Hopefully not my only 15 minutes...

I made a personal goal for myself to post to this blog every day in April. As you can see I didn't do it.

Between moving and work and all of the fun little things going on blogging has taken a back seat.

I've been taking a lot of bike photos lately. Fixed Fight III went down in St. Pete this last weekend and I snapped a bunch of photos. You can see them here.

They've been getting reposted all over the web. My friend even found them on some strange Italian fixed gear blog. PEDAL Consumption has four on their blog as well if you scroll down to April 21.

The Orlando Fixed gear blog picked them up too and so did Prolly.

I had no idea all of this was happening until yesterday, it explains why my flickr has been generating thousands of hits everyday.

Anyway I took a bunch of photos of the Thursday night ride yesterday. I put up a light and a diffuser and after a couple beers convinced some of the guys to do some tricks. I'll post the photos later today.

Here's one that I made yesterday more to come soon:

And then it stopped

and I remembered one of the reasons I love Florida

Rain, rain...

The first

My close friend Joshua and I just finished our first multimedia project last night. It was shot with my 5D Mark II using a Rhode Video Mic for audio.

We edited it in Final Cut pro and used MPEG Stream Clip to make the footage native to Final Cut.

Hopefully this will be the first of many.



Go here to watch it in high def.

Fun with Final Cut

Yesterday my friend Denver and I finished our first ever multimedia project. Unfortunately we learned some sad things about editing native footage from the 5D Mark II in Final Cut. Now we have to go back and fix some things.

To make sure our solution would work I slapped together probably the worst Final Cut video ever complete with homemade techno and footage I took of the Sunshine Skyway.

Let's see if this this works!

Easter

Doesn't really mean a whole lot to me but I found my own way to celebrate the resurrection of a 2000 year old carpenter. I drank mimosas and made a giant pancake. It was decadent and wonderful.

Here are some photographs I made:

Old glass new home

I told my dad that I had started adapting old lenses to my DSLR and he sent me a box of old glass.

Neat little lenses. I had fun playing with the Zuiko 75-150mm the only bad part about it is that the aperture blades are stuck so I'm forced to shoot wide open. Interesting results.

I've noticed that old glass gives the pictures a sort of dreamy haze.

Here's a photo I made. I know it's a squirrel but like I said I was just messing around =)

Bikes away

Decided last minute to go on the Thursday night ride. It was a great decision. This was the biggest I've ever seen the ride. There were at least a couple dozen people out there.

The pace got a little wild and people got dropped. I was riding fixed again and fueled my wheel lock ups with the fear of death or embarrassment.

I managed to get a few snaps in as well.

Next week I think I'm going to load up the cooler with beer and water and lure everyone back to my place for a post ride shin dig.

Hmmm, man Tampa is getting so fun right before I leave. It makes me a little sad...

Here's a photograph:

Blitz

Made it down to Miami yesterday to visit an old friend and take in a Flight of the Conchords concert.

We sped south in my friend Ian's convertible, top down the whole way. Originally the idea was just a novelty and we planned on putting up the top some of the time. That all changed when a crucial piece of convertible mechanism ejected itself from the car.

I'm a little sun burned but the experience was nothing short of epic despite the disapproving glares we garnered from manly truck drivers and angsty teenagers.

Here's a photograph I took:

Flute master

Flute master
Originally uploaded by TristanWheelock

I want this guy's life.

You can't really see it but off to the right a banner reads can Paul McCartney, four soap operas and 900,000 people all be worng?

My answer is yes flute master, yes they can. Your hair may blow mystically in the wind but your proficiency with various recorders does nothing for me.

News.

Here's a photograph of the pizza I ate at New World brewery to celebrate the news that our documentary creative crossroads won best short documentary at the Crossroads Film Festival.

Movies and Booze

Is basically how Saturday turned out. I went and did the good old movie double sneak seeing both Adventureland and I Love You Man.

Both films were good. I Love You Man made me feel sort of awkward, it was definitely well done though. Adventureland was better. The actors from Freaks and Geeks keep showing they that they have what it takes to make it in Hollywood. I was thoroughly entertained although it was a less funny than I thought it would be.

Post movie activities including attending the opening of the new Reax space and drinking a bunch of liquid mistakes in the form of Kentucky Gentleman whiskey. Probably the worst well whiskey there is, not that any of them are good.

The new Reax space is really nice. It's a little converted house. One half serves as an art gallery and shop and the other half holds the laptops and other accoutrements that the Reax crew use to put out their little rag.

The art on the walls was kind of interesting. It was by Eleanor Grosch. There was also plenty of Red Bull, jug wine and cookies on hand so I pretty much couldn't have been happier. Here's a photograph that I took:
I must have walked over this square of concrete nearly 100 times since 2006 and I never noticed this. It's so strange. I wonder who the mysterious Tristan is that put this here. I've certainly never met them.

Artcore

I went to Irregular Artbeat at the Skate Park of Tampa last night. The art was alright. Some of the pieces were better than others. The crowd is always great at SPOT events though. Lots of kids, lots of energy and lots of free Red Bull and vodka.

There was a live painting by Chad "Cheeta" Ruis, Austin "Artwar" Englan and "Bean" Spence. The image at the top is the end product of about an hour and a half of work.

There was skateboarding as well of course. Man, those little kids are really good. Events like this one make me think that Tampa might actually be a pretty cool city in five or ten years.
Here's a link to some more pictures from the night.

Today so far.

Work was rough. I usually love the hours spent perusing the Internet, slowly fueling my ever growing addiction to the seductive tendrils of the web. But today it was just sort of arduous. Maybe I'm turning a corner.

When it was time to go home I sighed with relief. This morning was muggy and gray but somehow the evening has turned golden and beautiful.

On my bike ride home I saw a really nice motorcycle. I don't know anything about these machines but this one looked tough and utilitarian, something about it drew me in.

So I stopped and took a photograph. Turns out the owner was a CrossFit instructor who just moved down here to help his friends start a studio.

He let me take a picture of his giant flipping tire as well...


Tonight I'm going to an art show at the Skate Park of Tampa. Pictures and video to follow I'm sure..

Weary

I'm tired. Tonight I decided to go on the Thursday Night bike ride. I used to go on it a lot but for some reason I stopped. Today I broke that streak.

My friend Ian left his fixed gear at my house a few weeks ago. I started trying to ride it the other day and somehow managed to teach myself how to lock up the wheel.

Feeling brave I took it on the ride tonight. It was a lot of fun but pretty exhausting. I think my legs are going to be feeling it tomorrow.

Here's a photo I took:

It's alive!

My Macbook Pro has been resurrected through judicious use of a Phillips 00 screwdriver and more patience than I knew I had.

That's about it.

Here's a photo I took today...


look closely and you can see a window washer