Taking a little break from animating bad guys getting killed, so I thought I’d jot down a few ramblings.
There’s actually good stuff on TV!
My TV viewing has gone up exponentially this week. Normally, I leave my TV on in the background while I’m doing other things on my computer (usually editing photos, browsing Flickr, or chattin’ it up with friends), but there have been a flood of new shows/episodes that have caught my eye over the past few days. On Monday night, Heroes and Studio 60 kept me glued to the TV for a couple of hours. On Tuesday, I just had to catch the season finale of Eureka and the rerun of the premiere episode of Heroes. On Wednesday, my Lost addiction revived itself, and I also watched the premiere of The Nine (mostly because it was on right after Lost). On Thursday night, My Name Is Earl and The Office kept me glued to the TV as did the rerun of the WoW episode of Southpark. And tonight is the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica.
I haven’t been this much of a TV junkie in years. For the longest time, TV just plain sucked, but it looks like all the networks are finally letting out the good stuff. Good timing, too. Fall is here in the Seattle area, and that means weeks of grayness and rain. I don’t feel too bad about sitting at home during the week and watching some good television.
I just need to make sure to balance it out by going out and doing something outside my apartment on the weekends.
Photographic madness!
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on my blog, but my beloved LOMO LC-A died a couple of months ago. I’ve tried replacing the batteries and adjusting and cleaning the battery contacts, but the shutter just won’t open. I even opened up the case to see if anything was loose (I’m pretty rough with the camera), but everything seemed ok. It’s probably something electronic-related, but I haven’t yet found any solutions. I’m going to keep searching online to see if there’s a way to fix it.
Just in case the camera can’t be fixed easily, I went ahead an ordered the recently announced LOMO LC-A+ as a replacement. The new camera ups the max ISO from 400 to a whopping 1600 and adds a new multiple exposure switch. The LC-A+ no longer has manual aperture options, but, since I never used it, it’s not a big loss for me. The first batch of LC-A+’s is currently held up in customs in China, so it’ll be a while before I get mine.
In the meantime, I’m keeping myself busy with my Olympus XA (which replaced my XA2 and its broken film advance wheel). In fact, if you’ve been looking in my Hawaii pictures, you’ll notice that all of the film shots there (for now) were taken with my XA. It’s a great camera with a nice sharp lens and just enough control to keep me happy. However, it’s not an LC-A. It’s not as quick and easy to use, and it doesn’t feel as comfortable in my hands as an LC-A. I still love the camera though and will continue to use it as long as I can. Once my LC-A+ shows up, though, my XA will have to take a backseat to all the LOMO goodness I’ll be working with.
OK, enough rambling for now. Back to animating…
Battlestar Galactica!