Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

it's a non-stop evolution

So I've been tracking my website stats, and how and where the traffic is coming from ... it's amazing watching the surges come depending on what I am doing, but it still hasn't ceased to amaze me how consistant one thing is: whatever city I'm currently located in, is where the majority of the traffic also comes from. This is kind of a strange phenomena, since I move around so much, and although I am obviously trying to get my name out there wherever I may be, it seems to prove to me the adage that you can most certainly be 'out of sight; out of mind', and therefore the opposite applies. As much as I pushed my work in New Zealand, the high level of traffic literally took a dive and Toronto became the major influx city. It shows you can't under estimate the self-promotion side of the industry - just meeting people and getting your name out there and doing your best to direct people to your work so that hopefully the right eyes will find themselves scanning the pages.

I recently dropped a large sum of money developing and scanning roll after roll of film, a few of which can be seen on this website I speak of (iamadroit.com), but below are also a few. I shot mostly with my yashica fx-103 on fuji colour film, between 200-400 iso, but also on the yashica EM with ilford 120 film. Just dropped off another roll of Kodak 120 colour film that I get to go pick up tomorrow night ... can't wait to see how they turned out.




















Thursday, October 7, 2010

sucked back in

The odd thing about having lots of free time, is that you really just go where the wind blows, towards whatever happens to pique your interest that particular day.

I had randomly made a friend in a supermarket, ended up meeting up with him and his friends in Jeju city, about 25kms away and spent the day with them, and ended up crashing at one of the girls' houses with her. Next day, I went along to play volleyball on the beach as my last day on the island off the south coast of mainland S.Korea. Next thing I know, I'm joining up to play in the volleyball competition the following week, and deciding to stay at my friend's house until then. So I've been playing tennis, basketball, going for bike rides, and watching the 'Korean Population Control Ride'. I took video of this yesterday, that I'll put up soon. It's my new favourite ride.

Today's plan is to go to Mt. Hallasan, and wander around there for as long as I feel like it, before heading back to play volleyball tonight. I honestly can't wait for the weekend - and who can blame me. It starts at 7:30am on Saturday, ends with a beach dance party and group camp-out on the beach before commencing again on Sunday. Holy crap. I love it here.
The sun is still out and shining in October (I've even been swimming in the ocean, although that takes a little more of the steeled nerves to work myself up to that), and the weather is predicted to be about 71F/20c for this weekend, then the plan for now is to peace out via boat on the high seas on the following Monday and head back to Daegu. The Pusan International Film Fest (known as PIFF) is also on in Busan though, so I'm kind of interested in making my way that way as well, however ...