Topic: Anyone up for a photo thread?

[snowcat]

Haha, nice! When I was little I wanted to be a face painter 

[snowcat]

So I mentioned in my Marathon thread that I was working at a festival over the weekend, well tonight was the first part here are a couple of photos.... including one of me making a bandage look cool ;p

Here I am before the festival started, in our tent waiting for the acts to begin. ( I took my bandage off of my right arm as I was starting to get funny looks)



Hear is me about to take sound for an interview with Hazel O'Connor


Hear is me about to take to the stage to film Martin Fry of the 80's band ABC...


As you can probably tell, tonight was an 80's theme night. Ill post more photos of tomorrow and Sun

[Jimmy]

I'm sure I would have appreciated this first day. I liked ABC a lot when I was a teenager, of course it would have been better with Human League or Aztec Camera for an 80's party

[snowcat]

Jimmy, I love ABC to! I was very excited to meet Martin Fry, I asked him what he was going to play and he said Poison Arrow and Look of Love, I asked if he would play All my Heart and he said ok.... He played it acoustic, then when he came off stage he said "I played All of my Heart for you" .... I just grinned at him like an idiot 

I had my photo taken with him, but it wasn't on my camera but on our stills camera for the event, Ill get that picture next week and show everyone haha.... he is very tall..... made me look shorter.

[Critter]

As promised here are a few more pictures from the Tim Burton Exhibition I went to a little while ago.


This is my friend and myself outside the exhibition with the ACMI sign (that had been altered to go along with the Tim Burton theme).


Us with the sign again.


This is my friends sister about to be gobbled up by the Burton monster on the side of the building.


The Batmobile.


The entrance to the show, from this point on no photos were allowed.

[snowcat]

So, here are a few more pics of the weekend ;p still dont have all of them... when I do ill put them up!

So, here is me and Joshua Radin, he has sang songs for many TV series his songs have featured in Scrubs, House, Greys Anatomy, One Tree Hill etc



Here is me with the camera, I took my bandage off because I was getting funny looks and replaced it with a scarf ;p My arm feels much better now though!


and finally here is me in our base tent enjoying some music from afar on my break... I am that blind that I have to wear my glasses over my sunglasses to see ;p

[Kathy]

Nice photos Emma!

The best present I every received in my life was the one I got from my mother - lasik surgery. I wore glasses my whole life, was literally blind without them. The second the surgery was complete, I saw better than I could ever remember. I wake up every day thankful for this gift - it really is a miracle.

[snowcat]

Thanks Kathy.... I would have that done there is just one problem... I hate change and well.... im used to having pretty thick glasses... my face would look different XD

[MEJHarrison]

I went till my late '30s wearing glasses.  Thought I could never stick something in my eye.  But I got so tired of having to clean glasses, not being able to pick up cheap sunglasses and getting them wet in the winter.  So I finally gave contacts a try and love them.  I asked my eye doctor about Lasik on my last visit and she said I'm reaching the age where they would fix one eye for up close vision and one for distance.  It just seems wrong somehow to have my eyes messed with like that!

[hal9g]

I had lasik surgery done several years ago (I was  20/800 in left eye, and 20/850 in the other with severe astigmatism in both).

I was also given the choice of "mono-vision" because I also need reading glasses.  But I didn't think I could deal with not being able to completely focus both eyes at the same time.  I know others who have gone with mono-vision and thinks it's just great, and they do not have to deal with reading glasses (at least for now).

I just had my distance vision and astigmatism corrected in both eyes, and decided I could live with reading glasses.  I'd been wearing glasses since 3rd grade.  Tried the contact lens thing for many years until I just couldn't wear them anymore and went back to glasses.

I think this surgery is a miracle and couldn't be happier with the results.  I now have 20/15 vision in my left eye and 20/20 in the right with no astigmatism at all.

I tried to talk my wife into having it done, but there's no way she would let anyone touch her eyes.  In fact, she strongly discouraged me from doing it.  She's highly risk averse.

I'm glad in this case, that I didn't follow her advice!   

[Achim]

I had lasik surgery done several years ago (I was  20/800 in left eye, and 20/850 in the other with severe astigmatism in both).

I amnot used to that system, but I think my eyes are just as bad. I have worn glasses since I was 6 and never strongly considered contacts. I agree with the Mark's points about the inconveniences of glasses, but I still don't want to stick stuff in my eye (maybe too many Fulci movies ).

Anyway, I remember being told that with such bad vision the laser correction could only improve but never really reach "normal" vision again. but if you are at 20/20 and 20/15 then that information seems to have been wrong. Another argument I once heard was, that there is simply no long term experience with this surgery, meaning they don't know what could happen years after the procedure.

Yet another thing for me to consider is aging (no, really). With age the human eye tends to get far sighted. I am near sighted now. Just having had my eyes checked yesterday (my old glasses broke, so I need new ones) I realized that vision had improved; basically what happened is, that the eye going far-sighted with age counters the near-sighted situation. So, what I am trying to say is, if I had the surgery and improved to "normal" vision, I'd probably need glasses again few years later

[hal9g]

I had the surgery in 1995, 15 years ago when I was 44.  My reading vision has slowly continued to get worse during that time, however, my distance vision has remained constant.  I have no idea if that is typical or not.  Even if my vision did start to get more far-sighted going forward, it wouldn't detract at all from my enjoyment of perfect distance vision for the past 15 years!   

[Achim]

I had the surgery in 1995, 15 years ago when I was 44.  My reading vision has slowly continued to get worse during that time, however, my distance vision has remained constant.  I have no idea if that is typical or not

Yes, this is typical when we get older. Since we get "far sighted" with age, we can still see, well, far, but stuff in the near gets blurry (hence the arms seems to grow shorter ).

Well, 15 years sounds pretty good to me! I am 43, no wait, 42, now, so maybe it's something I should look into again over the next few years. Heck, even if they can restore vision entirely, having thinner glasses would be appreciated already.

[snowcat]

:p I was just reminded that I completely forgot to upload some of the other pics!!

So hear is me and Martin Fry of the band ABC ... he looks like a giant compared to me.... he was pretty tall... but then... im pretty short to :p


Hear is me and Badly Drawn Boy... he wrote/sings the soundtrack to the film About a Boy ;p  (yeah... not a great picture... my friend did not tell me how bad it looks .... damn him lol)

[addicted2dvd]

A Couple of Old Pictures...

First... this one is a picture from Halloween. Back when Britt was about 6 or 7. I had her dressed up like a Vampire Bride. People really loved her costume that year...



Then this one is a really old one... This is my wife, Dawn, when she was about 15 years old. And to think we were already together for a couple of years at the time as we were together since we were between 12 and 13 yrs old.