still filming

we're still truckin' along with fatblueman's "take my heart" music video. the weather was awful last sunday which put filming on hold. hopefully next sunday's weather will be nice enough to film our outdoor shots. in the meantime enjoy these photos i stumbled upon taken a couple months ago at a fatblueman gig at shooter's.

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minxy

ok here it is. my cool video of the month.

as i mentioned in an earlier blog post i have been involved in a youtube collaboration with some popular fellow jvloggers on youtube. here's the result- the fatblueman "minxy" music video. its about our fellow jvlogger, hannah minx and her rise to fame. be sure to check out all the people that were involved in this video's info box on youtube. be sure to watch it in HD and let us know what you think!

chinaramas

here are some panoramas of beijing taken on antonette's kodak v1253 point and shoot. quality is not as good as my canon, but it takes some nifty pics with it's built in panoramic with auto stitching function. enjoy!

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Beijing

again, sorry for not keeping this blog updated this month. i've been busy with work and side projects. keep an eye out for a youtube collaboration video i've been working on with fatblueman and miss hannah minx. also i'll be making a short series of videos about our recent 5 day trip to china. i'll try to have that started by the end of this month. until then enjoy these photos!

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HDRocky

this month has been pretty busy so i haven't been blogging as much as wanted to. we're going to china during "golden week," sort of a spring vacation here in japan. we'll be spending 5 days or so in beijing. expect video of that early may. i'll probably have photos to go along with it. in the meantime i've been playing around with fake HDR photos in iphoto and photoshop. pretty easy to do with nifty results. here are some samples of rocky in his different stages of puppyhood. let me know what you think or if you have any tips. i'm going to try to get better at this later.

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benito middle's japanese food and culture questions

this is the first video response to questions about japan sent from students from benito middle school in tampa, florida. these are their questions about japanese food and culture. if you're here in japan already then watching this 10 min video might be a bit of a bore. if you're abroad and curious about what japan is like then take a look.

square 1 (ft. derrius dean)

looks like i have a solid production team to shoot fatblueman's "take my heart" music video that has been long overdue. here is a quick video of the three of us testing out our canon kiss x3's. it was mostly shot with a "plastic fantastic (canon 50mm f1.8 lens)." lots of fun that day.

creative commons music by: jemex (ft. derrius dean)
video by: marlow gum, yeelee wong, masanori shimamoto

antonette and takeshi

so i mentioned earlier last month that antonette was in an ad campaign with kitano takeshi along with a few other of our coworkers. this video is of the posters and billboards she appeared in all over town and on the trains and subway. check out the tv commercial if you havent already.

beef tongue

this is an update video, but for those of you who hate those (like myself) it's also a taste test video.

beyonce water

this is a little old news, but still cool if you haven't seen it already.

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digital traffic

it just makes sense.

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sumo in nagoya (slideshow)

here is the photo slideshow of my first sumo experience.

sumo in nagoya (hikanninja.com)

enormous, pseudo naked, sweaty fat dudes smacking each other's jiggling man-breasts sound like a good time to you? you're either a perv or a sumo fan.

check out marlow's first experience watching sumo @ hikanninja.com (july 17th, 2009).

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freebell mansion

it's been 2 months and we're finally settled into our cozy new apartment. it's double the space and about $100 a month cheaper than our last place so we're really happy about our cost of living being really low. we're also really close to nagoya station which makes it perfect for our commutes.

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My future partner

There she is. The canon rebel T1i, known as the canon kiss x3 here in japan. It looks like after I save up some money I'm going to buy this lovely piece of hardware. I lost my HD camcorder and I feel naked without it. I already have a canon rebel (the first rebel body; it's a dinosuar, but a solid workhorse), but this new kiss x3 is both a digital slr and HD (up to 1080p @ 20fps) video recorder. It will cut down on the amount of devices I carry around. Can't wait. We're going to get along famously.
-- mobile post from my iPhone