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Dude, pass the ‘nip.
How about if I pass out insteazzzzzzzzzz…
Why did no one offer us the ‘nip? We are not amused.
You ever get the feeling everyone else is at party you weren’t invited to?
All the time, dude, all the time.
Is my head wet, or is that just you?
First, this awesomeness is a thing:
Now, let me explain. This weekend my friend Kyle Cassidy was in town for the 50th birthday of another friend, the Fabulous Lorraine Garland. Kyle is a fantastic professional photographer and always up for doing cool and silly stuff involving pictures. I’ve been wanting to get him together with my photographer/geologist friend and frequent co-conspiritor Matt Kuchta for ages. I figured this was a perfect time, and since both of them had been hoping to meet at some point too, it was a low risk, low effort plan.
With some back and forth on twitter it was decided to go with high speed video madness rather than straight up photography—Matt and another friend, Todd Zimmerman, both work in my wife’s physics department and have been doing some amazing work with an incredible high-speed video camera that the department bought for the doing of SCIENCE. Kyle’s really liked what he’s seen on that front and wanted to check out the cool toy. Add in another friend, Dill Hero, husband of yet another friend, Joan of Dark—both also up for Fablor’s birthday—some quick thinking, and Castle Gaiman as a backdrop and you get SCIENCE + ART + SILLINESS with Matt and Todd behind the camera, and Kyle, Dill, and me in front of it.
The end result is Snow-Motion Science*
(click on space above if video doesn’t appear immediately)
*Linked for those who can’t see the embedded video.
I have one more picture of Cabal to post and it’s one of the most important as it shows him
doing what he loved most in all the world—adoring his Neil.
Cabal was my friend Neil Gaiman’s dog. Cabal was also my friend, and we shared a
lot of adventures over the last few years. He died yesterday. I will miss him dearly.
I took a ton of pictures of Cabal because he was beautiful and a great heart and because
I knew that Neil would be happier on the road if he could see Cabal happy too and that’s
what you do for friends. I’m putting some of my favorites here. This is part one of three.
