Sunday, May 1, 2011
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Easy Strawberry Sorbet Recipe
Here's the recipe in a boring text format so you can copy and save it.
1 1/2 Cups sugar
3 Cups water
3 Pounds of fresh cleaned and cut strawberries (Frozen will work)
3 Tablespoons lemon juice
Combine sugar and water in a heavy saucepan.
Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to low and simmer until all the sugar has been dissolved.
Remove from heat, and refrigerate until chilled.
Puree cleaned and cut strawberries; add lemon juice and sugar water.
Mix well and pour in to the ice cream maker's canister.
Follow your ice cream makers instructions to complete the freezing process.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
William Castle's - The Old Dark House
I kind of remember seeing this on TV as a kid. Well I remember the lady with the knitting needles through her neck anyway. I'm going to try and watch it on YouTube, because it isn't on Netflix instant play.
Hope I don't die laughing!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Quick and Dirty Reviews - Insidious
I'm not much for doing big drawn out reviews. But with that being said, we went and saw Insidious on Saturday and were very happy we did. It starts out like a 70's slow burner, building good tension here and there. It has tons of good unexpected startles. I thought the story was good and interesting. It has a few laughs too. There was one moment toward the end where CGI is used in a “hallway” scene (don’t want to give anything away) that I thought was cheap looking and unnecessary (but who am I). I read John Squires review over at his blog Freddy in Space, and I have to mostly agree with him. I loved the first three quarters of the movie, and the last quarter was good too (but not quite as scary as the first part of the movie). Would I recommend this movie? Yes whole heartedly! I thoroughly enjoyed it, as did my wife. We jumped, we laughed, and she even covered her eyes a couple times. I heard a kid tell his friends that he got so scared at one of the startles that he thought he “sharted”.
Is it Poltergeist? No.
Is it the Exorcist? No.
Is it a fun, creepy, spooky, way to spend an hour and 42 minutes, HELL YES!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Addicted
I recently replaced my big clunky 60Gig iPod (it wasn't holding a charge very well anymore) with a new iPod touch. I downloaded a photography App called Hipstamatic and fell in love with taking photos all over again. The App has been around since 2009, so many of you have probably already heard of it.
According to the Hipstamatic facebook page "The Hipstamatic App is an iPhone App that seeks to recreate the magic started in the 80's with 'the little plastic camera with the golden shutter."
A little history of where the Hipstamatic came from, via the Hipstamatic facebook page again. "In 1982 Bruce and Winston Dorbowski began producing a DIY camera made entirely of plastic after dropping out of art school. The molds were made by hand and each camera was assembled in the brothers' cabin workspace on the Wisconsin River in Merrill, Wisconsin. Each camera included a golden yellow shutter button which become a cult icon in 1983. By the end of 1984 the group had manufactured and sold 157 units. They then began working on setting up a production facility to take the camera to retail stores such as Woolworth's and K-Mart. Unfortunately things never worked out and the Hipstamatic never became mass produced".
It's a super fun, easy to use, retro/toy camera photography application. I read that there are something like 288 possible combinations of flash, film and lens for all of the currently available add on packs (called Hipstapaks). I missed two limited time Hipstapaks, so I'm missing a couple film types, and a lens or two. I spent a total of $7.93 to get the App and 6 Hipstapaks, and I feel like it was worth every cent. I've been having a lot of fun trying different combos of flash, film and lens.
So you'll probably see me posting what appear to be old photos fairly often now. I'm going to try to get back in some sort of routine with the blog. Schools been kind of overwhelming lately, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel finally. Five classes left!
Anyways . . . . . . Enjoy!
The Great Hipstamatic 100
The Hipstamatic facebook page
The Official Hipstamatic application page
According to the Hipstamatic facebook page "The Hipstamatic App is an iPhone App that seeks to recreate the magic started in the 80's with 'the little plastic camera with the golden shutter."
A little history of where the Hipstamatic came from, via the Hipstamatic facebook page again. "In 1982 Bruce and Winston Dorbowski began producing a DIY camera made entirely of plastic after dropping out of art school. The molds were made by hand and each camera was assembled in the brothers' cabin workspace on the Wisconsin River in Merrill, Wisconsin. Each camera included a golden yellow shutter button which become a cult icon in 1983. By the end of 1984 the group had manufactured and sold 157 units. They then began working on setting up a production facility to take the camera to retail stores such as Woolworth's and K-Mart. Unfortunately things never worked out and the Hipstamatic never became mass produced".
It's a super fun, easy to use, retro/toy camera photography application. I read that there are something like 288 possible combinations of flash, film and lens for all of the currently available add on packs (called Hipstapaks). I missed two limited time Hipstapaks, so I'm missing a couple film types, and a lens or two. I spent a total of $7.93 to get the App and 6 Hipstapaks, and I feel like it was worth every cent. I've been having a lot of fun trying different combos of flash, film and lens.
So you'll probably see me posting what appear to be old photos fairly often now. I'm going to try to get back in some sort of routine with the blog. Schools been kind of overwhelming lately, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel finally. Five classes left!
Anyways . . . . . . Enjoy!
The Great Hipstamatic 100
The Hipstamatic facebook page
The Official Hipstamatic application page
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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