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quiksilver holiday party 2009.
by josh on December 17th, 2009
so…went to the work party last night. which was actually a lot of fun. it was at the house of blues here in anaheim. here’s some pics i stole from others:
good times, open bar, live band, and plenty of random buzzed induced conversations. least here it’s not really your typical corporate holiday party. you know, the kind where it takes a couple of drinks for people you’ve seen for the last year to finally get friendly….and then it’s back to pretending you don’t know each other the following day. my last job was like that…..but fortunately everyone here is already chill so it was really just a matter of meeting some new peoples. which was a really good thing factoring all the fallen soldiers we lost due to layoffs. definitely a nice treat to unwind for a night downtown disney style.
venice beach pics
by josh on November 1st, 2009
here’s some pics from the beach yesterday. -click to lauch slideshow-
concert was great too. i’d write more, but still nursing a hangover. so that’ll have to wait.
12 years later…
by josh on June 23rd, 2009
so i hung out with an old high school friend this weekend. i found out he was out here about a year ago, but unfortunately i had just missed him at the time. he was off to DC for a new job. well, one shit ass economy and a lay off later….he’s back out in LA. so we got together over the weekend for a BBQ in honor of a friend of his that is moving back to missouri.
needless to say it was great to finally find someone out here on a bit of a familiar ground. i literally hadn’t seen him for 12 years or so, but you couldn’t tell by the end of the night. even better were his other friends that came out. i don’t meet that many ppl out here that don’t generally suck deep down, so it was refreshing to mingle amongst some of the better souls LA has to offer. instead of compromising my caring….i found myself genuinely surround by ppl that were not only just chill…..but interesting to boot.
see, some of them are post grad USC med students. so we hung out with a neurosurgeon, a general physician, and my buddy already has his doctrine in micro biology (or something). yikes…..but the neurosurgeon also is a musician, and this dude who’s BBQ it was….is a musician as well. so the night turned into us drinking like there was no tomorrow while listening to the 2 musically talented ones jam on a guitar.
was refreshing to get out and actually not have to pretend in front of the company i was around.
here’s a picture:
making the world beautiful.
by josh on June 9th, 2009
*pukes*
i always laugh when you hear about these magazines being accused of photoshopping (or airbrushing as it’s usually wrongly called) images of people. just in the last few months it was danica patrick in sports illustrated….or that ghetto ho kim kardashian and her non-retouched photo getting out on some website.
hate to break it to the world….but EVERY photo that makes it to the public view…is touched up. i mean, assuming we aren’t talking about tabloids purposely posting nasty pictures of celebs or something. sometimes there isn’t a lot to do, but other times there’s a lot of work involved. here’s just one example i found when cleaning out some stuff….
i was happy with how it turned out. it at least looks real.
what irks me is how a lot of “fashion” and “glamour” photographers/retouchers butcher the hell out of some of their models. they just blur the crap outta their skin completely and call it a day. or worse, call it “pin-up art”. i dunno, maybe it has more to do with personal taste….but i find using today’s tools to go beyond realistic photographs is more of design work than photography.
new camera.
by josh on May 6th, 2009
so i bought a nikon D200.
i’ve been wanting a new camera for years….and while i can’t really afford it at the present time…..eh….
the price on it was way too good to pass up. it was originally a $1800 camera….that i got for about 1/4 of that. it’s a few years old…..but it’s everything i wanted. so i am happy.
added on to that…..i really didn’t have a wide angle lens or some other needed accessories….so i picked those up too. spent way too much money……but still….i am happy with it. and who knows, maybe i can even make some side money with it and then write the whole shit off! heh.
sweet job mr. govt.
by josh on April 30th, 2009
you see how they flew air force one and some fighter jets over NYC this week? what abuncha morons.
to sum it up….jon stewart:
exactly….how about photoshopping it? this photo opt reportedly cost them $360,000. here is 5 mins. worth of work:
galaxy game pics.
by josh on April 6th, 2009
went to the LA galaxy game on saturday night with gary and anthony from work. was pretty cool, as i hadn’t been to a game before.
i didn’t take any pics, because i need a new camera…..but anthony managed to get some good shots. here are a few.
well duh…sorry mr. obama.
by josh on March 23rd, 2009
last week obama was here. maybe you saw him on the tonight show, but prior to that…he was speaking in costa mesa for the orange county crowd. i woulda loved to go as well….but i had to work. and more importantly…..like everything else here, the amount of ppl that showed up were enough to make anyone lose interest.
what do i exactly mean by that? well, ppl were camping out for 2 days prior to get tickets to this obama town hall meeting. needless to say…..i have better shit to do than camp out for obama tickets.
anyways….the real point here. so, that day, i was outside smoking a cigarette at work and all of a sudden i see an entire fleet of military helicopters coming from off in the distance. there were 6 of them or so, but they looked like they were aligned in an attack formation. all i thought to myself was, “yikes….i dunno what that’s all about, but i’d hate to be where those things are headed.” hahaha…..it seriously looked like they were off on a mission to fuck some shit up!
but nope. they were just transporting the president from long beach to costa mesa. hahahaha! my bad!
here are some pics though:
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