Yes, so, back by popular demand… I’m recording again! This time I wanted to go back in time and chose a Tom Waits song. Audience of one, does this appease you? 
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New video. Ah, Jacqueline Novagratz says it best: “poverty is not just a condition of income, but also the condition of choice”. Education, you are such.
- Winnie
After being a nerd for so many years, I finally decided that my femininity needed a shakeup, so in my vain attempt I decided to recorded Amy Winehouse’s Losing Game. Not my usual taste in music but it’s one of my favorite songs to date.
This is my very first recording ever and it took me about 8 takes, 3 hours. So be nice. And thank you for all those who got involved. =o)
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I had no idea people still read this thing, but somebody has recently told me that they miss my updates. Of course, I was very pleased. Unfortunately, that feeling was quickly replaced by guilt when I realize that there aren’t enough updates to keep anyone entertained for more than 10 minutes. So in order to make up for lost time, I’ve decided to let you see the most embarrassing side of me — My family! I’m kidding mom!
My siblings and I were trying to entertain mom & dad for the weekend, so here we are with a reworked version of Thriller and some really great (NOT cheesy) dance moves.
Yes, Hows it going, shameless?
PhotoTachometery! (For my non-engineering friends, that’s not a real term)
Anyway, life at a startup is great. We shell out a couple grand for equipment but most of the time use it for non work-related projects. I guess you can say that I’m on google time.
So, I’ve currently held a Tachometer hostage:
Yup. I’m not giving this baby up for a while.
The fate of the Universe was decided in two minutes. But me? .. It took me an hour to drive to the hills, another hour to get this shot, not to mention, an entire week of patiently waiting for the moon to leave the sky enough to capture this shot. By any standard, I’m unremarkable. So the only thing I could think of to do today was to capture something remarkable.
And here it is:
Don’t lie– you’d kill for great macro images on your iPhone. But fret not, as there exists a fairly simple hack.
Because the point of focus is beyond the image, we will need a positive lens to pull the point of focus towards us. Typically, any double- or plano- convex lens will do. These are very easy to find as they exist in throwaway cameras. In it, you will find a series of simple tiny lenses which you can put in front of your phone’s camera for optimal focus.
Here’s the best part though… I keep a few lenses in the coin section of my wallet so that I can have instant access to good macro images wherever I go. That makes me “cool” right? No? Well, wait until you see my before and after images:
So there you have it. I’m cool.
I would go a long ways to take a great photo, yes, but rarely is the story behind each composition as interesting as the composition itself. One look at this, and it takes all the ’sass’ in me away. I’m completely humbled by this moment.
Vegas last weekend, Yosemite this weekend — it’s the opposites of worlds brought close together. Vegas is always incredible fun, but it is still a modern mockery of the past. Yosemite, you are soul and character, the way I need it.
A very beloved co-worker asked me to post this picture somewhere. So it is here. But only because I was forced to.
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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” – Albert Camus
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