Are wii fit?

I keep forgetting that I have to write stuff for this thing. So anyway I brought myself another Wii the other week. Yes, another one. Two reasons why; 1. My sister currently has my first one I brought it's now in her possession and she's already brought other games for it so it might as well have it anyways, she is only 7. And 2. Lots of games are either out or coming out that I want to get for the Wii.
So yeah...I brought another one for my room, I brought it from Game.co.uk in a package with Mario Kart, but since the limited availability of the game, I got the console but not the game :(
I even managed to get a hold of Wii Fit, before I got Mario Kart and Wii Fit is out of stock everywhere.
Now I'm not exactly the most out of shape guy in the world, but its kinda interesting to see how you average, and its saves me buying some scales I guess.
I also got Super Smash Bros Brawl too, that is a very fun game, I used to play on the previous version on the old skool Nintendo GameCube. It was a lot of back in the day.
Well thats pretty much it for today, see ya.

Photography

So the other week I brought myself a nice digital SLR camera. I have wanted one for a while now but I didn't really want to spend lots of money. It started when I was looking at a lot of pictures everywhere like flickr etc and they all look amazing, I wanted to be able to take pictures like that. At that time I didn't want to spend thousands on a SLR so I decided to get a standard compact camera.
My idea was that I thought that if I get a fairly expensive compact camera maybe I would be able to to take some pictures like an SLR, but that didn't quite work out as planned. The pictures I took still looked "normal" I didn't really know what the difference between a SLR and a compact camera image was, but I could SEE it.
I also wanted to take "interesting" photos, what I mean by this is images that you can usually see with the naked eye. For instance images that have been taken with a longer exposure time or with a fast shutter speed etc.

The more it stuck in my mind the more I thought about it, every picture I looked at from then on I noticed you could tell what type of camera it was taken with.
Then recently I decided I would get a DSLR camera, I looked around on the internet and found quite a lot of bargins so in the end I decided to get a Nikon D80, I found lots of positive reviews on it and it also came with a decent package with a len.

So now that I had my camera I took me a little while to understand all the features it has. (I still don't understand some of them now) I've taken a few pictures now and I understand what that difference that I was trying to get at before, it was 'depth of field' its strange how this small feature can make a huge difference to a picture. If you don't know what I mean by dof, its when the subject of a image is in focus and the background is out of focus.

I've been playing around with my camera now and I'm still just experimenting with the different settings, but I'm really interested in night photography, so I'm going to try and see what happens I guess.
I'll be uploading most of my pictures on my website, which can be found at www.kevin1ee.com


Thats all for today.

London Adventure

So yesterday (Tuesday) I decided last minute I would attend a Terra Naomi gig at the Troubadour. It was to be her last gig for a while since she had to go back to LA. The gig started around 9pm so I had plenty of time to get there. So I set of at somewhere around 2-2:30pm I figured if I take my time I wouldn't have to pay for the (stupid) congestion charge in London since they don't operate after 6pm.
I stopped off at a service station, to fuel up the car and me (food that is not gasoline, that would just be silly).

I'd found a nice car park using my Sat Nav which is only a few meters away from the venue that Terra was playing. By the time I'd got to the car park it was some time just after 6pm so I was doing well for time, but as I got in the car park I realized that it closes at 9pm! So I had to find another car park which operates 24hrs. This was not an easy task. So I searched my Sat Nav for another car park that was open 24hr, turns out that most around that area close. I did think about parking road side, but I'm kinda afraid that it might get either broken in to or other. Also I wasn't sure if I was allowed to. So I decided I would park at a familiar location, a car park I knew was 24hr, so I drove to Hammersmith. For those of you who don't know London geography Hammersmith is around 2 miles away from the venue. I didn't mind too much a little walk would do me good and I'd get in some sight seeing. Although by this time is was around 8pm already.

As I was walking in the general direction of the venue, I went past Hammersmith station, I starting thinking hmmmmm....?! (Thats me thinking). I decided I would take the tube to get there it would be much quicker. So I went in the station and I purchased myself an Oyster card. (Can't be bothered to explain this now, go google it). I have never used the Oyster service before but when I was in Hong Kong around 4 years ago?! They have a similar system (which they had way before London introduced their version I might add) so I knew what I was doing. I put £10 on it I figured that would do me. So I got to the tube and checked to station that was closes to the venue, it was either, West Brompton or Earl's Court. I decided to go to Earl's Court (it would mean less changing) so as I got to the platform I noticed quite a few people standing around. Then I heard this over the tannoy "Sorry but the district line has been delayed" (that was my line) Great! Typical, the one time I decide to use the tube its delayed. i managed to get on at it was ok.
I eventually got to the Troubadour and it was around 9pm. When I got in I realized it didn't start at 9 as I had previously thought. Oh well Terra didn't start her set yet anyway so I was fairly good. I didn't notice that it was only a small venue there were tables and chairs, but they were clearly all taken. So I got to stand at the back of the room, which was ok I guess.

The lady (sorry I forgot her name) who was performing as I entered was pretty good... I think?! I couldn't hear her too well, either the speakers weren't turned up enough, or everyone was talking so loud, how very rude.
After she finished there was a small intermission before Terra came on, I quickly noticed the room started filling up, I guess everyone came to see Terra. As she came on stage, as she started singing the whole room was quiet, it was very strange, you couldn't defiantly feel everyone in the room had a lot of respect for Terra. She performed a number of acoustic songs, which were amazing as per usual. As her set came to a close she mentioned she would have a few cds etc for sale, clearing out some old junk. After she finished she came out with some of the stuff she had for sale. I noticed she had a number of the 'Virtually' cd, I have been wanting one of them for a while now, I thought this would be my chance! As the crowds started piling at her I decided I would be a gentleman and let others speak with her, as I was in no hurry. I figured it would be easier to wait it out. By the time everyone had finished hovering around I found myself by Terra, I spoke to her briefly and complimented her on her performance. I notice that there were no more of the album on the table. I asked if she had anymore, she said no. I guess it is true what they say; "Nice guys finish last." She gave me a Terra Naomi bag though, that was cool now I have something to put all my Terra Merch in. I did also get a lovely picture of taken with her.



By this time it was getting late and I have a long journey ahead of me, so I decided to head off. As I left I went back to the tube station and got the tube back to Hammersmith to get my car for the long drive home again. Before I forget, I wasn't planning to go by myself, I was going to invite my friend along too, but he had to work.
So now by the end of the night I am a now an owner of an Oyster card with around £7 on it, which I probably won't ever use and a Terra Naomi bag. All in all it was a good night.

SFX updates

Just an update to let you know that I made a youtube channel just for my special effects projects. I will post them here:

http://www.youtube.com/kevin2ee

Not sure how often this will be updated but never the less, it is there.

I bid you ado.

Hero

So last night I finally go around to finishing the book started a while ago, Heroes: Saving Charlie. I had only read a few chapters the first time round, then I put it down. Then last night I decided to read a few more chapters. Turns out I finished the whole book. I was so immersed in the story I wanted to find out what happened next.
I don't very often read books, but I decided I wanted to get this one for two reasons: 1. I don't read very often and this would be a good idea to start. (obviously) And 2. Heroes is sooooo cool!
Hiro is probably my favourite character from Heroes, I guess it's because he kinda reminds me of me in some ways, except without the whole time travelling ability of course.
I really like this book, it really does give a lot of interesting story to both of the characters and gives you more story about them both. Although some of it is still confusing to me, maybe someone who has read it can help me out, either that or I'll just read it again.