Holga

I have always wanted a Holga camera and can't quite put my finger on why it has taken me so long to get one. Well, I finally got one. I have long been a big fan of the Holga and love its natural vignette and soft focus that is characteristic of these plastic lens toting cameras and have always wanted to be behind the lens one. I just loaded my first roll of film today and should have some pics back by wednesday. It was a little different than shooting digital, which is now what I consider to be my "traditional" way of shooting. I found myself pulling the camera away from my face and looking at the back expecting to see what I just shot and being the type of person who likes instant gratification, I find myself over-anxiously waiting for my pictures to come back so I can see them.

The best....

Just this past weekend I bought a new Quad-Core MacPro to add to my collection of Macs and let me tell you, this is by far the best computer on the face of the planet.. I can remember buying my first computer, because all of the ones before it I built out of scrap parts and misc. stuff that was either purchased or given to me, and thinking "Wow! This is so fast with 100MHz processor and who would ever fill up a 2.3 GB hard drive?" Wow how times have changed. I have had, and still have, a lot of Mac computers. None with as much power as this one but pretty close. I am very excited to how this computer performs once I get all of my apps running and I am working on my next big project. Just to put it in perspective, in 1997 I bought my first computer that was 100MHz and had a 2.3 GB hard drive, my new computer is, are you ready for this? 22,937.6 times faster and has 445 times the amount of hard drive space! Not only is this crazy, but I just realized how big of a nerd I am for being able to figure that out. Wow!

Latest Project

There are a lot of projects that are lining up for me this year and I just started working on one that is pretty cool, a new website for VonDutch Performance! It's not done yet but when it is, look for an update with pics of the build up.