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Guac Off 2009!

Check out Candice’s blog post about my Guacamole Party! Click Here –> From Scratch

Web Analytics Workshop

My colleague, Tai Dang, and I were lucky to attend the eMetrics: Marketing Optimization Summit last week in Toronto. It was great! Thanks for sending us MediaTrust! We ended up taking a workshop on Web Analytics for Site Optimization given by Jim Novo from the Web Analytics Association. If you get the opportunity to hear...

Album Cover Design

Here are some of my design ideas for the Lunchmeat album cover.

HDR: Details Enhancer vs Tone Compressor

Details Enhancer Tone Compressor I use Photomatix to create the HDR images in my blog. I use the Details Enhancer most of the time. The other option you can use is the Tone Compressor. I was wondering what the difference was between the two… so I decided to process the same picture twice, trying out...

Tartar Sauce

I found this mural around the dockyard area in Bermuda. There are about 100 murals left by the crews of naval ships that have docked in Bermuda. I heard they may paint over them soon, so I frantically took pictures of most of them. “Tatars sometimes spelled Tartars, are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group mainly inhabiting...

Bridge to Bermuda

This picture was taken close to the town of St. George on the island of Bermuda. You can see the remains of an old bridge. Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of...

Lunchmeat tour part 2 starts today!

More Shows!!! Played a show last night in Toronto at the Smiling Buddha. It was fun, but I’m more excited to hit the road tonight. We are embarking on another mini tour. Again we are on tour with our good friends Ancestors. This time we will be showing off Lunchmeat to South West Ontario. We...

Meadowlark Lemon

This is the band that hosted us. Ancestors have played with Meadowlark Lemon before. That’s how we know them. The show was posted in the the Sudbury Star Newspaper. Check out this quote: “Their singer studies ancient poetry at U of T and can speak Latin. When we went to Toronto, their bassist told me...

Sudbury Water Tower

This confirms it. We had arrived in Sudbury. Sudbury (2006 census population 157,857) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. It is the largest city in Northern Ontario in population, and the 24th largest metropolitan area in Canada. Sudbury has lent its mining heritage to two major tourist attractions: Science North, an interactive science museum...

Just Dip It

“Just Dip It” is remarkably close to Nike‘s slogan, “Just Do It”. Their lawyers will be contacting Pizza People soon.

Sammy in front of Todd’s house

We stopped in Barrie at our friend Todd’s house to pick up Chris from the band Ancestors. Then we carried on our way to Sudbury so Lunchmeat could play 2 all ages shows. Our singer Sammy, is standing in front of Todd’s house. There was way more snow in Barrie than I was expecting! I...

How to create authentic HDR photos

What is HDR? (High Dynamic Range) It is a process that combines 3 pictures of different exposures due to different shutter speeds. The effect exaggerates the tonal contrast and saturation in your composition. In this tutorial, I am explaining how to shoot a real HDR photo. You can produce an HDR image with only one...