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baby eating
The baby continues to grow 🙂 [flv:IMG_5196b.flv 640 480]
night disturbance
Our neighbors had an unexpected visitor in the night as a Toyota Tacoma truck crashed through the wall of their house in Goleta. Firefighters, including local hero-friend Eric Eacker were on the scene to extricate the truck. Fortunately no one was hurt. here...
39!
A bunch of my awesome friends made the trek to Knapp's Castle yesterday to celebrate my birthday. It was awe inspiring to stand up there and watch the rain advance slowly towards us. Most of us lingered and got completely drenched on the return hike 🙂 Here are some...
Press Release
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Yacht carnage on Santa Barbara’s East Beach
At least 8 yachts lost their moorings and crashed onto East beach in the storms that are currently buffeting California. Here are a few photos of the yachts on East Beach... I also shot some video of the "Priority" being torn up and put into a dumpster:...
NATURE! (or kayaking at sunset with chris mundell)
Chris and I went for a glassy paddle at campus point where he taught me the words to the Hawaii 5-0 theme song 🙂 [flv:Nature.flv 640 480]
bikes and kids
Here are a couple of iPhone videos of the kids having fun on their bikes... playing chase on the la patera playground: [flv:bikes_playground.flv 640 480] racing the kids in the van 🙂 [flv:bikes.flv 640 480]
take your daughter to work day videos 🙂
fun times at work with the kids 🙂 We took turns racing the hallways on an office chair... [flv:chair_race.flv 640 480] And then there was the giant paper airplane we made and flew off the roof... [flv:IMG_2020.flv 640 480]
Speake photos!
This past weekend I took took photos of the Speakes. Geordie Speake is a talented Santa Barbara photographer so it was a little intimidating but fortunately the photos turned out well. Gotta love my new camera 🙂 Here is a slideshow of the Speake photo shoot.
Pavlova dessert! Gluten, corn, wheat and dairy free!
When I was a kid my favorite dessert was a New Zealand dish that my Gran made called Pavlova. It is essentially a large meringue pie with a tart fruit topping - yum! After some experimenting and substituting, I came up with a pretty good DF, GF, CF and WF pavlova...
bees are doing well!
I opened up the hive today for the first time since catching the swarm and moving them into their new home 2 weeks ago. They've been busy and have drawn comb on 3 of the frames and have a good looking brood coming along. I also saw lots of pollen and honey so they are...
U2 360 at the Rose Bowl
the u2 show at the Rose Bowl last night was freaking epic! 96,000 people. 25 songs. seriously! the set list just went on forever! epic! click here for some photos of our day... here is the set list: Breathe Get On Your Boots Magnificent Mysterious Ways Beautiful Day...
Little Logan Elliott
Our hearts and prayers go out to the parents, family and friends of baby Logan. Logan was a friend and co-patient with Rudy Geyling in the UCLA Medical Center. He passed away unexpectedly this past Wednesday. Today friends and family gathered to share pain and love as...
current favorite song – apocalyptic friend
Eef Barzelay is awesome! My current favorite song is "apocalyptic friend" from the Lose Big album. If you're not familiar with this guy, you gotta check this album out! [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/05_apocalyptic_friend.mp3|artists=Eef...
current favorite song – cocaine lights
oh man, i am digging this song by Phosphorescent recently! listen for the beautiful and haunting lines: I will miss you With no warning [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/13_cocaine_lights.mp3|artists=Phosphorescent|titles=Cocaine Lights]
the end of summer – poster
this is one of my recent favorites, i love how the kids are so innocent and carefree - i bet malia won't be running shirtless on the beach next summer. if you'd like a copy, i made a poster that you can order for around $10 from Costco to celebrate and mourn the end...
district 9 is awesome!
take 14 friends, a bag of biltong, throw in a district 9 viewing and you have the recipe for a super fun night out! district 9 is set in south africa (hence the biltong 😉 ) and apart from being the best sci-fi movie in a long time is an anthropologist's dream. i bet...
Cursed by the Pope!
Holy cow! Apparently back in the day, if you angered the pope, you risked getting cursed. The PDF below is a scan of the papal curse levied against my family. The full text is well worth the read, it is an irate rant that makes Alpha Catholic Stephen Colbert's finger...
Visual Poetry – Chris Orwig’s new book!
Today Chris received the CMYK proof for the cover of his new book due out at the end of this month! The book includes guest chapters authored by some of the most amazing photographers alive today including Rodney Smith, Joyce Tenneson, John Sexton, Steve McCurry, Joe...
current favorite song: “One Day Like This” by elbow
my current favorite song ever is from last year's elbow album "seldom seen kid." the song is called "One Day Like This" take a listen: [audio:http://www.zinkwazi.com/music/10_One_Day_Like_This.mp3|artists=Elbow|titles=One Day Like This] i dig the line "Holy Cow I love...
linda’s party!
much tri-tip, wine, beer and the occasional salad was consumed in celebration of linda's 60th 🙂 look! photos!