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.

Shoot me an email if you want to read the whole article.

AND WHAT?

I jib off mountains biatch!

The solution to global warming.

The Obesity epidemic has set us forward by years in the realm of global warming. Colonic emissions are destroying our atmosphere and we have little but the golden arches to blame. My partner in crime wrote an excellent piece on this recently.
I intend to offer the solution that many have already found. WE HAVE TO PREVENT EXCESS FARTING. Beyond killing snarkhunt.......more must be done. And the solution my be in your very cabinet. Yes, you too can eat whateva the fudge you want and not contribute to global warming through nasty E. coli induce methane excretions. How, you ask? Well, many have already come to the solution. Please see here for a few of our creativity winners in the fight to stop global warming.

Thank you for your time and let me know how the disimpactment goes.

My better half and more frequent blogger

So the inevitable has happened....... Brittany, too, has joined the world of conformity and created a hot little number called mymuckaboutblog. Check it out while you're waiting for my lazy ass to put something in print.

The real picture

Recently I was accused of photoshopping a picture of me wakeboarding:

Edwardo said...
Damm everybody be having blogs and shizzle. Mike photoshopped that pic so it looks like he's jumping.

It is with great regret that I must admitt this is true. In response I have included the actual unphotoshopped picture for your viewing pleaseure. Sorry for the mixup.

Evil Nine is right

So I have reviewed a recent post by our friend Snarkhunt (whatever that means), regarding Evil Nine and their supremeness as wicked new tunes. At first, I must admit, I was a little skeptical. How couldn't I be? After all, this is the same reviewer that brought us Hatebeak and I Like Sex With Men. Nevertheless, Snarky and I go way back so I had to give the girl a chance.
Evil Nine is dark, wicked, and oh my god do I love this shizzle. With dark ass slow beats put to grungy hip-hop; I'm in evil music heaven.
Thanks snarks! Keep up the good work on the music front. You're about to pull yourself out of that parrot hole!

It's not frozen, but it'll do.

So this image is from a "piece" of a camera, but hopefully it will get the point across............ Wakeboarding is freggin' pimp. If you take the fins off the board it is closer to riding a snowboard on fresh powder than anything else I have found. Britt and I have been taking her dad's boat out on the lake and have recently picked up a wakeboard and a wakeskate (a wake board w/o bindings). Conclusion: I'm addicted. And more importantly, I have an out for that midsummer depression from lack of the white stuff. I'll try to hit a bigger wake next time and get a better pic of it. The hardest part is getting used to being pulled the whole time. It changes your center of gravity and messes with the balance a bit. Once you get it and get up though, it's money.
This blog is going to be so full of pics after new years......I can't wait.

Face masks and latex gloves

So THIS isn't such a retarded thing to be worried about. I find it easy to blow off such apparent speculative forms of media flatulence. After all, they have to fill the airtime and what is there to talk about with no hurricane around?
All that aside, genetic shift of the proteins on the outside of a influenza virus is a very possible and likely occurrence; and history tells us the 'big one' hits about every hundred years. So the idea of a huge bird flu in Asia 'shifting' and becoming transmissible from human-to-human contact is actually a plausible and scary probability. If this happens we could be looking at virus that can infect anyone (flu vaccine or not), and may kill up to 50% of those infected, with little concern for the previous health or age of the individual.
Conclusion: invest in fashion sensible face masks with matching latex gloves.

This spider made a web on my front porch every night for over a month. Glad I got a pic of her before she left.

Banana Plant 

And it begins

Self-serving, narcissistic, pathetic mental masterbation. Thats the idea. Don't like it? Read another blog. Let me see if I can get this bastard started.