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Continue reading →: COBA June 2003 Meeting
The June 2003 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area featured a printing shootout. Earlier in the week, I sent an email out to members to print out a few sample images using their printer of choice. A number of people brought their images in, printed using a…
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Continue reading →: Vandalism, Malfunctions, and Sushi
Cupertino’s quickly becoming quite the ghetto. A few days ago, a car alongside our house was hit by an errant five pound rock right through the rear windshield. A couple of days later, eggs were tossed late in the evening, hitting four cars along our block. Eggs can easily be…
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Continue reading →: The Blair Hornstine Project
For those of you who are not familiar with Blair Hornstine, here is a quick summary. For additional information on the subject, please visit the links section at the end of this entry. Skip to here you want to see the Blair H. Project trailer. Blair Hornstine, 18, is a…
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Continue reading →: Hyphen Release Party
Last night, I drove up to the City with Susan and Rae to the Hyphen Magazine Release Party at Club Bas in North Beach. Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged, is a “news and culture magazine that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping…
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Continue reading →: Santa Cruz
I’m glad that John is up in the Bay Area for work several days out of the week, as it gives us the opportunity to hang out and wax philosophic about life over dinner. Tonight we ventured to Aquis, a Mexican restaurant in the Willow Glen area of San Jose.…
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Continue reading →: Voices In Your Hand BBQ
The team for the Voices In Your Hand project got together today for a BBQ at Stanford University. Paul Rankin, the head of the project, is a Fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. He’s assembled quite the team from the Stanford community and beyond, and it was nice…
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Continue reading →: Snapshots at The Metro
On Saturday night, Rae’s dance company, Facing East Dance & Music performed at the Oakland Metro near Jack London Square. Accompanying Facing East was Jason Britton Dance Company, Courage Group, and musicians Jeff Chan and Vijay Anderson. It’s been some time since I’ve seen Facing East perform. They have been…
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Continue reading →: Read it to Me
Alex called me the other day, asking me if I knew how to save sound files from text-to-speech. Turns out, he was interested in getting his NetNewsWire headlines and descriptions converted into MP3 files that he could sync to his iPod. I had read some other people’s blogs about this…
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Continue reading →: Lunar Eclipse
Last night, we had dinner at Lily’s house in Los Gatos. In between the main course and dessert, we went out of the house to see the lunar eclipse. The Earth’s shadow casted a reddish glow over the moon as it rose over the hills of Los Gatos. It was…
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Continue reading →: COBA
The May 2003 COBA featured a presentation on concert and performance photography. Having just completed a three week tour with Vienna Teng, I was able to talk at length about the various tips, techniques, and equipment necessary for taking successful performance photographs. My typical kit consists of a variety of…






