Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Wednesday 8 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Drama (what’s new) in Congress as the Administration has to ram through a cabinet pick by having the Vice-President cast the deciding vote in a 50/50 split, while there are new legal adventures going on …
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The Winter Film Festival: "Few Words" featuring Candide Thovex
Edgework: Candide Thovex is a French alpinist, skier, and film maker. He is at home in the backcountry, dropping in off the top of a mountain, and, mostly, in the air, where he is constantly pushing the envelope of what’s possible in the combination of skier, snow, and mountain. This full-length film is titled “Few …
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The Winter Film Festival: The Eyes of Ted Ligety
Edgework: What does it take to do a downhill run? Lots of courage and technical perfection–along with enough strength to pull you of a difficult situation if something goes wrong. Here’s an intriguing piece from GoPro: a downhill run through the viewpoint of Ted Ligety, an American and one of the world’s very best skiers, …
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The Nightshift: 7 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 7 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Super Bowl is in the rear view mirror and America has its’ attention turned (whether it wants to or not ) back to the drama that is Washington and contentious, non-productive, partisan politics. Draining the swamp …
The Winter Film Festival: The Physics of Skiing
Edgework: You ski but do you really know how you ski? It’s a sport that demands solid technique (and lots of practice) to do well and that technique must work in conjunction with the actual physics of the sport–the ability to make a pair of skis (or a ski board) turn, stop, change direction. As …
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The Winter Film Festival: 2017
Edgework: Embed from Getty Images It’s Winter and it’s time, once again, for the Winter Film Festival, our annual presentation of a very wide range of films on skiing, ski racing, backcountry skiing, and ski technique along with a few winter sports surprises. As usual with these types of posts, the recommendation is that you …
The Nightshift: 6 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Monday, 6 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Super Bowl LI is in the books and it was a classic: close; the first overtime game ever in Super Bowl history; and the biggest comeback ever in Super Bowl history. Congratulations to New England for …
The Nightshift: 5 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 5 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Super Bowl is today–after an NFL season that started in the fall of last year, after a bruising round of playoffs, and after a two week media buildup, the big day is finally here. …
The Nightshift: 4 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Saturday, 4 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Lots of government/legal/White House drama over the travel ban but…there are alternative events to follow. It’s the start of the Super Bowl Weekend (and by Monday, you’re probably going to have Super Bowl fatique). Houston is filling …
The Nightshift: 3 February 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Friday, 3 February 2017 and this is the mid-day edition of The Nightshift. The last day of the first week of February and the start of the Super Bowl Weekend. Before the weekend arrives take another look around you. Catch up on what’s happening with the rest of the world by reading …