Big Photo Show in LA May 17th-18th, 2014

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If you're in LA, or visiting this weekend, and like photography, you may want to get some tickets to the Big Photo Show.  Discounts available via promotion codes at local photo stores like Samy's.

LOCATION 
The Big Photo Show Los Angeles 2014 
1201 S. Figueroa St. 
Los Angeles, CA 

10 AM - 6 PM, Saturday and Sunday

The free education seminars themselves are worth the time and effort to go.  The very first event Saturday morning @ 10 AM with Scott Robert Lim is worthwhile to attend if you are interested in portable strobe flash.  Scott is amazing, and a true inspiration to watch.

Check out the full program here to see what else is available.

 

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Today is the official first day of the new year celebrated by a majority of the people on Earth.  Makes you wonder why it isn't more of an official holiday in more places.  Here in California everything almost looks like business as usual, except that many of the asian super markets are packed early morning with shoppers looking to buy that roasted duck, bbq pork, or bbq chicken for the big family and friends get-to-gether.

In China... its crazy:

Oh, and lets not forget red envelopes!  But yup, family, food, reunion, celebration, wishes, and red envelopes.  

Monterey Park 2014 Lunar New Year Festival

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Follow me (from a shirt pocket point of view) as I go for a walk from Mark Keppel High School to the Monterey Park 2014 Lunar New Year Festival.  Taken with Autographer life camera, available here.  Lots of people - last day is tomorrow 1/26/2014.  

More details about the event can be found here.  Official site website is found here.

CES 2012 Coverage - Day 1

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I watched (no, listened mostly) to the Qualcomm keynote in the morning.  Is it me, or does it seem like the video was not very well presented.  Maybe it was the speaker, or the content?  I just didn't feel the enthusiasm (even at 8:30 AM).  Well, even the Jabbawockeez performance wasn't all that great... (yes there are quite a few celebs here).

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GM's Main Street in Motion lets you test drive 70+ new cars, and its coming back next March

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I'm sorry, you've missed it this year.  But they're coming back 1st Quarter next year.  They have everything from honda civics, to massive Denalis, to Corvettes for you to drive on obstacle courses and high performance courses.

I went on the last day, late in the afternoon.  It was overcast so there wasn't a whole lot of people there, which meant I only had to wait a few minutes between test drives of most of the cars.  The only exception was the high performance course.

While most of the cars I've test driven (I managed to fit over a dozen test drives on the courses) performed as you would expect, there were a few standouts:

1. Acura MDX = Hands down the best performing SUV in its class.

2. 2011 Chevy Traverse handled extremely well as a crossover for it's size.

3. 2011 Ford Explorer was the absolute worst performer on the obstacle course.  This was just the road course, no obstacles to climb over, just cones to avoid.

4. Overall most of the big trucks handled pretty well on the work / off road type course and not bad on the highway course.

5.  The Chevy Volt: (GM's answer to most people's idea of a commuting car) seems to live up to all the hype as Motor Trend's 2011 Car of the Year.

  Be sure to check out my test drive video.


Under the Chevy Volt's hood.  Almost looks like a regular car.

The high performance course features the Corvette, Mustang, and Camaro.

 

I highly recommend registering for this event and attending it when it comes back around.  Click here for more details.