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Toshihiro Oshima (Tommy Oshima) was ever so kind to let Kai interview him with 10 questions and share with us some of his photos and videos. Read the full interview: 10 Q&A with Toshihiro Oshima - Virtuoso of Visual Creation
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Note: portrait of Tommy in the banner is taken by Masanori Miyauchi
I did an interview with Jess Gibson who is working on a "blockumentary" on the AFOL world. I also did a little blurb about my stick bug and tire octopus with Scott Decoteau and Roger Cameron of LEGO Club TV: club.lego.com/en-us/news/NewsDetails.aspx?id=125590
All three were awesome guys, I had a great time talking with them!
Groopa (l) with his co-creator Greg Kovacs (r). Groopa is the production's largest puppet. You don't want to turn your back on him.
On set during filming of an upcoming new film from Post-Life Productions, "Tasha and Friends".
Magnus Backstedt interview.
Professional since: 1996
Current team: Team Garmin – Chipotle presented by H30
He towers about the peloton. The Swedish rider is an anomaly among grand tour riders. XL shorts don't get requested much new team kit. Yet, at an astounding 93 kgs of all Viking muscle, Magnus Backstedt isn't your average Joe pro.
Born in 1975 in the small city of Linkoping, South of the Swedish capital. Cycling wasn't the first or natural calling for a Swede. Put off by long winter nights and two meters of snow he initially raced Downhill skiing for the national junior squad and started racing a bike as a way of getting fit for the ski season. Two serious crashes on the slopes and the decision was made for him and the peloton is the better for it.
We caught up with Magnus in "another really nice hotel" after a 200km stage to get his feelings about the professional the circuit at the minute:
Not a lot of bikers come out of Sweden, how do you get the training miles in, Is it lots of layers or the turbo?
I don’t live there now, but back then I had my own little set-up. I would set out on the mountain bike in the snow, went as far and as fast as I could until I was about to freeze to death, then I came back inside, did an hour-hour and a half on the turbo trainer and got warm again then went back out into the snow!
Can you talk us through the closing stages of today's stage, to give us a peek inside pro racing:
JD (Julian Dean) was on my wheel for the last five km we were just sitting behind the Columbia boys. It gets a bit dodgy with Two or Three km to go, some of the guys from the smaller teams are taking a lot of risks, heads down trying to get placed. I came up through the ranks too and I know the pressure is on to perform, but the speed and pressure are lifted again. By the final km it is fast enough, everyone who is left - should be there!
Basically, I lead JD out with 500 meters to go, and dropped him off at 200m, Cav went right and JD went left and you know the rest. As far as we are concerned we won the bunch sprint as Cav (Mark Cavendish) is in a league of his own at the minute.
You're admired both by riders and fans alike: what do you put this down to?
It is great to see people appreciate what I have done, a lot of hard work and dedication was put in to get here, but ultimately it is great to make a living from what started off as my hobby. Definitely a warm feeling.
What was your most satisfying days’ racing that you didn't podium?
Well it has to be my 4th place in Roubaix in 2005. I crashed in Gent-Wevelgem on the Wednesday before and cracked my wrist, yet on the Sunday I still managed to get into Roubaix stadium with the leaders. I couldn't hold the bars with the vibrations the day before and just about managed it. Definitely the gutsiest ride I have ever done.
So on Roubaix, your 2004 win must be a career highlight?
Yeah, I first rode the Paris Roubaix in 1998 and finished 7th, and I said to my team mate' I will win this one day'. The race is in my blood now. If I am able to pedal on that day, I will ride Roubaix; and I have had to sit a few out due to injury and that is not a nice place to be.
Do you rate Flanders as a race of the quality of Roubaix?
Flanders in a very' nice' race, but I live for the second Sunday in April.
So, is it a risk putting everything on one race in the year?
I don't do it as such, I have a season plan with other races that I will focus on, but that particular day is special and I will do everything I can to be as good as I can on that day.
Magnus, have you any advice on bike fit for larger riders?
Most bikes bigger than a 58cm are just extended up they don’t go longer. Big riders then end up riding a 15 cm stem. Ideally, you should have 13-14cm stems and the geometry matched for the larger position- a big mans bike. Big guys also turn out a lot of power so that should be taken into consideration as well. Jim at 'Felt ' has been really good and delivered what I need this season. FELT are really receptive to ideas and feedback.
You ride larger cranks 180mm. how much advantage are they?
Yes and I have even tried 190mm, but they come from the wrong manufacturer. It is a mistake to think that all riders should be on 172.5. Longer levers (legs) need longer cranks to transfer the power. Guys say its not good for your knees, but it's all in proportion, Most people ride just what comes on the bike, but it affects gearing immensely. A guy who is 170 cm tall shouldn’t be on the same cranks as a guy 25 cm taller
Do you use roughly the same training program each year?
I have been working with the same coach Steve Benton, for a few years now and it is great. We have an overall view, but will tweak it all the time. We take into account the race schedule health, depending on how I am feeling or my power output. We have contact every day on email and minimum every second day on the phone. He keeps me right on the limit between training load and recovery. He has brought me back from injury and sickness in a very short period of time quite a few times, that is probably the hardest thing you have to do as a coach.
You seem relaxed with team Team Garmin – Chipotle, what's changed here from your previous outfit?
Everything. Just a good close group, everyone from riders, staff, directors, even the sponsors. We’re one big family! If you're having a rough time they will keep believing in you and offer help. It is great. N pressure, other than to give your all, 100% all the time. I don't need pressure from the outside. The pressure we put on ourselves far exceeds what any team could put on us.
Would you encourage your children to race?
My eldest girl has been on the track in Cardiff and Newport since she was four, I came home one day and she said "Daddy I want a bike like yours" I have No expectation is on any of my children, if they want to ride, I will support them, as long as they are active and do some sport I’m happy.
You have tried your hand at commentating when off with your shoulder injury; would you like to enter that field when you hang up your racing wheels?
Yes, I have commentated a bit when injured, and I would love to do more. I speak five and bit languages and could bring a lot to the table, knowing the riders, and being up to scratch with tactics and technology.
Could you talk for six hours on an Alpine stage?
.... Yes. I have done some long stages with Martin my manager and when you have someone to bounce off and have a laugh it’s fairly easy, I believe the more fun we have, the more enjoyment the spectators will have at home.
Ok, on a lighter note; if there were a fight at the sign on for the tour what pro bike rider would you not like to meet?
Hmmm. Robbie Hunter. I'm a good friend of Robbie but he has a short fuse. I would also like to think that there aren't many who would pick a fight with me!
Future?
Next season, I’m looking forward to some good results for my team, I have had a hard year in every way; so now just relax with a month off my bike. Get recovered and my stomach sorted, then have a good winter and be ripe for the classics.
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Jo Quasney is a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. Of French Creole heritage, Quasney is a native of New Orleans who was living alone in her house in the eighth ward when the hurricane struck on August 29, 2005. Quasney bred birds and had no way of transporting or finding shelter for the birds when New Orleans residents were advised to evacuate so she stuck it out. Her neighborhood began to flood after she heard an explosion that she attributes to a Halliburton company oil barge breaking through a levee. (For a discussion on the cause of the breech, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ING_4727)
A third of her roof was blown off but she managed to escape upstairs from the rising waters. To this day she has nightmares from hearing her birds drowning on the floor below. She had bottles of water but no food for three days and recalls most vividly the silence around her, hearing only her own breathing, a silence so profound it was deafening. From time to time she waved, in vain, to a helicopter passing overhead.
After the third day, she noticed that the waters had receded sufficiently for her to exit the house. Throwing her briefcase and a small bag of clothes into a recycling bin, she left the house and, turning around to look back, then knew in her heart she would probably not see her home again.
For more than ten hours she pushed her bin through the floodwaters to the Superdome where she endured three horrific days of body odor, people out of control and authorities treating the hurricane victims like prisoners.
She left and started walking along Highway 10 and says she was halfway to Baton Rouge when she got picked up by a relief worker. There was no place to stay in Baton Rouge so she wound up for another three days at the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana which was not much better than the Superdome but she at least got a chance to shower.
Authorities suggested that she relocate to Arkansas but she was determined to come to Philadelphia, where she had studied years before. For three days she sat in a chair in the Greyhound bus station waiting for a bus that could get her to Atlanta from where she get her connection north.
Upon arriving in Philadelphia, a very kindly hotel manager at a hotel she was acquainted with from before converted the $68 nightly charge to $60 for the week upon learning of she had survived Katrina.
After a couple days of recuperating, the manager knocked at her door and told her to go to the Wanamaker School. The people there were incredible, she says- firefighters, police and Housing Authority personnel volunteering their off-time. She received food stamps, help filling out FEMA and other forms, a $300 gift card from the Red Cross and relocation assistance. She still maintains friendships with people she met there.
Finally, Quasney decided to accept placement at the Emlen Arms, a Philadelphia Housing Authority building. In her small, but very cozy apartment, she has the company of Ziggy, a parrot rescued from a crack house, a parakeet and a cat. She has amassed a sizable little collection of ceramic elephants, like the one she had in New Orleans, and numerous pothos plants adorn her small living room.
She loves Mardi Gras so that’s what she misses most about New Orleans but she continues the tradition here. She decorates a tree in green and gold, the Mardi Gras colors, and bakes King cakes for the community room. Friends and neighbors usually cajole her into making jambalaya and gumbo.
As she has become settled in her new home, she is now the one regularly helping newly entering residents who often arrive with few possessions. Of her Emlen Arms sanctuary, Quasney says, “They’ll have to carry me out of here feet first.”
Troisième numéro de notre chronique bimensuelle créée pour vous permettre de découvrir le profil d’une personne et plus particulièrement la place que la technologie occupe dans sa vie. Aujourd’hui, nous remercions La Fille de la Com d'avoir accepté de répondre à nos questions indiscrètes.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with Diana Espir were on the red carpet to interview talent from a number of Netflix shows from The Crown to Stranger Things at a 24,000 square foot exhibition in Beverly Hills where they were showcasing their Emmys For You Consideration (FYC) shows with their FYSee Space kick-off party and month long event.
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I had a big job interview this day. Ten hours long. I snapped this in the morning before leaving the house, and I got home at night and fell into bed. Still waiting on the results.
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365 Days -- 41.365
Project 365 -- 41.365
I had my first interview for the online weekly magazine with which I cooperate now, I equipped myself with cell and also digital voice recorder to avoid to lose something to write my article.
I was very nervous!!
Feb. 22nd, 2008
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If you wanna know a bit more on my photographic work, here is a recent inteview for Mull It Over : mullitover.cc/post/135635325748
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