The Bokeh Filter

Tough decision – buy this for $10 ($30 for all three), or spend five minutes and $0.99 on some construction paper.

I just did a massive update to Shoot from the Belly. I uploaded photos for the following bands:

• AF-Kin
• Born Again Floozies
• Dr Killbot
• The Elvi
• Great Solar Stance
• Local H
• Max and the Marginalized

.. and I also uploaded some Other Photos as well.

Just closed out another month of photos for Project 365. I missed a few days here and there, mostly because the day was bo-ring and I was lazy.

Ten more months to go… eesh.

The best thing I’ve come across lately is called CHDK.

CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras. CHDK gets loaded into your camera’s memory upon bootup (either manually or automatically). It provides additional functionality beyond that currently provided by the native camera firmware.

It’s pretty sweet. I haven’t really explored the finer details, but the feature that I’m excited about is the ability to run scripts.

Scripts like time lapse photography.

Ever since we lost our Nikon camera in Mexico we haven’t had anything (save the computer + webcam) that could do time-lapse photography. Which obviously isn’t very practical if I’m outside of the house. My trusty(-ish¹) Canon A540 doesn’t have a time lapse mode. But now it does, and I can make time lapse videos again, and I didn’t have to go spend $300 on a new camera.

So to celebrate I made this video when we went to dinner tonight:

(3.6MB / 00:27)

¹It’s been draining batteries like crazy lately. I first thought it was that my rechargeables are starting to reach the end of their life, but normal disposable AAs drain just as quick. I don’t know…

About a month ago I started what’s known as Project 365. Simply, you take a self portrait each day for 365 days.

I’ve done it for twenty-eight days so far. I’m not totally excited about each and every photo — a lot of days I’m getting ready for bed and think “oh shit, I need to take a photo,” but the important thing is that I haven’t skipped a day yet. Only 337 more to go.

Clicking on the image above will bring you to the set. I’ll be adding one photo to it each day so keep checking back (on Flickr, I won’t be updating here often).