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Hey all.  My friends play in a band called Dirty City Hearts.  They had their first ever show on sunday night, february 10th, 2008.  It was a really good show - good music, good people.  Anyways, check out some photos, and then check out the band.  www.myspace.com/dirtycityhearts

All shots taken with Canon EOS 5D, and either a 17-40mm f/4L or 135mm f/2L lens, 580EX flash (and off camera shoe cord II), converted from raw using Adobe Lightroom. No editing applied, except for raw conversion.

 The rest of the photos are on my flickr page - www.flickr.com/photos/kbrooks

I am trying to sell two lenses.  I no longer use either of them, although they have both served me very well.

The first is a Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM Ultra Wide Angle lens for Canon EF-s mount.  It is an extremely good value, as the Canon 10-22 is around $1000, and I am asking $450.  The lens is very high quality, quick focusing, and quite sharp.  I love it, but it is not compatible on my new 5D body.  Probably 70% of my portfolio photos are taken with it, as it gives great results and a great perspective.

The second lens is a Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Standard zoom lens for Canon EF or EF-s mount.  It features a constant f/2.8 aperature, which is great for shallow depth of field and gets you faster shutter speeds.  It is pretty fast focusing, although not HSM.  I am also asking $450 for this lens, compared to the Canon 24-70 f/2.8L for $1600. 

Both lenses are in great condition and come with Sigma soft cases.  They are both for Canon.  $450 each.

Please email or phone me (contact page) for more info or if you are interested, and please remember to tell anyone you know who could be possibly interested. 

THANKS!

Jim Jarmusch is so cool. He is quite possibly my favorite director / writer / producer. His films include Stranger than Paradise, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Night on Earth, Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarrettes, and Broken Flowers. All GREAT movies. Anyways, just wanted to post a few cool photos of the guy.

Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits

Michel Gondry (also pretty cool) and Jim Jarmusch
-White Stripes Remix cover

My grandma emailed my mom this photo the other day.  It’s from about 1967.  It shows my great grandparents, my grandparents, and my dad and uncle as kids.  My dad is about 5 in this photo apparently.  I thought it was pretty neat to see, and my mom says I look exactly like my grandpa here (he is the one on the far right).  Anyways, I love old photographs, so I wanted to put it up. 

With the beginning of a new semester, I had high hopes.  I wasn’t crazy about the first semesters classes by any means, and I was a bit excited to change paces with some new ones.  Well, after the first week of school, I am quite aggrivated by the lack of interesting subjects we are covering.  Design Concept is seemingly useless, English will be more burden than benefit, and 3D Foundations is like 4 hours of ink drying, except without the variety of delicious inks.  Design History is at least interesting, but not really geared towards fun.  The only one yet to sample is Drawing Foundations II, which is surely not my forte.

So what does this mean for me?  Well, I think this will be a very challenging semester, not in terms of workload, but in terms of motivation.  Its hard to think of how much I pay to take these classes, and will any of them apply to the day to day in 10 years?  Nope.  Will I need any of them to take 2nd and 3rd year photography?  Nope.  The best I can hope for is to keep my head down and get through without a significant mental health breakdown. 

Anyways, just felt like ranting.  Carry on.

School starts back up again tomorrow.  I am not excited

The 135mm f/2L lens never ceases to amaze me.  It is TACK SHARP, even wide open.  That and its got the Canon L series clarity I’ve come to love.  Just look at this photo I quickly snapped.  In camera .jpeg, no editing applied after.

Full Photo -

Crop -

WOW.

The 5D is mine, and with the arrival of such an incredible device, I must bid farewell to an old friend.  My Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC Ultra Wide Angle zoom lens is going the way of the buffalo I’m afraid.  Since it is not compatible with the new camera body, I decided it was best to sell off the 10-20, and replace it with a Canon 17-40mm f/4L, which is an equivalent range, and much higher quality.  No sense hanging on to a lens with no use anymore.  As probably 75% of my shots were with that lens, it will be an adjustment until I get the 17-40, but I’m sure it’s for the best in the end.

 Farewell.

PS - if you want to buy the 10-20, let me know, im asking an extremely reasonable price.

Last night, some friends and I ventured to the great Metro Cinema (at the citadel), and had the great pleasure of watching a film entitled “Losing Will“.  It was a film shot locally, and all of the scenes were improvised.  It was made by a group called “Scratch”, a comedy improv group from Edmonton.  It was produced by a company called Highwire Films, the company’s second release.  The movie was a great mixture of humorous and rather sadening scenes.  Anyways, I enjoyed it very much, and you can check out the trailer here:
Losing Will Trailer

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And the Highwire Films MySpace here:
http://www.myspace.com/highwirefilm