With a pending deadline of December 31, there are only a couple days left to get your Minnesota Vikings legacy bricks. These bricks will be part of a Vikings ship platform that fans can meander through outside of the U.S. Bank Stadium complex. Artist’s renderings from the Vikings website look like this: The Vikings website describes the bricks and ship as quoted below: Inspired by legendary Viking ships and design to honor local ancestry, the Legacy Ship on Medtronic Plaza at U.S. Bank Stadium will incorporate contemporary materials like stainless steel, stone, concrete and wood and will include landscaping, theatrical lighting and smoke effects. A 2,000 square-foot curved LED video board standing 55 feet tall with serve as the ship’s sail, while the ship’s figurehead, an abstract dragon with Norse iconography, will top out at 43 feet hight and will interact with events inside the stadium. The Legacy Ship will include seating and stainless steel railings, along with 150 linear feet of displays, including a timeline exhibit featuring historical Minnesota moments and site directories to aid in wayfinding. Making the ship even more unique will be the incorporation of fan commemorative “Legacy Bricks” that will occupy approximately 3,500 square feet of the ship’s deck. The bricks are going to look like this and have the following price points: If you are thinking about this but wonder how your wording would look on a brick, you can try it out using a preview brick option. Here are a couple I did up for fun: JK, no phone numbers allowed. Darn, I really wished I would have ordered the one with the logo. Oh well, I am happy with what I got.
Note, there are some limitations on what you can say, just to keep everything kosher. I ordered my brick a long time ago, in fact, I was one of the first group of people to order. I only hesitated long enough to come up with the perfect message and then I ordered it. I will have more information on that during a special announcement in January. Sometime around Jan. 21, I’d say. Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! 1 Ticket to AC/DC: $ 171.88
Light-Up Horns: $ had them Earplugs: $ .50 Stadium Brews: $ 20.00 Getting to sit next to me: Priceless I wouldn't normally be so crass, and this only applies to an AC/DC concert, but you lucky ducks! Enjoy some contemporary holiday design as I pass through this building on my way to the bus. It feels quite fabulous to walk through here. They did a great job decorating this space for the holidays but still allowing plenty of room for traffic to move through the area. Happy holidays!
This is a friendly reminder to all those businesses that raised their prices because they had to pass on the high cost of fuel. Airlines, delivery, mail, groceries (due to transportation), etc. In case you haven't noticed or didn't want to talk about it... Fuel has dropped a lot. Lucky for us, it has been low for some time. What do you think the odds are that all those aforementioned businesses are going to drop the cost of their goods and services now?
On another note, talented musician Charlie Parr continues to wow fans and bewilder crowds of spectators at his shows. I wrote about an event of his I saw a year or so ago down in Mankato, MN. Here is a link to that post: http://www.lisabondphotography.com/blog/this-ones-for-charlie I will be making a trek down to some old stomping grounds tonight with the usual suspects to see him again and repeat the above blog. Would love to see old and and make some new friends there. Say hi if you are in the area and decide to add this to your calendar Friday night. In fact, pull up a chair and join us. Until next time, thanks for coming and hope you are enjoying the most wonderful time of the year. The article I mentioned last week was published today. Here is a link and a snapshot. Thank you again Minnesota Daily for including me as one of Minneapolis' featured photographers! http://www.mndaily.com/ae/art/2015/11/23/twin-cities-behind-lens That's my photo on the front page. I have always loved photographing the Guthrie and spent a lot of time there in the past.
Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner, here are quick links to some of my most popular T-day related posts: Pecan Pie and Cranberry Daiquiris. http://www.lisabondphotography.com/blog/thanksgiving-refreshments-a-cranberry-daiquiri http://www.lisabondphotography.com/blog/perfect-pecan-pie The turkey that you see in that cranberry daiquiri post might be featured in a video spoof very soon. I will be spending Thanksgiving solo this year, so maybe the turkey and I will create something entertaining. Only after we've had some cranberry daiquiris, of course! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The forecast said rain for a day. Three days later it was still raining. Days and nights filled with the sound of thunder, rain pelting on windows, dreary skies that make day seem like night.
Simple streetlights transition from authoritative spheres of color into penetrating beams of red, yellow and green pouring color along roadways and sidewalks. Headlights and streetlights drip in shades of yellow and white, tail lights pulsate cherry red bursts throughout the scene. People bustle along hidden under canopies of octopusing fabrics, intermittently wrestling with them when wind gusts defy the very structure of their essence, inverting their tentacles and turning them from cozy shelters of protection into skewers of litigation, rendering them useless for their intended purpose. Stop in the skyway with me. Disregard the passersby hurrying to work. Pause for a moment and take a look. I'd like to say Welcome to visiting readers of the Minnesota Daily newspaper.
http://www.mndaily.com/ I was honored to be interviewed for their Arts & Entertainment section this week with an article on Minneapolis photographers. As soon as the article is up, I will post a link to it here as well. I hope you enjoy looking around this site. Thank you for stopping by! Welcome back to part 3 of the Presto Pete's Personal Training Program for Plateaued Performers. In case you are just tuning in to this broadcast, here are some quick links to Parts 1 and 2 of the Presto Pete Program to help get you up to speed: http://www.lisabondphotography.com/blog/free-personal-training-with-presto-pete http://www.lisabondphotography.com/blog/presto-petes-program-for-increasing-workout-speeds It's time to find out if this program works and if so, is it worth it? I rely on an iPod and the Nike program that was installed on it to track my progress. This is not new technology and has been around for several years. Most likely, there is something much better than this app, but it has worked well for me since I've been using it. The only nuance to the Nike app is that I do not get reliable results as far as distance is concerned. I generally always run the same route every time, so one would expect the same distance to be covered time and again. The iPod is picky about movement and if you stand still for too long it will pause the workout. That's fine but it can very + or - 1/2 of a mile depending on how bouncy the ride is for the iPod. That would include what I'm wearing and how loose the iPod is. So, without discussing this any more, suffice it to say that we are not going to look at the distance covered because it is always the same. We're just going to focus on the time it takes to do this run. I know from driving the route that it should be about 6.7 miles. I recalibrated the iPod awhile back and every once in awhile, I recalibrate it by accident, throwing everything regarding distance and miles per hour off kilter. These are some of the finer details that separate the wheat from the chaff in the science department. To be fair, we need to compare the same days of the week. Traffic is much worse and can cost considerable time to cross intersections during the week and is much less of an issue on the weekend. If you notice big dips in the curves, it's most likely because I was waiting to cross the road. Having laid the groundwork, let's look at the actual statistics. Here is a weekday run before Presto Pete's program: and after: All right, so that's a little hard to read but the "before training" clocks the run in at 1:31:16 and using the new program the clock says 1:22:27. That is really awesome. Now let's look at the weekends. Before the training program: and after: Before the program I ran it in 1:32:10 and after it looks like 1:24:03.
Now I can hear some of you out there saying "That's really cute Lisa but I don't see any difference between the times of your weekday and weekend runs so what kind of reliable personal trainer are you?" and the answer is I don't have an answer. It's almost like I stopped off and had a doughnut or something on Sunday except I didn't. I'll see if I can drum up a better explanation for you soon. It's early in the experiment to see how this will impact my speed overall, but so far utilizing Presto Pete's Program has shaved 8-9 minutes off my run. I have definitely impressed myself and I hope you too. Of course there are lots of sub-tests that could be done such as alternating sprints with slower activity. And maybe I will do something like that, but for now, this program will return to it's regularly scheduled broadcast of photography, music, food and Minnesota. As always, thanks for stopping by and for those of you in the States, I hope you are enjoying the Fall weather. Last week, I talked about an idea that I came up with for a way to improve workout speeds. If you missed the post, here is a link to it: https://lisabondphotography.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/free-personal-training-with-presto-pete/ I promised that I would come back this week and give you a list of songs from my iPod library that matched the Presto tempo of 192 BPM (beats per minute) or higher. Here is that list: There were more songs that could have been added, but I knew I had more than enough to get me through a typical run, so I stopped with 49. Now in the event you are thinking, "Well, that's really nice Lisa, thanks for thinking of us, but I personally don't like any of those bands, so how can this possibly help me?", I am prepared. Here are 3 videos demonstrating 192, 200 and 208 BPM. And to tie back to my post from last week, I am using "Fell In Love with a Girl" by The White Stripes so you can see how to best put your songs through the metronome rhythm test. Alternatively, but not nearly as interestingly, you can use an online metronome. Yes it is true, not only is there an online metronome, there are multiple online metronomes. Here's one example: If that wasn't the icing on the cake, it turns out that somebody figured this out long ago and I am a day late and a dollar short to inventing the first training program specifically structured around metronome speeds. |
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