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Discovering Research Week at Cal Poly YouTube Ad
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010
This begun as just a joke over dinner, that we should do a spoof of “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercial for Old Spice, and now — here it is:
Discovering Research Week @ Cal Poly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E84Ax0p_1c)
When we shot this, we didn’t actually have the Discovering Research Week passports so I got to use Mocha for AE for the first time. Mocha is AMAZING. I also never used the sky as a blue screen before but it worked surprisingly well!. Unfortunately it was very windy when we shot this and I lack time and fancy-expensive equipment to make things better. All this was shot on camcorders rented from MDS on campus. Maybe some day I can afford the 5D Mark II
.
Special Thanks to
Dana Tryde at Clark Valley Farm
El Abar the horse
and Kara Schricker
If you’re bored, check out the other commercials I’ve done for eWeek: http://www.youtube.com/cpsloesc
Yosemite Trip, Summer 2009
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Just for fun, Photography, Uncategorized on September 11, 2009
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This past weekend, my friends and I took an awesome trip to Yosemite. For our 3 day trip, we planned on hiking Cloud’s Rest when we got there on Saturday, Half Dome on Sunday and go relax and rafting in the valley on Monday before we drive home.
So to get there early enough to do Cloud’s Rest we decided to leave SLO at around 5am and drive to Tenaya Lake where we’d start our hike.
Unfortunately when we got there, the road to Tenaya Lake was closed due to the fires… so change of plans…
We decided to stop at Bridalveil Falls and explore that area since it was on the way into the valley…
There was nearly no water left coming down the falls so we were able to climb all the way into the base of the waterfall!
Nick ventured into the icy cold waters
We also stopped to get some food Nadia really seemed to enjoy…
Then met up with Eric and Angie to hike around Mirror Lake… which was also completely dry!
On the hike I found this squirrel who was lit just perfectly by a ray of sun that broke through the trees above…
On our way back to Curry Village, we encountered some deer near the campgrounds…
It was interesting that we saw more deer here than during our Half Dome hike. All the hikers must have scared the deer away from the trails 
.
We also encountered some assholes who decided to litter beer cans all over the ground… so Nick heroically ran to recycle them
Then we took a nice drive up to the top of Glacier Point where we got a good view of Half Dome.
There were some pretty amazing views from up there and we even packed an awesome dinner Nadia made for us to enjoy with the scenery!
The next day we began our hike before the sun rose… at 5 am, we left Curry Village.
Amazingly, even the Mist trail was dry…
It was freezing once we got up to Nevada Falls… I think the temperature was in the 50’s or 40’s!
After many more hours of hiking, we were close… nearly to the top!
We then stopped for lunch and rested up our feet for the long hike up the stairs…
and then up the cables…
a super steep climb, nearly 60 degrees maybe at some points.
But we finally made it to the top!
And stood on inspiration point…
And jumped some more….
We even saw a man in a Kilt on top of Half Dome!
Then it was time to go down…
Almost a straight plunge down…
Better not let go
After making it back down, we hiked to Nevada Falls…
where we cooled off our feet in the awesome water…
and filled up our water bottles….
and jumped some more…
then we continued our journey back down…
By the time we got back, it was already dark… so we started hiking before the sun rose and got back after the sun set. It was an epic hike that took over 12 hours climbing over 5000ft in approximately 16 miles.
The next day we had anticipated rafting, but since there’s hardly any water left in the river… that was closed for the season. We ended up touring the awesome architecture of the Ahwahnee Hotel and then hitting the rocks at Bridalveil Falls again.
And alas, it was time to say goodbye to the beautiful place and drive on home!
All these photos and more are in this slideshow below and in this set on
Flickr:
ACM Banquet Center Pieces
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009
I had fun making these 
… roses and gold fish!
Documenting your life in 24 frames.
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in My Projects, Photography, Uncategorized on May 16, 2009
I found this really cool project called A Million Little Pictures: Documentary (http://arthousecoop.com/projects/amlp/about). Basically, you sign up… they send you a disposable camera… and you’re supposed to document your life in 24 photos. Which leads me to think… if I were to document my life in 24 photos… what would I take pictures of?
Remember the Milk
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008
I was looking for a simple GTD app I could host myself, eventually modify a little to integrate with my Google Cal and sync with my phone… but I have come across something far better! Remember the Milk (RTM) is a simple yet robust webapp which synchronizes with gCal and iCal. The basic account is free but for $25 a year, the pro account allows you to sync with MilkSync.
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Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008
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