So it's been almost 3 months, and I only started working on the Album art about 5 days ago. Talk about procrastination... -_-;

The finished product looks a little different that what I originally had in mind, but it works, I guess. Uploaded it to my deviations (along with the new eggshell mascot... woot!)

Anyway, I'm out for now. Ciao!

Yup, that's the name of the choir I'm a member of. It comes from the greek word "kinema", which means "movement".

Speaking of movement, I was tasked to make the album cover art for the new CD we'll be launching by the end of the year. I was actually tasked to do it... well... a year ago, and it's only now that I'm getting the juju (yes, I like that word) to work on it again.

I used the original idea of "movement" to convey the art that will be used in the final design of the cover. Oddly enough, I didn't have my camera on the day of the photoshoot for the cover art, so I ended up borrowing a Sony P&S for the captures.


Point be told, the final pictures came out in a mess... and to make things worse, I was a total noob at the time (a year ago), so the strobes were all set up wrong, and I had shadows placed all over the place. To make things worse, I used a white background, and some of the models for the shoot wore white clothing... you can imagine the pain I had to go through in getting rid of the background while preserving the clothes...


However, a year has passed and I'm not so "noobish" anymore. I know what I did wrong, and I've even devised methods of clearing up silly mistakes, such as eliminating the white background while preserving white accents on the models.

The moral of this story? Experience pays off. I'm glad I stopped working on the project for a year... it gave me time to learn more techniques and build my confidence in making this design a success.

So more power to me and wish me luck in this endeavor. I'm psyched up and ready to go!

It is a piece of junk.

No, it's a piece of shit.


No... shit is still better than this stupid excuse for scrap metal. It is pathetic.


If you own ANY hardware by LaCie, ditch it. Their products are horrible and they clunk out of commission with a high failure rate.

I just lost all of my data backed up on the external HD by LaCie. This is shit. I had over 22 GB of videos and 5 GB of images that I have yet to work on...

My projects are all in there... what the fuck am I going to do now that the photoshoot pictures for an album launch I'm working on have all disappeared?

Reading LaCie's customer support center just pisses me off even more. They use highfaluting words like "we have stringent product control procedures", when in fact 90% of users who have tried the product all report THAT IT FAILS.


If you have any product by LaCie, back up your files. I mean it. Don't be the fool like me who procrastinated about backing up his files. I was fooled. This sucks. I'm really pissed. This sucks monkey fuck... I'm fucked... shit.

Yeah... Shutter winding.

Apparently, there's something wrong with an Nikon N90s that my friend received from his brother. He knows nothing about cameras, but I had to stick my nose into the affair and make it obvious that I had my eyes set on buying his camera for a relatively cheap price.

Looks like that price is going to drop down a good amount.

After receiving the camera to test its condition, I noted a problem with it, so I had it sent in for servicing. Oddly enough, there was a problem with it, but the "Authorized Nikon Service Center" I sent it to couldn't fix it under the reason that "they no longer had parts to film cameras, since most people were into digital, nowadays".

Can someone run that to me one more time?

How can an AUTHORIZED service center NOT be able to service a camera, which is OBVIOUSLY Nikon, and was made just TEN years ago? They can't give me bullshit like "it's obsolete", simply because a huge chunk of their clientele includes PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS who opt to using FILM CAMERAS as well. How do you cater to them if you can't even fix that???

Something sounds fishy, and it just pisses me off hearing a load of crap like that. I was keen on having the camera fixed so I could get on with some of my photography, especially since my brother swiped both the Digital and back-up Film SLR at home...

Now I'll have to take some pictures with a dinky Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX10. Oh well... that's life, for you.

I'll have that N90s fixed by hook or by crook... mark my words.


Oh, as with the shutter winding thing, that's the problem with the camera. I have no idea what it means, but my guesses are that there's a problem with the shutter winding mechanism. Duh.

It's been a while since I've EVER updated any of my new captures... and for good reason.


For quite some time, my brother has been using the camera and has been having more opportunities for taking good stills... I, on the other hand, am left to rot in Medical school where I can take nothing better but fellow medical students rotting, or better yet "festering", in their god-forsaken seats while listening to the most uninspired lecture about the heart and it's major vessels.


It's a sad life... to quote Jim Conrad: "Droll thing life is..."

Indeed, he was right.


But even if this is so, I've been taking the time to take pictures with my Dad's runic Nikon EM. Yes, it's film... Yes, it still works... Yes, it takes excellent pictures, if not better than most digital cameras out there.

I have yet to take any good picture with it, seeing that many of the captures I've taken are... well... you can guess.

Med school does have it's toil on the photographer. If only I could take pictures of cadavers and patients, but there's a code of ethics that binds us from doing stuff like that.

Frustrating, and stupefying at the same time. I'm losing brain cells by the minute.