Beaten

I tried to be nice, I'm giving life to this machine. I'm building it from scratch. It does not want to come to life.

Window's is installed and no problem have arise. Still, try as I might, I cannot get iBoot to work. I'm not done yet, I'm going to try again when my sata disk drive arrives. Hopefully I'll have positive results to post.

I'm back

New Year, New Rig.

I know I've not posted much in awhile. I've left Hong Kong, and I'm finally back home in the states. I'm going back to school hopefully next month, providing I don't mess anything up.

Side Project 1

 I made a new blog as a way to get the creative thoughts out of my head. I'm new to photo manipulation, but seeing the large amount of "reject" pictures i've taken over the year, I decided to turn them into some stock images and make more things with it. I decided to go with tumblr being my blog of choice due to the nature of this project. It is to be single photos, for people to enjoy. There doesn't need to be a wall of text, and it makes it easier for people to share. (It also helps that the target audience are teenagers, and i'm going to assume that all the young whipper snappers are on tumblr)

Want to tell me how you feel about my new blog?

Want me to follow you're tumblr?

Leave me a comment below.

Until next time,

-Ivan

Before I head back to California next month.

I'm making a list of things I want to do before I head back to California.
1. Go take pictures of the tourist-y Hong Kong/Shen Zhen areas.
2. make plans for photoshoot with at least 1 model when I get back
3. Hang out with some old friends here before I leave them.
4. Beach
5. Hike a Nature Trail/Get sunburned to death.
6. Take pictures of where I live
7. Go shopping for cheap chinese goods
8. Walk the brightly lit streets at midnight
9. Get my hair dyed
10. Play the Guitar with a buddy



Anyone feel they have something to contribute to my list?
Wanna hang out with me when I get back to Cali?
Tell me about it in the comments!

Epic Food Adventure : Taiwan

As soon as I arrived in Taiwan, my friend took me out for food from the Shilin Night market. I stuffed myself with fried shrimp, fried chicken, fried squid, fried tofu. I swear everything taste better when it's fried!
We also had some quail eggs, grilled scallops, and enough tea to last me 2 lifetimes(I can still go for more of that passionfruit ice tea, and bubble milk tea now.)

The following afternoon, my friend took me out to this great thai place. THE SOUP CAME IN A LOG BOWL!!!!

I was so amazed by that.

There was SO much food, this trip, it was crazy. In the end, I still had to make 1 last trip back to the night market and pig out before leaving. Now I can cross "Eat my way through Taiwan" off my to-do list.

Fret not, I still have "Eat my way through: Korea, Vietnam, Japan, India, England, Italy, Greece, France, Spain, and Germany" on my list of things to do before I die, and I'll make sure to record it all here.

Crazy Weather in Taiwan

I just finished my trip to Taiwan! I found the name of this Library very interesting and thought I would share it.
I remembered the last time I got a shot of an "Asian" structure, it got flooded with comments. This time I'll just leave this here!

The weather was like awesome when we landed. Nice atmosphere, great sunshine, and a gentle breeze. Sadly a typhoon came by the third day. I still had 2 days to get some awesome pictures. I'll be talking about my food adventures tomorrow(There's SOOOO MUCH FOOD, & it was ALL so very good!), so you definitely want to follow if you havn't already!
Tell me what you think in the comments! Every been to Taiwan? Seen some crazy weather tell me about it!(I heard about the tornados in the states. my condolences out to anyone, or their loved ones that are affected)

Kneeding Dough

I took a documentary filmmaking class last semester at school. One of the requirements was it needed to be about something in the community. I decided to pitch a documentary about how we had a documentary class, documenting our community(2 birds with 1 stone, right?). Sadly, it was horribly, horribly rejected, and much more complicated projects were chosen(I swear, I thought of the easiest, most rewarding project, and the class blew me off). I ended up joining this group that was doing a documentary in a job training program. It turned out to be really fun. We lost 1 member in preproduction, then we had another one flake towards the end. Basically at the end, it was just the director and I editing this piece and doing damage control. This is the first documentary I've ever done, I had alot of fun doing it, but it just isn't what I want to do as a living. My interest is, and probably for a while will be in Music Video Production, but as a side job, I can possibly get into documentary filmmaking.
Tell me what you think in the comments!
Was it informative? Did it inspire you to do something? Will you subscribe to my youtube channel?
Seriously, subscribe to my youtube channel, I'm in preproduction for a little webseries, and you wouldn't want to miss it!

It's not Hawaii

Guess where I'm headed next for a couple of days?!
I'll give you a few hints.
It's located 100 miles off the coast of south east china.
It's an island covering 245 miles in length
It is often called the ‘Illha Farmosa' which in Portuguese language means beautiful Island.
It is also called the ‘The Kingdom of the Corals'
and it's Taiwan...it's just Taiwan.
I'll try to come back with more pictures than my last uneventful Macau trip!

I'm back!

I'm back.
I found out Macau is the Chinese Vegas,
same feel, same look, same casinos.

Next project

Well that was an exciting week. I still do not know to shoot as my
next challenge, for the time being I think I am just going to look for
things I need to practice more on (lighting, b/w photography, HDR).
I've some plans coming up so content might not be as "fresh" as I will
be showing some of my old work.
Do not fret, as I will be travelig around, and when I get back, I
shall hare with you all tales of my adventure!

Take this opportunity to tell me what you guys would like to see. If
you are feeling socialable tell me tell me of some of your travel
stories! Anything interesting ever happened when you were on vacation?
Meet any interesting people that have a fun anecdote attached? I look
forward to reading these comments when I get back!

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The sky is blue because God used the wrong hexidecimal code.