Relax from your stressful life with some calming images of nature... I grabbed these photos and short video in our backyard this past Saturday morning. The deer hung around for over three hours and it was mildly exciting to get the video footage (I was shaking a bit). And this is in the city, too! (well, 4.5 miles from downtown Minneapolis).

- View the Deer Photos -

Happy 2006 to you all! Great friends, great food and great times were had over the holidays and I found a little chunk of time to slap together this short video piece of a mountain bike race I shot back in October of 2005 at Murphy-Hanrehan Park (part of the awesome Three Rivers Park District).
The premise was a Halloween bike race (The Grim Racer) with costumes and silliness but either these people were too hard-core in racing or the wind drag of most costumes was simply too great and only a handful of racers dressed up. The weather and location were great, however, and while this doesn't have much of a story to it (I was unable to shoot the race finish), I hope you'll enjoy the fall biking scenery (needs latest version of Quicktime).

Just finished up a short documentary-style movie about this past weekend's Zombie Pub Crawl, wherein 100+ people dressed up like zombies (think bloody, rotting flesh, dirty) and went for a little jaunt through NE Minneapolis for a quick nip down to the pubs. I figured this had to be good fodder for filming and I wasn't disappointed. The makeup and costuming was pretty impressive and for the most part everyone was sticking in character, although I'm sure that got easier as the night wore on (which I was unable to witness, sadly). I grabbed my DVX and some tapes and my shotgun mic and captured it all hand-held. The piece was shot, edited, music created by me using Soundtrack, and finished all up in less than three working days.
As featured on MNstories.com - see also the related article in City Pages.
In QuickTime's spankin' H.264 format (amazing! and a free download here). Click the picture to watch (about 20 megs)! Hopefully this won't kill my bandwidth...