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YES!!! I’m Going to the Indy 500!

May 13, 2010 By 10 Comments

Well, the good folks over at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway invited me once again to attend the Indy 500 (I couldn’t make it last year), and were kind enough to give me full press credentials so that I can take all the photos I want and bring you guys the inside story behind the world’s largest single-day spectator sporting event.

I plan on driving from Dallas to Indianapolis so that I can carry all my gear. Of course, I’ll have all my photo and video stuff, but I’ll also take a cooler, portable chairs, and other goodies to enjoy while parking in the infield during the big race.

My goal is to bring back a ton of photos and behind the scenes stories to let you guys all know what it’s really like to be at the Indy 500. Considering I’ll have full access to the pits, the track and just about everything else, I’m going to spend 4 days there to try and really get a good feel for it.

The Indy schedule looks pretty good for Thursday through Sunday (race day) so hopefully I’ll get a little time with some drivers, crews, and to practice some high speed photography and get my settings right for the big day.

I Could Use Some Help!

First of all, have any of you been to the Indy 500, or for that matter any of the other NASCARIRL (Indy Racing League) races? If so, I could use all the advice you can give! I’ve never been to one of these events, which is crazy considering what a car guy I am.
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A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything Flipbook Animation

May 11, 2010 By 3 Comments

This is a very cool little video animation that someone created. I can’t imagine how long it took to draw every page of this flipbook, but if you ask me without YouTube it wouldn’t have been worth it! Actually I can imagine what it took because the author said…

It’s something like 2100 pages long, and about 50 jotter books. I’d say I worked on and off it for roughly 3 weeks.

Anyway, here is “A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything”. Not quite as detailed as Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I, but it’ll do. ;-)
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Spose – I’m AWESOME! Lyrics and Video

May 5, 2010 By 11 Comments

I'm AwesomeMy brother-in-law Jason sent me this one. It’s an instant classic and the lyrics are brilliant! “…I got the swagger of a cripple!”

So if any of you woke up today, looked in the mirror and just had to say, “I’m awesome!” Well, this video from Spose is for YOU!


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Amazing Motorcycle Recoveries! (Almost, But Not Quite An Accident!)

April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ok, the guys in these videos were either amazingly talented riders, or amazingly lucky! Either way, it’s very cool to watch!

What we have here is a series of clips in which motorcycle riders almost lose it but manage to hang on. Some nearly flip their bike over backwards, others nearly fly off the handlebars, and still others barely avoid certain death. But one thing they all have in common is – you probably won’t ever witness anything like this in person in your lifetime!
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The New Robin Hood Movie (2010) Trailer and Photos

April 19, 2010 By 1 Comment

Robin Hood
The new Robin Hood movie is due out on May 14, 2010, and I can’t wait to see it! Looks like it’s going to be full of lots of action, death and fire – so it’s going to be my kind of movie! Here is the short description of the movie in case you’ve been living under a rock for like the last 50 years:

Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richards army against the French. Upon Richards death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion, a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest.

Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.

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Photos and Video of the Volcano Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

April 18, 2010 By 3 Comments

My friend Hrafn lives in Iceland, so I perk up any time I hear news coming from there. Well, this was a doozy!

Eyjafjallajökull, translated “island mountain glacier”, is one of the smaller glaciers of Iceland. The icecap of the glacier covers a volcano (1,666 m in height) which has erupted relatively frequently since the Ice Age. The last eruption was from 1821 to 1823, causing a fatal glacier run.

On March 20, 2010 the volcano began erupting near Mýrdalsjökull, and on April 14, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull erupted again, this time from the top crater in the centre of the glacier, causing meltwater floods to rush down the nearby rivers, and requiring 800 people to be evacuated. This eruption was explosive in nature and is estimated to be ten to twenty times larger than the previous one.
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Video: Four Artists Digitaly Paint One Canvas Simultaneously!

March 20, 2010 By 5 Comments

This is an amazing video of a piece of collaborative art being created by four artists painting on one digital canvas simultaneously.

The painting process was unplanned and free form. The artists took cues from each others actions and interpretation of various shapes/colors. Communication was made possible by text chat. The total elapsed time was 4 hours.

The very beginning of the video is random, but you can see how they begin to come together after a bit.
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YES! Russian Tank Treads for Your Minivan (or Car… Whatever)!

March 7, 2010 By 4 Comments

Why don’t American’s come up with unbelievably cool crap like this? I mean you know all those record snow storms we were whining about? They wouldn’t matter if your car had its own set of tank tread snowshoes!

Essentially you just drive your Volkswagen bug, or Ford F150 up onto these tank treads and then remove the tires and bolt it in place. The steering, braking and acceleration function like normal – except that you can drive over your neighbors (literally) and anything else in sight.
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Did the Google Maps Car Hit a Deer?

March 4, 2010 By 12 Comments

Ok. Don’t say that I never bring you anything completely useless, but absolutely fascinating nonetheless.

Someone sent me this image that was supposedly captured by a Google Maps vehicle when they were driving around taking the Street View images. As you can see, it’s of a deer that appears to have been hit.

Watch this little video to get the scoop on what is going on, and the image is below it. Ciao!
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