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Here’s a totally random and flipping sweet thing to send you off for the weekend:
I am more than excited about the new Canon 5d Mark II and have been eagerly awaiting it to hit the shelves. This just blows the top off my excitment meter though. What is this, you may ask? Just a full-out support system for the Mark II. Basically it makes the handling of the camera more like a motion picture camera.
Fo shizzle.
So last month was my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. As a gift, we took pictures of my parents and all of my siblings and their spouses and children and made a personalized coffee table book titled “Joy in Our Posterity.” We gave it to them on the anniversary last month and they love it. I meant to post something on my blog about it, but we left to Texas for that week and I forgot to post it when we got back. The picture you see above was the back cover.
I made a new section on my main website called “Family Ties” to show off the work. If you would like to see all of the pictures (minus the people that couldn’t make it to Alaska) click on this link or go to vincepenman.com and click on projects/family ties.
ps. Love you Mom and Dad.
It is sad to see yourself go. No, I’m not talking about an out of body experience. I’m talking about your waistline. When I turned 30, it was as though my body just through in the towel. It said, “OK, I’ve had 30 years of working hard for you and getting nothing in return. Your little metabolism thing that you love so much, kiss it goodbye. Oh and that little organ call a thyroid, say goodbye to that too cause he’s also tired of working.”
OK, so my body doesn’t really speak to me verbally, so there is no need to call a psychiatrist, but it IS pretty good with the non-verbal clues. Like gaining 50 pounds. Although the lack of my “regulating hormone” took its toll, I am partially to blame as well. I sit in front of a computer all day. Mind you agency life is very stressful. But stress has never made me burn calories. In fact quite the opposite. I stress eat. Yeah and we have a Costco-stocked kitchen in our office that is right next to me. I share a wall with the freaking thing. I can get there in 10 steps. Shelves and shelves of glorious carbohydrates and a fridge stocked with just about any kind of soda call my name on a daily basis. And clients like to kiss-up and give us goodies from time to time as well. Not to mention spaghetti-Wednesday and pizza-Friday (yes our boss love us, come on he’s Sicilian).
It has to stop. Now. I’ve tried so many times in the last two years to get my butt in gear and exercise. I’ve done some things like biking to work and trying to change my eating habits. But I usually end up failing. The largest challenge is having a successful photographer as a wife so our time is very limited. Family will always come before exercising. After the kids finally lay down to go to bed, we are both so exhausted all we want to do is, well, nothing. I’ve realized that that is when it has to happen.
So I’ve started a new program. I’ve started off easy. I haven’t limited my food yet, but I have started exercising. I started off with 3 miles a day. Now I am up to 4 and am approaching 5. I think the biggest hurtle will be to get into the habit of exercising. This has to be the norm and then I will get to my bad food habits. Honestly, I think that will get better once we move to Texas, and I am working from home. I can control what is in our kitchen then.
So here is were the clever title to the post comes in. My Xbox 360. I think the best thing I could have done for exercising is to include my Xbox. I know it sounds strange but listen up. When I was just watching TV, walking seemed to take forever. When I play an intense game though the time flies buy. My heart rate also increases. I walk harder and faster. I burn more calories. How cool is that?
To make matters even better, Microsoft updated the Xbox 360’s software yesterday. You can now stream Netflix movies through your Xbox. I did the update and voila. So what did I watch yesterday when I worked out? Only the classic 80’s low-budget action fantasy, Beastmaster. Yeah I’m a nerd, but like I said a couple of posts back, I don’t care.
Here is my avatar for the new Xbox 360 experience. Yes he looks a little skinnier, but I think my head is proportionally accurate 
This is a video from fellow photographer Chase Jarvis. I really like the fact how he likes to give back to the photo community and show how he does things. This is a totally crazy procedure for getting a great shot. Just shows that there is much more than just pointing and shooting.
OK, how flipping sweet does this look? I know this doesn’t have a lot to do with my photography, but believe me when I tell you that I usually have some sort of cool visual idea in my head, that never gets executed, which looks an awful a lot like this one. Plus, I love to showcase other rad ideas. This is a still from an upcoming film by Sandy Collora, the genious behind Batman:Dead End (if you have no idea what I am talking about jut click on his name and go to his website). It is about two future special forces operatives that get stuck on a planet with some grumpy aliens. I know. I’m a total geek. I don’t care. Doesn’t this look so “original trilogy?” I am a sucker for the original Star Wars trilogy, before they over-budgeted and over-commercialized. Collora is on the same page as I am. Sci-fi movies made in the 70s and 80s were some of the very best ever made. Low budget often lead to creative, real looking costumes and sets. Here is a cool article about it at io9.
ps Nathan and Taber, you know it’s cool.
Just click on one of the pictures to see it full size. Taken with my iPhone (ps if you are using Google reader to view these posts, I don’t think it will work. So go to my site like everyone else and see it like it was meant to be seen:
The sad thing about this post is this might be one of the last times we will get to play in the snow for a long time. I know we will be back to Alaska to visit, but that will most likely be in the summer time. We had a blast sliding down a pretty steep and bumpy hill. Our daughter, who is one years old, was both laughing and crying as she went down the hill on our laps.
I decided to go a little multimedia and give you a little sound clip of our adventure from my phone:
So this weekend, my sons and I got into the Bionic Commando remake for the Xbox 360. It is totally fun. After we played my son asked if I could make him a bionic arm. Thank goodness for duct-tape.
Everyone who was into the original Nintendo should remember this game. Pure awesomeness.
Here is a commercial for the game:
A six-week run of the hit Broadway musical “The Lion King” is coming to Anchorage next year. Yeah, six weeks long. To announce it’s coming, they had a press event in Atwood Concert Hall, in Anchorage. Guess who was invited. It was totally posh. Gourmet food was served and three of the Broadway performers came up to perform some of the songs in the show. It looks totally rad. The pictures above are from the $75 goodie-bag we all received at the event. Don’t you love the lion-shaped white-chocolate moose?
ps I’m not sure what was $75 dollars about the goodie-bag. But it still sounds cool.
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