On across the street…

I saw this as I looked out the windows form work last night. It’s part of an installation by the Winston-Salem Light Project from the NC School of the Arts. The Light Project was conceived to demonstrate the impact of light as an artistic medium in urban contexts.

Last year, NCSA students “lit” the Millennium Center using the styles of various artists. This year, they will project up to 100 images onto the Fourth Street side of the Pepper Building during a 15-20 minute cycle. The cycles will run continuously, in a loop, from 7-11 p.m. each day.

The images, which have been designed by four senior undergraduate lighting design students in the NCSA School of Design and Production, will focus on depletion of the world’s resources, the environment and sustainability, and population growth. Unique images will illustrate the enormity of the issue and the creativity of the students.

I’ll try to grab a few more shots Thursday night. And I’ll use an actual real camera, not my crap mobile phone.

On 2 weeks to go…

 

It’s down to the wire… the final 2 weeks! Although at this point, I don’t know how anyone catches up to Brent.

I finally broke down and started running. And (loathe as I am to admit it) actually kind of miss it the mornings I don’t do it. Although my knees do not.

And Bart’s out now with a herniated disc in his back, but we’ll continue to mock him. And he’ll still be required to post an “after” pic. (MWAHAHAHAHA!)

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ME
Starting Weight: 208 lbs. – Current Weight: 210 lbs. (+ 2 lbs. 1% gain – stoopid Disney vacation)
Starting Waist: 37″ – Current Waist: 36″ (- 1″)
Starting L Bicep: 14″ – Current L Bicep: 14.5″ (+ .5″)
Starting R Bicep: 14.5″ – Current R Bicep: 15″ (+ .5″)

G
Starting Weight: 198 lbs. - Current Weight: 195 lbs  (- 3 lbs. 2% loss)
Starting Waist: 37″ - Current Waist: 35″ (- 2″)
Starting L Bicep: 14″ - Current L Bicep: 14″ (same)
Starting R Bicep: 14″ - Current R Bicep: 14″ (same)

Cliff
Starting Weight: 209 lbs. - Current Weight: 207 lbs. (- 2 lbs. 1% loss)
Starting Waist: 42″ - Current Waist: 42.5″ (+ .5″)
Starting L Bicep: 15″ - Current L Bicep: 15.5″ (+ .5″)
Starting R Bicep: 15″ - Current R Bicep: 15.5″ (+ .5″)

Doug
Starting Weight: 234 lbs. - Current Weight: 230 lbs. (- 4 lbs. 2% loss)
Starting Waist: 41.5″ - Current Waist: 40″ (- 1.5″)
Starting L Bicep: 14.5″ - Current L Bicep: 15″ (+ .5″)
Starting R Bicep: 14.5″ - Current R Bicep: 15.25″ (+ .75″)

Brent
Starting Weight: 219.5 lbs. - Current Weight: 197 lbs (- 22.5 lbs. 10% loss)
Starting Waist: 41.25″ - Current Waist: 38″ (- 3.25″)
Starting L Bicep: 14.5″ - Current L Bicep: 13.75″ (- .75″)
Starting R Bicep: 15.75″ - Current R Bicep: 14″ (- 1.75″)

Bart
Starting Weight: 237 lbs. - Current Weight: Who knows?
Starting Waist: 42″ - Current Waist: I don’t even want to think about it.
Starting L Bicep: 16″ - Current L Bicep: Pffffft.
Starting R Bicep: 16″ - Current R Bicep: As if.

On a monster in a box…

Creepy? CLICK to see more… if you dare!!! (Just trying to get in the Halloween spirit.)

On custom awesomeness…

Ed Roth’s “Mega Cycle”… a Matchbox car come to life! This thing is so sweet that when I found the sketch for it online, I had to do some more investigating about it.

I found this write-up for it on the Kustomrama site:

“The Mega Cycle is a show car built by Ed Roth. With the Mega Cycle, Ed wanted to take a crack at predicting what El Caminos of the 21st century would look like. The first sketches for the car was drawn by Ed Newton in 1966. The car was originally intended for hauling Ed’s Harley XLCH until he purchased a show winning Triumph.

The original name for the creation was Captain Pepi’s Motorcycle & Zeppelin Repair. Robert Williams gave the car its first name. After a strong suggestion from car show promoters the name of the car was changed to the Mega Cycle. The car was powered by a Buick V6 engine.

After touring the show circuit for one year, Ed traded the car for a V-Dub rear clip. A local junk dealer got to use the car in front of his junkyard for publicity for one year. After one year, when Ed came to pick it up, the car had been turned into a house for the junkyard dogs. The dogs had ripped the seats. Ed went on and sold the car to Jim Brucker in 1969. Jim traded it to Harrah’s. When Bill Harrah died the Mega Cycle and several other cars in Bill’s collection was auctioned off. Ed’s sonDarryl Roth ended up buying the Mega Cycle and the Druid Princess at the auction. Ed and Darryl restored the Mega Cycle and the Druid Princess with assist from Pete Santini. After the cars had been restored, they were both sold to Jay Ohberg, and once again sent on the show circuit.

Today the Mega Cycle and Triumph is currently being restored again by Fritz Schenck. It was difficult finding info about the Mega Cycle in books and magazines. But after a lot of research he was able to find a good color photo of the left side of the bike on the back of a truck at a California auto show from around 1967-1968. The chopper has been the hardest part of the vehicle to restore, missing many hard to find specialty parts.

After 7 months of hard work Fritz completed the restoration in September of, 2009, 5 days before the bike is getting auctioned away at the Icons of Speed & Styleauction in Los Angeles, California. Mark Moriarity was the lucky bidder at the auction that bought the mega Cycle for $ 60,500 USD. According to Mark, it’s the 4th time he has owned the Mega Cycle.”

If I ever win the lotto big-time, it might just have to be mine.

On this guy…

So, I have this tee with all these Marvel heroes on it. It’s a bit nerdy, but that’s how I roll. I dig that it’s got some of the guys that you don’t immediately think of when you think of Marvel comics. (Which you do all the time right?)

First Row: Silver Surfer, Captain America, Reed Richards, Triton
Second Row: Karnak, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Falcon
Third Row: Gorgon, Black Bolt, The Thing, Thor
Fourth Row: Wolverine, ???, The Human Torch, Black Panther

See those question marks on the bottom row? Who the hell is that guy? It’s driving me crazy. If anybody knows, help a geek out.

On being absent…

I haven’t been here much as of late. With trying to get the house ready (STILL!) and things at the studio picking up, it just seems like I haven’t had time for posts. I’ll try to remedy that in the coming week. (And just to prove how slack I am, I’m reposting this “Gorillaz-esque” image from The New Cafe (Racer) Society.)

On soo-ee…

Well, it was only a matter of time I guess. I heard a couple weeks ago that one of the elementary schools in town had 20% of its students out with the swine flu. (I’m not calling it H1N1… and it’s not gonna stop me from eating bacon.) Then last week elle told me that a couple kids in Coop’s class had it. So it was really no surprise yesterday when he ended up with a 102 degree fever. elle and I are staying out of work tomorrow just in case we have it and it hasn’t hit yet. The good thing (if there is one) is at least we’re getting this out of the way before we trek to Disney in a few weeks.

On the He-Man Woman Haters…

Last weekend me, Coop and Ty had a Saturday meeting of the He-Man Woman Haters Club. elle was gone to a wedding in Raleigh with her her mom, so it was a testosterone-filled day in Winston-Salem.

First things first... java is a must!

Hey guys... wanna go grab lunch someplace where they have TVs with football games on them? No? Oh.

Do ya' wanna go to Chucky Cheese? Yeah? Oh.

Two young lads having a splendid time amidst the chaos.

Don't worry, me and Uncle Bud are doing okay too.

Chopper Ty, the "Scourge of the Skies"!

And Captain Cooper, the "Terror of the Seven Seas"!

There were zombies wandering at the CVS as we waited for flu shots.

And a crazed murderer or two.

And whatever the hell this thing was!

The weather outside was rainy and cold, so we finished off the day with a Wii tournament and a little Cartoon Network. All in all… a good time was had by all. Thanks guys!!!

On saving them…

Ladies, please do what you can.

UPDATE: Boo on youtube… found another link HERE.

On Single Brothers…

I went out some friends Thursday night and finally got to check out the new Single Brothers bar. Me and some old school LHCers/Mullenites met up there for some adult beverages. From what I can gather, the bar is the latest venture from some of the same guys behind Krankies Coffee. It is now officially my new favorite place to drink. Well, second favorite. The backyard by a fire is still number one. Okay, 3rd favorite. In the river at the caves probably edges it out.

But Single Brothers is a nice alternative, especially for Winston-Salem. The interior is pretty small, but they have plenty of outdoor seating. And even though it was humid as all get-out that night, we all had a blast. I got a little apprehensive when I saw some guy setting up a DJ table with turntables. But then the bar stereo cut off and he started spinning… old jazz. I could have stayed all freaking night!

First, I had a drink called the “Hellfire” – Serrano pepper infused vodka and grapefruit juice, on the rocks. Jesus Christ… even the ice seemed hot in that drink! Wow. It did mellow out about 1/2 way through, but that first half had me spittin’ hot fire. I followed it up with a “Brothers G&T” (in the hopes of cooling off the inside of my mouth). They mix it with Hendrick’s Gin, tonic and a couple cucumber slices. Very nice. And to finish the night off, I had to go with the $2 can of Schlitz. Perfect finish for a perfect night.