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Lomography is Not Cheap, But I Like

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 2:18 am -

I kept my two toy camera, a Holga and Diana F+ with Fisheye in the cupboard for a long time because I didn’t really have to time to take out to shoot but recently, I brought them out and shoot all the shots I’ve left in the film.

After getting the film to processed, and saw the outcome, my interest came back again. Have been surfing and checking out a lot of toy camera lately and my shopping and wish list increases.

OMG! I am so poor right now. Toy camera is cheap, the build quality is also cheap but I tell you what, it’s not a cheap hobby! Because you will have to spend for films, different type of films, send to shop to process, then scan into digital, it will be expensive.

Well, if you are into it, feeling arts, be sure you save a lot of money, earn a lot of money and never count how much you have spent, it will be a lot.

More shots are coming, don’t wanna post it all once. Not fun. Haha. By the way, the above shot is I did the scan from negative myself. Not bad right?

Tags: Arts, hobby, interest, lomography, Photography, toy
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4 More Days Left Until SPM Ends

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 27, 2009 – 2:35 am -

The SPM is very long, it started from 18th November and will be ending on 14th December which is almost a month, but then the exams are only 9 days and 5 days had past.

Not going to say so far so good now because the last paper I had on Wednesday, Additional Mathematics was pretty challenging, managed to finish all but then I knew I already got a few answers wrong. So hopefully, A it will be.

Tuesday was Moral paper, it was good because I’ve got all the moral values and definition in my head, it still running in there now, I just blah everything out on the paper. That’s the simple part of it, hard part was, a single word different from the definition will result a zero marks, hope I did no mistake.

I had plenty of time after that paper because it ended early in the morning.

Arron.

Wen Quan.

Charles.

Day 6, Additional Mathematics day was like an outing day for me. After paper 1, we had 4 hours in between until the next paper starts. Some went home, to sleep, to read, some stayed in school, some went I-got-no-idea-where and for me, I didn’t want to go home because I didn’t feel like reading, moreover modem spoilt and I couldn’t go online.

Chien Chern, Boon Hooi.

Found friends who were going out and joined them for brunch at Air Itam.

After that, went back to school, finding everyone didn’t want to go elsewhere and nobody wanted to go out with me, so I went to town alone, Prangin Mall, to buy a new modem and to develop my 120mm film. I just got plenty of time at that time, to town, buying, photo shop, and back to school, it just took me an hour.

When back to school, there’s like an hour more till next paper, real bored.

Forgot to mention, that whole day was black and white day, turned on black and white setting and mounted a 50mm lens. Weeeee, and thanks Jing Min for the last shot, skilled.

Tags: Black and White, BNW, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, clhs, Friends, Lifelog, Photography, School Life, spm
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My 2 Favourite Short Films Made From Canon DSLR

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 16, 2009 – 9:25 pm -

I have a new interest lately and that is making video. This interest came to me after I’ve made my very first short film, Don’t Eat My Pringles and have been Googling a lot for the techniques and stuff. I don’t really have a pro cam, but I do wish to own one and that’s why the Canon EOS 7D is in my wishlist now. Canon EOS 5D Mark2 is just way too expensive and it cost almost RM12k while the ONLY option is Canon EOS 7D at around RM6-7k.

That’s a good all in one deal with microphone input, photographic lens, 1080p video shooting. If you buy a HD camcorder roughly says RM3k and a static 35mm adapter to use the photographic lens on the camcorder, it will be total almost RM4-5k. I am sounding geeky here, to make it simple, video DSLR is more worthwhile.

And here I want to share 2 short films that I’ve found in YouTube which made from Canon DSLR.

Tags: art, Cool Stuff, geek, Photography, Short Film, video, Videos
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5SA1 of 2009 Class T-Shirt

Written by Nicholas Chan on October 31, 2009 – 12:24 am -

The class I was in last year (4SA5) was fun, the class I am in this year (5SA1) didn’t disappoint me and it’s fun too! Met a lot of great, happy, cheerful and clever and have no regret for the class I am assigned in (so do last year).

Tomorrow, we will be having a farewell, gathering dinner at Town Steamboat and everyone from class 5SA1 will be attending including a few of our teachers. Looking forward! One thing is that we made ourselves a Class T-shirt and will be wearing to the dinner place.

Thanks Adrian, Juan Shong and Shi Hun and everyone for putting up the idea for the T-Shirt. Here it is.

5SA1 of 09, I will remember you. (4SA5 of 08 too!)

Tags: 4sa5, 5SA1, chung ling, Class, clhs, design, DIY, high school, homemade, t-shirt
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I think someone copied my namecard design

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 25, 2009 – 10:25 pm -

Just recently, I found out a Leo Club’s namecard design is so much similar to my design. It’s just almost the same except with a different font. Well, obviously my design was being copied and I am not saying anything because I didn’t put “copyright” or something on the card.

Top is someone’s, below is mine.

Anyway, just glad that there’s people look good on my design work. If you were to copy my design, please don’t claim it’s your design, I didn’t say you did but please don’t, perhaps said the design is by nickchan.net. Hehe.

Tags: copy, design, fun, LOL, name card
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KLue Urbanscapes 09 is back in town!

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 22, 2009 – 11:59 pm -

Hey Guys! The Urbanscapes event brought to you by KLue and presented by Xpax is back this time on 27^th June 09 at the KL Performing Arts Centre. I believe some of you may have not heard about this event before and this is my first time knowing this too and so it’s good to share some good things with you guys.

The Urbanscapes 09 is an annual user-generated all-day creative arts festival and will featured a lot of cool content like music, arts, film, theatre, fashion, marketplace vendors and many more. It’s a must-not-miss for an art person.

It happens from 12noon till 12midnight, for sure that you will find a lot of fun and entertaining stuff at there.

This thing was already here for the past few years. The previous Urbanscapes was held at various place before like at Grappa Solo and KL Sentral and this year will be at KLPAC.

If you are a freelance artist, designer, musician, arts lover, photographer, film director, or sort of, you can showcase your work too!

For the entry ticket, it is priced at RM25 (via Presale) and RM35 (at the door sales).

Good news to you if you are an Xpax or U.O.X. user. The first 200 Xpax or U.O.X. users who reload RM30 or new customer who buy RM30 with free starter pack will get 2 FREE tickets each. If you are the unlucky one, nevermind, you still can purchase the ticket at the door for RM25 (non Xpax/U.O.X. user RM35). Simple enough right? Kill two birds with one stone! =D Cheap call rate mobile simpack and free tickets.

Not enough? Join the X-Snaps! Photography contest!

I know you love photography, or else you won’t be here at my photoblog. This is a photography contest that is open to Xpax and U.O.X. customers and will be running from 27 June to 11 July 2009. Just snap photos which are related to Colour, Fashion, Music or Design, with your mobile phone or your camera during the Urbanscapes event.

To know more about the contest you can visit this link or go to visit Urbanscapes website to know more about this event.

You will be there right? =)

Images from [urbanscape and xpax]

Tags: Arts, cheap deal, Event, Festival, Happenings, kl, kuala lumpur, Music
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