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Cloud Cult @ First Avenue {Slideshow}
April 27, 2008 – 8:58 pm
Photography Mixer Take 2
April 26, 2008 – 5:12 pm
Greetings! I’m actually posting the photos, finally. I’d love any and all critiques on these 
- Laura
Jen through a grate
Serious Jen
Jen smiles.
Feet
Joe, minus eyeglasses
The glasses
Scott
Soft Scott
Jen again
Hiiiiiii-yaH!
We are photographers.
Artcrank
April 20, 2008 – 6:29 pm
I’ve been meaning to get around to posting a recap of the Artcrank poster show for awhile now. This years show was another great success. They stopped counting people at 835, but conservative estimates of the total attendance go up to about 1,000.
Five posters sold out on opening night. And more are headed that way. If you weren’t able to get down to the opening night the show runs through Saturday, May 3.
Rush River Bubblejack IPA kept everyone in great spirits.
It was good seeing a lot of Morc regulars.
This photo doesn’t even do the size of the crowd justice. At one point it took me fifteen minutes just to get from the back to the front of the building.
The crowd stretched down the block.
More photos after the jump.
Photography Mixer
April 19, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Laura and I joined eight other talented photographers from the area to get together to talk shop, have lunch, take some photos of each other, learn new techniques and just generally get to know some new photographers. We had a lot of fun getting to know everyone and are looking forward to a future meet-up. I didn’t take a lot of photos but here are a few that I did (click the photos to enlarge). I’ll get Laura to put up some as well. Thanks everyone for the great time!
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First ride of the season
April 18, 2008 – 9:49 am
The first official mountain bike trail is open in Minnesota. I took the dogs to work and then met up with Pete Ryan afterwards for a few laps. The trails were in great shape with only one twenty foot section that was still muddy. Now if the temps would just warm up a bit more so it didn’t feel so much like fall out there.
Was able to use my remote trigger for my camera. Still need to work out some kinks but I’m looking to taking a lot of self portrait riding shots this year.
Afterwards we caught up with Chris Druckenmiller for a few beers in the parking lot.
Public Enemies
April 17, 2008 – 12:12 pm
Downtown Oshkosh has been turned back to the 1930’s for the filming of Public Enemies . The movie stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Unfortunately while we were there they were filming out at the airport on a closed set and were not planning to shoot downtown until later in the week. We still went down to check out what all the fuss was about.
They have laid down hard rubber fake cobblestone on the streets.
Behind The Scenes
April 16, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Last time I posted up photos of the Rec Lanes Greg said he wanted to see what’s behind the scenes. Ask and you shall receive. Laura and I went back to take a couple quick photos while we were there.
haircut
April 15, 2008 – 10:37 pm
The hair has been getting a bit shaggy lately. Time for my summer do.
Click here for a larger version of the slideshow.
What is the closest you’ve ever come
April 7, 2008 – 9:28 am
What is the closest you’ve ever come to death or serious injury? I got to think about that this morning as I had to take some extreme driving maneuvers to avoid a head on collision in my car today.
I was driving to work, thinking about what I would do if I saw someone’s stolen bike being ridden by someone else, when all of a sudden there is a car out of control heading straight at me in my lane.
The road I was driving on is a two lane with a single lane in the middle for turning. A semi-truck coming in the opposite direction was getting ready to make a left turn (which luckily got my sensors up cause he would not have the time to make the turn before I got up to him) into a parking lot and was not using the middle lane so that he could make his turn a bit wider. A car behind him decided to attempt to pass using the middle turning lane and almost made it but got clipped in the rear end by the truck. This sent him careening and skidding out of control directly at me. I didn’t have time to think I just yanked on the wheel to the left across all traffic and right into a driveway and narrowly avoided a car going 40 mph slamming right into me.
The only other time I can recall being so close to serious injury was my fault and also involved a car. I was young and stupid and was trying to read a map while driving. Something in the back of my mind told me to look up and just as I did I realized all the traffic in front of me had stopped. I just had time to yank my car to the left and hope there wasn’t anyone coming up behind me in that lane. I think if I had looked at that map for just a second longer I would have been hurting in a bad way.
So anyone else have any stories? I’m still breathing a bit fast.