Yep! we got a new media player. It’s good to have credits in BestBuy Coz you can easily return your items without any hesitation. We returned the Philips GoGear my old mp3 player to the store coz every time I connected it to my pc the transfer was very slow maybe because I dropped it when I was in the Philippines :106:

Well, anyways i want you to meet our new media player, “Boomer”, yep that’s his name

Actually, choosing between IPod and Zune definitely gave us a hard time. But we eventually chose Microsoft Zune 30GB since we are Microsoft users and they’re in the same price range. Besides, Ipod is so overrated and aside from that check out the comparison of these two players i got from other sites…

Below are the list of features supported by zune and not Ipod.

1) Landscape video
2) Preloaded Audio and video
3) Built in FM tuner
4) Social networking (and)
5) Custom background.
6) Album art looks great on the Zune

(image from http://www.jakeludington.com/)But two major differences are file sharing and Wi-Fi (aka wireless) support.

Yes, every zune will have the ability to wirelessly share and play songs, videos and pictures with other zunes. Microsoft zune will be able to hold 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video. The said gadgets was released last November 14, 2006.

How great is that huh having a wifi connection? Cool right? :np:

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LOMOgraphy is a profitable business. It makes money on everybody’s desire to be part of the incrowd. To do that, it has to uphold a certain “indie cred”. That’s another way of saying that they’re consciously oblique with the purpose of creating a high threshhold. Go look at their site. It’s clear they’ve made it purposely hard to navigate and understand. Anybody who aspires to be a “true LOMOgrapher” surfs to their site and is supposed not to get it. Then after a while when all becomes clear, he or she feels reinforced, an “insider”, by the accomplishment of understanding their obliqueness. I guess it depends on your point of view whether you call that “marketing” or “manipulation”, but perhaps the two are the same thing.

LOMOgraphy is a profitable business. To keep business going, the Society has to come up with something new every now and then. It started with the LC-A, but the LOMOgraphy Imperium has extended itself to include clothing, online photo services, Chinese cult cameras like the Action Sampler, and parties and get-togethers. More and more, it’s encapsulating their consumers with a pre-fab lifestyle, like your one-stop personality shop.

Damaging in this respect is the way in which they label everything LOMOgraphy, like that St. Petersburg-based factory has anything to do with the business any more. I doubt LOMO minds the exposure, but perhaps they do mind the insinuation that LOMOgraphy is similar to low quality, low tech photography. The whole thing has accentuated the very things LOMO would not like to have accentuated. It’s so respectless to an otherwise very capable company. And now the Society is marketing plastic Chinese cameras under the LOMOgraphy brand name – what’s that all about?

something i have read from this photographer. Sounds interesting isn’t it? Coz everyone of us loves LOMOgraphy :waiting: