You probably want to check out @doglovershub to see if any of your photos have been stolen and reposted without any attribution. After I was alerted that my photo was stolen, I looked through the blog for only a couple minutes and found at least 5 photos that were recognizably taken from photographers in our community. I’m going through the blog to report all of my stolen photos to get them taken down and you may want to do the same. :/
My dad and I put up Halloween decorations this weekend, and our dog Shiku noticed we put real pumpkins on the mantle. He growled at us because he wanted them. We didn’t have the heart to say no, so we gave him this one. He seemed to like his treat / chew toy.
Photos taken October 8, 2017, on a Samsung Galaxy S7 with no editing (because I’m a lazy bones).
I haven’t posted here at all in the last three years or so. I got caught up with life: my dog, working full time, moving around a few times, and getting married. So much of my life has happened since then, and although I’ve captured much of it on camera, I didn’t really bother to post it here.
So I’ll try to start again.
My puppy visited this weekend! As you can see, we played Duck Hunt together. Minus the evil 8-bit laughter, of course.
These days, I’m taking fewer photos since I started collecting amiibo. Finding and buying them is a big time sink, but so is the process of customizing them.
Here, I added wings on Mario’s hat. It’s my first time sculpting, so I know the wings are messy, but it’s fun to learn new art forms.
In the background there’s a Yoshi I painted blue and will customize further. I’ll post pictures of the process and results once I’m finished with that.
I went to a video game-themed concert series called Rockage at San Jose State University this weekend. It’s affiliated with MAGfest (Music and Gaming Festival), though Rockage is much smaller in comparison.
The first photo is of Super Soul Bros., a jazz band, as they played a set of songs from Earthbound. They played chill songs like the song that plays when you have coffee with Mr. Saturn, as well as more energetic tunes like the song the Runaway Five plays in the game.
The second picture is of Bit Brigade, a rock band that played music to accompany their speedrunner’s play through of Metroid. He played the game from beginning to end, while the band played the game’s music, fanfares and all. It was a really invigorating experience as a crowd to cheer the gamer on and hear live music back him up at every stage.
The last picture has two instant photos I took with my Lomo’Instant camera. The top is a simulated game of Pong designed by the SJSU Game Dev Club (it also had other images and patterns running through it throughout the weekend), and the bottom is a long double exposure of Bit Brigade’s performance.
Overall, it was a busy, fun, exciting, and tiring weekend, and I hope to go again next year. And I’d like to go to MAGfest, too, if I have the opportunity to fly out to the East Coast to do so.
Moody Clouds
I developed some film at home, but I don’t have my scanner with me right now. Expect actual scans in a few weeks, but until then, here’s a picture I took against a window using my cell phone.
Ami’s about to drop some sick beats.