Support The Team, Part 1
by projecthitchhiker on June 26, 2008
in Awesome Stuff, Lifestyle Design
I’m a shameless promoter, I know. But I need to take this time to point out a few friends that are accomplishing awesome things right now.
Firstly, there’s my buddy Dave Lowe over in Vietnam who released his first travel novel, the hilarious Sandwiches Should Never Taste Like Cow Crap. I read a bunch of the advance chapters when he was editing it and I laughed my ass off.
Here’s what the New York Times had to say about the book: The world, according to Dave Lowe, is a dangerous place — full of sadistic customs agents, decaying airplanes and toothlessly grinning old women. It is therefore also a wonderful, hilarious place, the kind of world you’d visit yourself if only you had Lowe’s wit, open-mindedness and unerring penchant for disaster.
Go read some sample chapters on his blog, www.theloweroad.com and then go over to Amazon and buy it. I personally guarantee you’ll enjoy it. Support the team.
Then, we move on to Liam Mather, definitely my favorite musician in Halifax, who also happens to be a good friend. Today I came across a video of Liam performing one of his newer songs, Lonely Road. Amazing song. I’m stoked for his album to come out.
And then my good buddy Josh Webb, who’s kicking ass in the photography world as usual. Check out his online portfolio and his photography blog (one of three blogs that I read regularly — when I’m not in the middle of nowhere). That’s his motorbike below, and I’m sure that he and I will be posting more motorbike pics from our big Newfoundland trip in August.
Thanks for the plug Mike. It’s going to be a baptism into photography for you on the trip.
The shot up above of me was taken by me. I put my camera on a tripod, in the back of a van, opened the door and set up the shutter speed to shoot at 1 second intervals for 100 seconds. Paced out the distance I’d be following and set the focus. Told the Driver to hit 50km/h as quick as possible and then hold that speed. Ran to my running bike, jumped on it and followed the van at an estimated distance.
It took 3 attempts and 300 frames to get this one shot. I guess that says something about getting “the shot” I hope all this wilderness living is developing your patience cause you’ll need it while I “get the shot”