M-I-Z!

I am going to my first Mizzou football game in two years tomorrow. I have tailgated several of the ones since then, but since I am a poor college student I cannot afford tickets. My mom and I are going tomorrow and I couldn't be more excited. I included some pictures from some of the past games I attended.

We are on fire.

71,000+ people.

Blurry, old camera.

Future MU cheerleader?

My friend Katie Kennedy and I. It was cold.

I'll put up more pictures from the game this weekend. Can I get an M-I-Z?

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is quite possibly the funniest internet video series I have ever seen. The subtle and not-so-subtle mocking of public television sets with the two ferns and old chairs would be funny on its own, but the series pulls some major talent. Guests include Natalie Portman, Sean Penn, Conan O'Brien, Bradley Cooper, Charlize Theron and Ben Stiller. On top of the major talent and mockery of public TV, Zach Galifianakis has a very interesting way of handling his guests. All of the episodes are different and I encourage you to watch a few of them. I spent an hour last night watching all of them instead of reading my homework because they are addictive.

Here's one of my favorites, with Sean Penn and host Seth Galifianakis, Zach's twin brother. Favorite quotes:

• Y'all go to Long John Silver's or something fancy like that?
• I'll follow you home tonight.
• (About Haiti) Is there a Six Flags down there? We can move on.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Sean Penn from Between Two Ferns

P.S. If you visit Zach Galifianakis's website, you will find a drawing of a Greek-style nude. If you google him, the text under his website states - "Zach is so happy that you found his site. Though he doesn't have the ablility to feel any shred of emotion." Hahaha

Color and Sound. Sound and Color.

This is probably the best commercial I have seen in awhile. I don't know that the imagery really goes with the product to be sold (a printer), but I love the colors and music. I get what they are trying to say - that the printer can remake colors very precisely, but in this digital environment, we are moving farther from the need of printers. So much of my daily life can now be conducted online and that means, luckily, I help to contribute to fewer trees being cut down.

Here is the making of the commercial, which is shown at the end of the clip. I love how the dancing colors combine to make new and interesting droplets. The music is synced perfectly.

According to their blog, Dentsu London brought on biochemist/photographer Linden Gledhill to create something interesting and new. His project is best summed up on the site -

"The project features surreal ‘sound sculptures’ made of dancing droplets of paint captured in extreme detail as they react to sound waves."

These ‘color sculptures’ were created by stretching a balloon over a small speaker. Drops of paint were dropped on this balloon membrane. Then, a single sharp note was played the paint was jolted off. The droplets were in the air for just a fraction of a second, but the high-speed cameras caught something magical.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

For more pictures of the project, visit Denstu London's flickr account. My favorite one of the series is at the top of the page. What's yours?

Fencing. Huzzah.

I came across these on twitter the other day and I fell in love. (I see a photo trend happening lately.) They were taken by a very talented photographer named Matt Roth. His photo blog has everything from an 11-year-old lifting weights to a couple and their 'fat effin' cat.' All of his photos have a great color and life to them. According to the text that accompanies these photos on his website, the woman in the photos won a bronze medal at the US Fencing Association’s Summer National Championships in Atlanta, GA.

Something Roth brought up in his post, which I had never considered, was how hard it was to capture the woman behind the mask.

For those who’ve photographed fencers with lights before, they know how super hard it is to show their faces behind all that protective mesh. After a ton of chimping and head-scratching, I eventually figured it out.

Now I have an even larger appreciation for the photos.

Photog of the Moment: Gui Christ

While searching through the usual blogs the other day, I came across the work of Gui Christ on Sweet Station, which used to be my favorite blog until they started posting a lot of obscure things and less architecture. Anyways, I was blown away by these photos. They stuck with me - I wanted to check back and look at them again so I knew I had to share them here.

According to the post, the Brazilian photographer's work on Brazil’s 3 kings festival (The Wise Men Revelry) was displayed in Amsterdam this weekend. I am now desperately googling for more on this photog. Wow.

Update: I was also very curious about this festival, so here is the gist. I am fairly certain that it is a part of Carnival, which is an event that occurs right before Lent, usually the main events are during February. According to Wikipedia, the event is

It's the largest carnival event in this country, considered to be the largest of the kind in the world. Called "One of the biggest shows of the Earth", the festival attracts millions of tourists, both Brazilians and foreigners who come from everywhere to participate and enjoy the great show.

OK, I'm sold.

A rootin tootin good time

This weekend I did a lot of work for my mobile reporting senior project. We decided to go to the 4th annual Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ to test out audio collecting and editing equipment. You can check out my audio slideshow complete with pictures here. There are no captions because the editing applications are not advanced for anything but supers over a video/picture. I had a great time reporting in my lovely adopted city of Columbia.

A band playing outside of the festival called Stoker Homeboy.

The prize for the grand champion of the BBQ contest. Yes, those are little animals glued around the circle.

The winner of the half marathon. Her time was good enough for her to go to the World Championships in Clearwater, Florida.

One of the vendors cooks up some BBQ. The smoke was overpowering, but smelled delicious.

This post turned out to be quite colorful and I am very pleased. :)