Posts tagged entertainment



Nov
29
 

Back from Asia – here’s a recap

Posted by: naomi @ 6:57 pm in blog news, travel

I’m back from Asia! Landed last night and I’m extremely jet lagged but I thought I would make a short post to update with some photos from the trip.

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Nov
22
 

Ni hao (Hello) from Asia!

Posted by: ryan @ 7:46 pm in miscellaneous, travel

(I’ll be posting on behalf of Naomi today!) It’s been a week since I left rainy Vancouver with 3 of my girlfriends for Asia and it seems like I brought the rain with me. The first stop was Shanghai and the city didn’t really feel like I was in Asia – probably because of the high number of expats we encountered and the very modern/expensive feel of the city.

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Nov
19
 

Harriet’s Box of 78RPM records

Posted by: ryan @ 9:24 am in records & music, vintage finds

I was born in the 80’s so I never really had the chance to listen to records growing up. By the time I developed my diverse taste in music, CDs were all the rage and my father had put most of his vinyl collection away. Over the years, I’ve become more of an audiophile and decided to begin listening to vinyl records. I purchased my first turntable (a Technics SL1200 MK2) and was floored by the sound. From that point on, I was completely hooked and began to buy lots of new LPs from my favorite artists. After a month or so, I began searching for vinyl on Craigslist and came across an ad for over a hundred old 78rpm LPs for a mere $20.

TWENTY DOLLARS.

At 20 cents a record I couldnt go wrong and immediately called the seller.

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Nov
16
 

Las Vegas Toy Camera snaps

Posted by: ryan @ 12:13 am in cameras & lenses, travel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobeinspired/4107910337/

I was in Las Vegas for four days this past weekend. Before I left, the back panel on my Canon 5D went completely dead on me. While it was getting fixed, I had no other means of taking photos other than with my iPhone. It wasn’t ideal but I made do with what I had. Here are a few of those photos using Takayuki Fukatsu’s Toy Camera App.

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Oct
01
 

A Friday Night on Vancouver’s Granville Street

Posted by: ryan @ 12:44 am in events, travel

Last week a friend of mine from Seattle came up to Vancouver for the weekend. We decided to visit a few of Vancouver’s classic attractions – The Commodore Bowling Lanes and the Movieland Arcade located in the heart of Granville Street.

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