phone photo phascination

I went on photo app hunt. It amazes me how good some apps are out there! The ones that come with a fee (and a bundle more features) usually hover around a buck or two, I even found some really good free ones!

Here are my favourite finds:

HIPSTAMATIC

I've had this one for a while. The first application I ever paid for (and the last, to date).




This application, unlike all the others I've found, does not offer the option to alter a picture that is already in your camera roll.



MYFILM LITE

As you might tell from the name, this is the free version of another application (myFilm). This one is so much fun and I'm really curious as to what the $0.99 offers more, because it's seems like the free one's pretty complete (maybe it doesn't have name stamp in the corner).

This all look similar because I didn't really play around with the colours yet, but I really enjoy the blur effects and the overall colours can be changed. It's not as "out there" as some, but I think that's what I like about it.

LOFI

Speaking of out there, this one will definitely completely alter your pictures. You might remember the scone pictures.

It also is the only app that lets make collages. These are only two pictures that the app created, not six.

INSTAGRAM

I haven't totally figured this one out yet. It's more of a community picture sharing application - something like flickr, but the pictures can only be taken when it's in use (I'm fairly confident). There's a way to save your own pictures to your camera roll, but I don't know how. I've done it, oddly enough, but don't know what I did. Sometimes it's saved, sometimes it ain't.

I really enjoy the sharing factor of this app, you can follow other people, browse the most popular pictures and upload your pictures to other accounts (like your twitter or facebook) and so on.

All these camera applications offer a variety of frames and effects. They all have a little something different to offer. Considering that they were all free to download (except Hipstamatic, which now seems limited in some respects compared to the other free ones), I suggest that you try them out for yourself. Nothing to lose. 

today, i will...

• not let the neighbour's loud music and pervasive cigarette smoke annoy me.
• finish making my wontons
• not mope around because it's Sunday (which is like a life-long tradition for me) 
• do something creative, no matter how uninspiring it is.
• revamp something in my home to satisfy my need for change
• not let the dreary weather get me down 
• unclutter my life some
• share with you the coolest pair of jeans I have ever owned anyone has ever owned

BOOM!

a closer look 

saturday's listography - the belated version

Sneaky Saturday! It just came and went without even giving me a heads up. Oh well, I'm sure you'll all get over it somehow.

So for yesteday's listography, I'm gonna go with something that's one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place: my procrastination problem. Not only do I put off the things I have to do, but also and especially things I want to do.

I don't like this and I would like it to stop. I thought maybe if I had this little project, I could document my progress through these various hobbies I'd like to try, I would stick to them. All this also depended on me not putting off writing this blog, which hasn't happened yet - yay me!

What I did end up doing though was to put off writing about this. Change is hard, people!

So for this week's listography: a list of the things I've been putting off

1. learning how to knit
2. figuring out how to use my dad's old Nikon
3. taking up drawing again
4. making a terrarium
5. making a collage poster board
6. riding my bike on some kind of regular basis
7. learning to sew

Have a good weekend - what's left of it, at least.

saturday's listography

Why I love roadtrips

{via flickr}

1. having no timetable
2. the sound of the wind rushing through the window
3. hours and hours of music
4. "roadtrip wear" - sweats, running shoes and an old t-shirt
5. having a part of home wherever you go
6. sense of adventure
7. sense of freedom
8. leaving in the wee hours of the morning and watching the sun come up
9. stopping for breakfast, lunch or coffee in the middle of nowhere

saturday's listography

As a lot of the bloggers I read, I have an unrestrained love for lists. I guess that's what a blog is when you get right down to it, so I'm gonna try this thing where I make a list of the little things that make me happy once a week, let's say Saturday...and let's say I call it Saturday's Listography*.

*name is subject to change

It can be part of my whole appreciating-what-I-have state of mind I'm trying to achieve.

Here's my list of things I love about summer

1. the smell of the rain
2. an evening breeze
3. 6am coffee on my balcony
4. BBQs and sangria
5. reading on a terrace on a lazy afternoon
6. tim horton's iced caps
7. thunder storms
8. the sound of the fountain, the people playing tennis and the kids playing in the pool in the park across the street.