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Birthday Party in DC

Took this pic at my friend’s birthday party in DC.

Night at Taboq, originally uploaded by lonny.gomes.

The L'Enfant Metro

Today’s iPhone photo of the day was taken in outside of the L’Enfant Metro station. There was this random light display that is exhibited on the south exit. Just something a little different.

iPhone sunrise

I’ve been dabbling in photography here and there for the past few years but recently I’ve felt the urge to get back into shooting. I used to have a decent point and shoot camera, but after it was stolen I’ve been left with just my iPhone and my Nikon F3. My F3 is a manual focus film camera and it really has been a great learning tool but alas I do feel it’s time to drop film entirely. I pay a minimum of $10 a roll for developing and if I’m lucky, there will be 2 or 3 frames that I actually will like from any given roll!

My other camera is the one in my iPhone and let’s face it, the iPhone is an amazing piece of hardware but the on-board camera is sub par. I believe it was Chase Jarvis that said that the best camera is the one that’s with you. It is in that spirit that I am starting an on-going thread that I’de like to call “iPhone Photo of the day”. I’ve taken some interesting photos (to me at least) with my iPhone and I will periodically share them with the world on this blog. At least in the beginning they will not be retouched in anyway. Let’s see how it goes!

My first photo I took way back when I first got my phone. It was a beautiful sunrise that I caught just at the right time.

Depending on where and when, parking can be close to impossible in our nation’s Capitol. I’ve easily spent 45+ minutes searching for parking in Adams Morgan.

When parking is tight, people get desperate. I’ve got a small hatch back, so I can fit into a lot of places but I don’t know how these bigger cars do it. I guess where there is a will there is a way. And hey, if you can get in the spot, you can get out right??

DC Parking Job

I was driving home and really “had to go”. I ended up stopping on a side street and going in this rather shady alley … the type that the girl in distress runs into where the ax-murder can easily corner her in those B-movie horror films. Who would have thought that a dimly lit alley where crack heads go to take a hit would lend itself to a photo opportunity.

There was this door just laying down there and for some reason I felt that would be a cool picture. Unfortunately, I only had the lame camera that is on my phone. If *only* I had a real camera at the time, this photo would have won awards!

Alley Door

Taken while on the train on the way to Jackson Heights … I really don’t have much to say about this picture besides check out her belt (be sure to click on the picture to get a “clearer” view).

Check out the belt

After seeing this picture, a particular song comes to mind …

The word popozuda is actually “uma giria” (slang) word spoken in Brazil. To put it bluntly, it is a term used to describe a woman who has a large posterior. To my surprise, this slang term is actually documented in Urban Dictionary!

There are equivalent american slang words for popozuda such as “onion” or “badonkadonk” to name a few. Anyway, Brazil has gotten this reputation for having a lot of “popozudas”.  But everyone knows everything is bigger in America!!!!  Never underestimate what a hearty diet of fried chicken and cornbread can yield! The crazy thing is I took this picture at a local Subway sandwich shop. If you really want to see what’s up, just swing by a Popeye’s Chicken!

Popozuda Americana

DISCLAIMER!!!!

Those of us who are less intelligent and actually watch TV once a in a while will probably be the only ones that can relate to this post.

I’m sure you’ve had to of seen the new Old Spice commercials. You know, it’s the one where they showed some authentic footage of LL Cool J as a prepubescent teen freaking out and running away from a girl that says hello to him. But after he started using Swagger, it brought him instance pimp status.

I know some may be a bit skeptical of such a premise and may compare this commercial to one of those Axe Body Spray ones where these scantily clad women just can’t get enough of the guy who is dousing himself with the alleged pheromone which you can purchase at Walmart for $3.99. As for me, I really can’t speak to whether or not that is true. I would have had to of used Axe in a pre-swagger state to really be able say for sure. But as for Swagger, it’s completely true. If you are *still* skeptical check out this “Before and After” juxtaposition. It will make a believer out of you!

Pre-Swagger

Before I used Swager

Post-Swagger

After I started using swagger

Pinky ring and all! All I can say is … NICE!!!

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For Thanksgiving I traveled back to the Midwest to visit my parents. It was a great time and my visit was long overdue. My mom is a music teacher and needed me to help her get something working in her classroom. While I was there I happened to notice a stack of papers sitting on her desk. On closer inspection I found that the papers were from kids who got in trouble and had to write “I will follow directions” 100 times. It brought back harsh memories of my time as a child. I was fanning through the papers and came across this:

I’ve known my mom for 27 years and I will have to say she is a pretty gracious person. She felt bad that the kid write so much, but he was writing the word wrong. So technically when he was instructed to write “I will follow directions” he failed to due the very thing he was being penalized for. If I were her, I would make the kid write it 100 times the *CORRECT* way and then getting him some spelling classes ’cause Hooked on Phonics did NOT work for him!