More Nostalgia

As I was posting my "Where's Waldo" post, I was listening to some of Joe Satriani's "Strange Beautiful Music" Album, and I was thinking "This music would make a perfect soundtrack if they ever made a Mega Man movie!" Then it hit me, you all have been there before. Nostalgia. You smell a familiar scent, hear a riff from a song you loved, but haven't heard in years, or see a familiar feature in the face of a stranger and it hit you like a ton of bricks. It hit me in an unusual way...I become temporarily obsessed with tracking down my old NES from the boxes in my basement and playing some 8-bit goodness. I found my NES, but alas I was missing the power supply, so I opened every box I could find. When I finally tracked down the original power supply and plug it in...nothing. The supply was dead.


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There was only one thing to do, I scavenged the house looking for a 9V 1.3a power supply with the proper sized plug...it took about an hour, but I found a generic supply that worked great! I popped in Mega Man 3 and I was up until 1AM last night trying to beat Snakeman and Hardman while grooving to that awesome music I remembered! I'm finding the game SOOO much harder than I remembered it.

That's one happy guy there!
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I dare not try to plug the NES into my Samsung 1080p LCD for fear it would spoil that nostalgic feeling...
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Edit: for those of you out there who were either too old or too young to understand what I'm all excited about... the NES is Nintendo's (the company that makes the Wii) Nintendo Entertainment System, it was originally released in 1985, and the game I'm all psyched about is Mega Man 3 which was released in 1990.

Where's Waldo?

A few years ago I found this on someone's website and downloaded it onto my computer. The picture is of me back in high school. I have NO idea how the person found the picture to even put online, as they lived in California and I don't think they went to my school, but I was just cleaning out one of my hard drives and came across it again, and thought some of you out there might enjoy a picture of me from back in the day.


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This picture was a crop from my senior yearbook panoramic. They had everyone go into the gym and sit on the bleachers for a HUGE group shot. I decided to dress up for the occasion, but I was wearing a hooded sweatshirt over top of my outfit as to not cause suspicion (or suspension LOL). The glasses by the way were made out of black pipecleaners. The funny thing is I discovered after the photos had been taken that the Yearbook Committee had joked about putting a cartoon insert of Waldo into the photo using Photoshop 7.0 (yeah it was that long ago, LOL).

...and no I do NOT still have this costume!

Running around Reston

This past Thursday, I got a chance to hang out with quite a few other photogs, and we had a blast. Armin set the whole thing up, and we had Kenny Kim from Chicago, as well as Paul Price (of PSquared Photographic), Peter Bang, and Troy Woods (of ClarkBailey Company) all hanging around Reston Town Center. Also Laura of Soiree Events and Jaime and Stuart of E2 Events came too!. Jaime and Stuart got married about a year ago, but we had them pose for a "engagement shoot" anyway.


Snagged this shot from Armin's blog -
From left to right: Me, Armin, Peter, Paul, Kenny (Laura took the shot)
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The fountains at Reston Town Center
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Laura posing with ALL of our Boda bags...take THAT Shootsac people! LOL...
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A SUPERWIDE angle shot (14mm) of Kenny shooting Laura
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Jaime and Stuart were fun to work with and were definitely not shy of the camera...make that cameras...
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Kenny asked a passerby if we could borrow his dog...it was a cute one!
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Surprisingly even with all the buildings, we were able to get some really fantastic lighting...
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Someone (I think Peter) made a joke about shooting inside the UPS Truck...Jaime took him seriously...
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Paul "PSquared" Price and Armin Defiesta shooting back...
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Later at dinner, I got in trouble for taking pictures at this restaurant...
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I usually don't detract from reality too much in photoshop, but decided to play a bit...
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I think jumping shots are going to just start showing up more frequently in my blog...Armin's ninja shot really set the bar high though...
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