Stephen Henault

Thankful For:

The fact that the ones I love, love me.  No more can one ask for.

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We, as in all of us, are currently locked into living a sustainibly un-sustainible existence.  We’ve heard it all before.  That, at a macro level, our trends of consumption, regarding finite resources (water+oil etc.) cannot be supported indefinetaly.   It’s true, but you don’t need to hear that from me.  Go listen Al Gore, perhaps.

I was looking around to consider some of the things that I could do on my own.  Things I could adjust in my behaviour, my daily tasks, in order to do better.  Lower consumption, and build in habbits that will help me do my part.  I’m sharing here, cause who knows - maybe you want to to take action as well, but aren’t ready to go Monkey Wrench Gang things just yet ;).  [for the record Edward Abbey rules, STILL!!]

So here are a few ideas and resources that I came up with.

1. Ride Yo’ Bike.

Yup, take it back to when you was a young whipper snapper.  Even if it’s just to the store or something.  It’s good for you, good for the enviro, and it gave me an excuse to put a picture of my bike in the post :)

2: Change your home habits:

This is really simple, but takes a bit of thought.  Things I’m thinking here; take shorter showers, dry clothes outside when possible, shut down your devices that aren’t in use, and be conscious about usage of lights. Cloth Grocery bags.  I know - super lame, but collectively able to make an impact.   I didn’t say this would be sexy.   Here’s a link to The Green Guide.  It goes into more depth.

3: Change your work habits:

Much like number two on the list, it’s the little things.  Carpool?  Turn CPU off when you leave the office.  Ditch the Styrofoam coffee cups - vacuum sealed, stainless mugs are a much better look anyways.  Here’s a link to a list the Sierra Club came up with, just for you :)

4: Recycling is still cool, I promise.

Enough said.  This one requires a bit homework to see how things work in your local.  In case you don’t believe me you can get involved with cool sites, like Compete to Conserve, -I’m not giving the details; you’ll have to check it out for yourself though.  Go ahead, it’s just a click through.

5: Come up with your own…

Collectively we don’t need some jamoke like me to tell us how to get this done.  On an individual level we’re all capable of looking at our habits, and consumption rates - and then adjusting them.

It’s a choice.  But, we’re intricate little buggers, and we don’t do things just because we ’should’ - we’re notoriously short sighted (myself included) - so go find your own motivation.

Your kids.

Your love of the environment, ummm….

The sickening fact that the Petro states in the Middle East have us by the short hairs…

In the end, it’s green me + green you = green us.

be good.

To start:  There are NO spoilers in this review.  So go ahead and read on without apprehension.

I just saw Slumdog Millionaire last night.   The movie has gotten a lot of buzz, and for what it’s worth I thought it lived up to its billing.   Here’s why:

Great Story Telling:

While this isn’t a groundbreaking approach to storytelling, the narrative isn’t constructed in a traditional manor.  If I had to offer a comparison point regarding the narrative, i’d say it shares structural similarities with a cool movie “The Usual Suspects”.

Great Theme:

We’re Americans, we love the mythology of ‘rags to riches’.  This movie has that, and it’s done in a compelling way, using the culture and economics of India - which in itself served as provocative.

Love.  Like I said, we’re Americans - we like to romanticize things, and Slumdog Millionaire weaves this into the narrative well.

Good Acting:

Although I knew none of the actors, I was never in a state of disbelief regarding the motivations and actions of the characters.  The movie itself spans a large time continuum, and thus the character development is done so across multiple actors, and it’s done very well.

Solid Cinematography

I’d say that two strengths of the cinematography are diversity, and the well executed delivery of that diversity.  This is by no means square ‘em up in the center of the frame kind of movie.  There’s a good deal of non-observer perspective, but it’s well balanced with traditional perspective which works well to move the story crisply.  I think the visuals here are pleasing, and a good deal of that has to do with what the country of India has to offer.

Overall, I say this is a must see.  You can go to the web site here and find a showing.

be good

Stephen

While I don’t mean exclusively, as in: ‘I only like water, and nothing else.’ I do mean I like water, and the reason being is, well, ‘ because’. In other words. I just like water. U should too.

be good [and hydrated]

Stephen

It’s simple really, oh wait, no.  What I mean is I’m simple really.  And that is of course why I can totally relate to kids.

Here’s a video of my neice and nephews, who are over on the other coast.  1/3 of these little buggers couldn’t even walk the last time I saw them.  I guess, kids grow fast.  Anyways - this made me smile and so I put it on my blog.  It’s really just that simple =)

be good.

stephen

This is cool ( at least I think so).  While I think there are about two pieces that I would deem ‘wearable’ by today’s fashionista’s - I think turbow attempts to do some interesting things with the cuts she’s chosen.  They are bold, but not presumptious.   I will say that if you click through to look at the collection I think Turbow has done a terrible job with the the stretch pants.  Just not a good cut + detail + color.

And why does what I think matter?  It doesn’t - go look for yourself, take an opinion, and speak your piece.

be good.

Stephen

(note, this was a head fake.  If you can’t take an opinion on something as simple as this… you be in trouble…  So, did you have an opinion you wanted to share?   hint… let us know ↓ there)

go team.

stephen

These are my homeboys from Propel.

Kids, this is called bootstrapping (taking our own head-shots)  [we're currently gray boxes on our site - but that all changes after tonight :) ]

Although we were ill-prepared (50mm macro lens + construction lights + painters drop cloth)  - we came through with some acceptable head-shots.

If we were ballers we would fly Dave White out, but we’re still a work in progress…. thus we did it ourselves.

be good

Stephen

I don’t know where I was going with the tree…

But, I do know where I am going with this post. Design.