Oh hi holga I missed you

Do you guys know who "Drake" is? I didn't know, but apparently he's a rapper and he lives in the building across from my building! I bet he has a lot of places though so he's probably not there all the time. I would be more excited if I knew who he was so I could recognize him if I ever saw him on the street. Then I could yell out his name and point and cause a big commotion, and I'm always looking for opportunities to cause a commotion.

Anyway, here are some holga photos that I never got around to posting or putting on flickr until now. I'm pretty happy with how they came out though. This film is called Portra 160VC and it's one of my favorites now. In this one I was testing out my macro lens thing, it's harder than it looks cause the viewfinder on the Holga is not actually a viewfinder and it has to be the exact right distance from the lens to be in focus:


This is from hanging out in the meadow with Claire when it was still summer and not freezing cold. The camera is my 60's Anscoset that I got in a weird "trading post" store somewhere in Nova Scotia.


The rest are from the Corvallis fair when I went there with Claire. That was like a triple rhyme. I win.


















I posted the entire roll of film in this post. They aren't all that great but it's rare to have a roll that is even 50% good enough to show people so I'm happy!
It's supposed to snow tonight. It probably won't but I hope it does. I'm trying to convert myself to thinking in degrees Celsius, so far it's going pretty well. I don't know when American Thanksgiving is and I'm too lazy to look it up, so if it's today then happy Thanksgiving! If not then I take it back.

Greektown

Hi! Yesterday I explored Greektown with Rifqi and Kara. We went for lunch first at a place Kara had heard about. It was pretty inside with Greek-looking pillars and everything. I had chicken souvlaki and we also got this appetizer thing called saganaki. Basically it's fried cheese and they bring it to your table and pour vodka on it and set it on fire and yell "OPA!!" Everything about it was amazing. I also tried a dolma which was I think rice and something else wrapped in a grape leaf. It was really really lemony and I didn't like it much. The hummus there was awesome though. Here's a picture of the saganaki:


Mmmm. We found a cool (non-Greek) store where we made Rifqi wear funny hats.


Bahahaha. I bought a badass hat there. Here we have Rifqi and me posing douchily.


This is inside a cafe we went to. We got a banana split to share. It was awesome.


Rifqi took the wafer bit, but I got the cherry. Poor Kara was too slow to get anything special. We also found a sketchy "discount store" where I bought a flashy deck of Pokemon playing cards for a dollar. The backs are all sparkly. I also got one of those awesome pencils with the leads that you take out when it goes flat and stick in the bottom, and there's a sharp one underneath. I haven't had one of those in so long! Rifqi was amazed that I was enough of a loser to know all the names of the pokemon on the cards. I tried to explain to him that Pokemon was cool, but he kept talking about how hot Misty was.


The Greek stuff in Greektown was mostly restaurants and travel agencies, plus a ton of old Greek guys milling about. It was overall a cool place to go and hang out. Afterwards Rifqi and I met Elise in the subway and then went to Eaton Centre, and then me and Elise went to a Kate Nash concert. It was really good, she is awesome live! The opening band, Peggy Sue, was amazing! I've never seen an opening band that good.

Anyway I know when I'll be home for winter break now. I get to Corvallis in the evening on December 17th and leave on January 9th. Yay!