I seem to have been plagued by a terrible affliction over the past few days - bad-filmitis.  I’ve had the displeasure of watching three of the worst films I’ve ever seen in a very short space of time.

• How to Rob a Bank (2007) I watched this on the train down from LA to San Diego.  I nearly turned it off a few times as the lunch the guy next to me was eating was more interesting, but stuck it out as the film’s single saving grace - Erika Christensen - is so hot.  The story is fucking stupid, the acting is utterly atrocious, it’s stylish in an overly annoying way, and it’s predictable in the extreme.
   
• Salem’s Lot (1979) This was picked as a laugh (most of the old Stephen King films are amusing) to watch on a projector in someone’s backyard here in SD.  I could have sworn up and down that I’d seen this, but it turned out I hadn’t or at least not this particular version.  It’s long as fuck (3 hours), and just outright boring as a result.
   
• Mission to Mars (2000) I’m a sucker for sci-fi and I hadn’t actually seen this before, so when it was on TV last night I decided to watch.  It came out long ago enough for the bad reviews I’d seen at the time to be forgotten, and anyway everyone slagged off Event Horizon but I still enjoyed it.  This wasn’t the case here though.  Despite having a pretty awesome cast the acting was either weirdly hammy or just pathetic, the soundtrack was fucking bizarre in an annoying way, and the story was just plain stupid.

I might avoid TV for a while.

I’ve just upgraded all ports (i.e software) on fork.freebsd.cx and its associated jails (services.freebsd.cx and users.freebsd.cx).  Most people’s sites are associated with the latter, although the former affects mail.  If anything is broke, let me know.

Taking a cue from Wes, I recently picked up a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 AIS lens off a friend of mine. It’s MF but produces some pretty amazing images and is super sharp assuming you nail the focus. Here’s a few ‘test’ shots I took of the Nike SB / Crazysmiles toys made to commemorate the introduction of BMX at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

While we’re on the subject (BMX, not cheap lenses…), here’s a few taken down at Seedless Clothing where me and Ry found a sick and almost totally original Mongoose Motomag lying around in Skeet’s office.

Here’s a few random photos from in / around Los Angeles.

More updates soon, promise xox.

Here’s some photos taken for Revolt (http://revoltsd.com) Magazine from the X-Games XIV Closing Party on 3rd of August, 2008.  My first time shooting a ‘red carpet’ event, it was pretty difficult getting any subjects attention thanks to the FMX demonstration in the street directly behind us…

20:10 Dimey: manus i had to do something terrible earlier :/
20:10 nick: lol
20:10 nick: explain plz
20:10 nick: you left us hanging before :/
20:10 Dimey: i was on the loo, having not gone for 7 days before
20:10 nick: o_O
20:10 Dimey: so its fair to say with all the codeine i was “bunged up”
20:10 nick: lol
20:10 Dimey: after about 15 mins i decided a bit of intervension was necessary to proceed
20:10 Dimey: so i had to scoop the shit out of my own ass with my middle finger :(

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