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So excited for this to come out. The RC Heli shots look like they will be awesome. You can live stream is on the 19th and 24 hours afterwards here.

JetSKIpack that is. I was riding my bike to work past Burnham Harbor and noticed a guy with a helmet swimming kind of funny behind a guy on a jetski. Seconds later the guy with the helmet flew into the air on a jet of water and flew around! I almost crashed my bike. These guys were talking like they were practicing for a show or demo, and they just kept tooling around. Eventually i had to get to work, and all i could think was, I wish I could fly up to the 30th floor instead of taking the elevator like a chump. Some day....

Archdaily featured an awesome compilation of videos by koganada that dissect the visual styles of a few Directors. Recently after reviewing some new film i got back from San Fran and Chile I realized that my most powerful compositions were one point perspectives. I started to wonder if that was all I would ever shoot, and whether my style could improve. After seeing these compilations and these director's predilections I guess its not so bad to have a style?

This is a great solution and an example of how to address ever-more complex technological systems. In this example the designers have centralized the complexity into small, serviceable and relatively cheap robot(s) that manipulate a "dumb" field of solar arrays. I have always thought solar arrays that track the sun's movement are pretty great, but I could never get past the idea of chasing around all those complex motors as they inevitably break down or malfunction. It's similar to my aversion of making really cool patterns of feature lights along a ceiling or wall, only to have one or two go out and make it look ridiculous and trashy. Servicing an array of highly complex artifacts (lights, solar arrays, facade shading elements) is expensive and unsustainable, so usually once and element goes down it remains down and defeats the whole purpose. But if you can make the multiple elements dumb and cheap and centralize the the "smart" parts into a small and relatively cheap module, that's a winning idea in my opinion. Check the video out at the Designboom page.

Finally, it's out in the open: Adam had his 30th birthday! Actually, this was a well known fact, but what was a secret was the party up in Tahoe with all of us organized by his wife Eva. She put together a video with a ton of people wishing him happy birthday, and this was my contribution. It was a blast, and so awesome to hang out with old friends and meet a bunch of new ones. Thank you to everyone for such a great time, and lets do it again for 31!

I like this video a lot. Solid riding on XC bikes, and it pokes a bit of fun at the preconceptions within the bike community.