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My friend Alex and his nerdcore group The Shogunate performed earlier today at Animation on Display in Japan Town. I haven't seen him play in a while and I finally got to hear some of his newer songs live which was fun. Too bad the masquerade was on at the same time though :\ Despite that, he still managed to look like he had a lot of fun with his friends and family watching.

I decided to try shooting in raw and wasn't really happy with the results, at least in color. I'm not sure if it's because of using DNG Converter, or because I just got so used to in-camera assistance with my photos and I suck without it. It's also possible that it was just really dim in the Hotel Kabuki. I remember not being happy with my Ken Ken Ramen photos, and the conditions were more or less the same if not worse. Oh well.

I also managed to pick up the last two volumes of 20th Century Boys at Kinokuniya that I missed on Valentines Day because we were running late :D

Earlier this week I was invited by Jericho host Shannon to be in a shoot for his sight seeing game FoxHound. Jericho is an urban spy game that is a bit like capture the flag, but with Nerf guns and actual missions that involve pick up and drop off points. It's ridiculously fun and addicting, and it's been one of the things I look forward to every month. FoxHound is Shannon's laser tag version of Jericho, that's a bit more elaborate.

So aside from Shannon, I met up with some fellow Jericho regulars and Shannon's photographer at Portsmouth Square. There we were shown how to use the laser tag guns you see in the red bags, and went through what kind of photos they were hoping to get. Even though it wasn't a real game, it was still pretty fun and I enjoyed getting a chance to finally play with the guns I had previously heard cool things about. I can only imagine how much the real games throw a whole new spin on Jericho. Goofing off in China Town elicited the same reactions we normally get from people when running around Down Town with neon Nerf guns at night. So it was pretty awesome.

If you're in the Bay Area, I highly recommend looking into the two, which I've linked. I know FoxHound might seem kind of pricey, but all things considered, it's not badly priced at all. If you're really penny pinching though and still want to get it on the spy action, definitely check out Jericho. If you have the time, here's a great video(which I'm in BTW :D) that shows how much fun it usually is.

There was a few moments where I wasn't being photographed, so I pulled out my own camera and took a couple shots that I should have planned better. I really wish this camera could shoot faster than 1/1000 in aperture priority(if there's a way and I'm missing it please let me know). Thankfully I sort of fixed my mistakes in Aperture.