, the director of the film because they’re huge fans of the film, I probably liked them because of that. I’ll keep this one short since so much is happening lately that writing full on reviews and stories is getting harder, besides nothing too interesting happened tonight so there’s not much to talk about!
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Elections: Vote John McClain for president!

Forget Obama! This is the man you should be voting for

You hardly get presidents taking down planes now do you!

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