Archive for November, 2009

Unimoon: Unicycling in Africa

There are three versions of the video – pick the size you want to download below.

In the video: Unicyclists: Nathan Hoover, Corbin Dunn, Louise Lovelle, Geoffrey Huntley, Matt from Australia, Matthew Wagner, John from Escape Adventures. Recumbent rider: Grace Fleming. Cook: Tarn. Driver: Joseph. Bikes: Sara, Tom, Eleanor.

You Tube version: Africa Unimoon on YouTube

Ring Tailed Lemur in Tree

HDR from three exposures. Taken on 7/29/09 12:00pm. ISO 100, f/6.3, 100mm.

Louise and I were treated to seeing a TON of lemurs in Isalo Park, Madagascar. This guy was sitting up in a tree and holding still enough for me to capture three shots and create a subtle HDR. The non-HDR version doesn’t look as vibrant as this one.

This was a great little oasis at Isalo Park in Madagascar. The area was called “Piscine Natural”.

HDR from three exposures. f/22, ISO 100

I machined out one ounce out of each of my KH Moment 125/150mm cranks. I went with a big pocket, just like what I did for Joseph’s cranks. Hopefully they won’t break!

I also tried my geared KH 36 coker out with the 125 mm crank holes. It feels like it takes a lot of power to keep the thing moving at a basic pace (like 15 mph). But, they really scream for slight downhills and probably add 1 mph to my speed (or more on steeper downhills — I was pushing 24 mph without any effort on one downhill). I’ll probably switch back to 150s, since climbing is a lot harder with 125s and there are a lot of hills around where I live.

I just finished another project: the Aerial Cube.

Louise and I saw the cube at a circus show last week, and I thought “Hey, I could make one of those!”, and Louise asked “Can you make me one of those?”. So, here it is!

The cube is made out of 1″ tubing that is 1/8″ thick. I bought it at a local metal place – “Sims Metals”.

I cut 45’s with my little Grizzly horizontal bandsaw:

And drilled+tapped some holes into a piece of steel to create a jig to hold the tubes at 90 degrees:

And then welded two separate squares together:

I then notched the four connecting pieces with a 1″ end mill so they would fit “fairly well”. I then MIG welded all the corners together, holding it together with a ratcheting wrap to keep it square. I then sanded it a bit…which got my hands a little dirty.

Massai Girl in an East African Village

6/25/09, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100, 200mm