Bake the Cake screening

Someone putting a ball in.
Nat Moss, female school captain 2005, wearing a Bake the Cake jersey
Ben, pretending he's homeless.
Murchy in an amusing still.
Rohan the Naked Chef, Nat and Andrew next to the “fan-forced oven”
Rohan, in Zoolander pose and Naked Chef dress, standing behind a cake.

It finally hap­pened today — the pub­lic screen­ing of the Bake the Cake video released here a few days ago, shot on Jan­u­ary 24th, and edited the day after. It was most excit­ing to finally see an audience’s response to it!

Now, appar­ently, the entire school has seen it, and SACS stu­dents can expect to be sub­jected to Andrew’s singing in assem­bly at some point in the not-too-distant future… singing what exactly remains to be deter­mined, although some have pro­posed the com­po­si­tion of a Bake the Cake song(!) to the tune of some well known-ish piece of music, just so every­one recog­nises it and can laugh if things go wrong!

A series of still images from the shoot are included on the right side (above this post if you’re not doing the whole CSS thing — and if you aren’t using a visual UA then it doesn’t mat­ter much at all!) for your enjoy­ment (or something!) — most of the pho­tos were taken by Ben using my dig­i­tal Pen­tax Optio S40. Look at them. Be enter­tained. Espe­cially by the last one. And if you haven’t yet seen the video, hurry up and down­load it before it goes! (WMV for­mat, 16.5MB)

Note: The orig­i­nal mir­ror has now gone down. This updated post gives a new down­load loca­tion, from OurMedia.

# by Josh on February 16th, 2005 Tags: ,
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Neglected to mention…

… that my par­ents got me a dig­i­tal cam­era for the birth­day a few days back. It’s a Pen­tax Optio S40, has a 4MP sen­sor, 3x opti­cal zoom (and some dig­i­tal which I’ve of course dis­abled), a flash, 11MB inbuilt mem­ory (I pre­sume THAT means that there’s 16MB, 5MB of which is soft­ware stuff) and another 256MB SD card which we bought.

Every photo posted here from The Lazy Kings til now has been taken with that cam­era… yeah, I was using it before my birth­day, bad me :P

I main­tain that the other Pen­tax (SP 500 film SLR) takes bet­ter pic­tures, espe­cially at night, but it’s just so much more expen­sive to use all the time! Hav­ing said that, I’m not going to let it sink into a cup­board and dis­ap­pear: It’ll be on hand when­ever i’m plan­ning to take (good) pho­tos, whilst the new Pen­tax will be for gen­eral happy snaps and the like.

Qualms with the cam­era thus far? It didn’t come with a rechar­gable bat­tery. $90 later, and I’ve got a Sam­sung charger with killer bat­tery life, so that’s no longer a prob­lem — but it’s an expense that should be noted prior to pur­chase. Other than that, I haven’t fig­ured out how to man­u­ally adjust expo­sure, so if you’re tak­ing pho­tos at night with­out a flash (scenic shots, etc.) then it’s not a great idea. Hav­ing said that, the masssssss­si­i­i­iveee expo­sure in “Night” mode does do some cool blurry things to photos…

Standing on Coogee's North head, looking WSW towards the main beach and lights. January 19, 2005.

View of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the Opera House, with lights from NYE 2005 still on display. January 17, 2005, with Tori.

The expo­sure time (accord­ing to the EXIF data) on the Har­bour Bridge image is 4 sec­onds, and 1 sec­ond on the first shot (Coogee) — but it felt like lots more, because it was really windy stand­ing on the head. (No, not stand­ing on my head… that would be talent!)

# by Josh on January 24th, 2005 Tags: , , , , , ,
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