Ben is in love.

With this ninja Coco.

What an exciting blog post!

Ben is daily.

Got new daily drivers today.

Electric Green Air Max+ 2009.

I never really warmed to spending retail ($160) but as soon as I found out they were on sale at Nike stores I had to cop.

Check out how they glow.

Canon 5D Mark II 50mm f/1.4
2 LED flashlights + tripod + long exposure

Ben is ugly.

You don't need reminders, but damn the new stache kinda makes it worse.

Oh well.

Close cropped, square portrait with the 50mm that Damon let me borrow.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF 50mm f/1.4
Tethered via EOS Utility, Manual, f/11, ISO500 (auto), 1/160sec, FEC+1, post processed with Adobe Camera Raw

Ben is braking.

Hopefully not breaking anything though.

Got front and rear ATE pads and sensors at Northside Imports in Kearny Mesa for the E30.

Brake (pad) jobs on BMWs are really simple.  The E30 was no exception, I was done in 45 minutes.

The red stuff is spray-on anti-squeak agent.

A small project that I hope you enjoy.











*Suspended: Bilstein Sport struts and Eibach Pro-Kit springs =)

Ben is in HD.

This time my subject is my Mercedes Benz E55.

Canon 5D Mark II + EF 24-70mm f/2.8L combo.

Edited in iMovie on a 27" iMac i7.

Ben is editing.

Check out this video I editted from a clip I shot with the 5D of Lawrence's birthday celebration at Mission Valley Hooters.

Kinda fun actually.

Shot with 5D Mark II and EF 24-70mm f/2.8L combo.

Edited with iMovie on my 27" iMac i7.

On to the next one...

Ben is at Hoots.

Lawrence turned 29 on Saturday.

Among other things we went to Hooters on Friday.

I took a couple with available light, but Hooters was much too dark. I found myself shooting in the ISO 3200 to 6400. The picture of Neil is ISO 25,600!

The other ones are shot with my little 270EX Speedlite.

Check the flicks.

Ben is a power user.

I found the best app ever for the iPad/iPhone.

It's called Air Video.

Basically it allows an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch user to stream any video off their home computer to their device.

I know this has been done before, but Air Video is easily the most seamless implementations I have ever used. It works much better than MediaLink, the Mac application that I use stream videos to my PS3.

The great part about Air Video is that it doesn't matter what filetype (.avi, .mov, .mp4, .flv) the video is in... Air Video will convert it to a iPad/iPhone friendly filetype IN REAL TIME!

Go get it, it's only $2.99.

Ben is at Japantown.

This weekend was the first weekend of the annual Cherry Blossom (Sakura) Festival at San Francisco's Japantown.

Grace and I went before we headed out to Oakland for Alicia Keys.