The closing of CompUSA allowed me to finally get my hands on Final Cut Studio. Here's my first video with it, all of us at Animal Kingdom. Music by muggle fx, song title "Close calls land slides". Link to the video on Youtube.
Thanks to the magic of Youtube (w00t Youtube!), I got to see the only part of the Grammy's I was interested in. The show was highlighted by a brief performance of the Beatles "A Day in the Life" from the Cirque du Soleil show "Love" shown in the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas. The Grammy's version of the Cirque show didn't really capture how absolutely wonderful the Las Vegas version is. My wife and I got to see "Love" on it's first "test" night, completely by luck (well actually it was due to the ineptitude of Frontier airlines). Two weeks prior to our vacation Frontier notified us that our Friday flight had been bumped to the next morning. We went into frantic mode because we generally don't stay in Vegas over the weekend due to the extreme bounces in hotel prices (or in our case our hotel was sold out for that night). After finding a suitable replacement, I discovered that the first ever public showing of "Love" was going to be going on that Friday, and surprisingly I was able to grab two tickets. So in the end it worked out for the best. To folks heading to Vegas, I can't say enough about how wonderful this show is, definitely one of the best stage shows I'd ever seen. Link to the video on Youtube. (Cross posted over at Find Paradise)
Time-lapse video of construction of the giant gingerbread house over at Disney World's Grand Floridian hotel. Link (via BoingBoing)
L.L. Bean is developing plans of its own for a theme park, a place where visitors can hike, golf, ride bikes, eat, go kayaking or fishing, and shop (presumably for L.L. Bean products). At this time, details are sketchy, but according to the Portland Press Herald, the 700-acre-park will be located in Freeport, Maine, near L.L. Bean headquarters. Chances are there won't be a GAP store.Isn't this just called a national park? Link to the article on Fodors.
First they bussed us out to the site. It didn't quite match the pictures I'd seen of it. It was more like a construction site with a huge piece of I-Beam sticking over the edge. Almost nothing was paved, so when the wind came up, it created small dust storms that made it difficult to be outside. We entered the "Visitor's Center" (a temporary building that smelled strongly of wood varnish) to learn that no cameras were allowed out on the actual skywalk. At best, you could walk to the door of the building, a couple hundred feet away, and take a shot from there. Then you'd have to check your camera in with security. They told us it was because "people were dropping their cameras and cracking the glass" and they did not want to be liable "if someone dropped their camera over the edge".Check out the full article.
Brian Kirsten is an entrepreneur, software engineer, writer and publisher. He currently owns Brain Scan Studios, a digital media company focused on publishing comic books and graphic novels. He’s recently launched FictFact with his wife, Christine Kirsten.
