Podcamp Day 1
Thanks Ryan for making and posting this video with the first day of Podcamp Hawaii ’08.
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As the official photographer for Podcamp Hawaii I get to take pics! 
Check the Flickr account for Podcamp Hawaii.
Official Photographer and Speaker for Podcamp Hawaii
Not only am I speaking at Podcamp Hawaii, but I’m a sponsor! yay!
So if you’re not doing anything and you’re going to be in Hawaii this Friday and Saturday you MUST come to podcamp. It’s free and you’ll learn how to effectively use social media and what it’s all about.
Podcamp Hawaii – I’m on TV!!!
Podcamp Hawaii is going to be totally awesome. If you’re into blogging, podcasts, wordpress, any social media then you totally need to come and join us. I personally am looking forward to the WordPress track with Matt Mullenweg and of course getting to geek out with all my Hawaii Tweeps (Twitter Friends) and Manoa Geeks.
Podcamp Hawaii will be on October 24 & 25th and it’s totally FREE. Seriously, you need to come even if you have no clue what the heck I’m talking about. That’s even more reason to come.
Kinkajou! Everyone’s Favorite Potos Flavus
While attending a fair in Santa Ana, El Salvador I got to meet a Kinkajou. The cutest little animal ever created.
Kinkajou care sheet says:
Kinkajous are generally quiet and docile, and they have no noticeable odor. Because they are slow and languid, especially just after being wakened from a nap, they do not particularly like quick sudden movements. As a rule, Kinkajous are gentle and nonaggressive most of the time, although they can get wound up and become quite playful, and like to “dive bomb” and pounce on you from high places!
Although primarily arboreal and nocturnal in their native habitat, they will play on the ground in captivity, and if you spend a lot of time playing and socializing with them during the day, they will sleep at night. However, be prepared for the fact that they may also want to play and explore much of the night, and a good sized cage with branches is usually the best night-time solution for them if you want to get any sleep!
Dive Bomb!? How awesome!
So now you know what a kinkajou is but they must cost a lot of money right? Well, I’ve been researching and looking around online for breeders and the cost is roughly $2-$3,000 to buy and transport a kinkajou. I think that’s a great price for such an awesome pet don’t you? I’m not going to get one now of course. However, one day when I have a family and a house and I settle down and stop living the gypsy life, I’m getting a kinkajou.
Here is a National Geographic video I found about kinkajou’s. I haven’t heard it yet because I’m currently sitting in Hawaii Public Radio helping take donations over the phone and they’re on the air but I’m pretty sure it’ll be a good description.
Here’s a video that I found on youtube of a baby kinkajou.
Pretty awesome eh?
Neil on the Financial Crisis
As the photographer for Congressman Neil Abercrombie I get the privelage to an insight to the political system. Here Neil speaks about his recent trip to Ohio and the financial crisis and the bailout. It was a very interesting discussion and I wish I had recorded the entire conversation but even just this snippet that I captured was still great. You may agree, you may not, but he does say some very interesting things. He talks about how these major corporations committed fraud and that they should be held responsible.
To Watermark, or Not to Watermark?
“Love when photographers plaster their name & © all over an image. It’s like a chef peeing his initials onto your mashed potatoes. Voilà!” -Merlin Mann
Watermarking has always debated on doing. As a photographer I find it hard to paste something over my photos. By drawing the eye away from the object I was photographing I was ruining the photo. What was the point of expressing myself if every photo had this ugly stamp on it? Well, in the end I decided to go ahead and start watermarking all of my photos. Let’s run through the pro’s and con’s.
Cons:
-Asthetically displeasing
-Makes me feel like I’m expressing myself to be a professional in places I just want to have fun (ie flickr)
-Less likely to have my photo used across the internet
-Nice to have flickr as a photo-backup system but with watermarked that can’t be.
Pros:
-Always gives me credit for my work no matter who takes it and embeds it elsewhere
-Establishes me as a professional
-Limits the number of people that will “steal” my work
-With the new “Orphaned Works” Law I can be sure that my photo will not be justifiably stolen.
-If the artist or blogger forgets or just blatantly doesn’t attribute credit It’s not the end of the world.
So as you can see the pro’s out weigh the cons. I have had some photos make it BIG and later only to wish that I would have placed a watermark somewhere before hundreds of thousands of people made it their desktop wallpapers and blogged it all over the internet.
With this decision you will start seeing almost all my “serious” shots with watermarks.
What do you think?
Explore’d
I took this photo a couple months back while on vacation in Oregon. I saw this field while driving from Salem to Silverton, Oregon in an attempt to pick up my girlfriend, at the time, from work. I got horribly lost but enjoyed the view. I took her back the next day so we could take photos.
9.4 – Oh yes!
So, just for fun and out of curiosity I decided to put myself on hotornot.com. HotorNot, is basically a website that allows you to rate people based on their aesthetic appeal and also at the same time lets you be rated as well.
Maybe out of curiosity of what people thought or how I’d measure up I decided to load some photos of me and retrieved the following results.
I just thought it was hilarious is all…
Photos on Explore – #61-#66
Now I know I’ve been extremely neglectful with my blog lately but I’m not going to apologize. I’ll just do better. Since I dropped off the blogosphere I’ve had some additions to flickr’s explore. Enjoy:
#61
#62
#63
#64
#65
#66 (On this photo the corners are white b/c they are rounded. It looks great when the rest of the website is white but in this case it isn’t so just try to use your imagination ok? Awesome!)
Dumb & Dumber
This lady walks into Glazer’s yesterday and I just thought her jacket was hilarious and asked her if I could take a picture of it.