MJ YOU WILL BE MISSED / June 26, 2009 / Life / Posted by Michael

Lessons on Life / June 1, 2009 / Life , Video / Posted by Michael

“On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.”

If you’re at work, play this and listen to it in the background.. Amazing lessons on life.

Imposter among us / February 21, 2009 / Life / Posted by Michael

“Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.”

- Thomas Merton

Oh’ Canada / December 24, 2008 / Life , Travel / Posted by Michael

Arrived in Canada yesterday… Last night was pretty much one huge blur of drunken chaos.  I have a splitting headache, flu symptons, and will probably do the same thing again tonight. 

2000 was 8 Years ago??? / October 29, 2008 / Life , Snowboarding / Posted by Michael

So I’ve been in Hong Kong now for a 4 days or something?  the last 2 I have spent in my hotel in a bath robe trying to finish a catalog.. While working my friend Jeff Patterson found a binder full of old slides he shot and sent me a bunch of photos from 1999-2001 of my friends and I snowboarding.. I haven’t even seen these photos before! Here’s some shots from the 2000-2001 season of me 50-50′ing the McMahan Stadium kink and the montgomery 44 set. Oh yeah, and playing with my super sweet Casio camera watch. That watch was the best, too bad I lost it!  This time in my life was hilarious, I was 18 years old living in a house with all my friends called “The Ghetto House” paying $180 a month for rent and snowboarding every single day.. Great days.

I Miss the Mountains / October 27, 2008 / Life , Photography , Travel / Posted by Michael

Nothing like an 11 hour long flight..   Flying from Europe over to Hong Kong was pretty special.  I took some Melatonin during the flight to try and get some rest.  Usually this stuff knocks me out for a solid 8 hours, but after about 5 hours I woke up all excited and opened the window to see Mt. Everest just hanging out in the horizon..  Pretty surreal flying at 40,000 feet looking at this huge mountain..  I got chills up my spine, and remembered how much I miss being in the mountains.  I realized how much of my life I’ve spent around mountains, and all the friends and memories from being out in them. If it wasn’t for mountains I most likely wouldn’t have woken up on this flight and looked out the window to see this. Mountains pretty much shaped my entire life up to now… All of my friends, places i’ve seen, my job… pretty much everything.  It’s amazing to think about.

Here’s another photo from when I went home to Canada to get a new work visa this summer.. I felt a similar feeling towards these huge ass pieces of rock.