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Archive for May 2007

zomg twenty one at last!

I’m still kinda hungover, but that’s the news: I’m now legal to go into bars :) Check the madness on RMFD’s Flickrset. That look in my eye about halfway through… yeah, that’s the look of “I’m not going to remember this tomorrow, but am okay with that.”

cablecam goes live and new internship

A few weeks ago, Johnny, Rick, B and I went to Roseville to set up our newly built cablecam over a waterslide at Golfland SunSplash for a commercial shoot they were doing. It was a 2-day event for us, the first day setting everything up and testing out the equipment, the second day doing the [...]

Maker Faire 2007

I’m exhausted, but I went to the Maker Faire today in San Mateo, check out my Flickr Photoset. I’m working at a wine auction/fundraiser all day tomorrow, so I won’t be returning, but it was so much fun, and I learned so much just from going from booth to booth today. Also have a bit [...]

pillow fight downtown?

I heard about a Pillow Fight Flash Mob happening downtown tonight, so I thought I’d show up with a camera and see what it was all about. Next time I know to bring a pillow instead! The Flash Mob was pretty successful, with a bunch of people stealthily bringing pillows into the downtown Thursday Night [...]

cablecam and gumstix

First off, we did a test run of the cable cam last night with a tape in the camera. Of course _someone_ left the night vision setting “on”, so the video looks like crap. Take a peek: We used a jalopy of a camera – an old Digital8 Sony HandyCam – but it did the [...]