New website for my baby girl – Avery Hallock
I've created a new blog for Avery my yet-to-be-born daughter. Thanks to Function for the base.
December 2009
My hero is back
Michael Schumacher is returning to F1 racing. I remember when he decided to retire... I know that he's pulling a Farve, but I sure am happy to see him come back to my favorite sport. He's returning to the sport with Mercedes - not Ferrari. This, truthfully, is terrible. Not because I don't like Mercedes - I love Mercedes. It's because I can't disassociate the two, Ferrari and Schumi. Regardless, [...]
It Might Get Loud
Documentary featuring the music of The Edge, Jack White, and Jimmy Page - seriously... [youtube width="560" height="340"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4EvZtsXz7w[/youtube]
November 2009
Synth Britannia
Synth Britannia is a BBC documentary about the Synthisizer and it's introduction to pop music in the 70's and 80's. It includes interviews from several of my favorite musicians (including Vince Clarke - personal hero). Here's part 1 [youtube width="560" height="340"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg[/youtube]
100 year old color photos from Russia = awesome
Between 1907 and 1915 a guy named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokundin-Gorski (the royal photographer for Tsar Nicholas II) took the following photographs - in color. He came up with a concept of taking three photos - he took three consecutive photographs of his subjects with three separate filters: red, green, and blue. He then combined them into full-color projections. Read more on wikipedia.
October 2009
Buy this album right now
People Under the Stairs are an underground hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It's comprised of two emcee's Thes One and Double K. The group, also known as PUTS, has released seven albums since 1998, each about every two years. Although widely unrecognized, PUTS is often considered one of the hip hop underground's most prominent acts, with a musical style similar to that of A Tribe Called [...]
Jay-Z = yes
I got the chance to see Jay-Z perform this last Saturday. He's unbelievably talented. Here's a video of him 'unplugged' [vimeo width="600" height="455"]http://www.vimeo.com/3304792[/vimeo]
September 2009
Golf Swing in Slow-Motion
This might be the first set of videos of me that exist on the Internet... I recently drove through Montana with my father. We stopped at the Old Works Golf Course to hit some golf balls and play a few practice holes. Dad brought his new Casio EX-F1 camera. Although it was primarily designed to take still photographs, it also takes high frame-rate slow motion video. Here are a couple [...]
August 2009
Wes Anderson is Fantastic
I love everything this guy does... [youtube width="600" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbY3QrIifE[/youtube]
July 2009
Infinitas- A Super Yacht by Schopfer
Infinitas is the second design launch of Schöpfer Yachts. Our new 300 foot (91.5 meter) yacht was designed by E. Kevin Schopfer with Sparkman Stephens, Naval Architects. The design’s main inspiration comes from the symbol for infinity which has been abstractly expressed within the yacht’s elevation. The two major features of the yacht asserted by this closed loop infinity symbol are achieved by carving out stern and mid section elliptical [...]