Dai Fu Lou Hair Cut

Last week the day before Jona and Dai Fu Lou left to the Netherlands Jona had a hair cut session, with him actually cutting and trimming his own hair. He wanted to do this to actually leave behind some bad times and hair are kind of time cause it grow with time and can actually measure top of the hair is from last time Jona had a hair cut and below it growing from each day and rest are the days between. Also Jona wanted to do something bold and actually having few photographers capturing the moment and let them try experimenting with taking pictures. Watch the video below.

Special thanks for Alan who was holding the camera and directing it, Elden Cheung and Yandy Yot who were photographing this moment.
To see more pictures visit Elden Cheung fotop album here.
Also visit Yandy Yot album at Facebook here.

June 12th Pimpin Ain't Easy

Here is a new Event Video I made documenting Pimpin Ain't Easy on June 12th with DJ Enso, DJ Drafus and DJ Kazey @ CLIQ. Music is live recording during the event. Cinematography, editing and directing is all done by myself, filmed this event with my Canon EOS 500D with 50mm f1.8 lens. It was pretty hard to capture the people dancing cause the lighting in CLIQ is not really that great to film the dance area, cause they don't have an overall lighting but they use 4 spots that rotates around pretty fast, which in result came out to be able to see some people in short flashes. However sometimes there are lucky moments when the light would cross certain places making one area lighten up enough for me to film. Mostly the DJ area got enough lighting to film the DJ, but I think I should carry an extra light next time when I video at ClIQ to film the crowd. Couldn't really film the moment when the guys stole Enso shoe and threw it around only when the shoe landed in a well lighted area. See you guys at the next events!

Also if you like the video, I am for hire to film at and/or take photo's at an Event.

Cycling in Hong Kong

Sunday June 7th I treated myself to a cycling tour from Tai Po to Sha Tin and back. First thing that bothered me was that the bike I got had old shifters plus the front brake is on the right and rear brake on the left which is pretty much the opposite side of my normal bikes. But for the rest I pretty much easily adapted to it. Also seem the Hong Kong government anticipate that there would be allot of accident cause by the cyclist. Mostly cause by people who don't know how to cycle or actually swivel the road too much, pretty much of the people can't ride a straight line cause they ride extremely slow you can even run faster then some. The swivel pretty much like drunks and people trying to learn to cycle on roads with high cyclist traffic instead of a quiet still square.

The pictures are taken with my phone would not bear to do this with my new camera plus too much accidents happen and allot of the roads are very busy even though they are very wide there are allot of cyclist and allot of them are pretty slow.

This was my bike for the day a Trinx which I personally never have heard of before, but pretty much isn't a Trek 1500 Alu Carbon Frame which I have in the Netherlands. It cost me 50HKD to rent it for the day, however rather be riding on this because all the MTB they rented were extreme small I think the frame sizes are children sizes. And actually saw allot of people riding bike with wrong height and wrong sizes, too many large people on small kiddies bikes. But this bike actually is perfect fit for met a 52cm size, but the rear tire wasn't really pumped hard enough for my taste and the gear levers were too loose cause it sometime shifter to other gears on it own.

This is actually first time I photographed myself while cycling and now pretty much know why people look at me when I cycle without a helmet, my hair become like the haircut of Elvis and would have looked even more with me wearing sunglasses. Next time I want to rider to Tai Mei Tuk cause the Road to Sha Tin got way to much people riding around very slow. And if I get back the Netherlands I am going to try a video of me cycling around the track. I am sure I can make an interesting video with all the equipments I got.

First Dai Fu Lou vid

Dai Fu Lou Freshly washed start from Jona Lam on Vimeo.

Full movie directed and made by me at the studio and ofcourse the figure is also me, but only the head the body is Alans works and also hanging it on the cloth hanger. The Dai Fu Lou figure is moving cause of the airco blowing it. Sound and voice is also me. Pretty much most by me.

29th May Song For Children at Philia Lounge

Songs for Children indie night at Philia from Jona Lam on Vimeo.

Here is a video clip I made from the pictures and vids I took at the Philia lounge last Friday when there was a Indie Rock Night held by Songs For Children, will all girl DJ's however Mike DJ'ed aswell at the end. It was allot of fun so made this small documentary / album video of that party.

HK babbling in Mong Kok

On the Hong Kong television is a program which is a parody on the celebrities of Hong Kong played by celebrity actors doing comedic acts, acting and dressing up like other famous celebrities of Hong Kong. However I was lucky that day that I actually brought my camera with me cause I wanted to test out my new 50mm lens and actually bumped into this group. However there were allot of press so was hard to get a good spot to take picture also allot of non press which were irritating putting there phone cam in front of my camera.

They were actually giving away fruits for this promotion on the street of Mong Kok, at Sai Yeung Choi street. However I don't have a tv so can't watch it at all, so not even sure who all the celebs are however some I recognizes from some drama series.

However learned allot from taking these pictures cause actually group photo's with 50mm with f1.8 is not that doable. Especially when you are not standing 100% in from of them cause then you can only focus on one person.

Cause it would had been great if I had focussed on the girl in front cause he was looking into my camera but you can see she is out of focus while the lady behind her is sharp. Actually there are allot of these kind of tv program or other promotions at Sai Yeung Choi street daily even sometimes there are game shows happening.

Attending a wedding in HK!!!

Haven't been updating my blog in a while but two weeks ago a good friend of mine who I just met few months ago in Hong Kong had a wedding, ofcourse this person is Alan Leung. Also I was one of the brothers who would help the groom( ,not literally a brother of Alan). But first time attending a full wedding from morning till late and first time wedding in Hong Kong, did not took my camera with me the top picture is made day after the flower pin that I had wore at night . Also there were allot of other photographers plus mostly allot of friends of Alan are professional photographers.

Morning started early at the house of the bride where we had to play games before we could enter the house. First up was a cup of not sure what it was but didn't really tasted that good, still don't know what was in the cup. Then we had to pose as a doll that the girls would throw on the ground and end up in a certain position, but most awkward plus we all got dirty from it, cause we had to lie on the ground. After each game there was a ribbon removed till we got into the house. Final game was that Alan had to say 10 nice things that he would do, but after few he didn't knew what more to say so he sang. After that was allot of tea offering to the family members by the bride and groom and giving gifts.

Then we went to grooms house where also tea offering but then to the grooms side. Also allot of pictures were taken and then got back to the bride house to see the roasted pork getting cut and getting for food.
Then later mid day we went to a big room in Hung Hom where we had to prepare for the dinner and ceremony that was held at night. The night was pretty busy with allot of things to do walking around.
The cake was actually pretty special cause the butterflies was added on the spot. However did not saw them really cutting it. Plus mostly had to miss allot of meals and food cause we had to stand on certain places some times get things walk around. Allot of pictures taken and we had a polariod cam and made a special photoalbum of all the pictures taken during the day and also gaven allot of pictures away. Also what was really special is that Alan sang a song for his bride Wind. For sure it was a pretty special day but from my perspective it is pretty busy even for the bride and groom it ain't that easy and really got allot to do and not much moments to relax.
What is pretty wierd is that I actually missed the wedding of my nephew in January cause I was still attending school but very interesting still saw another wedding in Hong Kong.