Let's Go Rangers!

Caught a Rangers game in Madison Square Garden last Saturday. I love watching hockey games. They're so graceful yet so violent, kind of like going to a fight. haha.

The Rangers weren't playing that well against the Penguins. They were down 0-2 halfway into the 3rd period. The Rangers' coach Brendan Shanahan was hospitalized the previous night from an on ice collision, and I think that the Rangers just didn't have the will to play hard. But Rangers fans are so die hard supportive that none of them left even when there was only minutes left of the game and there was no hope in sight for victory. Honestly, that's the real reason to attend a game in the Garden, the energy of the fans is incredible.

The cheers eventually kindled a fire in the Rangers, 'cause in the final moments of the game they started really taking it to the Penguins. The Rangers took around 25 shots within a few minutes, while denying their opponent any offensive opportunities. The Rangers finally scored their 1st point with only minutes left in the game. The crowd went ba-na-nas. The Rangers then pulled their goalie off, to get another offensive player on the ice. They went all out, attempting shot after shot after shot. Finally, they tied the game with only 8 seconds left. hahahaha. 8 seconds... 8 seconds? WTF. Everyone was on their feet screaming their heads off. Random strangers were hugging and high-fiving me. People started making out and getting naked. It was crazy in there, like an earthquake. The last goal broke the Penguin's spirit, and the Rangers pulled in an easy W in overtime. Best. Comeback. Ever.

a picture is worth a thousand keywords

Wow. An image search engine, not based on keywords nor meta-tags, but rather an algorithmic visual analysis of a picture. This Tin Eye technology is such a fresh idea. Imagine what would happen if they combined it with Sea Dragon and Photosynth. It'd be like Google Maps' street view, but instead of the Google car supplying the photos, you'd have the world's population doing it. And instead of being limited to the street, you'd be limited to whatever people happened to shoot photos of.

I'm good. I'm gone.

Man. What a cool creepy music video. The song is sort of like Lykke Li's psyching herself up to kill a dysfunctional relationship. And the video is Lykke being all cute & angsty surrounded 'roided female body building demons and dancing chanting geriatric zombies that know how to box. The girl's gotta sexy voice too.

Nooka

My buddy Matt just released a new promo vid for his Nooka watch line. He was supposed to throw an awesome party to celebrate the premiere, but he didn't. What the hell man? Anyways, check it out!

300

For the past 3 weeks, I've been playing a game. Every day, I try to get to 100 push ups consecutively. I started out at 50 in a row, and I tacked on an additional 5 every day or so.

55, 65, 70, 75, 80, etc...

I count the push ups in my head to conserve energy. And I usually divide everything into sets of 10, so I don't get overwhelmed by the numbers, like this:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 20
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 30
etc.

Tonight, I got up to 99 push ups in a row. Or 99.5 if you count my half push up at the end. haha.
I think that subconsciously I didn't want to hit 100 yet, so that I can play the game again tomorrow. Ha.

I told my neighbor Carl about it. And he said he's been doing push ups everyday too. Pretty funny coincidence. Actually, he told me he read my gchat status the other day when I proudly posted that I got up to 75 push ups in a row, and he started doing them too. He got up to 80 non stop tonight.

Carl said that 100 consecutive push ups is not that many, and that we should be able to do at least 300 in row. He challenged me to get to 300 push ups continuously by this December. He'll do it too. So that gives us roughly 5 weeks. We'd have to tack on about 10 push ups every day or 2.

300, huh? At first I thought, "Wow. 300 sounds like a lot!" But Carl put it in perspective by showing me the World Records for push ups:

• non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (JAP), Oct 1980
• one year: 1,500,230; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989
• 24 hours: 46,001; Charles Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia
  (new record claim, not yet verified: Jeffrey Warrick (USA), 46300)
• 1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988
  
• 30 minutes: 2,354; Rolf Heck (GER), 13 Nov 2000
• 10 minutes (women): 426; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Rekord-Klub SAXONIA Record Festival in Schwedt, 2 Sept 1995
• 5 minutes: 441; Giuseppe Cusano (GBR), Loftus Road Soccer Stadium at the Fulham v. Portsmouth game on 24 Nov 2003
• 3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplová (TCH), Record Festival Pelhrimov 1995

Ok. 300 is nothing.

Let's GO.


EDIT:
Push Up Log.

October 20, 2008 - 99 push ups
October 21, 2008 - 106 push ups
October 22, 2008 - 115 push ups
October 23, 2008 - 131 push ups
October 28, 2008 - 152 push ups
October 31, 2008 - 150 push ups
November 4, 2008 - 153 push ups
November 6, 2008 - 155 push ups

Hmmm. I seem to be getting stuck around 150. I need to figure out a new approach to this.
Getting drunk every other night of election week probably isn't helping much either.

Nicola Sander: Here I Am

Originally a hurdler, Nicola Sander's overcame heartbreak and injury, and has risen to become a formidable sprinter and a Beijing hopeful. Among her many accolades, she won silver in the 2007 World Championships and became European Indoor Champion, both in the 400 metres. Last August she was also named British Woman Athlete of the Year. She says her strength has always come from maintaining her sense of humour and listening to her body.

I needed this.

Things are going ok. I shot some promo images for a Nike and Rockstar games collaboration last week. And Redbull energy drink contacted my agent this week to see if I am available to shoot for them. Its cool that Redbull actually sought me out, instead of the other way around. That feels good.

My social life isn't so hot lately. I haven't been able to hang with friends or go out in a long time. But recently my schedule started to clear up. I took Friday off. I slept in until 3pm. haha. Then I woke up, grabbed some tea. And walked around Brooklyn to catch the rest of the sun, and generally nice weather. Crisp.

Later that night, I caught a "Kills" show in Williamsburg on N. 6th and Kent with Amy. Gotta say it, "The Kills" are awesome live. I love how minimal their presentation is. Just two vocalists, and two guitars / bass. No band. With drum beats played via DJ. These two killers have amazing stage presence. Their energy is so animalistic. They kind of slosh, spin and prowl around the stage in perfect sync with one another. And they're so sexy, without ever trying too hard. In fact, they're effortless.

Alison "VV" Mosshart was sick, with a cold. She was spitting on the floor pretty often through out their set. It looked really hot, in a dirty rockstar kind of way (but it was just phlegm). Her respiratory issues prevented her from singing to her full potential. So even though I enjoyed the show, I feel the need to catch them again so I can see them really tear it down.



Afterwards, Amy left to go to a birthday party, and I chilled with a couple friends in L.E.S. I also met up with some old Tekken buddies to get some games in. Then I headed back to Brooklyn around 4:00am. At which point, my boy P called me up asking if I wanted to grab a drink. I said "No, but I could go for some breakfast." Haha. So we met up in Park Slope, at an all night bagel place, "Bagel Town"! Yes. And ate some food and caught up. He had his skateboard with him, and wanted to skate around Brooklyn. I didn't have anything but my feet. But I was down to stroll around again. So we walked around Park Slope and Fort Greene for the next couple hours 'till sunrise, then went back to his crib to watch a documentary on Marc Jacobs + Louie Vuitton. Marc's an interesting guy for sure. You could definitely learn a thing or two from seeing him in action. Then around 8am, I went home, and passed the fuck out.

I just woke up. Its 7pm, the next day (Saturday night). About 5 minutes after I woke up, my business partner called me saying he has an extra ticket to the Missy Elliot show at Nokia theater tonight. Haha. "Sure", I said. So I'm about to hit that up. But I really need gym time after all these shinanigans. So I'm gonna hit the gym (2 blocks away. Yesss) And do some shoulder excercises. Then fast shower. Then the Missy show. Then I should really go home, and try to sleep early, so I can rejoin the real world tomorrow (hopefully).