I dig the look of this footage.  The camera is cheap and toy like.   It’ll remind you of a Holga or an 8mm.   Check out the review on “Four Corners Dark”

Review : the digital harinezumi 2

Hmmm.  Drags its heels.  But it’s got a nice intro.  Kinda reminds me of Chris Cunningham’s work. Mathew Barney too.

Holidays. Late night. Watching movies.   It makes me want to shoot. Photos. Videos. Kinda feels like being horny, but for shooting. lol

Sunday morning. Cereal. Playstation3.  Beating Modern Warfare 2 & Assassin’s Creed 2, back to back.  Yeah, it doesn’t get any better.   So glad to have some free time on my hands.

This weekend, I organized… everything.  My work desk.  My photography gear. My presentations. My finances.  I cleaned my house.  I cleaned my room. I cleaned up my iTunes.  I added a bunch of apps & music to my DROID.  I cleaned up my RSS feeds / Podcasts / Google Reader.   Scheduled all of January 2010 in my calendar.   I ate well. I hit the gym (to work of all that holiday eating. Mmmmm). 


I also reread through a couple Malcolm Gladwell books: Tipping Point and Blink.   Great stuff.  Blink is particularly interesting. It is about the subconscious processes we go through to arrive at ideas.  Supposedly, nature has designed us to make rapid choices automatically for all kinds of reasons:  survival, creativity, socializing, etc. This subliminal cognition can result in prejudices, like racism and sexism, but they are also fundamental to our survival.

Blink stipulates that certain ideas (i.e. epiphanies) can only be reached by not thinking, and allowing your mind to make abstract lateral connections subconsciously.  

Training and putting in serious brain work are important.  It allows you to do a highly orchestrated series of choices, without thinking.  So when its game time, and things have to get done on a set or on a project,  you can let go and do whatever feels right. 

Once things are in motion, the best work comes from forgoing introspection and relying on your reptilian brain.  This approach is universal. It works for athletes, dancers, fighters, models, actors, artists, soldiers, firemen, businessmen, generals, day traders,  gamers, all kinds of professionals really. 

I learned a lot about unlocking this specific kind of creativity when I used to compete in Tekken tournaments.  Even though there are hundreds of thousands of players, each with their individual play styles,  I generally divided all players into 2 categories.   Some players I liked to call “Data players” and other players I called “Feel players”.  Data players are the kind of people that know everything about the game, and everything about their opponent, and with the right training, they could execute and leverage all that “intelligence” to win, a whole lot.  But at the end of the day, I always believed that “Feel players” were better,  faster, and came up with more interesting ideas, because they never had the process of thinking to slow them down.  They would just “be” and “do”, and there’s a lot of strength in that.

My brother was kind enough to host the family for Thanksgiving this year. While everyone was in the kitchen cooking, I snuck out to the living room to shoot a quick video of his cat, Howard, as a surprise thank you gift. Thanks bro!

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

“There’s your environmental solution guys… [if you want to reduce air pollution] make it mandatory for child-molesters to drive Porsches.”

Chris Anderson on FREE: The Future of Radical Price

“The underlying economics of digital…  it costs almost nothing… it only gets cheaper [over time]…  Its unprecedented. We’ve never had an industrial economy that is deflationary.”

My photography website now has live streaming, real-time video… fed directly from my Motorola DROID camera.

http://Live.DerrickGomez.com

Photography by: www.DerrickGomez.com




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This video is awesome.  Check out the cool stop motion “camera moves”.   hah.  It also makes me want to shoot photos real bad. Look at all the toys. lol

I’ve been shooting a lot of still life photography lately. I like it because it simplifies photography down to its core elements: Subject. Camera. Light.  That’s it!  There’s something nice about that. Ok. I’ll post some new shots soon.

Woah… My old grade school, P.S.22, has a popular youtube video!??!? That’s so cool.  And lol @ the S.I. accents.  Hahahah.



I remember sitting in those auditorium chairs.   They made us sing the traditional school song which went: (ahem) “PS 22… give a helping hand…  brotherhood and future good, peace throughout the land.” lol

Have you ever revisited your childhood bedroom or an old grade school classroom? These places tend to look a lot smaller than you remember them, but they haven’t physically changed in size.  So why do they look different? 



The video above claims that you don’t see with your eyes, you see with your mind. Sight is created through associations between what your eye senses and your personal database of life experiences.  How you see things thus is dependent on your ecology, i.e. your interactions with others and your interactions with your environment.

This is interesting for a number of reasons.  The most obvious one is that this theory of sight postulates that everyone sees the world differently because everyone has their own unique life.   On a base level, you can say that there are no absolute colors.  The red I see is not the red that you see.  

The natural extension of this idea is that your perception of reality is based on the association between sensory information collected by your eyes, nose, ears, skin and tongue and your individual life history (as opposed to a perception of reality that is commonly shared amongst all people). 

“Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.”

VIA NY TIMES 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?_r=1

Araki is a photographer’s photographer. He has published more photography books than any other photographer in history, because he shoots non-stop, every waking moment, every chance he gets, as if his life depends on it.