29 Mar

Greedy Little Boy

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Lord, help me. I’m in the mood to spend money on myself, and I don’t have the money to spend. :)

First up: I want a Lomo Kompakt Automat. For those not in the know, it’s a 35mm camera known for its ability to take artsy-smartsy, color-saturated pictures. Plus it looks cool in a retro sort of way. Obviously, there’s no way I’ll be able to afford a new one for around $200, so I’m going to keep an eye or two on eBay for a chance deal. I’m hoping to catch one for around $50. Wish me tons of luck, eh?

Also, I am in love with this code poet shirt. I love both the phrase and the colors. Can’t go wrong. I think it would look dashing beneath my brown corduroy suit jacket. Think that counts enough as dressing up for teaching? *g*

I also have a crush on the old skool shirt (in yummy chocolate) from tshirtsthatsuck.com. It’s my new favorite, as they seem to have dropped my all-time favorite, a shirt that proudly proclaimed the wearer to be a “cunning linguist”. I’m strongly considering designing my own shirt of said proclimation and selling it in my ill-used cafepress store.

Anyways, it’s time for me to head to class. Let me know if you know of anything else I should desire. :)

Posted Monday, March 29th, 2004 at 11:57 am
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Responses to “Greedy Little Boy”

Eric
March 29th, 2004 at 4:21 pm

Crush on the shirt or the model wearing said shirt?

Kara
March 30th, 2004 at 6:35 am

Rob, I have a quick question. I was looking at the website for the camera that you want, and it seems the pictures are rather low quality? Am I right, or are they just bad quality from scanning or something? I was just a little curious about that :)

Rob L Glazebrook
March 30th, 2004 at 7:16 am

Part of both. Most of the grainy look comes from scanning the image in, resizing it, and so forth. The out-of-focus pictures are a result of improperly setting the distance-thingie. The darkened corners are a trademark of the Lomo LC-A, as is the supersaturation of color.

It’s kinda a tradeoff of sorts. This isn’t the camera for taking high-quality portrait shots. This is the camera for taking color-rich shots in literally any lighting condition (the shutter can stay open for two minutes if need be to capture enough light for an image).