Had Dino from Speedhunters crash out at my place on Wednesday night. Great to finally meet the guy! Note: Japanese like to sit on the floor.
Also! Alexi from Nori Yaro is in the country and dropped of these awesome pressies to Zen for me! Sweeeeeet!
I love a good man cave.
Such a cool mural.
Rob and Ved.
Goodbye world.
The last time I bought a Playstation, it was to play Grand Theft Auto III, which I had to source from NZ as it was banned in Australia because you could bang a prostitute, then beat her up to take your money back (!).
I couldn’t resist the Grand Theft Auto V hype (damn there’s $O much hype around things these days?!), and despite the PS3 being an old console I had to buy one in order to play GTA 5. I found this bundle at JB, plug and play, the game is great, graphics are nuts and I’m totally addicted. Goodbye world. See you in a week!
Charles Kha (ex Autosalon, ex Speedhunters and currently director of digital communication at EA Games in Canada) is back in town and last night we had a mini reunion at my place to watch the F1 live. Amazingly I didn’t fall asleep watching the race (lol). I think I’ll have to have to boys over for every race from now on haha!
VAUXLAIR.COM takes a raw photographic look into peoples places. A while back the team visited my place and took a few snaps.
Visit: http://vauxlair.com/vauxlair/2013/8/1/justin-fox-maroubra-sydney-australia
Spent last Saturday shooting Holly at my place in new V2LAB and illest gear from the US (for Zen Garage). Was fun to shoot for a change! You can view all my photos fro the day on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/holly/
The morning after.
Massive B’day Party for Sergio and Matty last night, not had a big one at my place in a while. Was a wild night, and the house got destroyed, pretty much haha.
YAS-101 Yamaha Soundbar.
A while back I bought a cheap Kogan TV which was very much a “that’ll do” purchase at the time. It’s been OK except for it’s weak sound from it’s little in-built speakers (the sound so tinny and weak that max volume is hardly audible during some movies). I’ve been meaning to buy a sound system for it, just haven’t been motivated to until now.
I initially looked into a surround sound system, but really hated the idea of having ugly black boxes all over the room. Then I stumbled upon soundbars, the new thing it seems. Thin, minimalist.
I opted to get this YAS-101 Yamaha Soundbar because I trust the Yamaha brand, it was cheap and it was an all in one (ie: no separate sub box).
It came with an optical cable to connect directly to my Foxtel box (not sure how to get it to work with my DVD player, or Wii or Playstation though and my TV doesn’t have optical out) and within 5 minutes I was up and running.
The unit sits in front of the TV’s IR receiver but the remote control signal is relayed to the IR flasher on the back, ensuring the signal to the TV is unaffected and best of all I can make do without an additional remote control as this unit has a learning function which worked perfectly with my TV remote control (which now controls the volume and on/off of this unit).
Sound is better in every way. Rich and full of depth in comparison to the TV’s built-in speakers. It has a feature called “UniVolume” which maintains a constant volume, great for automatically reducing the volume of loud advertisements (so good). It’s also got a surround sound feature which works really well (tested on Snow White and the Huntsman which was on TV last night, sounded fantastic). Another feature is “Clear Voice” which does a great job of just increasing the volume and clarity of voices (worked a treat and tested whilst watching UFC!).
It’s the me.
It’s the Shi.
I had my house shot for Vauxlair today. I was a little nervous, and wasn’t exactly sure what to expect (I HATE being in front of the camera) so I thought I’d ask Miss Iris Shi if she’d keep me company during the shoot (which she did and I felt much better for it!).
Turns out the Vauxlair crew were rad and we all got along. I’m looking forward to seeing their pictures/feature.
