Watching Jurassic Park 2

That is how bored I am. I haven't seen this film since I went with Dan Givens to the Debut in 1997. I may have only been like 14 but even then I recognized the stupidity of this film. So why am I watching it now? Because it's Sunday and Marieta is out shopping for our Hawaii tripand I have nothing to do but digitize the Brian Hogan archive. I fixed my bike tire earlier but now I'm pretty much bored out of my mind. I think it may be time to get out of this place and go for a bike ride.

HOpe your weekend is sugary sweet. Au revoir.

An Iowegan July

Yesterday was my one month anniversary at CRI. Good times. I've had a handful of stuff on air, been working intermittently on revamping the CRI site, and I'd like to think I've become an integral part of the lunch committee. My seat on the board of lunch-resentatives is still probationary but I think I've proved my worth...


Oh Iowa, this is my third time embracing you as a citizen and you have not let me down. We've been busy with old friends, making new ones, taking adventures around Des Moines, and even christened our wedding gifted tent last weekend at Backbone state park. T'was a good time. check out this video:

Camping @ BackBone State Park from Patryck Boberg on Vimeo.

And now fourth of July is upon us! It should be pretty sweet. Friday the 3rd I'm golfing with my grade school buds Wags and Elliot, Friday night Marieta and I are getting together with the soon to be wed Nick and Leslie, and Saturday... oh boy am I excited. I'm running a 5k with Jordan followed by a day of fun at his Father-in-law Scott's place. Scott is homebrew guy and some sort of big beer guy in the midwest. When Marieta and I were first dating we'd occasionally be over there and Scott would always have something new and tasty for us to sample. Good times.

So if I can figure out how to do it, expect a video of my run. Maybe a time lapse or something... If I can't get that together, than definitely some footage of the rest of my weekend. Hope your Independence day is rockin. Peace.

It's Never Too Late To Love

And by love I mean post pictures of something that happened a couple weeks ago.

These be the best pics . If you want to see them individually click on the slideshow. There will be a nice long video to check out but it wont be posted till probably the end of the week. Time to go, David Duchovny is on Conan.

Oh and incase you never saw it. Here's what went down in Sparks, NV.

In The Words of Dicky Barrett...

"Where did ya go?" Oh Me, that's right, Iowa. I forgot to let you in on the whole update from the road and whatnot. There are plenty of pictures and I took quite a bit of video. I will post all that goodness but for now... it's sleepy time. Nighty night.

Wedding Dress by the Beach

Since the day we got married Marieta has been itching to take pictures in her dress on the California Beach. Well eight months later she got her wish. We drove up and around the Marin Headlands taking pictures and video. It was pretty cool time. We didn't take a thousand pictures but I think we took some good ones. It also helps that while I was running back and forth between being in the frame and the tripod a nice couple with a really nice XLR camera asked if he could help. His pics look great. Its funny how you never notice what you're missing in resolution quality until you have two samples of pics sitting side by side. The dude said he had never taken any wedding pics before but was pretty big into photography. I am so thankful he helped us out. He gave me his card and incase you're looking to redesign your kitchen clicky here. Maybe Mr. Bhargava can help you out.

I'm having a good time messing with photoshop. These pics are pretty prime for messing around. I can't tell if what I'm doing really improves the pictures but hey it's fun to toy with em. Check these out...

Original...

Colorized...

Original...

Stylized...

So yeah I'm mainly toying around but I've been learning on my own in my spare time so... I think I'm coming along.

While taking these pics we also shot some video. In fact we have a lot video from recent adventures that haven't been posted. It'll all get up on our family website eventually but in a different form... I'm putting together a big ole piece on our time in California. We've only been here for a couple years but we've actually done quite a bit... I wish we had one more year. We didn't get to Mendocino, Yosemite, Tahoe... NEXT TIME! I'm not saying we're definitely moving back here but we definitely want to get back west someday. Bay Area? maybe. Portland? that would be cool. Seattle? I'm listening. It'll happen folks. Marieta and I can't sit in the same place for too long. Life is too short and we both need adventure.

Okay so check back within the next week for or two for a big ole piece on how the Boberg's did California! Peace