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Don’t you just hate it when you look at your text/email and it says:

“Once you have opened this e-mail, there’s no turning back. Below are true descriptions of zodiac signs, with traits from a book written
thirty-five years ago by an astrologist predictions. Read your sign, then forward it, with your zodiac sign and label on the subject line. This is a real deal, try ignoring it, and the first thing you’ll notice is having a horrible day starting tomorrow morning – and it only gets worse from there.”

Now isn’t this just a pile of horse sh*t ! I mean yes superstitious believes are perfectly fine. Things like breaking a mirror will give you seven years bad luck or if a black cat cross you path that a bad sign is more like “Myths”, these “Myths” has been around for many years giving itself time to be established by our society. Understandable that is why some may believe is such statements. But on the other hand these chain letters/messages which its main purpose is probably to spread a computer virus, they don’t even have a real source of where it begins isn’t something that’s needed to be acknowledge. In the end superstition is just credulous belief or notion, not based on reason, knowledge, or experience. Therefore before buying into the point that the letter/message is making, you should consider analyzing how would the situation be possible before acting upon what the text is telling you. Yet some people fail this simple step and skipped straight through to the action. I mean it’s as simple as thinking in your head “how would a random 9 years old dead girl from America gonna come out of my cupboard and kill me in a horrible and terrifying manner?”

“Some threaten users with bad luck if not forwarded. There are many forms of chain e-mail that threaten death or the taking of one’s soul by telling tales of other’s deaths, such as the Katu Lata Kulu chain e-mail, stating that if it is not forwarded, the receivers of the message will be killed by the spirit. Another involved an email involving a homicidal Mickey Mouse[murderer], who will intrude the recipient’s domain to kill him or her unless sent to the number of recipients. Any lower [than what is commanded, the recipient] will suffer death, injury, paranoia, and bad luck.” – Wikipedia. Tell me you don’t think all sound perfectly capable of actually happening from simply opening an email ? I mean if so why the hell open it in the first place ? Most of the time it said in the “subject” don’t open. Yes sometime these things are sent by a viruses, but for the last time stop forwarding them !

I think my Graphics teacher hates me. Reason for that:

I don’t like kids ! Not like i hate them, but well it’s more like I’m scared of children. Yes I’m not so far from a children myself being 17 but I’m talking of the really young children. I don’t like them because 1: I’m afraid I’m going to make them cry & 2: I don’t know what to do when they come up to you, being the youngest in my family I haven’t had a little brother/sister to looked after. Now to why I think my graphic teacher hates me, I say she hates me i don’t literally mean that she “hates” me. I have a pretty solid idea that she knows I don’t like children, yet we have came to a decision to do my exam work on Toys. Which the idea of doing it on Toys, to me, sounds like a great fun. However this will mean I would have to spend a great amount of time either, go to places that sells toys (this usually involve kids) or visit children’s museums.

V&A Childhood Museum is the first place that came to her mind. Yes it’s “Childhood” Museum, of course that place is going to be full of kids.But i gave it a go. I went there on the Wednesday 24th (the day LC-A Instant back+ was launch) the museum itself is very nice and simple, literally just toys in a glass cupboard in some sort of a massive warehouse. However there is this big piece of Art work at the entrance that caught my eyes. It was a “bridge/rainbow thingy/some sort of a shelter/who knows what” made from just wooden chairs !

[Look at the little devils running towards me.... "arrgghhhh"]

This was amazing as you can see, not the most exciting thing but I just wasn’t expecting something like this in a museum that sounds quite boring. It not only the chair that amazed me at this museum, the boring toys i was there to take photos of were not as boring as I thought. The toys were not just old teddy bears and wooden cars, there were all sort of toys thing like game console to collectibles. If you don’t know this I am a bit of a Star Wars fan and have a massive collection of unopened action figure from Star Wars, back home in Thailand. So seeing them was nice, also things like the Play Station 1 (the original one) brings back memories of when I’ve played those old games with my brother whom I haven’t seen in a while.

Conclusion: if you have free time why not visit this place, it might be a little far(ish) if you live in Central London. It only took me about 35-45 minutes to get there and I say that’s not bad. It’ll bring back memories when you look at those old toys if you do see ones that you’ve had in the pass like I did.

Another thing that I should mention is their cafe looked very good. I didn’t have time to see it because I was rushing to go to the Lomo Store to get the brand spanking new LC-A Instant Back+ & The “No Nukes” LC-A+. Which by the way is an amazing addition to the LC-A, as amazing as the Diana Instant back is, it’s nowhere near the result you’ll get with the LC-A Instant Back+. With its signature vignetting and the crystal clear images (with a Tunnel Vision like effect ) made by it’s glass lens still included in the instant photos that comes out, its a “must have” for LC-A owners. I really do highly recommend this LC-A Instant Back+ !

[Just see what I mean when I say it's a "must have"]

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Taking photos isn’t just done by walking around on your own like some sort of a pedophile. Taking photos with other people is more than double the fun ! Especially when you don’t know the other people, but have similar interest, you’ll really enjoy yourself. Talking about experiences, camera, photograph, because if you already know the people your walking around with, yes its fun, but you’re only gonna talk about the same old crap. So try going out meeting new people…..

I myself have made a few friends during my life changing discovery of my Lomo obsession. I have made great friends at Lomography London, and met people in there too. I know it might sound to you I’m just constantly promoting Lomography, I’m not I only showing what Lomography have actually given to me. Keeping on the Lomo subject I have also made some very nice friends on Lomography’s own community “Lomo Homes“. So I think that cameras is a great way to socialized not just capturing moments…….

[He might look crazy but he is very friendly, he's also a photographer so that explains that...]

You don’t know how to interact by taking photos ? Well there’s a few way to do this, one of the way is easy but I’ve got to admit a little scary is when taking picture in well known public places you’ll always see at least one or two other photographers there. Go up to them (not in a scary way of course) talk to them about the cameras, that is why you’re both there right ? Because you’re taking photos, yes ? What’s the worst thing that could happen ? You’re in a public place, the person ain’t gonna grab you and run off ! If the conversation doesn’t work out the, who gives, try talking to someone else. Another way is that I found is the more enjoyable way for me, is go to an organized event or meet ups. Something like the Lomography Workshops or Lomomissions for example.

I have in the pass participate in a few of these Lomography workshops before, which was fun, but i just wish the people in it were more relax and just talk about the camera, photo, jokes, whatever. They tent to either come in groups or by themselves, no problem with that, however they make no attempts to interact with other groups/individual that are there, even though that’s the point of these workshops. This made the workshops not as fun as i hoped it to be, but yesterday I joined the group in LGS London (LGS = Lomography Gallery Store) in the Lomomission one – The Wien in London. Walking along the river with complete strangers. The best thing is this group is the friendliest group yet ! We all……wait for it……. Interact with each other, this was great ! This made the Lomomission amazing fun, I made friends from it and that just make photography more the fun to do.

So remember if you’re ever lonely, like me, because none of your existing friends enjoy photography. Go out and find new friends, its not as hard as you think and it’ll make photography more fun. You’ll get to know more about it also from exchanging knowledge you each know about photography……..

These days Analogue or film cameras are not really being used as much as in the past, this is a big mistake ! Because when you use a Digital camera not only most of the time your letting the camera do all the tricky adjustment for you, but you also just looking at what you’ve just taken if you don’t like you re-take it. This make you less involved with the photography aspect itself, you end up just taking an image rather than capturing the moment. the wonderful Lomography Society is one of the many groups trying to keep Analogue alive and this is one of the 100s of reasons why i love Lomography.

Lomography cameras are simple, low tech and easy to experiment with. Why not go out and try some maybe put a filter in between the Lens and the film. Maybe find a sheet of plastic cut a bit out and draw a patten on top before putting it in the camera. Give it a try do what you want with it. As i discovered its great fun and you can really get some good affects with it.