ARGH

I just wrote thios freakin long post about my trip to NC and shooting pics and stuff and blogger erased it. Now I'm pissed and no one will ever know the full truth! Here's a pic I shot in NC in between doing 1080's off the massive 20ft vert pipe at Beech mtn!

IR. I think I am in love.

I love this pic.

I thought I would just throw this out there for the hell of it. This is one of the first times Brittany and I met; and when I see it, it makes me smile. I'm guessing it will probably make you laugh and thats okay too.
Almost done with this semester of school. Can't wait to have a little free time to spend with friends and family. Who knows. I might even do something productive with it.

So here's a pic I took on the School of Medicine campus with my new IR filter. I am all over this filter and I'm sure I will bore you all with it in due time.

IR.....will be the death of me

Okay, so I just got this infrared filter, i have wanted to do ir ever since I was shooting film in high school. I am super stoked about this thing, and fairly sure I'm fail out of school because of it. Anyway, have a few minutes to shoot some shots in the front yard. This is just the first batch, but hopefully they will only improve.

Dog

DGAF GAF's and stats a blog......

BLOGin about BLOGS
That's right, it finally happened. Chris admitted that he does _GAF and created a blog. His goal is ambitious and I got money on it not happening....anyway he claims hat he is going to update his blog everyday with a new picture. Check him out at http://DGAFphoto.blogspot.com/

oh yeah almost forgot........

I started skating recently

GET LIT

So we talked about something useful the other day in the hospital. A group of physicians recently put out this study attempting to explain the extreme differences in heart disease and cancer between the French and American cultures. Basically, the question they want to address is: "Why do the French have such a lower incidence of heart disease and diabetes, when they drink all day long, smoke like fiends, and eat buttery danishes like constantly?"
I know what your thinking, you could easily point your finger at the great American golden arches and feel content with your assessment........But the francaise have la Ronald too. In fact this group of researchers went for a much different route. They claim that the huge difference in red wine consumption in the French diet accounts for a multitude of advantages that are directly related to survival. According to their 10 year study, consumption of 3-4 glasses of red wine per day decreases your relative risk of dyeing (of any cause...Including DUIs) by 0.51. Basically that means you are twice as likely to live through the next ten year if you do it with a bottle in your hand.
Interestingly, these same values were not associated with white wine, beer, and liquor. It seems that fermenting the skins of the grapes along with the grape juice, allows the alcohol to extract polyphenoic substances from the skins. Thus, these substances cannot be extracted from white wine, beer or liquor. White wine and beer did show some increase in survival rates, at about half that of red wine. Liquor showed a decrease in survival.
One problem with this study is that it only looks at 10 year survival. Unfortunately, if you drink 5 glasses of wine/day for longer than 10 years your looking at liver disease. However, I believe it underscores the importance of moderate alcohol consumption as a cardiovascular disease deterrent. Maybe 1-2 glasses would be a better compromise. Either way: Boozing is good for you.....Just don't booze too much.
Reference: Journal of American College of Surgeons 2005 page 428.

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