Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Hello Sunshine













As I woke this morning I was greeted by the sun. He smiled his morning smile brighter than normal for he had been away for a couple of days. The rain had come and gone so I decided to start the day with a little walk around Slo Town. The ground was soft and the plants were wet dripped with morning dew as I strolled rocking out to some Phoenix. Surprisingly I found some cool subjects to shot. I stumbled on a 76' Rambler that was finding his roots in on the side of a Buchoun house. Then I ran into some Iry flowers just relaxing in the sun. Then I decided taking picture makes me hungry is it time for breakfast yet???

But Wait today is the day that Mac releases their new "Jesus scroll" to the world.

Meet the flagship of Apple’s recent flurry of patent activity, a product some have been predicting Apple would release for years: the Mac tablet. This slate-format tablet is as portable as a MacBook Air, but with a twist: It also docks into an iMac for regular desktop work. This is no stuffy PC tablet; expect a fully thought-out interface and a specialized Mac OS update—as well as a treasure trove of innovations that could take this tablet from cool to downright phenomenal.

Based on existing technology, the tablet would feature iPhone-like multitouch, spanning the entire screen. Flitting through images and albums will be as easy as it is on the iPhone and the latest MacBook touchpads. And new gesturing patents granted this year will continue to add capabilities, assigning new functions to more multifinger gestures, full-palm gestures, and stylus data-entry.

When you’re not mobile, the Mac tablet docks into an iMac-like chassis. This may seem mundane at first, but don’t count on Apple leaving this as a simple, dumb display, with a relatively underfeatured tablet shouldering all of workload. Tucked inside this custom iMac you’ll find a larger, secondary hard drive (for extra storage or automatic backups), a beefed-up graphics chip, or even an extra processor, giving the tablet a power boost befitting a workstation. -MacLife




Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Painting With Light







After a full day of sprinkles in SLO -Town I was dying to get outside for a little fresh air. As you know I love taking pictures and cant go a day without capturing something awesome. So this evening I headed to the top of the hill to shot some night shots of painting with light. This technique has been used all over from commercials to ads but its just so fun and easy I couldn't help myself. Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a technique in which exposures are made usually at night by moving a hand-held light source. By utilizing a tripod and a bulb setting long exposures become very dramatic and drawn out making night as bright as day . The Possibilities are endless give it a try.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Toy Town







My Toy Slo Town
SLO City Facts
-Population 44,174,
-The median age is 26 years.
-For every 100 females there are 105.8 males.
-Racial makeup of the city is 84.11% White, 1.46% African American, 0.65% Native American, 5.28% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 4.82% from other races, and 3.55% from two or more races. 11.65% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
(Autual facts and statistics of San Luis Obispo, CA)

Cool PhotoShop effects!!!
By Simply using 2 layers in PS you can alter a photo giving it a shallow depth of field creating a toy model affect. Give it a try Open a picture you think might work well in PS (aerial photos and high angle Vantage-points work best)
Copy and Paste your background so you have 2 identical layers. Goto Filter/blur/Gaussian blur. A Settings box should pop up where you can change the intensity of the filter. I prefer anywhere between 5%-15%. Now using a soft erase tool erase sections of the blurred layer to bring objects back into focus. Practice makes perfect so try it out on couple different photos
Here is a cool Video example of Gaussian Blur....

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Montana de Oro

Headed BlotheC with Viet Mac, A well known Los Gato CA photographer, Last Saturday in Montana De Oro one of California's top 3 state parks. The park lays sixteen miles southwest of Morro Bay and seven miles south of Los Osos. The name "Mountain of Gold" comes from the golden wildflowers found in the park.
Five hundred years ago, when Europeans first arrived on the California's central coast, they found it inhabited by the Chumash Indians. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 of them lived in small villages spread over a territory which extended from Morro Bay south to Malibu. Although the Chumash depended heavily upon the sea, they also drew on many other sources for food, clothing, and shelter, and were probably part of a large trading network. The Spanish Explorers who visited the Montana de Oro area in 1542 recorded that the Indians were attractive, friendly people who paddled out to greet them in canoes.Most died from European diseases to which they had no immunity. The survivors abandoned their villages and disappeared. With them, their customs, heritage and culture all but vanished as well. Traces of Chumash middens (refuse mounds) and village sites can still be seen in the park, but our knowledge of the Chumash culture remains a little sketchy.
in 1892, The northern land was owned by Alexander S. Hazard, who also raised crops and maintained a dairy. Hoping to cash in on California's growing need for timber, he planted hundreds of eucalyptus trees, turning Hazard Canyon into a prospective lumber farm. Unfortunately, eucalyptus proved unsatisfactory for commercial use. In the early 1940s, a flood scoured Hazard Canyon, and in 1947 a grass fire burned up the coast from Diablo Canyon, destroying much of what had been the Hazard dairy buildings. However, Hazard's legacy, the rows of eucalyptus trees, still remains today. Now that you got your facts sraight you can check out some of the photos we logged.



Monday, January 18, 2010

Ghost Village Project

Stumbled on a film documenting the work of the six renowned urban artists Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126 and Derm in that old ghostvillage.

Seeing this video reshaped the way i look at graffiti artists. Hope you enjoy...

The Ghostvillage Project from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.

Wet Week


This week is Going to be a wet on so pull out you rain coats, boots and umbrella's and most of all dont forget to get a shot of cloudy sunsets...

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Brighter Days

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I learned long ago that art is simple. Much like life, less is more, and its times when we are left with only the day we are most happy. no schedule to up hold, no vibrating tele and no man to please is when I feel most alive and spirited. Although most never find the luxury never forget Life is short Art is long.Take the time to stop and look around smell the roses and appreciate lifes everyday beauty's for you never know what tomorrow may hold.


Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Kālidāsa

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Top Of the New Year

Woop Woop!!!!
Ringing in the new year with a little painting never hurt anyone. Feeling Inspired by life these days could it be that I have to much time on my hands???


A great artist finds inspiration in other acclaimed artists of their time. I find myself looking all over for inspiration.
here are some Artists that are are inspiring me at the moment.
-Audrey Kawasaki
-Mike Parillo