There was always a vendor who was more positioned towards the novelty/carnival side who had either the largest cow or steer. Poor things seemed like they could hardly move. This brings me to todays fantastic find. His name is Chilli …
I found this in a post by the UK Mail. Check the link for more photos.
My past week has been a bit tragic and all so my wife and I needed some good energy to help our spirits. With my love for skateboarding I asked her if she wanted to go to Mayhem @ Muir. Perhaps not romantic but full of good vibes nonetheless. Scott, who is the owner of Muir Surf & Sport put on an event which included skateboarding, music, food and giveaways. It was super nice to see kids just rolling around with absolutely no attitude. Everyone was just happy to skate at whatever their ability was and have fun.
Adam Colton, all around good guy and skater was there spreading the good mojo and helping kids learn new tricks. Impressive indeed. I dig seeing no egos involved and just the pure stoke of skating being spread around.
We got home early since I needed a good nites rest since my Sunday was my first trip out to the Pala Skatepark. The day before was the grand opening so we didn’t know how many people were going to be around on the day after. After a nice drive out there and a bit of skate exploring I saw the skatepark and was stoked on the beautiful setting of the park and mellow skate scene. The only people skating when we got there was some little kids and their parents. Just having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches served up by Mom along with some epic drop-ins. Little kids are just mind blowing these days. I rode every bowl that day and had a blast just working on my carve lines. I’ll be looking forward to skating again there next weekend with the crew and local kids.
Thanks go out to the Pala Indian Tribes who have built such a fun park.
Whilst perusing the Make blog I came up another fine bit of robotics. As quoted from this interesting blog-
http://www.gizmogarden.com/index.php/Walking_Shopping_Cart
“Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture project. I was interested in the concept of automating aspects of society that were considered not so “glamorous”. Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the “higher profile” adverse environments which robots are used. My question was, “What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?”.
I was checking my feeds when I came upon this excellent stop motion vid. It was created by Paul Cummings and Tony Fiandaca who run Free Poster Films Check it out-
For those of you getting back into skateboarding there are more ways to skate than what you see the kids doing on the street. Just in the longboarding catagory you have carving, downhill LDP (long distance pumping), what I call SDP and many more. Since I work at Gravity Skateboards I had the good fortune to meet Bruce Logan. For those of you that remember, Bruce has more championships under your his belt then just about any skater. He has gone through hard times and is now clean, sober and fit. In honor of Bruce I put together this fun 30″ Bruce Logan for SDP (short distance pumping). This is a 7 ply maple deck with a Bennett 4.5″ front truck wedged, Tracker RTX 129mm back truck dewedged and Alligator 62mm wheels. It brings me back to the good old days except more modern turning capabilities. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Boston Dynamics has been doing some interesting things with robotics. I present for your entertainment - Big Dog……Enjoy!
I tried the freebie wordpress blog site and while I found it extremely easy to use I figured it was time to do up a wordpress blog the old fashioned way. Follow me on my way to blog madness and good fun!
