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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Post No#100

This is my 100th post!
Im super busy this semester, having minimum 4 committements to prioritize at all time: Microsoft, MMSS (Monash Marketing Students Society), MPC (Monash Photography Club), and uni, naturally.
If you want to head straight to my rant on video games, its right at the bottom since i have no photos to accompany it.
But if youre here for my photos (the main point of my photoblog), then here is a series of photos that i managed to snap in the past weeks.

Brighton beach houses. Taken during MPC trip there. Nicky is my secretary on my MPC committee. She does a great job!
 I favour cold toned photos. Most of you who do photography with me, or are in my club would know this :P
 More cold tones. For a uni assignment we had to visit a farmers market freaking 2 hours out of melbourne to do research. It was absolutely freezing that early in the morning.
 I wore mustard chino's (not visible in this photo), a silk shirt (i love my silk shirts), a burgandy cardigan (burgundy is my favourite colour, ive got almost one of every item in burgundy), a leather jacket, and a scarf from the $2 shop (i love plaid scarves). Also wearing a mimco necklace that is supposedly gold plated, but who knows...
 This is from the MMSS Double Denim party. I recently became a part of the Monash Marketing Students Society, working on the MINDS team (Minds = Marketing Industry Development Scheme).
My good friend Sagie (above), is the president! We used to work together at Optus, so its good working with an old buddy again :) (He is pretty awesome).
 Some other cool MMSS committee people :) Jenny from Social, and Tara from Minds.
 Conor from Digital.
 Sam from Minds and the other guy is from social im pretty sure, but i cant remember his name!

 Microsoft were generous enough to send me this package :D I was so excited opening it, even though i knew what it was. I love opening presents.
 Photos for Microsoft - of me using my new headphones! (They are Beats Studio)

 This is at Lancefield Farmers Market. Strawberries are one of my favourite fruits, and the ones they sold here were DIVINE.
 Each bite = perfection.
 This was from ages ago! I did a shoot with a muso.

 My take on Gossip Girl! Next episode comes out this week.... ive been waiting like a month. Speaking of tv shows, alot of my favourite are finally returning! Revenge for one, is resuming this week again. So is Game of Thrones! (Been rewatching old episodes. Daenerys is my hero <3)
The dress was a present from my mum, and is from Asos. Was very expensive, and is made out of chiffon silk. And i love chiffon anything. Ive got soooo much chiffon its ridiculous!
 I got this top and skirt from Chadstone. Hint: Its not actually a skirt, its a skort! Which is fantastic cause i dont have to worry about the wind blowing it up and stuff...
Also lately ive been in the habit of wearing gothic style chokers, or really chunky statement necklaces. Pity the more complicated they get, the easier they break :(
 This was before the semester 1 MPC welcome party. I absolutely ADORE this pleated leather skirt. Leather was in fashion, like, start of last year. But it was so expensive, like $200 a piece, and i wasnt into leather then. I had to search high and low to obtain this skirt! (Cause its not in fashion anymore)
Its one of my favourite items of clothing, ever!! And it fits me like a glove :) Its got a pretty narrow waist... i was worried cause i bought it online!
 Top is from Asos. Features a pleated collar! I love pleated stuff.
Also, these photos are very few of the warmer toned photos i have...
One thing that is incredibly important to me in clothes, is the fit! So so so often i find clothes that dont fit me. They are always too big, or just not cut well (perhaps cause i shop cheap). Good cuts and well fitted clothing is sooo essential to looking good.
This cheap blazer is from supre of all places. But they make small sizes, like XXS and XXXS, so this blazer is the only one ive ever found that fit me well!

Lately ive been playing shitloads of xbox. Dance Central 2 for Kinect, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Skyrim, and Saints Row. Im super impressed with Kinect, it can detect up to 48 points on your body, and that means you REALLY ARE the controller! Its totally different to just using Wii, or PS Move!
Im about halfway through FF XIII-2, its taking me forever because im playing to 100% game completion, side quests and everything. Not to mention farming and grinding.
I started playing a bit of Skyrim, but havent progressed very far because i KNOW its going to be massively time consuming, and i dont want to get hooked right now cause itll affect all my other committments greatly!
I never considered Saints Row, untill a fellow xbox-er at this video games club i joined at uni lent it to me. Its fucking amazing. Like GTA but BETTER. I love being able to do as much shit as i want that i could never do in real life! My favourite thing is probably riding my pimped out motorcycle around town, with my very bad female asian driving skills. I really like motorbikes, and would love to ride one in real life, but for now, SR3 is good enough :3
SR3 is also a third person shooter. Which is really good cause i prefer third person games/rpgs. I started gaming 2 years ago on ff13, and that was third person, so i guess im used to it. Im also terrible at shooting, so SR3 was really the first time i had a decent attempt at it. Im proud to say im actually not toooooo terrible. Im probably a worse driver than i am shooter. In third person that is. If it was fps, id be absolutely fucked. And also. I HATE dem brutes. So fucking hard to kill. At least my health regenrates incredibly fast.
Games on the "to get" list:
Batman: Arkham city. Another third person rpg kinda. Also NO SHOOTING thank fuck! Lotsa melee :)
LA Noire. Ive heard good things about this game. I also like that 50's set in the past theme.
And since im borrowing SR3 and Skyrim, ive gotta buy my own also, so i can play co op online. Hmmm i feel like im missing some? Dont know which though.
Others im looking at include: diablo 3, mass effect 3, dragonage and darksouls.

Also i just noticed sherlock holmes listed as an upcoming game. Gonna keep an eye on that one! I loved the films, and sherlock holmes is also set in a vintage theme like la noire :D Also i cant remember him using guns alot, so im hoping itll be mainly melee.
Far Cry 3 is also coming out soon. Matt is really pumped for that one.
Kinect star wars sounded promising untill i saw the trailer and gameplay..... eh i think id rather just play it with a controller.
Anyway, thinking about games is making me want to abandon my computer and uni work and head to my xbox so i can bash people up with a giganti purple dildo in saints row 3 Or drive over them with a tank. Or parachute from my penthouse. Or hijack a million cars and add them to my collection. Attempt to find every model of motorbike in SR3. Buy new clothes. Upgrade my weapons. Do side missions. Improve my driving and shooting skills. Attempt to pass my next mission without failing -_-

Wow i cannot believe i wrote that much! I guess it makes up for my > 1 month absense.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Reveiws and photoshoots

When i bought my ipad stylus from Dagi, they were generous enough to send me a few extra stylus' for me to review. I have the P504, P601, and P602.
P504 and P602 have the same capacitive tip, but one of them has a pen on the other end. 

 In order from left to right: P601, P504, P602. 
I gotta say, i prefer the P504 and P602 tips better. The P601 tip makes squeaky sounds, and has to be help on a certain angle.  
They are REALLY good for accurate drawing though! Just some quick silly sketch... I suck at shading. 
 
Curlformers :D Pretty sure ive been rambling on about there to anyone who will listen!
 I either sleep in them, for really defined curls, or just leave them in for a few hours. 
Btw vintage shirt i got from an opshop ^_^
 
*NONE of the following photos have been colour corrected/edited at all! Straight from the camera* 
MPC held a city workshop this weekend.  
 Matt reluctantly posing for me >:D
 Hosier and Rutledge graffiti lanes. (again)
 Heres a sneak preveiw from my shoot with Emily. None are edited. 

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Tigger and bubbles

Ive been so busy lately. Ive got a TO DO list with over 30 items on it... except that each task is not "do dishes", they are "summarise lecture notes, and finish 100+ pages readings" and "complete editing for clients" and "update photography on ALL websites" and "apply for jobs" and "start and finish assignment"... and so on. Each task requires 2+ hours... and ive somehow got to finish it all today (if possible). 
Time to get cracking!

Btw, MPC headed out the Botanical gardens (again) on a particularly rainy day. 

***None are edited! (Im too lazy)***
Gil in her Tigger suit... with BUBBLES! They are such a great prop for photography. 
Bubbles = Happiness. 
CHOMP!


Wheeeeee~ 
 Dreamy~
Models: Gill (tigger) and Pearl. Thanks for modelling pretty ladies!

Ive got a whole list of blog posts upcoming. 
Some of them include...
- Emily photoshoot
- Curlformers review (if youre a chick reading, stay tuned for this one - they are amazing!)
- Winter lookbook (nothing great... just stuff ive been wearing to uni, and getting weird looks)
- iPad DAGI stylus review (if youre a designer/artist, watch this space)
- Fashion blogger photoshoot (in the near future)

Also i just want to put it out there, that this blog is the one i maintain the MOST. So if youre following my other websites (*looks pointedly at tumblr followers*), it would be a good idea to follow this blog too, for more regular updates. 
I tend to just slap a whole lot of photos on tumblr, all in one go, every few weeks, to keep it looking pretty hehehe. 

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Pool

Some mpc folk and i went to the city last night, to saw bye to dan before he left. Photos from last night. 
As you probably have already guessed, none are edited. Straight from the camera. 
 Music note lights from slow shutter. 
 This was at Caulfield train station. 
 Pool balls
 I am very very very terrible at pool. Words cannot adequately describe how terrible. I was all sorts of fail. 
 Pearl was awesome at pool....
 Pearl getting her pro pool skills on. 

 Ball in motion. 
More of Pearl. 
Taken with a Carl Zeiss manual lens. 

For readers interested in my hair tutorials, ill be putting up another variation of the vintage low updo
soon. (A more lazy effort one for reducing time spent on hair)