Caveman Orrick's Sinkhole

I get paid to take pictures and post them on he web (among other things).
I usually don't post my work pix, but I found this batch I just took to be really nice.
Check em out here:
http://arboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=getFrontPageFeature&catagory=home&FeatureID=69943f9a-1020-4f21-860d-72c0c4511971&TypeID=1&CFID=582197&CFTOKEN=42993825

Unintentionally Disturbing

They over-emphasized the knife thing :(

Good god, I did it! I actually jumped on a trampoline, jumped up off the same trampoline onto the ground, and during that jump stuffed a basketball into a basketball hoop. I did this all while explaining how my actions were an analogy for photosynthesis.

I'll be on the 'Universe' series. They told me my segment will air in late May or early June.

I'm going to host a segment of the History Channel show 'Universe'
. They said they wanted something more than talking heads and gave an example of one of their guests, an astronomer I think, windsurfing (the man's hobby) to illustrate a point about solar winds.

My subject is light and plants, so I suggested that I jump on a trampoline and stuff basketballs through a hoop as an analogy (a very rough one) for photosynthesis.

They're delivering the trampoline to my work tomorrow so I can practice.

I rough cut my documentary; it has ways to go still. I was editing on Adobe Premiere all day and saving my edits when the application crashed.

I lost all my work.

I had a great subject for a documentary handed to me today. Lew Watanabe is a garden designer who uses granite sculptures in his designs. Not only is he considered a creative genius by his peers but he has mentored many garden designers as well. His life story is particularly compelling because he slipped and fell on one of his granite sculptures and became a paraplegic as a result. This has not stopped or embittered him at all, and he is doing his best work at the present. I'll be following him as he designs a garden, and I'll be interviewing his friends and students.

I hope that this hasn't already been done.

I have just started taking a documentary film class at Art Center School of Design in Pasadena. From what I can tell already it's going to be kick ass. The professor teaching the class also teaches at USC film school.

I'm so freacking stoked.

From the 2007 NSS Convention

Convention bound :)