[Show as slideshow]

[View with PicLens]

Piper Cub February 19th, 2012 from Mark Brown on Vimeo.

Ashley's dad, Pat, having a bit of fun with short field takeoffs & landings in his Piper Cub at Conroe Airport North of Houston.

Music:
You're So Fine
Little Walter

Went straight to the TCU State of Leadership Conference; a leadership conference that TCU puts on each year that lasts two days. Ashley was asked to speak and introduce the keynote speaker (a big deal) and the director of the leadership center, JR, asked me to come and comped our dinner charges (much thanks to him!) The Keynote speaker was TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. We were also asked to sit at his table. Long store short, we chatted the whole dinner, awesome dude. Extremely intelligent, insightful, and funny guy. If you aren’t familiar with TerraCycle, please look it up here. I HIGHLY recommend reading the story of how Tom started the company AND what they do now. Extremely motivating.

Directly after the dinner we drove straight to College Station for our great friend, Mike’s, 21st birthday. A great night out & beautiful friends topped the night off! Slept 5 hours and now I’m in Houston. I’ll sleep when I’m dead I suppose.

Epic Rope Swing

Epic Water Slide

Salt Boarding

Trike Racing 

Water Jet Pack

 
Epic Mud Fight

The last three pictures are from, one of the events I attended yesterday, The Vicente Fox Forum of World Leaders held at TCU. It was an extremely educational and insightful discussion of global policies, politics, economics, education, etc. There were two speakers, Vicente Fox, Mexico’s president from 2000-2006, and Jean Chrétien, Canada’s Prime Minister from 1993-2003. Both men were in office at the time of NAFTA and 9/11.

I was fortunate to meet both men, although I was unable to get my picture with either but I did score one of a friend of mine. (oh and if you are wondering why I was sitting so far back it is because the first 10 rows were reserved for “Important people,” otherwise I would have been in the front row!)

A few of the Prime Minister’s highlights from his decade of service in Canada:

• improvement in Canadian economy, including eliminating deficit and a budget surplus for five straight years
• passed Clarity Bill saying Quebec can only separate after a solid majority votes “yes” on a clear question.
• active social agenda included Child Tax Benefit
• ratified Kyoto Protocol
• worked for global ban on land mines
• pushed for establishment of International Criminal Court
• supported war on terrorism but would not send troops to Iraq without UN resolution for military action.

Focus from Burke Alder on Vimeo.

Deer Valley 2012 World Cup Mogul Skiing Highlights. Video was shot by Burke Alder on February 4th, 2012 at Deer Valley. Burke used a Canon T3i with the LCDVF View Finder and Canon EFS 18-135mm Lens.

Respect,
Mark B

Media –> Portfolio –> My Designs

(Or just click the photo below)