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Went out to the Salton Sea on Monday with my buddy Colin and we came back Tuesday night. What a blast.
Click above to be taken to my flickr photo stream where you can see the set of pics and videos I got the luck to capture during our trip.
Hello Friends and Family.
I've resurrected the Christmas Mix that I distributed as cassette tapes and mix CD's from 1990 something until the turn of the century.
This time I've uploaded a .zip file of 20 mp3's and aac's. Let me know how it turns out.
Go here - http://nigelstewart.org/music/Solstice/ - or click the above pic to be taken to a directory where you can save the zip file, unzip, and then import to your digital player.
Meant to be listened to according to track order id3 tags.
Aloha, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.
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Grew throughout the month of November for the charity Movember (http://www.movember.com) in order to raise money for cancer research.
My donation page: us.movember.com/mospace/313216
Can't wait to shave it off.
Above is a pic I shot on my block that uses a technique called High Dynamic Range photography.
I took three pics of the same shot three times using a tripod and each exposure was separated by two stops. Using Aperture 2.1 and a plugin called Photomatix I was able to come up with some nice looking photo-illustrations.
Here's the set.
Cay and I celebrated 20 years together this past weekend and we had a great turnout. People brought gifts and that was something we really didn't expect. It was a blast. Nothing broken which was a first and the only hitch was Rothenberg's dragging doggy doo through our house.
Despite my reservations about publishing the following link to our pics, here it is:
20th Anniversary pics
This is what our moon looked like tonight because of all the fires surrounding the LA Basin.
Can't wait for this season in hell to be over.
Next I have to express how disappointed I was given its Rotten Tomatoes rating, a viewing of the director's previous work, and a few personal recommendations from friends who were raving about it.
I have to say the fist 20 minutes were absorbing, chaotic, and original. Once Wikum is infected I felt like the whole movie devolved into a failed narrative with a lack of sympathetic characters, unrealistic developments, and video game violence that didn't serve its story.
Specifically:
-Why would an alien species who possess powerful weapons, superior strength and speed, an intelligence to space travel and communicate ever be subjugated to a slum? This is the leap of faith I was never able to overcome. Overall my suspension of disbelief never took hold.
-What is the fluid? If it is of alien origin where did it come from?
-Why does it have two uses? (As an infectant and a fuel)
-Why did Chris the Alien keep it a secret that he had the means to move the Mother Ship off Earth?
-What's with all the cow heads?
-Cat food? Huh?
-Why is that alien wearing a bra?
-How come I can't stop thinking about The Fly? And Aliens? And They Live? And Alien Nation? And every other sci-fi movie I've seen. The work is incredibly derivative.
-Voodoo practicing Nigerians? Are you effin kidding me? The stereotypes in this movie were distracting.
-Why didn't Wikum go to hospital right away after being infected or why wouldn't his colleagues insist upon it?
-Wikum was serving eviction notices for the operation that was to take place in 24 hours and yet that operation never took place.
-Why did Wikum knock Chris out when they were about to escape together?
-How did the Mech Warrior come to life and kill off the Nigerians?
-Why oh feckin why did Chris the Alien leave Earth without his people?
I guess they HAVE to have a sequel.
Here is one person who will not be paying $11.75 for District 10.
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She has been a Post Production Machine.
Stage 18 Time Trial of the Tour De France 2009 in Annecy, France pics are here.
We visited Annecy back in 1991 as recent college grads and it was nice to return. I found out this past week that Cay's family had also been there way back in 1975 as well. What a beautiful city.
The pic above was shot by Cay on the Col Du Colombier during stage 17 of 2009's Tour De France. It was the Red Lantern group of laggards and sprinters including Mark Cavendish and Fabian Cancellara.
Set from Chamonix: here
Set from Martigny: here
Set from the Col Du Columbier: here
Cay and I flew into Brussels and trained to Brugge for a day a half almost two weeks ago.
Cay already has a set up pn Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecay/sets/72157621877789344/
After Brugge we visited Chamonix, Martigny, the Col Du Columbiere, Annecy, and Paris. Much more to come from both of us.