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Powder snow is to skiing as clay courts are to tennis. A great powder day lives forever, as anyone who skis powder knows. This short film is a wonderful celebration of all that is good (and dangerous) about powder skiing. Yes…it’s a promotional film. So? It is exceptionally well shot, edited, and produced and you …
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Get In the mood. Here’s an official update on what to expect at the FIS World Championships at Vail this week. Good music (and unexpected too!), tightly edited, spectacular cinematography (how do they get those lean angles) and just the right amount of history and name-dropping to prepare you for the big event. It’s not …
Great, short, little film, that will give you some insight into the event a lot of experts believe to be the purest in all of Alpine skiing: the downhill. The concept is simple: get out of the gate and go down the course as fast as you can, testing muscle, nerves, stamina, and technique at …
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In the beginning was James Brown, Live at the Apollo. The concert that moved James Brown from a cult figure on the R&B circuit into the mainstream of American Music. But what moved James Brown the most–and the fastest–was a collection of dance moves no one had ever seen before and that we’ve seldom seen since. Almost …
The Rolex 24 at Daytona just concluded (at 2PM ET, today…26 January 2015…). It’s a bit of a hybrid sports car race, combining the high banks of a NASCAR track with a flat, curvy infield section. The race is sometimes to the fastest, but always to the one who finishes but..to give you an idea …
“I’m up in the spotlight Ohh, does it feel right? Ohh, the altitude Really gets to get to me… I’m up on the tight wire Flanked by life and the funeral pyre Putting on a show For you to see..” –Tightrope, as performed by Leon Russell, Written by Stan Kenton. Transitions. We lost Robin in …
Google’s review of the year in search, 2014.
Paying Attention: As long as Commencement Addresses are “top of mind”, might as well bring up another great one, this one by Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth in 2011. Not quite as serious as Steve Jobs but every bit as impactive and quite funny. It’s not short: 20 plus minutes in length, but that’s OK, since …
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Paying Attention: As long as Commencement Addresses are “top of mind”, might as well bring up another great one, this one by Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth in 2011. Not quite as serious as Steve Jobs but every bit as impactive and quite funny. It’s not short: 20 plus minutes in length, but that’s OK, since …
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Paying Attention: The season of commencement and commence addresses is upon us. And while the air will be filled with heavy sounding pronouncements like “the future is ahead of us” , how about changing the tune and going back to one of the great commencement speeches of all time, by a man considered one of …