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Exiting a coffee shop near my east end Toronto home I noticed him standing by the curb, apparently waiting for someone. I noticed his attractive features and his bold outfit in the rich, late-afternoon sunlight. I approached him and he removed his earbuds to hear my introduction. He had a friendly smile as I explained the project and my opinion that he would make a great subject. “Sure” he said. “I’d be glad to do it. When and where?” “Right now, here.” “Oh” he said. We shook hands. Meet Eddie.
The sunlight was golden but very strong and I had a choice between in-his-face lighting or backlight and the only handy background on the busy street was the stone wall which I’ve actually used previously. I settled on 3/4 backlight with the reflector. Eddie was very friendly and cooperative and asked how I needed him to pose. I said I would explain that to him in a minute… and then once I had my camera out I promptly forgot. I did tell him I needed him squared to the camera and looking right into the lens. He was left on his own for expression and did great.
After the photos were taken we chatted and I found out Eddie is a professional dancer and was waiting for the dance group he belongs to. They were going to have a rehearsal upstairs. Eddie, who is 28, is originally from Ottawa, the nation’s capital. He came to Toronto a year and a half ago and said it struck him as a very big, busy city but he is getting used to it. I asked if he missed Ottawa and he said he does, but compared to Toronto it offers limited opportunities for a dancer. I told him I have been to Ottawa and found it beautiful and I particularly liked the Sparks Street Mall and the Byward Market. His face lit up and he said I would have a field day meeting people for my project in those locations.
The dance group Eddie belongs to is a coalition of African-influenced dancers performing Afro-fusion dance under the direction of Esie Mensah. You can read more about the group at www.blackstarsdance.com. The video clips demonstrate the skill and style of dance which has strong hip hop influence. Eddie has his own website where you can lean more about him and his art: www.edzgyamfi.com. As we were talking, Esie arrived and we explained what we were up to (I still had the reflector in my hand) and she seemed interested but didn’t want to interfere. She is a very attractive woman and would have made a great subject for my project if there had been more time. Another dancer arrived so I quickly exchanged contact information with Eddie and he told me his reaction to being approached was that it made his day. “I’m an artist so when I meet an artist who is doing an interesting project like this I really want to be involved.” I told him what a wonderful time I’ve had with the project and mentioned that my very first Stranger photo had been taken across the street from where we were standing.
When I asked Eddie if he had a motto he lived by he quickly said “My favorite quote lately has been: ‘The plan for all world domination is always at stake.’” I asked what this interesting quote meant to him and he said “You have to work hard and make sacrifices if you plan to excel.” “Oh,” I said. “I get it. You don’t mean world domination but you intend to dominate the world of dance.” He agreed.
With that we shook hands and I told all three that I enjoyed meeting them. Eddie said “I really want to thank you for inviting me to be part of your project. It sounds great.”
Thank you Eddie for participating in 100 Strangers. You are Stranger #591 in Round 6 of my project. It was fun meeting you and I have a feeling you are going to become a well-known person in the world of dance.
Reading Eddie’s resume on the Black Stars Dance website I learned that he is an accomplished professional who has won awards and scholarships and has a busy teaching schedule. He didn’t brag about these accomplishments when we met but was, instead, rather low-key and modest. I received a very nice email from Eddie, thanking me for the photos which he thought were Super and telling me " I really admire your project and what your doing. truly inspiring." He also said he really appreciated the opportunity to be involved. It's really great when someone I approach takes the time to give such nice feedback. What a great conclusion to this excellent encounter.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by the other photographers in our group at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Guess what this is.
Guesses till date :
Radioactive Flower ! (::d::)
Sperm Cells (Raymond, Isolaes, busymommy) (ROTFLMAO) :)
Answer:
Top view of my box of earbuds (Q-Tips), placed on top of a torchlight
for the kickass iPod Portrait Tuesday group.
The nano and video iPod are hanging down from their earbuds from the top of my balcony. It had been raining most of the morning and I took these when the sun finally came out.
Completed headset with Etymotic ER6i drivers.
More pictures from the iPhone headset mod set.
Problem:
The iPhone's earbuds
don't like to stay in my ears.
But I do like that hold/skip switch.
And replacement headsets aren't
as elegant as Apple's pack-in.
Solution:
iPhone + Etymotic ER•6i = happiness. :)
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(If you don't trust your soldering,
there's always the Ultimate Ears.)
**edit: Or just get the adapter! ;)
Young student sitting in Plaza Principal Centro Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and reading the newspaper and listening to ?
SanDisk Sansa Clip Mini Review
In black is my new toy. It's the SanDisk Sansa Clip Mp3 player. It's kind of a cross between an iPod Nano and a Shuffle. It's more like a shuffle due to it's limited screen and minuscule size and I really like it. All the features (and more) of a shuffle with a screen so you know what's playing and can find the song you want.
It comes in 1,2,4,and 8GB flavors in an assortment of colors. I got the 2GB one for cheap ($20) on the deal a day site, sellout.woot.com. It was my first time 'wooting' and it shipped from nearby and came really fast. Ordered last Thursday, got a shipping email this morning with an estimate of delivery on the 23rd (Saturday) and was surprised to see it in the mailbox this afternoon, delivered by USPS. Woot doesn't have the greatest shipping time (most ship within 5 business days), but props to them for keeping their promise and getting it to me within 5 total.
As the title says, smaller is better sometimes. I have been looking for a small, portable throw-around mp3 player and this fits the bill perfectly. It is better than the shuffle in all aspects except the size, but with a beautiful screen as this one, I can certainly live with. To top it off, it can do what no other iPod can do, listen to FM radio, record from the radio, or even record voice notes and audio with its built-in microphone. Oh yeah, and then there's the price!
Surprisingly, as small as this guy is (was totally blown away at how empty the small box it came in was because it is so small), it has some incredible sound quality. One of the benefits of it not being an Apple product, is not having to use iTunes to sync my library (it's quite a big library which is already fully synced with the 60gb iPod Video). I can just drag and drop just about any song I want to the player like a USB drive. It can play your standard MP3 (including DRM ones from Napster and online music subscriptions), WMA, Audible books, OGGs, and FLACs. The last file format is the one that caught my attention. Out of the box, it can play lossless music. Lossless music (FLACs) is the de facto music format for audiophiles. It is encoded in such a way (a high bitrate) that none of the quality is lost. When MP3s are encoded, the music is compressed and music is essentially lost. With FLACs, none of this happens, you hear the original music as intended by the artist. This is one of the reasons I don't buy my songs online, it's lossy (read: junk). Of course, not everyone can tell the difference between lossless and lossy music. Try this test to see if you can tell the difference between lossy and very lossy music. Typically lossless music is encoded at 800 kbps (kilo bits per second) or higher while the maximum MP3s are encoded at are 320 KB/Sec. Anyways, getting back to the player, it can play lossless music and it can do it well. I have been listening to it with my Shure E2C earbuds all night and am enjoying every second of it. Compared with my iPod, it has a much fuller richer sounding quality to it. Certainly, not all mp3 players are made alike.
Moving on to the player itself, it's very small and quite light. It's made of shiny black plastic that seems sturdy (doesn't flex) but a bit cheap (but it makes it light and keeps it affordable). For navigation, it has a layout similar to the ipod. Instead of a scroll wheel, it has clickable directional buttons and a home button. In a song, the top button is the play/pause button. I keep wanting to press this to go to the menu (like the ipod), but that button is the bottom button (direct opposite from Apple's design). The left and right are for the previous and next song. One thing that is really neat is pressing the home button takes you to the main menu where you can select from music, radio, voice recording, and settings. Press it again and it instantly takes you to the "now plaing" song. I wish the iPod had a button like that instead of navigating all the way back to the begining main menu. On the left hand side is mini-usb jack and the sliding on/off/hold button. On the right, is the volume button (a simple up or down clicker) under the 3.5mm headphone hack. On the back is the removable clip which doesn't seem too strong, but has clipped and stayed clipped everywhere I've attached it (in the car, shirt, pockets, etc...).
The screen is a 2 color (blue and gold/yellow) 4 line OLED screen. It's a brilliantly bright crips display that can do many display many different (limited) graphics, words, and characters. It's dimmable if it's too bright or can be raised if it needs to be brighter in the sunlight. Unfortunately the little navigation wheel is not dimmable, but it's not blinding.
Conclusion
Great, you're still with me! Overall, after using it for less than 24 hours, it's a phenomenal product and I'm glad I bought it. Does exactly what it says it will do and does it well. If you're looking for an inexpensive, good sounding, small mp3 player, look no further. I'd highly recommend it. It also goes extremely well with a nice pair of headphones. I have not run into any bugs, but I have updated the firmware to the latest version and SanDisk seems to have good support. There are two forums in particular which have a large community for the Clip. One is AnythingButIpod and the official Sansa forum. I will still continue to use my big iPod but more for the longer trips and for watching movies and videos. The clip, however, is perfect for grab and go, daily use.
Bottom Line
What I liked:
Incredible Sound quality
Small and light
Inexpensive
Easy to Use
What I didn't like (could be improved):
Clip could be a bit stronger and flatter
Expandable memory via a MicroSD slot would just be over-the-top incredible
If I haven't written enough, there's another excellent review at ABI.
One weekend my Apple iPhone headphones went missing. I looked and looked and could not find them. And then I had that "surely they didn't go through the laundry" moment. Oh no!
Indeed, I discovered my poor buds in a pair a jeans that had gone through the washer and the dryer. I imagined them submerged in soapy water and then tumbling through heated air and thought, "There is no way these things still work." However, with a tiny bit of hope I plugged them in.
They still worked!
Amazing!
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Pry carefully.
More pictures from the iPhone headset mod set.
Problem:
The iPhone's earbuds
don't like to stay in my ears.
But I do like that hold/skip switch.
And replacement headsets aren't
as elegant as Apple's pack-in.
Solution:
iPhone + Etymotic ER•6i = happiness. :)
---
(If you don't trust your soldering,
there's always the Ultimate Ears.)
**edit: Or just get the adapter! ;)
In a city that never stops talking, these are the quiet moments.
Wired In captures men moving through the urban landscape, headphones on, lost in private worlds of music, podcasts, and thought.
Each frame is a fleeting glimpse of solitude — a reminder that even in the busiest streets, we all sometimes walk to our own invisible soundtrack.
From vest to tech tee, these three Half Marathoners — Nicolas (7219), Paul (6948), and their cap-clad companion — bring their own rhythm and resolve to the Promenade. Three styles, one shared stride.
From my iPod headphone photo shoot. Vote for your favorite. By the way, no photoshop here, that just happens to be how the light fell.
HUGE thank you to my friend Carl of Saturday Morning Toyz for gifting me these Truly Outrageous JemStar Earbuds from the latest Integrity convention!!!! :'3 And for throwing in some sweet shoes and earrings too!!! Love it!!! :D
No mic for for the phone, obviously, but still good that they work. I loathe the included Apple buds. Very uncomfortable.
I made it in under the wire. I had such a busy day and evening that I almost forgot to take a picture .... yikes!
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