Sesame Street x Old Spice...

LOL!

Filipino Foods!!!

If you're Filipino, I guarantee you will LOL!

Every Little Step...

For me, one of those old school tracks that always brings back memories is Every Little Step by Bobby Brown.  So imagine my surprise when I see this vid featuring Wayne Brady and Mike Tyson redoing the video for it!  And an old ass Bobby Brown himself makes a cameo appearance and does the rap!

Awesome!!!

Every Little Step with Mike Tyson & Wayne Brady from Mike Tyson

Charice killed it!!!

... on Glee, that is.

Yes, I know the videos are inverted, but thats because thats the only way for them not to get pulled on YouTube. :P

Damn, thats a big dog...

Was at the track today, and snapped some pics for the illmotion blog: http://www.illmotion.com/2010/09/had-pleasure-of-attending-final-track.html

Decided to shoot a few pics and a video of Prince while I was at it.  Damn, he's a beast!  You don't really take Prince for a walk, he takes YOU for a walk!

My stomach started bubblin'...

Wow, Alphacat has his Drake impressions on point with this one, all the way down to the hand gestures and movements!
(Make sure you close the ad so you can see the subs)

Just the way I like it...

When the iPhone 4 was first announced, I had two major gripes with the design: 

First one, while most people liked it, I decided that the antenna being silver sticked out to much.  I'm more of a clean look person myself, so to me, the antenna being silver (especially on a black iPhone 4) seemed like too much contrast.  You saw in an earlier post of mine that I took care of that with a black decal to surround the antenna, and as a bonus, it gave the additional benefit of blocking the antenna from the "death grip" signal drop issue.

Second gripe, and this was in discussion with Aubrey when it was announced, that the white iPhone 4 didn't look as good as the older white iPhone 3G(S).  We didn't like the look of the black screen with the white surround on the front, it looked like a big empty space surrounded by white.  Why didn't they make it so the front was all black, and the back white like the older iPhone?

Yup, we just went there:

So true...

Found this on a forum I frequent.

This has been my life since Friday:

Very impressed with my iPhone 4...

In between shooting pics at the SpeedTech track day today, I decided to give the my iPhone 4 a quick camera test.  Boy, am I impressed.  Its nice to know that I've got something with me all day long that can take very decent pictures and video at a moments notice.

Here are a couple of pics of Jasons car, straight off the phone, no editing whatsoever.

In the pits:

Zooming by on the track:

And a vid, which looks much better on my computer, YouTube degraded it a bit (make sure you play it in 720p HD):

iPhone 4 Canadian Launch Experience...

Yes, I was one of those crazies that lined up for an iPhone 4 on its Canadian launch.  Not that I probably couldn't get the phone a day after, but I did it for the experience.  I've actually never lined up before for anything in my life, so I figured this would be a good one to do since I really wanted the new iPhone 4.

Why?  Lets rewind a bit for a little bit of history.  I'm not a modern Apple fanboy like the other kids these days.  Back up to 6 years ago when I met my best friend Aubrey.  She was a graphic designer for Xerox when I met her, and I got to know her quite well.  Being an IT type person, I never really had to work with Macs since the majority of IT stuff is done on PCs.  Being a graphic designer, she learned to use a Mac in school, and stuck with it until today.  Not to say that I never really used one, since one of my first computers growing up was an Apple Macintosh IIe.  But the more and more I played with her Macbook Pro, the more I got to liking it.  The only modern Apple product I owned before that was an iPod color (yes, the first color screen one). It was so easy to use, and eventually I fell in love with it, and bought my first modern Mac, the first Intel Mac Mini.  Since then, I've been through 4 different MacBooks, and MacBook Pros to the current one I'm writing this on, a 13" Macbook Pro Unibody (2010).  In that time as well, I got the first gen iPhone (the one with the aluminum backing), and have been in love with the iPhones ever since.  Had to command line jailbreak and unlock that one on my own, but to this day, its still running as my younger cousin is using it as her daily phone.  I then had an iPhone 3G a few times.  I've been back and forth between a few phones and phone OSes, but I kept coming back to the iPhone.

Fast forward to a few months ago where my Google Nexus One got stolen at the Driven car show.  I had grown to love the new Android OS on that phone, and was sad when I lost it.  After that, as much as I hated Blackberrys, I picked up a Blackberry Bold 9000 since it was cheap and accessible.  I had that phone for less than a week.  I couldn't stand it, even though I gave it a chance.  It was slow, and I had to reset it too many times.  Rolled that out pretty quickly, and picked up another iPhone 3G.  After having it again for a few days, I realized how much I missed the iPhone OS.  Not to say that the Android is good, but the iPhone has more app support, and seems easier to use in my opinion.  But the memory of my quick, and newer Nexus One was still in my mind.  I wanted something new.  And the iPhone 4 was it.

Knowing that I already had the release date off from work (its a long weekend, and I already booked the Friday off to have a longer one).  Jason, JC, and I had gotten this crazy plan to line up the night before the launch outside of Market Mall, where the Calgary Apple Store is situated.  JC had to drop out due to personal matters, so Jason and I hatched the plan.  We would drive by around 12am to check out things, and since there probably wouldn't be any crazy people there that early, we would go grab a bite at Dennys, chill for a bit, then come back and camp out.  Now Jason was just as excited as I was, he's been a Blackberry user, but he had had enough of the crashing and slowness of it.  It also doesn't help that he had been in the States a few weeks before, and playing with them in the Apple store.

Thursday July 29th came along.  We were ready.  We would meet at Market at 12, then go eat.  Diana (Jason's girlfriend), would come and camp with us for moral support.  Armed with my computer, camera, 2 sleeping bags, and some snacks, I was off.  I was running a few minutes late, so they would get there before me.  This was cool, we would be the first ones in line for an iPhone 4.  Then I got a call from Jason as I was on my way.  "Dude, there is a line already."  Serious???  I got there, and sure enough, there were already a bunch of people there.  We ended up being about 30th in line.  So much for eating.  And as a side, it was kinda funny, but a graphic designer that I used to work with was a few spots ahead of us.  So we just sat in line (Jason brought a couple chairs, I sat on my sleeping bag).  We chatted for a bit, then watched Wangan Midnight (live action) on my MacBook while Diana watched a few episodes of Glee on Jason's MacBook.  Time was going by slowly, and it was getting cold.  Jason and Diana left for a bit to get some snacks, I got up to walk around and stretch my legs.  It was only about 2am.  When they got back, Diana stayed in the car to stay warm and nap (which didn't work), and Jason and I chatted some more along with a few other people from Beyond.ca.  Turns out that standing around talking passes the time faster.

July 30, 2010 - 5:10am

Everyone is packing up their stuff, the security staff is set to open doors to the mall at 5:30am.  The line had grown to at least 150-200 people.  Took a quick snap of the line behind us, can't see much with the dark, but it was there:

5:30am: They opened the doors.  We walked in, and found a very "Universal Studios"-like line up system awaiting us.  So here we go, walking though it, Jason in front of me with the green.teal cap on, and I believe he was videotaping it on his soon to be extinct Blackberry:

5:49am:  Line stopped moving, we were at our spot.  To my left, the people behind us (which wasn't even the half of it): 

To my right, the people in front of us (which had somehow swelled to at least 45 people when it should have only have been 30), along with the 2 douchebags who left like they were to good to wait in the cramped line like everyone else:

Well that was fun.  Now more waiting until 7am when the Apple store was set to open for us.  But it wasn't bad since it was warm.

Say cheese?  Hell no, I was tired:

6:55am - Hmm, all the lights in the Apple store are turned off.  And then it began.  I hear cheering and running.  I've only read about this on tech blogs and such for other Apple product launches, didn't know it was gonna happen here.  The Apple store employee bullrun had begun!  Blue shirted Apple store employees running around cheering and hi-fiving everyone in line!

This went on for about 5 minutes, and then they stopped in front of the Apple store.  "10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1!.... and then the cheering, and the lights went on in the Apple store, and the black drapes dropped.  The iPhone for was officially for sale in Calgary.

The line started moving slowly, but after about 45 minutes, we were in (funny, I've seen that guy on the left thats buying an iPhone somewhere before... oh yeah, he works at Westworld Computers, another authorised Apple dealer in town):

I got the two unlocked ones that I needed, one for me, and one for JC, and was done.  

Jason and Diana (yes, the moral supporter turned into a purchaser within the time we spent there) weren't so lucky.  They needed ones on a hardware upgrade, but Rogers activation was down, and they didn't know when it would be back up.  I felt bad for them, it sucks that they had to wait in line and not get to take home a phone until 5pm that day.  But Jason said it was a good experience anyways.

So that was that, I went home, got everything set up, and this is how she sits today.  I'm anal about my electronics getting damaged so she was fully protected when I got her out of the box.  I had preordered a few things from eBay in anticipation, and they were all here by launch day.  My iPhones antenna band is covered with a black decal that stops the reception drop issues (which everyone has heard of by now), and to make the phone all black like I wanted it to be.  Also protecting the back was a clear snap case, and a screen protector on the front glass.

So that was it.  Was the phone worth it?  Hell yes, so much faster than my 3G, the camera is better with the HD video recording, and the screen resolution is so crisp that I can see any of the individual pixels.  And thats just a tip of the upgrades, there is so much more to it.  Was waiting in line worth it?  I can say yes, it was fun.  I know I could've just walked in on Saturday, waited for a bit, and gotten it, but the whole lineup experience was awesome.  Will I do it again next year for the next iPhone?  Depending on how drastic of a chance from this one, the answer may be yes.  Jason and I have already committed to doing it again.

This is gonna be crazy!!!

I cannot wait to see the end result of this. Apparantly, both Capcom and Namco are working on something big.

SF x Tekken is being built on the SF4 engine by Capcom with the supervision of the Namco development team. On the other side of things, the Namco Tekken 6 team with the supervision of the Capcom development team is building Tekken x SF based on the Tekken engine.

Hopefully they release both, cause I'm sure I'd buy them both.

No vids of the Namco production yet, but there are some floating around of Capcoms SF x Tekken.


Official trailer:



Gameplay as shown at ComicCon 2010:

This is AMAZING...

HONDA NSX (EXTENDED VERSION) BY FORMAT67.NET from FORMAT67.NET on Vimeo.

Twilight for guys!?!

F Team Edward or Team Jacob...  Team L for the win!

For all the females: viewer discretion is advised...  and watch the guys in the video, now you know how messed up you sound talking about Twilight...

Jen-Ettes Impromtu/Unplanned Photoshoot!

Today I was just chillin at home trying to hide from the heat when I got a call from JC asking what I was doing.  I told him I wasn't doing anything, and he told me that Jason was itching to shoot something, but didn't know what and where, and since my car was clean...

Fast forward to 30 minutes later, we are cruising around trying to find some spots, and with some quick thinking, Jasons camera skills, JC as the chase car for the rolling shots, and stuffing my car in spots where cars shouldn't be, the pics turned out awesome.  I didn't take many pics as I left it up to Jason, but I did manage to take one good one.  

Thanks to Jason and JC from ill.motion for the shoot, and for featuring my car.  You can check it out the feature here:
http://www.illmotion.com/2010/06/im-feature-richs-rex.html

Here is the only good pic I took:

What kind of asian are you???

This is some funny shiet!

Save the date...

***November 2, 2010***

Hopefully its for real this time.

illmotion @ Driven 2010 (Part 2)!!!

Well I got through a bunch of pics, so here they are.  A special thanks to all the models that endured the show, especially the ones I got to take pics of in the illmotion booth (Cherry, Kristen, Vy), and indirectly (Aurielle).  Here is a sample of the 'goods'... and boy were they good! :P

Models: Cherry Vo (Left), Kristen Hagg

Models: Cherry Vo (Left), Vy Huynh)

Model: Aurielle Matilla

The rest can be found here, hope you enjoy them!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldrichevangelista/sets/72157624143545897/

IllMotion @ Driven 2010!!!

First of, congrats to the IllMotion team and everyone that was involved through their three months of inception, and also to everyone that participated in the booth at Driven 2010.  When they first started, their goal was to showcase and expose the Calgary car scene, and it looks like they have succeeded with tons of stickers bought (proceeds went to the Alberta Childrens Hospital), tons of clean cars, and at the end of the night, took home 18 awards, including Best Team Represent.

If you haven't done so already, check out their website: http://www.illmotion.com

I had the honour of being (unofficially) one of the photographers in the booth and got to work with a few of the models.  This was all very new to me, still learning the photography game, and now having to work with live people, but I think I did alright.  A big to Prashant and Jason for putting up with my camera/photo questions, and an extra thank you goes out to Prashant for letting me borrow his camera/lens combo to walk around with.  All in all, I had a great day, with the exception of losing my phone. :(

I'm still working on the pics since I ended up with over 500+, and they will be posted soon.  But here is one that sums everything up:

2010 FIFA World Cup...

I don't watch soccer, but it looks like the World Cup is off to an interesting start.

I'm not a racist, but I LOL'd...

These guys aren't happy about it:

I know it isn't current, but its just funny,,,

If I ever get this bored...

If I ever get so bored to the point where I wanna do something like this and put it on YouTube, please slap me.

That being said, its pretty catchy!

Rigged up (Part 2)...

Well as per my last post, I was working on editing the rig shot I took with my camera.  And boy do I have a lot of Photoshop learning to do.  I working for hours, and I could not get it to look right at all.  Along comes Aubrey, and she sits at my desk for 10 minutes, and out comes something that I could never get near.

Here is her edit, thanks again Aubrey!

Rigged up...

Rig shots always intrigued me.  Such a cool effect to have the car look like its rolling fast, but I never really understood how it was done.  Wanting to learn more, I went out with Dave from Evolize photo a few nights ago for a quick learning session.  I learned quite a bit on how they work, and what makes the pictures work the way they do.  Looks like a lot of work, but I got the concept understood now.

Dave setting up his stuff while explaining to me how things work:

Live view for the win, wish I had it:

A 'not so final' look that I took with my camera attached to the rig setup.  Now I just gotta work on editing the rig out of the pic (which might take a while with my photoshop skills... or lack of):

A big thanks to Dave for taking the time to help a noob understand things!  Now I'm scared I'm gonna go buy a whole bunch of equipment.  Next thing to learn: working with lighting/flashes...

And now you know...

Racism in an Elevator- PSA '...And Now You Know' - - watch more funny videos

Subtle, yet effective...

That has always been one of my philosophies when it come to modding my cars.  A lot of times, its cheap little mods that contribute and make the biggest impact.  But what do I do when I've done all the little mods that I've wanted to do to my car?  Start on the parents car!

My parents drive a 2008 Audi Q7 3.6 in Quartz Grey.  Nice ride, a little too big for my parents in my opinion, but nice nonetheless.  And when I say drive, thats a bit of an exaggeration.  I think my brother and I have put more kilometres on it than my parents have.  My mom drives it to work and back, and it gets driven to church, but other than that, its a garage queen for the rest of its life.

This little mod visual mod came from a realization that we are going to be driving the beast to Las Vegas and back at the end of the month, and the thought of having stuff hit the perfect condition headlights, turnsignals, and foglights, I decided to get a film put on them to protect them.  But I didn't stop there.  Why not make the Q7 look more aggressive by darkening them up slightly, and why stop at the front when I can continue on the back?

A buddy of mine just started his own tinting business (Perfect Dark Tint, I remember the drunken night when it began), and just recently started doing headlight protection films.  Thanks to JC for being their part time booking specialist (inside joke), I was booked in to get the work done on Saturday.  On my truck previously, and on my Subaru, the lights are covered in a protection film with an 'iron' color to them.  Basically, they are very slightly smoked.  Enough to have a visual impact, but USUALLY (sorry JC), not enough darkness to attract attention from police.  The end result was awesome, a subtle aggression was added to the Q, and looks so much better.  Not to mention that all the lighting is now being protected from rocks and bugs.

So a big thank you to Steve Eng, and also to David Fung for doing such flawless work on my parents ride, and I will definitely be sending anyone I know that needs tint work to them.  I highly recommend them if you are looking for perfectionists, and very respectful tint specialists.  If you'd like to check them out, here is a link to their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Calgary-AB/Perfect-Dark/107492985955191

Now on to the pictures (sorry, some of them aren't the greatest as I forgot my camera at home, and took them with my phone):


Tailights and bumper lights before the film (the usual bright red taillight):

Shot of the rear after everything was done:

Front shot before the work (actually, the drivers side turn signal assembly lens was already done at this point):

Front end all done, I LOVE how the turn signals now hide/blend in with the vents: