Garrett Butcher Short Recap Vid HD Version HERE! from Adam Butcher HDV | ETC on Vimeo.
Old video… figured I’d upload it… Few, BIG, hi-lite clips from Garrett Butcher’s junior and senior year at Edgewood High School.
Garrett now plays for the Butler Bulldogs in Indianapolis! :]
Music- The Game : Aint Sayin Nothin
As a few of you have already heard, a drunk driver hit my girlfriend, her brother and me a few Saturdays ago. It was quite a trip.
We were driving on this old country road (Old State Road 37), out in the middle on nowhere, coming back from a party. The road is really curvy and hilly… and we were approaching the top of a hill. So we get about 100 yards from the top and this lady pops up in our lane coming straight at us… 50-60ish mph the cops predicted. And so she’s hauling ass straight for us, right… so we slow way down, around 40ish probably. We start to head to the left lane to avoid her… and go figure, she comes back into her lane. So we kind of pull off into the grass a little, back into our lane… and she pulls straight for us in the grass…. so we are like… oh shit what do we do, ya know’ (this lady is TRYING to hit us)? The next thing we know, glass is flying all around, the car is half spun around, and my girlfriend is screaming to get her out of the car. I then proceeded to drag her out of the car, which, haha, I think he seat belt was still on (yea, everyone had seatbelts on and all airbags deployed).
The other lady however, refused to get out of the car and was looking for her groceries. Come to find out, she didn’t have any groceries in the car at all… just a bottle of pills in her hand. Her “story” was that she had dropped her cig and was trying to find it… after she sobered up in jail.
God was definitely with us that night, I have no doubt. The paramedics were basically in shock that no one died, they said it was reeeeeeeeeaally miraculous that we were more or less fine, because when they get called to a wreck like this, its usually for the worst. The hospital even had three trauma rooms set up. There was like 10 cops, couple fire truck things, and few ambulances.
I’ll keep everyone posted on any news I find out this week about this ordeal….
Edgewood Mustangs vs Sullivan Golden Arrows from Adam Butcher HDV | ETC on Vimeo.
Short video I made of the Edgewood vs Sullivan game, 61-37.
I tried to stay away from the “macho” hi-lite this time, using a more of an ambient song. The team had recently lost a father and had been going through a lot so I wanted to bring something a little more humble to the plate.
Testing out a few new camera settings and color corrections in the process.
Filmed with a Sony HDR-FX1, 1/500 shuttter, .7 wide Sony angle… and white balance accordingly.
Hope this turned out decent… hard to make a football hi-lite not seem, like I said… “macho” hah… enjoy!
B.E. STRONG!
Budweiser, the king of beers, had announced quite some time ago Budweiser American Ale was coming. This American Ale ($7/6-pack) is supposed to be, HA, half way decent… with a rich amber color and BIG flavor. “Budweiser American Ale has the full-bodied taste profile of the amber ale style, yet is remarkably smooth and balanced,” said Eric Beck, brewmaster for Budweiser American Ale. “It’s an ale that’s distinctly American in character, and the result is a beer both traditional lager and craft beer drinkers can enjoy.” Anyhow, Budweiser American Ale is now available nationwide on draught, and in bottles on the 29th.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be sticking to my Sierra Nevda, Three Floyds, and Red Seal Ales… But, give this a shot. You?
Edgewood Mustangs host the Owen Valley Patriots, 12th September 2008. Homecoming week… Mustangs erupt for 28 straight points to pull away for 49-26 win.
Short little video I made from the Edgewood Mustang vs Owen Valley Patriots game last week. The reason it is solely Edgewood is because I’ve been filming Josh Collier (for a season hi-lite) individually (along with others on big plays).
Pink Floyd (my favorite band ever) keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died, aged 65, from cancer.
Wright appeared on the group’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.
Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the group shortly afterwards.
Gilmour said: “He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him.”
Writing on his website, he added: “And that’s a lot of people. Did he not get the loudest, longest round of applause at the end of every show in 2006?”
Wright’s spokesman said in a statement: “The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer.
“The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.”
He did not say what form of cancer the self-taught keyboard player and pianist had.
Live 8
Wright, a founder member of The Pink Floyd Sound - and other previous incarnations including Sigma 6 - met Waters and Mason at architecture school.
Pink Floyd achieved legendary status with albums including 1973’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, which stayed in the US album chart for more than a decade.
Wright, known as Rick earlier in his career, wrote The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them from the album.
Waters left the band in 1981, performing his last concert at London’s Earls Court.
Wright, together with Gilmour and Mason, continued to record and tour as Pink Floyd during the remainder of the 1980s and into the 1990s, releasing their last studio album - The Division Bell - in 1994.
In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park.
Wright also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour’s 2006 solo album On An Island, while performing with his touring band in shows in Europe and the US.
via BBC News
As most of you know, I have started to neglect my blog due to various other projects which, thank God, I’m about done with. Right now, I’m working full steam on a site for a clothing company out of L.A. called Newestra. The site has been more than the average… set up the wordpress blog, mod a few things, and its done. I’ve needed to code over 1000 pages of php code, customize the wordpress loop to fit seamlessly into the sites custom design, and all while making sure everything is 100% legit as people will be spending thousands of dollars on this site. A very close, and highly respected friend of mine, Robert Afnani and I have been working on developing a sunglasses forum site, which will, without a doubt… rule the sunglasses online scene. Rob and I have also discussed numerous other sites, which… just like all these sneaker sites, will dominate. I also have been working on a few other sites, which have already launched… and I plan to discuss those later… its still too soon to spill the beans about them.
Anyhow, as you check the blog and see nothing posted… I want to share a few sites which I check daily to keep up on current news, knowledge, and design. Enjoy.
Most everyone has heard of digg these days.. If you haven’t you have been living under a rock. Digg features hot news from alike. All you have to do is sign up, login, and submit any story you wish (under a few simple guidelines). You’ll start to notice, a lot of sites try and cop content fresh on digg… heck’ I’ve even seen my local paper feature stuff digg has days ago, and deny they are late on the news.
If you’re an Apple fan, you’ve been to TUAW. The Unofficial Apple Weblog features some of the hottest most fresh news about Apple on the web. From the iPhone, iMac, to artist renderings about concept products… TUAW usually has it first!
I feel, not to be cocky, I’m on of those people who tends to judge a book by its cover. When I stumble upon a site and its looks like someone just took a dump on it, ha… I’m closing that tab as fast as I opened it. Thanks to Smashing Magazine, I can design/implement better (still suck) than I once thought was possible. This site features tutorials of all kinds to get you rollin’. Graphics, fonts, themes… etc, you need it… they got it!
Uncrate is one of those sites, all men love. I mean, who doesn’t want a 6 Gallon Beverage Dispenser. It also one of those sites, that make you feel as if you need every product they offer (well done guys!) and you tend to waste money you wouldn’t have spent otherwise. Either way, sites awesome… if you’re bored… check it out!
I LOOOOOOVE gadgets, who doesn’t, right? Ha, I have a lot of gadgets around my room, half of which I should sell on ebay and buy other stuff. Engadget is a one of a kind site that brings you news about every type gadget imaginable. Unlike TUAW, engadget covers a wide variety of brands… half of which you will see featured on digg, reddit, slashdot, etc… check it out!
John Chow (some love some hate, he seems to be an o—–k guy)
Sneaker Files (if its sneaker related… they have it first)
Yanko Design (Modern Industrial Design News aka… awesome stuff)
The Real BWS (ha, F MTV, soulja boy, and 50 snitch… this is where rap is)
The Pirate Bay (who doesn’t?)
Sorry for such the long pause without any posts, I’ve been extremely busy with school and other things. On top of school, I have about five other internet projects going, some of which you might have already seen. I’m filming a weeding next weekend, so be on the lookout for a little teaser of that. Not to mention, GTA IV is out, which takes A LOT of time, LOL!
Till the next post, keep your eyes out for more 3G iPhone news, I think I need to get one of those and trade the old in… check it out.
Well here’s an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them. They follow what we know so far about the shape, size and color of the upcoming 3G iPhone, and while there’s always the possibility of knockoff, a Photoshop job, or some other evil plot to mislead us, we’re certainly not going to discount these shots entirely in the runup to iPhone’s second coming.
Update: Some commenters have pointed out that the size and shape of this phone bares a striking resemblance to LG’s Vu. As we said up above, we’re not ruling out some handy editing work here.
via EnGadget.com
Boys’ basketball
Add Indiana All-Star to Butcher’s list
Monroe County’s all-time leading scorer first from Edgewood named to team
by Lynn Houser 331-4381 | lhouser@heraldt.com
April 20, 2008
As a kid dreaming about a high school basketball career, Garrett Butcher made out a list of things he wanted to accomplish.
He wanted to lead Edgewood to places it had never been before.
Check.
He wanted to become the school’s all-time leading scorer.
Check.
He wanted to get a college scholarship.
Check.
He wanted to become an Indiana All-Star.
Check and mate.
As of today, Butcher is a member of the Indiana All-Star team that will play Kentucky in the annual series in June. Although Monroe County has been represented by 21 other players in the 70-year history of the series, Butcher is the first Edgewood player, boy or girl, to receive the honor.
“This is a huge accomplishment for any Indiana high school basketball player,” he said.
Having attended several Indiana- Kentucky All-Star games as a kid, Butcher can’t wait to put on an Indiana uniform June 13 in Indianapolis. He gets to do it again June 15 in Louisville. The series has been compressed to a single weekend this year. “It’s going to be a weird feeling to put that jersey on and think about the people throughout history who put it on,” Butcher said. “It’s good to be put in that class.”
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