A how-to and a really really really cool video

Okay so!

For those of you who asked how I made those polaroids from.. 2 posts back..

Go to this website http://www.poladroid.net/ and download the software.

It's seriously simple to use.

I am the most technologically-challenged person ever, and I was able to work my way around it.

Advice: Don't wait for the final result photo, cos the final result tends to be a bit too contrast-y that it doesn't really look like a polaroid. So what I basically did was, I right clicked on the photo every 10 seconds or so while the colors "set in," and I clicked "I want a sample now." Then, after the polaroid was completely done (there's a magic "DING!"), I opened the My Pictures folder, and chose the polaroid with the best colors.

You'll see what I mean when you use the software, sorry if I confused you.

But anyway, here's what the photos looked like before:

(I'd edited the contrast and the vignette options beforehand using PhotoImpact and/or Photoshop)

Ta-da!

OH and as promised, here's the really really really cool video:

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

*Watch it here if the vid's being stupid. But the quality on Vimeo is better.

Please, please, please be patient and give it time to load before you watch it so you get a smooth playback.

It's worth it.

I've watched it at least 10 times already, and I'm not sick of it.

It's called the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.

It's in Japan.

It's the second largest aquarium in the world.

And umm..

I really wanna go there.

So yes. Be good! Take care =)

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taking the midnight train to anywhere

it's music slash photos time!!!!

with a quote or two.

i don't want to waste my good quotes on this post cos i'd rather use photos i didn't take for that!


so i recently turned a bunch of my pictures into polaroids.

i think they look much better this way, but i still want a real polaroid camera.

i still want to take a photo that will take my breath away.

if you're interested to see what these looked like before i edited them, let me know.

and if you want to see more of 'em, let me know.

** p.s. blogger totally butchered the quality of these photos. must they be so small?! and when you click on them, must they be SO large?! i'm sure there's a way to fix it.... but i'm technologically challenged. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Eisley - Just Like We Do

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

~ Joe vs. the Volcano

'If only.'

Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I love that feeling. You know, the one you get when you take a deep breath and suddenly everything feels like it's going to be okay. When you're hopeless as can be, and life is going nowhere, there's those moments we have every now and then where we just stop, and we get this feeling, that can't be described, but you just.. you just feel like everything really is going to be okay. Like the world stopped spinning for a second, and everything was clear. I need more of those moments.








take care, be good, don't drink and drive

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