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Everybody wants to take pictures nowadays.
Some are awesome, with friggin’ amazing talent bringing extraordinary angles and colors out of a normally ordinary and dull scenery, while others are just simply eehheerrrmm *blah* — those who just jump into the bandwagon not really knowing about what they were doing but heck, photography’s cool and everybody’s doing it, so why can’t they?
I dunno which category I should dump myself into. I think I might be part of the latter. It’s been a while since I really had the gana and enthusiasm for anything, be it writing, reading, watching anything, taking pictures of myself, and hell, even making some white noise with my trusty guitar. It’s been quite some time since I’ve been really passionate about something (not even basketball OMG the end of the world as we know it is very near indeed) and lately I’ve just been relying on my tsamba powers.
Whether I like it or not, these tsamba powers will eventually run out. And soon enough, I will be left with a barely-used D40 that I still can’t talk to (so much for trying to navigate through the settings and crap), some pitiful excuse for photos of my pitiful self trying to look as pretentiously-emo as possible, a very over-worked Sony Ericsson k610i phone camera, and a badly bruised ego. Tsk.
Everybody wants to take pictures nowadays that photography is starting to look (or sound) like a friggin’ pop song. Everyone knows it, everyone enjoys it, everyone wants to indulge in it. I’m afraid I’ve lost my eccentricity and my uniqueness and whatever it was that made me feel like I’m a person different from everyone. I’ve become one of the masa that gleefully jumps into the friggin’ bandwagon. Argh. I don’t like this, not one bit.
WTBH, I need a new hobby — a hobby that is not so masa. I need it, now na!
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Hindi ko dini-diss lahat ng mga gustong kumuha ng litrato. Kung gusto niyo magkuha at iyun ang nagpapasaya sa inyo, why not poknats? Nanlumo lang kasi ako nung may na-view akong sets sa Flickr. Nanlumo ako sa kagalingan niya waaaaah, parang lahat tuloy ng mga pinaggagagawa ko walang kwenta. Kaya ayun, nawalan na tuloy ako ng gana. Sheesh.
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Must. Get. Out. Of. This. Stupid. Funk!
Ako naman I’d like to be a skilled film photographer sana. Digital kasi madaya. Hahaha… BTW nice blog!
Nga pala why not try baking. It’s not so pang-masa. 😉
Or you can start collecting kikay kits like makeups and all – Shu Uemura kikay stuffs pala! Minsan lang tayo maging bata. Di na tayo pwede magpa-kikay @ 40 – 50. 😉 Hope I make sense.
@ ilovecakes:
hello, hello.
honga, madaya ang digital. sobrang gastos lang kasi ang film eh. kung hobbyista ka lang, mas okay ang digital. 😀 pero astig ang film photographers. bow ako sa kanila. 🙂
eherrrmm, baking? i can’t cook to save my life. tsk. and i’m not kikay haha. pero sige i’ll try to find some cute little stuff na pwede i-collect. dami naman yata nun dito sa kinalalagyan ko. 😀
thanks for dropping by my blog and for the nifty suggestions 😀
omygawd ate! i felt the same way kagabi..thus the lusaw entry…shheet.. hehe..you are so julio!
grabeh..lusaw talaga…hindi naman sa wlang kwenta..kanya kanyang diskarte yan eh.. may ganun.. hahah..
buti pa mag modeling nalang tayo..how’s that for a hobby? haha..
@ macy:
modeling! asteeeeg yun ah hahaha. kosmik tayo, julio! (ikaw si julio anubah!)
take everything as inspiration. 🙂
dami na ngang photography enthusiasts ngayon, masaya yun dahil maraming nadodocument. hindi masaya pag nawala ang film dahil sa dami ng kumokonsumo ng digital cameras. kaya rin siguro may fad ngayon dito ng lomo mode at yung mga may pambili ng film ay yun ang gamit. 😛
tsaka hindi tsamba yan kahit na feeling mo ganun, you took the shot (just like basketball), and you willed it to happen (kumbaga may mental picture ka naman ng gusto mong shot). 🙂 syut lang nang syut!!!
aloha, c-an!
inspirasyon? san ba nakakabili nun? meron kaya sa amazon nun? :-/
uy ang ganda ng pagka-parallel mo sa pagkuha ng litrato at basketball. galeeeng. 🙂 shoot lang ng shoot.
hahaha, kind of feels like lechon manok to you already? hehehe, i kind of feel the same way when LOTR was made into a movie. suddenly everyone’s taking about it. di na siya esoteric. no longer appreciated by an elite few. parang in a way, di na siya ganun ka-special. pero siyempre kahit naging mainsream na yung LOTR love ko pa rin siya 🙂
pero naiintindihan kita sa sentiment mo. minsan kainis pag fad lang ang isang bagay kaya dami gumagawa. pero malay mo naman if you can really elevate it into an art form, diba? may potential ka naman 🙂 baka ikaw ang magbibigay ng zest sa seemingly bandwagon na hobby na yan.
saka ok yang ginagawa mong pagt-try out ng new things 🙂 eventually you will discover what you are really passionate about 🙂
@ madam:
not lechon manok because you can’t find any friggin lechon manok around here (or tamad lang ako mag-effort mag-search). basta, oo, parang ganun nga sa LOTR, suddenly everyone knows about it. blah. buti na lang i still have Terry Goodkind’s SOT series — which I still can’t finish (last book na lang eh grrr) kasi nawalan talaga ako ng gana sobra.
tinatamad lang talaga siguro ako, madam. wawents. walang enerhiya gumawa ng kahit na ano.
at about trying new things — baka nga madiscover ko ang aking tunay na passion –> KNITTING! sasamahan ko na si berns :p hahaha. my gash, di ko maimagine sarili ko na nagni-knit. nakngtofu!
hahaha, sige ano ba common diyan? ramen house? 😀
ok lang yang ‘tamad’ phase na yan. minsan kakatamad gumawa ng kahit ano even for those things that we claim we really love doing. just take your time 🙂 ang point naman diyan at ang pinakamahalaga, napapasaya ka ng ginagawa mo kaya wag mo pilitin 🙂
hahaha, di kita ma-imagine na nagkni-knit. hahaha, that would be the day talaga pag nakita na kitang nagkni-knit o nagcro-crochet! delubyo na pagkatapos nun :))
hahahah!!! akala ko gusto magtry ng cross stitch? hehehe
@ madam @ krotone
woi, ano mali sa cross-stitch :p dumaan ako sa kahibangang yun.. pero ilang dekada naman na, hahaha, kalimutan na lang natin ang nakakahiyang kwentong ito :p
parang yung sa The Little Prince na book! Akala nung prince siya lang ang may rose. Nalungkot siya when he arrived on a planet full of roses! —‘—,–@
hmmm… onga nakakatamad na nga kumuha. pero…kung ayaw mo na talaga, andito ako ha para pasahan mo ng nikon d40 mo 😀 😀 tatanggapin ko with open arms 😀
try mo naman sketch o painting?
weh.
mag Oh! Chips ka na lang! Ohhhhhhh!
haha!
sabaw din. @.@
wahehehe, di ko pinapamigay si pinakamamahal kong noodles the nikon d40 no. :p
sketch o painting? wala akong talento dun. hinoard lahat ng kapatid ko. tsk. magmumukhang crap lang ang kakalabasan kapag tinry ko haha.
shemay talaga naintriga talaga ako dyan sa oh! chips mo na yan haha.