Toshi's thread

WTGPhoben · Nov 30, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
oh, and i don't know how many exactly i have up on the web, but i have shot 17000+ in the last 1.5 years . so maybe 4k are up? who knows. it's at least 25 GB worth (in tiff form mostly)

that's a lot of photos. I believe in the last year I've pressed the shutter button about 4000 times. and I have 1432 posted, of which about 100-200 are not mine.

totally unrelated... if someone asked you to shoot soft-core porn for a startup magazine, would you do it (this may or may not have happened to me). If you did do it, would you do it anonymously or not?

WTGPhoben · Nov 30, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
hmm. i am too lazy to fix those things. esp since changing html directly is a no-go, and i can't see the results of changing my style sheet because the problem (i do know what you're talking about, borders on that would be annoying) doesn't show up on my box

yeah. here's how it looks on my screen (minus the big red arrows

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WTGPhoben · Nov 30, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
and here's how it shows up on mine:

i think you just need a better web browser

I think the millions of users of the latest version of IE for windows would disagree with you.

WTGPhoben · Dec 2, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
pics by subject are working!

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/

i haven't redone the riding pics pages yet, so your entry is rather sparse, keith, but most are well-fleshed out. possibly interesting might be this page:

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/artsy.html

and this one:

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/bleak.html

Artsy pics are hot

WTGPhoben · Dec 2, 2003

for us photo geeks, it would be really sweet to see the tech info on each pic (shutter, iso, etc...). Do you think you could figure out a way to parse the header of the images and automatically generate a link to the info for each pic? (because that would be awesome)

WTGPhoben · Dec 3, 2003

Is there any way to get photos that were taken together to come up together in the index? It's a little strange how thy're sort of randomly distributed.

Originally posted by Toshi
as part of my website revamp (dec 2, 2003) the path to the biking pics has changed. now everything is under

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/biking/

sorry for the change, but the structure was getting too messy

pic

also of interest to you guys will be the following subject pages:

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Keith Berkoben.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Keirse.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Ari.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Thad Sze.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Keith's%20friend%20Dave.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/Toshi riding bikes.html

http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/dirt jumping.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/trail riding.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/night rides.html
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/skatepark riding.html

and
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/subjects/bikes and parts.html

ah, that's a lot of typing. quick stat: there were approx 1004 biking photos, give a take a few for movie thumbnails.

wait, one more thing: http://harvard03.ath.cx/videos/biking has all the movies now. tell me if you get 403: permission denied and i'll fix it

WTGPhoben · Dec 3, 2003

oh, and in a fit of procrastination I changed my photo gallery style sheet so now it isn't a black plague upon the rest of my nice white website...

see it here

kingLatency · Dec 3, 2003

Did you guys see the D70 press release? Cool stuff. I'd rather have a D100, but who knows if I'd be able to afford that come buying time.

kingLatency · Dec 4, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
yeah, i read it this morning on my usual sweep of robgalbraith.com and dpreview.com . sounds like it would be perfect for you since you have f mount glass

Well, only two lenses, one of which is AI-S, so I'd probably replace it anyways. I can't afford a DSLR (yet) anyways, though, so it doesn't matter. I think I'll buy a DSLR in the Summer of '05. How's that for planning ahead?

I'd probably be able to afford one this summer, but I'd just be opposed to paying $900-$1300 on a camera.

WTGPhoben · Dec 4, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
in addition to the d70 press release, robgalbraith.com also has a nice story on the first digital asst for national geographic:

http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6450-6561

in other, geeky, news (you listening, keith? ) i set up sendmail and majordomo on my server. and it was a huge pain. but as a result, i now have my own mailing list, awh (it was something that a few of my friends had asked for, it's hard to stay in contact post-graduation)

I suppose It was only a matter of time. It's definitely a useful addition to any url.

WTGPhoben · Dec 10, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
hey keith, how does one go about finding an apartment around boston? where should i live? i want to work either for fascs or for the med school, so being close to the t would be good. but commuter railin' it would be possible too provided it's not all the way out in worcester or somesuch

rent.com? craigslist? hmm

(and a random japan pic woo)

interesting question. I'll ask around.

WTGPhoben · Dec 10, 2003

toshi, you missed a mother of a snowstorm. Wind did some funky stiff with the snow too...

more pics here:
http://www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2003

top two links.

and on a side note... My new photo-project of the moment is improving my basic skills (exposure and lighting especially... probably getting a decent plash in the near future) so if anyone has any words of wisdom they feel need to be said, I'm all ears.

WTGPhoben · Dec 11, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
another keith/random mechanics reading this thread question:

how does one adjust the amount of slop in a chris king front hub? it's not like my old-fangled ones

It looks real simple (see pdf pg 5 on king site) The whole thing is only 4 pieces + bearings. to adjust, it looks like you just put a 5mm hex wrench in the holes where the skewers go, loosen the thing 1/4 turn, then tighten adjusting ring till it touches bearings and retighten main assembly.

also, link is fixed:
http://www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2003

WTGPhoben · Dec 15, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
this link is also interesting

http://www.bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINICooperVsFordF150

as you may note, i'm not doing much riding lately. swimming, lifting, yes, but no riding. blame oregon and its incredibly rainy climate. instead i futz around with my web server and surf for info on cars

how's the passat working out for you btw? i'm currently hot on the prospect/concept of the ford focus svt and toyota tacoma trd, just to show how little i've narrowed down what i want

passat is pretty sweet. the conti ch95's are a little weak in the snow, but I got some michelins waiting in my garage for when I wear the contis out.

the suggestions I got for housing searches were www.craigslist.com and www.roommateaccess.com I have a friend at work who has switched apartments about every third month in the last year, but she's in europe for a week or so. I'll ask her for her 2cents when she gets back.

I don't see you in a ford focus.

WTGPhoben · Dec 18, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
cool. all i need is a job now.

actually, i think i might be rocking something even less than a focus... my father decided to be esp. parsimonious (after agreeing to buy a car around this past september or so ), so it looks like i will inherit the beater 1995 lincoln mark VIII. which is HUGE, and suffers from the typical big-american-car floatiness (air suspension, ugh), has an automatic transmission (a disease unto itself), and is generally tacky. hmm. on the other hand, it is rear wheel drive, it does have 280 hp on paper to offset that weight, and there is an active forum at markviii.org ...

what it could look like with a set of nice 18"s hehe:

if you get a free car that means you have money for a new set of struts... and a nice rack.

WTGPhoben · Dec 20, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
news of the day: i have decided to see how many digits of pi i can memorize, now that my self-assigned task of going through the entire matlab manual is done

current progress:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950

i think.

If you're really that bored, I need someone to teach me discreet and fourier analysis. I'll give you a week to learn all the material and then you can fly out and show me how to do it.

Also, find me a 550ex for ~$200 any you'd be my hero.

WTGPhoben · Dec 21, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi
heh, no thanks. fourier analysis isn't all that bad from what i've seen. this is why theory is better than practice

anyway, i have a new question for you, since you are a sound guy:

what mic setup for reasonable money (~$300 all said and done, including preamp if necessary etc.) should i get for recording myself? this will go straight to the computer through my usb audio box, which has a 1/4" plug, no xlr (which i imagine the preamp would have, i'm thinking of the m-audio audio buddy if condensers are called for), optical, rca, coax.

this would be for mic'ing at a distance -- remember, i'm a classical player, don't want a commercial in-the-bell sound. it's really hard to sort through advice on the internet, most recommend hideously expensive studio mics, and everything else is just about randomly distributed. i've read recommendations for (limiting to about my price range)

sennheiser 421: dynamic, pricey, really that much better than a shure sm57?

beyer m-160. ribbon, dual ribbon actually, hard to find but one's on ebay for $240 or so. actually, now that i think of it, buying a used ribbon mic is a dumb idea. scratch this, i'll wait until i can afford one new, or a royer 121 or somethin'

rode nt1/nt1-a. a cheap condenser, still more expensive than the shure sm57 by a ways, probably too bright but then again i won't be close-micing at all

shure sm57. surely you're familiar with this one . i'm worried about it being overly bright. maybe mated with a tube preamp? nice and cheap tho

ok. so please tell me what's up, i'm utterly confused at this point. purpose of this mic will be for audition stuff, but mainly self-analysis of tone color, so natural and flat would be good goals

tia.

if you're going to be picky about tone quality and color, you're not gonig to get too far on $300. I'm not well acquainted with exact brand names, etc. either, but you're definitely gonig to need a condenser, and a preamp is going to be key as you're gonig to need something to supply phantom power anyway. for a man who knows his taping and taping equipment inside and out you should talk to brett from finkfankfunk. I'm sure you can find his generic contact info on his website www.darkfunk.com he has about 1000 email addresses so I wouldn't know which one to give you off the top of my head.

WTGPhoben · Dec 23, 2003

Originally posted by Toshi

and, lastly, i have coughed up more macro pics, 1 bonus point for the first person to identify this without looking at the gallery title :

that's easy... but kinda gross to know that you kiss it every day.

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