WATCH: Arapahoe Basin Wipe Out

It was shaping up to be a normal day of shredding that funky pow pow at A Basin. But suddenly, Grant decided to shoulder plow the mountain and dislocate his shoulder.

Welcome to 2035: The Age of Surprise – Video I produced for the Air Force CSAT

I produced this video for the U.S. Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology, as part of its annual study about strategy and air power in the future.

CSAT will use the video in its presentation about the accelerating progression of technology toward the singularity.  The singularity is the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human superintelligene through the combination of biology and technology – artificial intelligence.

WATCH: Joe & Andy’s Flat Tire Adventure

Joe and Andy were planning an innocent Denver Cruiser ride to the Circle of Death to drink beer. But a flat tire sends their night tail spinning out of control.

Will Joe fix his tire? Will Andy stop asking questions? Or will the two of them run out of beer?

Find out in this chilling documentation of “Joe & Andy’s Flat Tire Adventure.”

VIDEO: Mizzou Rep. Stephen Webber goes on crazy rant against the Jayhawks

Update: My video is now featured in the Huffington Post, along with Rep. Stephen Webber’s response.

Missouri politicians went nuts this week protesting the idea of Missouri issuing Jayhawk license plates.

A bipartisan team of Missouri lawmakers passed legislation aimed at blocking the measure, which will go to Governor Jay Nixon next Wednesday.

But that didn’t stop them from embarrassing themselves first. And nothing entertains Jayhawk fans more than a bunch of uneducated Mizzou fans tripping over their lack of evidence for why Missouri isn’t a waste of America’s oxygen.

Rep. Stephen Webber delivered the best performance of the week with a belligerent rant about how much he secretly loves KU and wishes he could support a team that wins actual championships.

“Like generations of Missourians before us, we face an incursion from the west,” Webber shouted with the confident voice of a wasted frat bro who left his keys at a strip club. “It will be repulsed. This is the effort to affix the dreaded, disgusting Jayhawks symbol to our Missouri license plates.”

Instead of going through the process of breaking down the stupidity of his directionless monologue, I decided to let Napoleon Dynamite demonstrate what Mizzou fans really sound like to Jayhawk Nation. Below is what happens when you elect a Mizzou fan to humiliate your society.

Correction: When I originally produced this video, I thought Webber was a Senator because that’s what the 610 dudes called him on the radio.  By the time I realized this mistake, I already had so many views that I didn’t want to take it down and start my viewership over.  So my empty, selfish greed for views outweighed my journalistic integrity.  Luckily, it doesn’t really matter because he shouldn’t be either one.

Correction 2: Yahoo! Sports reported this weekend that Webber isn’t even a Missouri graduate – he went to Saint Louis University – which actually makes sense because even Missouri fans do not wish to go to Missouri.

VIDEO: The History of Facebook in Less Than 90 Seconds

I produced this video for Jon Loomer, a marketing expert who specializes in helping organizations leverage Facebook to drive their business goals.

The idea was to animate a fast-moving timeline that built up into a tower in  a way that illustrates how rapidly Facebook is constantly evolving.  I chose the music because I thought it reflected sort of a Tetris vibe.

Check out Jon Loomer’s Facebook page for more information about how he can help your business leverage Facebook.

Ocean’s 12 PhotoShopped into Andy’s 26

My birthday is coming up in a few days and I designed this image for the Facebook event page.  I thought it looked cool enough to showcase on my blog, so check it out.  I PhotoShopped my best friends who are coming to visit from Kansas on to the faces of the characters of the Ocean’s 12 movie poster.

PhotoShop Version

Original Version

Why Stoney’s is the best KU bar in Denver

Stoney’s is Allen Fieldhouse West. You will never find a better KU bar in Colorado than this magical parallel universe of Jayhawk energy vibrations.

I don’t normally write reviews, but every experience I’ve had at Stoney’s has been so perfect, they deserve to be recognized by Jayhawk Nation as the standard for how all KU alumnae bars should operate.

From start to finish, Stoney’s Bar & Grill, located at 11th and Lincoln, embodies the ultimate Jayhawk bar experience. They orchestrate the “Crimson and the Blue” fight songs, they run contests for people to win front-row seats on couches, their bartenders, bouncers and servers all wear Jayhawk gear, their menus offer Jayhawk drink specials and KU fans from all over Denver congregate to form the ultimate holy sanctuary of Jayhawk pride.

Even the bar itself reeks of pure awesomeness. The walls are decked out in snowboards and skis (and plenty of KU memorabilia). You can play beer pong, bean bag toss and Skee-ball. Their drink specials are always great. And every time you go, you’ll see the new hottest girl you’ve ever seen in your life.

The first day I moved to Denver, I went to Stoney’s for one of those preseason “beat the crap of a no-name team” games. They treated it like it was the Big 12 Championship. When their main projector malfunctioned, they handed out tickets for people to get free food and drinks for the next game.

Choppers, from what I understand, is the competing KU bar. But friends have told me it lost all credibility after a Florida game competed for TV space with a major KU game. Stoney’s understands nothing can ever compete with a KU game – we are college basketball.

If you’re a local Denverite looking for a place to watch a KU game, Stoney’s will make you feel proud to be a Jayhawk.

Below is some footage from Saturday’s storybook-ending victory against Mizzou. The celebration was the reaction to T Rob stuffing that dude to bring KU into overtime, and eventually win the Civil War for the North, once and for all.

And here’s the pregame at Stoney’s.

And while we’re on the subject, Missouri has still won “NO CHAMPIONSHIPS OF ANY KIND!!!”