Hardcore set from 2007

Here is a set I did at otherworld in 2007. The edits are really rough, and off in a lot of places. But, big thanks to Ray and crew for filming and putting the time in to splice it all together. It sill gives a feel for the show, even though it's not perfectly synch'd.

Yes, it's pretty hard. =)

Ed Colmar at Otherworld 12/11/07 from Ed Colmar on Vimeo.

As a side story... The pioneer mixer that is in almost every shot... Well, it kinda fell apart during sound check. The crossfader came disconnected and dropped into the housing of the mixer. Of course, there were no spare mixers to use, so Dave took the whole thing apart and attached the crossfader. During one of the breaks, you can hear Dave explaining to the dude who owned the mixer that he "used the utmost care" in repairing it.

Climbing wall phases 1-3

Wood and fencing arrive.



Painting the first round of panels results in cool patterns on plastic.



Sunset on day 1, from the back porch.



First round of holds arrive.

Let me just stress. When they say So ILL what they mean to say is SO F*%CKING ILL!!!! These guys have just been a pleasure to deal with, with probably the best customer support I have gotten with any company, ever. Not to mention the holds. Great stuff. Big ups.



First panel goes up on the 45 degree wall



Second panel on the 45 degree wall



THA BRAIN!!!!111







Drilling and cutting the remaining panels.



Panels ready for priming and painting.



The evil tape measure. It tried to kill us. Many times. Seriously.




Vertical wall section going up.



More holds arrive.





Vertical wall section complete.



Stacks of panels for the roof section.



Two roof sections installed



We were a bit off in our original measurements. But it was mostly due to the irregularity of the deck.




Another great sunset off the porch.



Testing out the roof problems.

Green Graphics blog

I just put up a blog to document the design and print work at my employer, Green Graphics

We will be posting images of the newest and best materials to come off the press, and to go up on the web.

GG official blog

The Grand Tour!

Well, more like a quick walk through.

Moving In

Matter and I, before we started unloading the truck



BIG garage. We could have unloaded the entire truck into here.



After the unload we fired up the teeny grill on the porch. It is strangely named the "Party Cooker" but can only really handle a party of 2.

Silver City NM

For a lot of reasons which I won't go into here, I moved to Silver City NM.



On the road. Monday was 9 hours into Palm Springs. Tuesday was an aweful 13 hours, due to a highway closure.



The view off my back porch.



Macro shot of a cactus growing in the backyard.



Amazing cloud formations. What do you see?



Exploring the backyard... Lots of deer poop. Lots of space to grow food. Going to have to find a way to reconcile these.



Hawk laying down the law. GTFO!



Sunset power line view from the backyard.



Hawk showing us the way back up.

Google App Engine, I love you.

I started coding in python like 12 years ago, within the zope environment. It was for a project called StarRave. It was designed to replace the thousands of websites like "midwest raves" "sf raves" etc. It did end up getting deployed on several servers, but did not get adopted widely. It was a great project to dive head first into python.

I've been coding inside zope ever since. With great results.

About a year ago, Telly, Joshua, and Chris all started working on me to try django. After a few months of resistance, I gave in, and started to install and configure it. The install and configuration was a nightmare. I had to install python, django, mysql, and apache across 3 different machines, all with isolated environment vars. It did not go well.

After 2 weeks of consistent effort, I finally got all 3 machines working, and sharing the codebase over SVN. I kept working in django for another few weeks, until I finally abandoned it when Todd needed to get at the source. He was going to have to go through all of the same installation and configuration headache to get his dev environment working. We went back to zope, and finished the project in there.

This past weekend, I went looking for a server solution for my next project. I wanted something running in the cloud, that was distributed and scalable, and hopefully python.

I found Google App Engine.

Following this great django how-to I had a django instance running inside a windows local app engine server in less than 5 minutes. I had SVN connected and an install on a mac running 5 minutes later. No mysql, no apache, no configuration. Just a cute installer and a command line.

I'm just getting back into django, but this is the way. It has completely removed the installation headache, and has so many inherent bonuses that it's just amazing.

It is one of those days where I am completely struck with the awesomeness that is google.

/win