On the 7th and 8th of March 2009 the Cancer Society held the Relay for Life in sunny Napier.
Just over a week prior, volunteer Fire Fighters from Napier station were told about it, and rapidly set to work fund raising and getting ready to participate. The weekend of the Mission Concert (weekend before the relay) was spent avoiding the rain on Saturday and seeking the shade on Sunday to do a sausage sizzle which went better than expected. Read more »
Yeah yeah yeah. I’m a lazy git and I know it. =P
Ok, now let me think, what’s happened over the past … (checks) … 3 months (wow it even feels like it’s been longer than that). Well, let’s look at the key points I guess.
Oh, but before I do, I have to say I think the arsonists that lit fires in Victoria (Australia) should be summarily shot. It’s mass murder on a grand scale and shows a severe lack of respect for anyone and anything. In fact, lets make arson a capital offence all round. Even the idiots here in NZ who set alight buildings that were part of the Whakapapa ski fields on Mt Ruapehu. F**king dropkicks, the lot of them.
Ok, and rant and on with the rest of it…
Ok, so last Thursday (30/10/2008) I got my tattoo done. 6 days down and it’s healing quite well I think.
It scabbed up a bit and most of it has had it’s peel, so now we’re starting to see the real result.
I’m quite happy with it, although I can’t say it’s looking PERFECT. The dividing lines were meant to be horizontal but maybe that’s just how I’m holding my shoulder distorting them.
Also one of the lines at least will need a touch up on the colouring as there is a small patch that missed out obviously. I’ll possibly try get back in and see Miss PQ on Friday and book in to get it fixed up.
Other than that, it’s just a little itchy now but that’s normal as it heals (as with most scabs etc).
As I said, quite happy. Will be cool to get it fixed up and all healed up so I can get ready for the whole summer life of swimming and relaxing in the sun (can’t do so while it’s healing) but I’ll have to be really careful to keep it well sunscreened lol.
So what do you the public (the two or three of you that ever read my blog) think of it?? =P
Well, it’s a beautiful Sunday here, nearing the end of September and just put the clocks forward an hour for daylight savings.
It’s been a chilly winter but I’m sure that the impending muggyness will make me wish it was sub-zero again!
Work has been busy as hell but I’m planning to make sure I take some time off over the summer to go tramping/camping etc provided I can find a suitable victim to accompany me! Also plan to get back into rock climbing and work off the winter insulation that has built up around my mid section. =P
In 18 days I go under the needle and get branded. The currently planned design is…
It’s Kanji, and says (or so I’ve been assured it says) “Man | Firefighter | Protector”. The plan is to have it down the left side of my back. I’ll post pic’s when it’s done, and I’m sure there will be a few from while it’s getting done too.
Other than that, life has been more work than anything. Making some new friends and getting to chat to some new and interesting people.
Spent a little while this morning playing with the camera and will do some more this arvo once I finish hooking the laptop up so I can try some more interesting stuff. This morning resulted in a few pics along the lines of…
Not all that great, and needs some colour correction but the concept has merit. It’s just taken with my Nikon sitting on the tripod down low.
Anyway, I really have nothing interesting to say so time for another coffee me thinks.
Ciao!
In a previous post (here) I worked with a photo of me and did some colour correction. Now I’ve done some more work. We’ll call this one Version 3.
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Version 2 (From Previous Post):
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Version 3 :
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This time I’ve done a few things…
Firstly I did some cropping and a little more colour correction using a curves adjustment layer and a hue/sat adjustment layer.
Then came some general touchups of the face (I know, there’s only so much I can do on a face like that lol).
Last came cleaning all the
paperwork etc off the wall on the right hand side of the picture.
I tried just a fully plain background, and changing the window to remove the bars and blinds, but in the end I stuck with this version. I may yet change my mind but we’ll see I guess.
Still more to be done of course!!
Awesome photo taken by one of my friends.
She said to me “i suck at photo taking”, and I find this on her flickr shortly after!!! Proves herself wrong quite well I think. =]
As a result, I thought I’d put up a before and after of one of the basic pics I have done some really simple correction on. This photos was taken in my office with my Nokia N95.
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After:
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It’s by no means perfect, but it’s a start. I’ll post further revisions of this image as I get time to do more work on it. =]
Auckland rocks!
Thursday afternoon off work, getting ready for road trip and potentially epic weekend in Auckland. Friday morning last minute packing then off to pick up my mate, then hit the road for 6+ hours in the car.
Made it to where we were staying around 16:30ish and met up with one of my friends up there and headed into centre city to try catch up with another. Parked up at O’Carrolls in Vulcan Lane (So the map tells me lol). Dinner and a few drinks there where our 4th met up with us. A few other semi-random acquaintances came and went through the evening, but eventually the four of us headed to the pool hall not far from the Sky Tower for a few games. Back to crash out around 1am.
Saturday Morning… well it was bloody wet and damn cold. We ventured back in to central city for my mate to pick up a b’day present for a 21st she was going to that evening. Other than that we wandered for a little but eventually got sick of the crap weather and headed back inside to watch a few movies.
Saturday dinner consisted of a very wet sprint around the corner to a thai place on Dominion Road for the most mild “Extra Hot” thai green curry I’ve had (Don’t get me wrong, it tasted really nice, just wasn’t that hot even though we’d specifically asked it to be!). Then a drive into Viaduct Harbour to drop my mate off at the party. A few more vids for the remaining 3 of us until we ventured back in for a pickup, then a quick change and off to Space Bar in Newmarket for Vaccine ft Thomas Bronzwaer. Got there a bit after midnight and stayed until closing at 6am. It was BLOODY AWESOME! So wish we had venues like that locally!
After getting back for a few hours sleep we packed up and got back in the road, making it home around 19:30 Sunday evening.
All-in-all a great time despite the crap weather. Have to try get up again, maybe for Chemistry @ Space in September. For anyone who’s interested, there’s a couple of the little vids I took on with my phone here, and a few of my pic’s on flickr and facebook (for those of you who know my account), aswell as the ones on nzrave.com and biggie.co.nz. =]
