Prices to make you JUMP!

Hi there everyone, we at VirtueReality:VirtuPix know we have dilly-dallied long enough about our prices when it comes to photography. And so therefore we are posting our prices now.

We have a very simple and easy pricing system that we have been using which we have not yet posted up:

GHC 100.00 an hour, flat, no gimmicks.

So basically, you get whatever images you need with a minimum billable time of 1 hour but without prints. All images will be delivered by electronic medium.

If you would like HARD copies (prints, paper pictures, blah blah blah) the following prices exist:

small prints: GHC 1.50
medium prints: GHC 2.50
large prints: GHC 5

We will be uploading the actual size-to-price ratios soon enough.

So basically that is it.

hello there people,

its been about 2-3 months since i ever did anything on my blog, increasingly i find that time has become a scarce commodity that is difficult to locate. and thus i have been brown and not updated my blog in some time. fortunately i have a few posts in the works that have not been finished yet.

i have a new project! a photo (video) tutorial soon to hit YouTube. it will be series of short tutorials on photography from a fellow enthusiasts (myself) hopefully with help from my guy KWAME POCHO.

well i had some free time this evening so i decided to give mr bones here a lil shoot to help feed his slim family. if you would like shot like these taken of you feel free to give me a shout.

adios!

Bra Ghana Teaser Released!

Hi guys, this is the teaser for the upcoming Bra Ghana comic... hope you enjoy!

Accra by night

Hi peoples,

For you unbelievers, this is a picture of Accra at night. Or is it very early morning … ah well same difference. Sometimes when you see our beloved capital city in the middle of the night and it looks this beautiful you tend to forget that ECG has cut your power, the roads don’t have lights and the open gutters are waiting for your car, or that bola is strewn all over the place and hawkers try to shove their Asian wares into your car. you might even forget that when it rains, many roads become inaccessible or that ques are the order of the day from banks to waakye sellers. Well at least for a few minutes.

Anyhowly, I just wanted to share this picture with everyone.

Enjoy!

WORK it out!

What come to mind when you hear the word “work”. Usually things like …”long hours”, “annoying superiors”, “low pay”, “I hate Mondays”, “oh how I wish it was Friday”, “I do all the work and everyone else just checks out Facebook”.  I know I have said some of these things now and then, but does work really have to be so annoying?

What happened to having a passion and following through with it to the bitter end? It seems sometimes we give up on our dreams because we are not making enough money from it and rather go to work at a bank (no offence to bankers … this is just an example) to make money instead and end up becoming unhappy with what we do. And since we spend a majority of our weekdays, and some of us our weekends as well, we end up being unhappy for a large percentage of our lives.

Now since we are the “cool” generation for the time being, (at least until the skinny-jean-wearing-mohawk-headed teenagers catch on to reality) I think we should not forget what makes us tick. If you are good at something develop it. It doesn’t mean you should turn all your hobbies into business ventures or you might just run out of lives like a cat at sea, but rather don’t let anything you are good at go to waste.

God blessed us with so many talents we just need to figure out what ours is. Excuse me, please remember that talents are not limited to singing, dancing, acting and playing instruments. A talent (according to some internet dictionary I googled up a few seconds ago) is a natural ABILITY or QUALITY and sometimes can be thought of as an unusual innate ability in some field or activity. So if you are an extremely talkative person, according to the definition you are a talented talker. Now there is no one who does not have a talent, to prove this many people are talented depressionists, all you need to do is sit down and ask yourself a few questions;

What do I like doing?

What do I do naturally when left alone?

What things do I do without putting in much effort (and succeed in of course)?

Ask yourself these things and a couple more that you can think up yourself and you will soon be able to realize what your natural qualities are. I hear knowing your temperament also helps with these things. Now when you finally figure out what some of your talents are (please figure them out before continuing reading this semi-informative and semi-ill-thought-through post). You can find ways of improving yourself in those areas. You never know, maybe a great business idea will pop up based on the strengthening of one of your talents and if you work on it and start making money, hey! Hakuna matata, you be working and loving it at the same time.

But back to my original train of though. I think we should all change our attitudes to work and stop thinking of it at a CHORE and more of a SERVICE, attitude is everything, if we all take our jobs seriously and have a great positive attitude towards work, life will become easier for all of us.

For example if all those NDC supporters who were cheering our Honorable President pick up a piece of paper went to work that day, I would not have had to sit in traffic for hours.

I have run out of things to write and its almost 2 am. Sianora.

Anyway, have a great time at work next week. Attack it with a smile!

Making a Contribution

 

Please I’m not talking about money. Money is something that is necessary but not extremely important. Money is a byproduct of working in whatever capacity, and therefore it immediately makes work more important than money, in my opinion.

When someone asks you to make a contribution what do you think about? Mother Theresa? Offertory at Church with the music group singing and praising the money out of your pocket? Let’s not go too far. The contribution I want to talk about is just being a good friend. This is not always easy; in fact sometimes it is so hard that it makes diamonds feel soft.

Now being a friend is more than just “hi what’s up”. In Ghana the term “friend” actually means “acquaintance” and sometimes even worse, we call people “friend” when we are annoyed …. “my friend, if you …..”.

Sometimes all we need is a kind word to make someone’s day brighter. Sometimes it’s just having the time to talk to someone for a few minutes FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON. For me it’s so cool when someone calls me just to say what’s up and to find out how I am doing. I get like 30+ calls a day, as do most of you. About 90% of people either wan’t something or are trying to find something out, nowadays when my phone rings the first thing that comes to my mind is, what does so-so-and-so want now.

Let’s just take a few minutes a day to be a cool friend. Choosing a picture for this post is gonna be hard o …

New Services Inbound ... Watch out Ghana, we are coming thru!

Hi peoples! VirtueReality started as an idea in a very furry head, it became a blog, and people started sharing our ideas with us, very soon the next stage in the evolution of VirtueReality is coming, BUSINESSIFICATION! Yes people, this year (action year) is the year that VirtueReality becomes a company. We will start rolling out our services soon, starting with ModART and Virtupix, whose pages will soon be updated on our site, i think you can see the headings.

ModART is essentially a drawing service, where portraits are converted into drawings and Virtupix is a brand new photography service which will be out-doored (hopefully) next month (not on the 1st though). Virtuepix plans on climbing up the ranks of Ghana's excellent photographic executioners to become one of the best (and affordable to). More info soon! The two services are being released together because they are Xtremely linked. Hope you like!

Oh yeah, and if you are wondering what are other services will be, feel free to look at the image eh!

Writers Block

I was listening to a song by Victizzle a British Gospel rapper. It’s called “Take you to the Future”. One of his first lines is “I don’t get writers block, ‘cause then I would write about writers block”. And it got me thinking, hey! I haven’t posted anything in ages. It’s been like 3 years since anything was put up and I think it’s time for me to break my silence and start a wild posting spree. I was thinking about writing something spectacular but then I was thinking too hard … so … let’s just chat.

There are a couple things on my mind today, first up is, “are Ghanaians workers efficient?” I mean if you take the average day at work, and I don’t have any evidence to back this. How much time does the average Ghanaian actually work? 1 hour, 2 hours maybe 3? I don’t know for sure but out of the 6 or 7 hours a day we are supposed to be working (lunch break not included) I have a faint feeling that we work (optimistically) 50% of the time. And when we are working, it’s sometimes suspect. I mean, I went to a DHL office and spent 10 minutes listening to the woman there talk to a friend on her cell phone just for her to finish and tell me that she can’t help me. I think I was pissed off but I cannot remember exactly.

So many companies these days are prohibiting their employee’s access to the internet, and those that do make sure to kill all links to …. FACEBOOK (and its friends Twitter, LinkedIn, hi5, etc.). The reason being, of course, is that Facebook gets more time than official work. This would be useful if every working Ghanaian didn’t have a phone that they can use to access Facebook. By the way someone should teach me how to use twitter …

I went to a particular ministry on 2 occasions (I won’t mention the one since this is embarrassing) in fact, now that I think of it I will, I went to the Register Generals office to pick up some documents at 2:30pm on a working day and was told that it was TOO LATE FOR THEM TO FIND THE DOCUMENTS and that I should come back in the morning. I asked them what time they close and was told between 4:30 and 5. Hmm makes you wonder how Ghana works if you can’t take 2 hours to find a document. ICT please come and rescue us. Anyway, enough about working. Its Friday! On to more interesting things.

No what interesting thing can I think of? Hmm…

Ooo yes I am introducing something cool to the general public and it’s called MODART. Actually it’s been around for a long time it’s just not been commercialized. You’ll hear more about it in the next post!

Credit where credit is Due!

Wow, i just saw these web pages by rinkworks and loved them, these posts are for men only, we need all the help we can get ... this is not my usual kind of post, as you can see it is finished ...

http://www.rinkworks.com/romantic/

http://www.rinkworks.com/persuasive/

How safe is your car?

I know all the troskie people are probably saying in their heads, “waa look, e get car sef wey e dey wan’t complain”. It’s true, I mean, you hardly get caught by armed robbers when you have a car, you can get to places on time, use AC (if you are lucky), its far easier to catch a woman (if you are a guy) as well as intimidate walking men (ladies). I mean, having a car is good. Unless you remember Fifi’s 30% which is causing some of us to spend over GHS 400 a month on fuel … did you know that troskie people?

Just the other day I did a great service to myself, as well as the world at large, and locked my key in my car. In fact I felt very stupid since I had done this same thing less than a month prior to this momentous event. I stood by the roadside for a few minutes looking for people with similar cars to no avail. Fortunately I know an excellent metal worker whose office was just a 10 minute walk away. So I walked.

I met my friend and we both walked back to my car holding in total 3 items, a large screwdriver, a crowbar and a long, flat, curved piece of metal. Wanna know how many minutes it took to open my car? Not a moment over 2, yes not even 2 minutes. I stood there in horrific awe of my friend’s skills and vowed never to leave anything in my car again. EVER. At least not in a public place.

Now my car is not the newest of cars, nor does it have central locking, or an alarm system but people with cars that fit the “el-cheapo” segment are not the only ones in danger. If you have a “fresh” car, you may notice that the door automatically unlock when opened from the inside. Well tough luck, your screwed too. “But my alarm system works!” well I hear there are parts under the car that you can cut to disconnect the battery, no battery, no alarm, go fish.

So what do you do now? Is nothing secure enough? Well for all intents and purposes a cars security measures are designed to slow the thief down as much as possible but they are not fool proof. So we the human beings who own the cars have to wise up, and here are a few tricks.

The first one is not a trick. If you dont want someone to steal something from your car, don't leave it there. PERIOD.

1)      Make sure nothing is visible in the car: Don’t allow a thief to use your car for window shopping. If you have a boot use it, if there is a package then put it under your seat. One of the first things that attract thieves to a car is seeing an object in plain sight. So don’t forget to remove the face-plate from your stereo. Oh and please hide the things BEFORE stopping, if all the thieves are watching you stuff a million cedi’s into your boot when you park there’s not much use in that.

2)      Carefully choose where to park your car, for example if you are parking at the mall, go the extra distance and trouble and park in front of the banks, there are always a security guard there.

3)      Inscribe your VIN/chassis number everywhere on your car. You can use the VIN number to track down a car, it’s difficult in Ghana, but often times if you have hidden an inscription of your VIN number somewhere people don’t check (like the interior of the wheel arch) you might just be lucky and find your car (if the whole things was stolen and repainted)

4)      Make your car look secure, even if you don’t have an alarm, feel free to put a sticker in the window saying that it does, chale everything counts. Getting a steering lock is good. It makes your car virtually un-drivable without a heavy duty metal cutter, which most average Ghanaian thieves don’t have.

These are just a few things I was thinking about when I had to break into my own car. Let’s keep our pride and joy safe!