A place for things I found…
These things are cool!
I’m a big fan of deadpan humor, and I think this guy, Michael Davis, is hilarious! Â I remember seeing his act on Saturday Night Live years ago, which is where this clip is from. He was the first person I’d seen juggling wildly different objects (including a bowling ball and a raw egg!) which adds to the absurdity of the humor, and he is expert at playing with the audience!
Here’s his act on Saturday Night Live years ago:
And on a Smothers Brothers’ comedy special:
This mother isn’t going to let a little thing like the Great Japan Earthquake of 2011 do anything to upset her son! She stays rock-steady and calm, so that she can keep her son safe and calm and not panicky. It’s an amazing show of strength, courage, and devotion to her son, that she fought down the natural fear (that you can hear in others’ voices in the video) of something so huge. She deserves Mother of the Year, or even Mother of the Millenium!
Here is another batch of photos taken in Washington DC near the Tidal Basin. The cherry trees aren’t quite in full bloom, which is surprising given how many flowers there are, but there were still quite a few unopened buds. As you can probably tell, the sun was starting to come out of the low clouds, and so some of the photos are much better lit, with deeper shadows and brighter colors. I may have one more page to put up, just in case you all are getting just about “cherry blossomed out”!
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Here’s the first batch of cherry blossom photos that I took over the weekend, these were taken around noon on Sunday. It was a cloudy day to start, so some of the pictures may be a bit dark. You can see a larger image if you click on the picture after clicking a thumbnail, or if you want to see a really big picture, you can right-click on the image. I’ll be posting more, later on.
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It’s that time of year again, when the cherry blossom trees are in bloom! This year kind of snuck up on everyone, since it’s been so warm, the trees bloomed a bit earlier than usual. I managed to get down there this past weekend and got hundreds of pictures. I’ll be posting the best of them in a gallery in a day or so, but here’s one that I really like. I hope you all like it, too!
In an earlier post I showed some pictures I took of some kids cosplaying as characters from the videogame Final Fantasy (I have no idea who the characters are, but that’s not important!). Here is a video with clips I took while I was taking stills (it really helps to have a DSLR that can do video!) and some music to highlight the silliness. We all had fun and I hope to see them again at a future anime con!
Here are some more of the cosplayers I took pictures of at Katsucon 2012 a couple of weeks ago. Some of them didn’t turn out so well, and for that I apologize to anyone that I didn’t capture nicely enough, or if I made your excellent costuming come out looking not as good. Everyone’s creativity and skill was definitely fantastic (in more ways than one ^_^) and I hope you all get to see these!
Thanks to all who allowed me to photograph them, and I hope to see you at the next con!
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My friend John Nelson let me tag along on his photo shoot with a group of nice kids he’d met at other conventions, and so I snapped a few shots at the same time. Â Here are a few of the best, I’ll be posting some videos to YouTube later, along with other pictures from Katsucon.
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