Prost! Portland Oregon

A buddy of mine, from my adventures in Eugene, has opened a Bar in Portland, called Prost! Prost is located on the corner of Mississippi and Skidmore in North Portland. PROST is a cool new German bar that serves traditional German food and has 10 taps of German beer served in the appropriate glassware. The building and the bar itself were well done with beautiful wood tables and bar. The food I thought was good, had a brat sandwich and a pretzel, which hit the spot, and the fact that you can bring in food from the surrounding food carts if you order a beer from them, is really unique for a bar/restaurant to offer.

Fun fact: the tables and benches on the patio came direct from Oktoberfest '08 in Munich. (Via Yelp)

here are some pics from my adventure. Wish I had more to show you, just means you are goin to have to check it out yourself!

Photosimile 5000

Ortery Technologies has released Photosimile 5000, a PC-controlled desktop photography studio that integrates a 28 x 28 x 28” light box with a Canon SLR cameraand powerful workflow software to simplify and automate business photography. The device features 6500K bulbs, an automated camera positioning system and built-in turntable that holds up to 25lbs. The camera and light box connect to a PC via USB. Photosimile 5000 software controls the studio, camera location, turntable movement, camera settings, picture taking and processing workflows. Simply place an item inside, compose using Preview, Zoom and Crop commands in the software. Click Snap and the picture automatically downloads to the PC screen in seconds, Ortery claims. Additionally, Ortery Real3D, included in Photosimile 5000 for image composition, creates full spherical, hemispherical and cylindrical animations with mouse control, image tagging and deep zoom capabilities to 14X, with the resulting product animations being allegedly comparable to interacting with the physical product. Photosimile 5000 runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. The press release makes no mention of the price, but don’t expect the Photosimile 5000 to be cheap.

Via: Photography Blog

Pretty sweet idea. I am interested in using one of theses, or seeing it in action.

Bucket List

The past couple days now, the talk at the house has mostly been the disagreement about Avatar. ha ha But other than that the talk has been all about what we each want on our bucket lists. For those that don't get it, what we want to do before we pass away list. There have been some interesting ideas that have popped up, but so far my fav I think is snorkeling the great barrier reef!

What are some of yours? Have you even thought about it? We started to type ours out so we don't forget! Do it, see what you come up with.

Be yourself and stay up

Damon Williams

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Ben Hucke from Sputnic BMX on Vimeo.

Ben Hucke

Ben Hucke Interview - More BMX Videos

Grew up wit this dude, he was always riding while we were kids, good to see he is killin it.