February 29, 2008
· Filed under videoblog,
dave anderson, david w anderson, dw anderson, famous dave, gurnee, illinois, keylime cove, resort, water park, waterpark
I was invited to a grand pre-opening of the new KeyLime Cove waterpark in Gurnee, IL. I won’t go into too many details as I have another post coming soon with reviews and photos, but here’s a short video of our adventures in the water park. It’s just a mashup of short clips we filmed.
(13.7 MB / 01:56)
I also changed the video format from MP4 to M4V. Mostly because it’s been so long since I’ve encoded a video I forget the settings I used. So I just picked the “Convert to iPhone” option. Let me know if you have problems viewing it.
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February 29, 2008
· Filed under blog,
explosion, sexycake, waukegan
AP Photo
Well, not the whole town, but a section of the strip mall on the 1900 block of Grand Avenue (route 132) blew up. The explosion is thought to be caused by a natural gas leak.
I won’t go into all the details here; you can read all about it on probably any news site. But this hit close to home — literally. The explosion was just three blocks from my mom’s apartment.
The story even made it over seas, showing up on the news as far away as the UK and China.
The funniest thing about this whole situation (not that there’s really anything funny about it)? Pretty much all the windows of area buildings were blown out from the blast — one window that survived is the one with the Lucky Lady cake (aka SexyCake) painted on it. SexyCake can not be destroyed!
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February 28, 2008
· Filed under moblog,
Spending the night at KeyLime Cove.
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February 25, 2008
· Filed under blog,
camera, holga, holga 135bc, photography, photos, review, reviews
My most recent camera purchase was of a Holga 135BC toy camera. My New Year’s resolution was to not buy so many cameras and photography-related stuff… but yeah, that didn’t last long.
I already have a number of “regular” Holga cameras but I thought I’d give this one a try since it seemed pretty neat.
Yesterday I finished my first roll and developed it, and I gotta say… I really like what I get from this camera. Being winter and low on daylight hours I haven’t had a chance to shoot many interesting things (all we have around here is snow), but this little camera will definitely get a workout once spring/summer hits. I took some indoor flash photos that turned out surprisingly well, so I may make this my “party camera.”
The whole set can be viewed here, but below are three of the better shots from the roll.
Ilford HP5+ (iso400), developed in Diafine
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February 20, 2008
· Filed under moblog,
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