when PBR is just too damn classy...

fun with balut

i am a big fan of the travel network. they have a lot of great shows with great hosts and it is all about a subject i enjoy... traveling. one of my personal favorite shows is bizarre foods with andrew zimmern. for those who have never tuned in, the show is nothing more then cameras following a funny little chef around the world while he eats the most unusual, or bizarre as the case may be, foods. it is good fun, they always go to interesting places and each episode is usually worth at least one good gross out. at any rate, one of the things old andrew indulged in while in asia was something call balut. balut is the name given to fertilized eggs, in this case duck eggs. apparently as common of a snack as pretzels in some places, the balut is essentially a hard boiled egg with a baby duck instead of a yoke. fast forward to the photos below, a trip to the asian market here in cleveland and a misconception that a prerequisite for being balut was being hard boiled...





and yes that is an eye and a beak you are looking at... remember, being balut does not have anything to do with being hard boiled.

happy friday- hot dog the movie, act like you know

so this might be the most extremist of the extreme... hot dog the movie, one of my personal favorites, possibly even the reason i moved to tahoe in '02...
enjoy!

mission accomplished

i don't have any good words to describe what happened last night. for the first time in a long time, i am excited in the direction we as a country are headed. this is just the first step in that direction, but it feels real good. i said before how good it was to see all the folks voting in my neighborhood, but it was even better to find out they were doing it all over, from the city to the country, people were making their voice heard and that is awesome! mr. obama it is your ship, steer it well!

GO VOTE!

if you are a us citizen and you have not, get out and go vote today! a three hour wait is nothing compared to 4 years of poor leadership... think about it.
after voting, go somewhere nice and watch your favorite news channel play with that red and blue map.

canon g9

so i got myself a new camera this weekend. i have been wanting something a little smaller to carry here and there and not worry about. but i also still wanted to be able to feel like i was getting artsy and whatnot with my own settings and some other features i have become very use to with the mark II. i was waiting on the new canon g10 but after seeing this from trevor graves who i can give enough respect to...


Canon G10 review - New but not improved from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

i decided to go with the g9. sure it is older, but the great news is, you can get them on the cheap.

so, now i have a new toy to learn about and hopefully i will have even more pics that i will feel necessary to share with everyone...

oh p.s., you can buy the camera in the video right HERE, all the money goes to boarding for breast cancer, so it is a win-win...

happy friday-ski patrol, act like you know

in keeping with the firday awesome eXtreme flicks of the late 80's early 90's, last week's gleaming the cube is impossible to top but... enjoy

i am going trick or treating, i hope i get some robot food...

so if i had one wish, i would wish for like a million more wishes, as one would do... somewhere in those million wishes i would ask for the folks from robot food to get back together and make snowboard movies for the next 50 seasons.
their movies were just so darn good and the soundtracks were just so darn amazing. plus it was all about having fun, and that is, well... fun. just like snowboarding should be.
here is some love from their second masterpiece lame. side note, i have somewhere along the road lost my copy of lame which was in fact my favorite of the trifecta. but i still watch afterbang ever now and again to just get stoked.

check out expn's snowboard blog for all three trailers from the great robot food, and have a happy halloween!

vote

you know what is awesome? voting is awesome! i went and voted early(as you can do in ohio) the other day and was so stoked to see the election board office totally packed. they have people directing traffic in and out of the place and have closed off part of the street to help with the push. amazing, i don't care who you are voting for, that is your choice, but that fact that so many people are feeling like they need to make their choice heard, and early at that! i was honestly excited seeing the lines. this is my third prez election i have voted in and i have never felt the excitement and appreciation for the right to vote like i did this year. so maybe after all these bad things that have gone down over the past decade and all the problems we currently find ourselves in, maybe that resulted in one great thing. people have rediscovered how important voting is.
oh, and not that this is a political site but if you have not made up your mind about the next president,

either way do yourself the favor and make your voice heard

burton love series

alright, so i have been reading about this and thinking about this for awhile. for those who don't know, burton snowboards has made some pretty cool snowboards this season featuring none other then some of hef's picks from the 70's-80's. that's right, playboy centerfolds featured as the graphics on some shred sticks... having lived in mountain towns in the past and knowing the ratio of guys to gals, this is nothing but knowledge of ones target market, kudos burton.
however, there are a lot of folks not stoked on pg-13 graphics, and no it is not the lonely snowboard dirt stick who was pulling for full nudity, it is the parents and folks who have too much free time as per usual. the shit even made cnn, people are all sorts of pissed over a few side boob shots and firm 70's style asses.

at any rate, i am not a huge burton guy, but you gotta respect them and you gotta see how silly this all is. one family group has even refused donations from burton. the economy is falling apart around us, young men and women from our country are actively involved in wars in two different countries, there is an upcoming election and this is the best these folks have to worry about... must be nice.
anyone interested in protesting that the models were not fully nude, let me know, i am in...

that's enough ranting for one friday night, back to editing wedding photos! enjoy your weekend...