more fun w/ stop motion – Luis and I put this 1 together for SPIN utilizing elements from January’s edition.

SPIN from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

A couple weeks ago (mid January of twenty ten), I went to shoot an interview in Arizona with Dr. Andrew Weil. Kevin Rose compiled a list of questions for Dr. Weil focused on the perspective of the geek, one who typically is indoors working at a computer most of the day (probably 90% of us). I was going to transcribe the interview word for word and post that, but instead, after long internal deliberation, decided that I would just post the interview in a video format, this way nobody would question my translating abilities and accuse my person of hacking the text words. This post is interesting in it’s timeliness as the previous post was on Kristin’s book – and his responses all pretty much match what she writes about in her nutrition guideline/cookbook. Enjoy!

Interview with Dr. Weil from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

As most of you know, Kristin recently self-published her 1st cookbook  “Therapeutic Chef:  Recipes to Prevent Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes.” – available via Amazon.  While the title may sound a bit intense, I assure you that this book is for everyone, regardless of whether you’re trying to prevent illness or not.  I have eaten the vast majority of these recipes and can say that beyond their therapeutic healthy value – they are all extremely tasty and satisfying – whether you’re a vegetarian or not.

I recently finished going through the book myself and thought that I should post a few of the pages that I think make this book so valuable.  I will also include a few recipes that are in the book that you can try out, as well as some pages and recipes names of other personal favorites.  Hope you enjoy!

Cover:

Therapeutic Chef – Book Cover (download)

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents (download)

Sample Pages and Recipes to try:

Simple Changes – p 20

Easy Recipes for the Beginner – p 456

Lentil Vegetable Soup – p 131

Nutty Pumpkin Pie – p 429

Roasted Red Pepper Dip – p 149

Pages and Recipes in the book that I highly recommend:

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I was recently hanging out with @kevinrose and after a few beverages, he pulled up the AT&T voicemail message website. For the next hour, we played around with different messages, trying to compete for who could come up with the worst message that would annoy people calling to the point where they’d not want to leave a message. It was funny for awhile, but since I use my cell phone as a business phone as well, I finally had to pull it since I feared that potential clients might get confused and then not leave any message or contact info.
Anyway, here’s the site for you playing pleasure. Please feel free to post what you come up with here – or, as mentioned in the last diggnation episode, email your masterpieces to:  fans@diggnation.com
Website: http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
My masterpiece: (I also pulled it into FCP to add a few delay effects before sending it off to the iphone). can be listened to hear:

http://bit.ly/voicemail_GlennMc

click once to listen to or right (control click) to save as.

Thank you and good luck to you and your endevours!
Glenn

Last Random Episode from China!

In this second part of Random (from the Yin bar roof in Beijing), Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose (and a little bit Glenn) speak of their favorite travel spots. Covering a wide range of places, they go into the where and why, giving some examples and good info on what to look for and occasionally look out for.
Let us know your favorite locations in the comments below – and why.
Thx from the Random Team!

Random – China Episode 2 Part B from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

the following video clip is Random Episode 5 (or 6), Part 2 of 2, portion A.  The whole thing is 45 minutes and based upon recent comments, it deemed appropriate to cut it into 2 twenty some minute segments.  There was an easy place between topics to do such cutting.  Thus, this first episode covers one main topic that we can call – “scammers and being scammed while out traveling”.  Part 2 will be about “personal favorite places to travel to” and why.

Show Notes:
- open intro weird light video:  kevin shooting a laser into a “7 Cups” vessel
- iphone commercial
- Yin Bar, Beijing – http://www.theemperor.com.cn/
- Travel Website:  virtualtourist.com

China Part 2a from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

Hi,
recently a really good friend of mine from PA sent me the following message regarding a work related experience that I thought I’d share. She’s a chiropractor and has been for a good amount of time now and frequently does adjustments on women that are pregnant as well as on newborns. In addition to the following, I’ve also heard some other amazing stories from her about her use with the Webster Technique.  Do a search on this to learn more, but basically, it’s an adjustment for pregnant women about to give birth. It’s done close to the birthing process and is used to treat women that have a possible breach birth that will then most likely lead to the C-section, which does not sound fun.  From what I understand, it’s an adjustment that opens things up and allows the little baby person to shift around and get into head down position for an easier birth. I’m not sure of the success rate on this but my friend seems to have a pretty high success rate.
So now to her story – about doing an adjustment on a new born. While that sounds a bit crazy to adjust such a small one, it actually makes perfect sense. Anything that can be done before tossing drugs at someone is always something that I prefer to at least consider before hand. One last note before the quick story – this is just something that I found of interest that I thought was worth sharing. This is merely meant to pass on info about options we all have – not to start any kind of debate or to provide a place for people to vent frustrations.
Thanks, and I hope you take something away from this or can pass it on to someone that may benefit.
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Hi to my chiropractic friends!

Something occurred on Thursday to remind me in a remarkable way of the power of a chiropractic adjustment.  I’m not telling this story to take any credit or because I think it’s a miracle above other miracles.  It’s only what is supposed to happen when we are able to remove the interference and connect people to their source.  Miracles should be the natural state!  It was definitely a highlight of my 10 year professional career and up there with one of the coolest things I’ve witnessed in my life, including the birth of my son.

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For those who have visited this site before, you will probably notice that while the site itself looks a little new and different, the posts themselves don’t actually look so new or different. There is a reason for this and it goes as such: I’ve been a bit busy. But what kind of excuse is that? Not a good one. I have 5 videos shot and they just need to be edited, which is time consuming, but I shall get to em soon!
I have one that I will post soon that I shot the other day with Graham Hill from treehugger.com and David de Rothschild from Adventure Ecology – where David gives Graham a walk through on his project “The Plastiki Expedition 2009” – pretty wild and interesting stuff. So – please check back as I promise ye I will have something new.
Lastly, I appreciate all of the comments that people have been leaving here and on Vimeo. Once I get another post up – I will go back and bust out some of that responding stuff.
Thanks. Glenn

Oh – also, a big thanks to Marty Sullens for helping out so much with the site! Nice work!
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