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Today I finished creating the first episode of one of my new projects, Sports Awesome. The show is hosted by my good friend Jarred Wood and is as ridiculous as ever. For a first go around, where we really didn’t know what we were trying to do, things worked out fairly well.

Sadly the content is a little outdated since I took quite a long time editing, but now that we have a better idea of what we are doing, things should be a bit more streamlined. We hope to start filming a second episode within the coming month.

You can check out Sports Awesome at http://www.sportsawesome.com

I have decided that this summer I will take a few of my weekends to travel around Manitoba and play on some of the many courses that are available. I started off the season in my home town of Rivers, MB at the Riverdale Golf and Country Club.

The course looks great and is off to a good start. My good friend Jarred Wood, who makes appearances in several of my videos, is the head greens keeper of the course. Naturally we gave him a hard time over not cutting the tee boxes that day.

We managed to fit in 15 holes before it became too late to continue. We would have perhaps started earlier if I hadn’t locked my keys in my car (D’oh). It took a couple holes for me to remember how to golf, but overall it was a good round. However, until I have respectable scores, I will not post them here. I have several course in mind that I would like to play this summer but I don’t know if I will make it to all of them. There are also several other projects I hope to take on this summer so with any luck there should be a steady flow of new content.

If you would like to see more photos, you can check out my Flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wesgill/

Coors Light is having a contest for 3 ‘Legendary Positions’ at this years Coors Light Maxim Golf Experience. I have entered for the position of Director of Mayhem. Badass title eh. Winners will be flown out to BC to ‘work’ at the event. The Director of Mayhem basically goes around making sure everyone is having a blast.

“Win a job? That seems like a crappy prize”

Well the way I see it, it will likely be better than whats going on around here.

So if you can find the time, please vote for me because every vote gets me one step closer to partying in BC again and of course you know there will be some awesome videos/pictures afterwards.
http://www.coorslight.ca/clbc/events/maximgolf/becomepartofthelegend/en/profile_view.aspx?profileID=687

Cheers to the nights and days I cannot remember.

This past weekend we built a decently sized jump into which we would pull a GT snoracer behind a snowmobile. It took a few tries to figure out a speed at which to hit it to make the gap however speed is not the only factor.

Being pulled on a GT behind a snowmobile itself is quite the challenge. It is incredibly difficult to hang on to a rope pulling you at great speeds and steer a machine that was designed for 12 year olds. If you were lucky enough to make it too the jump, you then had to land it.

Sadly I was unable to stick any of the large jumps. I came very close once, but came crooked off the landing and lost it shortly after. We did film the jumping, but this video will likely be archived until next year when we can get some more footage since the snow is melting rather quickly.

Photo Credit: Perry Buydens

As promised, here is the finished video of my snowboarding trip to Fernie in February. This will be the first video that I have made using Final Cut and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. This will also the first time that I’ve attempted using more complicated effects than fading in and out. I think they came out not too badly and look forward to playing around with them more in the future.

The original Fernie post can be found here: http://www.wesgill.net/2009/02/snowboarding-in-fernie-bc/

Facebook returned to its previous Terms of Use after there was much reaction from its users after a recent change. The new terms were interpreted to mean that any content uploaded to the website could be used by Facebook in anyway they felt, forever.

The changes in the terms of service had gone mostly unnoticed until Sunday, when the blog Consumerist cited them and interpreted them to mean that “anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.” – The New York Times

Facebook has an incredible amount of personal information at their hands and must be extremely careful how they use it. It is good to see that they are wanting to work with its users to make a better Facebook, but it only takes one can of worms to make a real mess.

NYTimes Article: Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information

Today I returned from a snowboarding trip to Fernie, BC through Red River College. We rode in the mountains for 3 days while staying at the Stanford Inn. There was an overnight snow the night before our last day so we did get to enjoy some powder before we left.

Snowboarding in the mountains is nothing like the hills around Manitoba and was an awesome experience. Sadly the downside to the mountains is getting there. We took over a 15 hour bus trip across the prairies for this trip, and there is NOTHING on the prairies. Many of us on the trip decided that a flight would be worth the extra cash next time around.

We stayed in a 18 person chalet, which every night had at least 50 people in it during peak party times. Surprisingly, there were no damage charges or any extra fines despite a few damaged items (coffee pot, vents, doors, etc).

Through the trip we did do some filming so there should be a video out within the next few weeks, but I may kick out some smaller clips to YouTube before then.
More photos can be found on my Flickr page