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“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure that you realized that what you’ve heard is not what I meant” – Alan Greenspan

[Don't think I have a relevant photo to go with this, but here it one. She kinda look like she's thinking I suppose]

What I’m about to babble on about pretty much applies to EVERYTHING ! Everybody have certain things they like, whether it is music, books, films, foods, phones, shoes, shirts, even simple thing like socks, you get my point, anyway these things are all different and not everyone else in the world will like the same things you do. However it is NOT “crap” in any ways, a lot of people still doesn’t understand the simple concept of how different mind works differently and that not everyone’s going to think that, that certain thing lets say its music, is “crap”. The thing you have to keep in mind is that by all mean to your opinion you have all the rights in the world to say that it is “crap” or it is “cool”, but when sharing these opinion you have to bare in mind that theirs might be far off yours.

A simple situation of one of these would be:

This is the [what I think] is the more civilized way of handling the situation. If someone was sitting in a room listening to music doing whatever they’re doing and you enters, all is well, on the other hand you’ve notice the music and does not like it. Now it is not wrong or right for you to not like this music, you may ask the person to change it, turn it off, or put a head phone on. Simple and everybody is happy.

Now this is the [what I think] is the worst way for someone to handle the situation. Let’s say it’s the same scenario as the one before, music playing you enter the room, doesn’t like it. This is where things goes wrong, first obvious thing that the person enters the room will do is say something like “what is this ?” (usually with the word “crap” or “shit” at the end). Which is fair enough if you want to know, what is this sound made by the vibration coming from the speakers, produced by the electrical current submitted by the programing of the computer/iPod/phones/etc. But you know its making noise at a certain notes, with certain beats to go along with it must be music of some sort. Unless you find it hard to recognized music, at which point I suggest you see a physiologist or a doctor. Okay now after the person already in the room explained the music t them, the usual response is “This is SHIT!” This is where a argument starts, not because either wanted to cause a fight, but it’s because both different people have different interests. Sometime the person who dislike the music (in this case) knows what reaction he will get by expressing how much he dislike this music. By doing this he purposely provoking the person who likes the music to explain their reason for liking the music, just so that they can once again express how they feel in a different way to they and persuade that person to think how they do.

Now what they have to know is to act correctly in situation like this, like I said anyone have the right to hate/like anything they want. On the other hand it’s not right to just presumed that everybody’s going to like/hate it too. The simple facts is if they don’t like it, you going to them “This is the shit man, its amazing have a listen[look, watch, etc.]” isn’t going to change their mind. In-fact it might make them hate/like it even more than before. It is that simple thing you can do to respect other people’s opinions. Yes, discuss it with each other but also keep it in the discussion that it’s each person’s opinion, not the whole group will have the same answer to something. I think that just throwing your opinion out there not discussing the differences, likes and dislikes. then take in consider other people’s opinion in any ways shape or form and just expecting it to be find is just unacceptable.

So please people, respect other people’s opinions too. In the end yours is not the only one that matters when it comes to living in the world where different opinion matters too. There are many different way thing are being seen by many different people. “Wow” I’ve put a lot of “different” in here.

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 !

Alright this is just one of those subject that don’t apply to everyone, but you’ll probably end up in this situation at some point. Mobile phones are used for mobile telecommunication (assisted transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication to or from a mobile device). However some people just seem to missed the purpose for this technology, mobile phones to some people are not for the purpose of communication but are an accessory. It’s become a fashion statement, it’s something that is used just to show and in some circumstance give an illusion of having a high social status.

Now the reason I wanted to write this blog is because, today when I left my Graphics lesson to go to lunch i tried to call my friend who did not pick up her phone. I have a free lesson after lunch that i thought would be very brilliant to use for filming some Media work, however i could not get a hold of her. So i tried another friend, she did not pick up/text back either and another, and another. Non of them picked up but one texted back and this make me think why have a mobile phones but never actually using it when it’s needed ? Or having a phone but never picking up just using it as gaming device, camera, entertainment etc.

Yes a mobile phone is not only build for calling but also have additional services, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video, MP3 player, radio and GPS. However those are only accessories to the main function of the mobile phone, which is to allow you to communicated wirelessly where ever you go ( within the coverage distance ). No one seems to be using it only for this purpose anymore.

Having a mobile phone myself I know that me personally I only use it mainly for calling, texting and emailing (communication). So I think that people to have fancy looking phone that have 1.7GHz processor, or a multi touch function on their touch screen , or an App that can tell them what the cat is saying needs to know the real purpose of having this device. But not to have it only so they can say “Look at this awesome App I got” or ” Look my phone is faster than your computer.” I want it to be use as a mobile telecommunication device not a fashion statement. This way when someone really needs you they can get a hold of you, rather than panicking over the fact that they need to do the work but doesn’t have the people they need to do the work with there.

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……..