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My friend, Josh Miller, came to stay with me this weekend. We spent an entire day skiing at the Canyons ski resort and another day skiing at Deer Valley. When we weren’t skiing, we were talking business, eating food and watching movies. It was a fun time!

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Last year I was in Nazca, Peru for Christmas and Arequipa, Peru for New Years. This year, I was back at home with my parents, sister, friends and family in Camarillo, California for the holidays. Despite owning my own condo in Park City, Utah for more than six years now, I have yet to spend even a single year in the snow during the winter holidays. It is always so strange to be celebrating Christmas in 80 degree weather.

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I should have been doing this all year long, but I only just started collecting these videos in mid to late December. These are just a few videos that I found online this month that I really like, for various reasons. I am planning to create my own short films next year as I travel around the world, so I am watching a bunch of short web videos and gathering up ideas for my own future video shoots.

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When I was in Cuzco, Peru earlier this year, my dad came out to visit me and we traveled around the Sacred Valley together – including a trip to Machu Picchu. A couple weeks later, the hard drive on which I was storing all my Peru photos, failed. My photos and videos from Peru were gone! Luckily, I had most of these photos backed up on my laptop computer, but my photos from Puerto Maldonado, Cuzco, Machu Picchu and my tricycle touring adventure in Southern Peru were gone forever!

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Today I bought my very first Apple computer – a 13 inch MacBook Pro. I bought the computer to replace my 4-year old Sony Vaio, which is no longer capable of editing the HD video that I am shooting with my Canon T2i and GoPro video cameras. I’m excited to have a new computer, but learning how to use a Mac (when I’ve been a PC user for so long) is certainly going to take some time.

December 2011 was a fairly uneventful month. I landed a website job for the Silver Queen Fine Art Gallery in Park City, Utah, which took up a lot of my time. When I wasn’t working on their website, I was either out skiing at Deer Valley Resort (I got in 7 days of skiing before flying back to California on the 23rd), riding my motorcycle in the cold winter air, or pumping my mountain bike through several inches of snow on Park City’s various bike paths. I also went skiing with Caroline Gleich one day (and she made me realize that I still have a lot to work on) and spent a lot of time in front of the fireplace – reading a few books and doing some research for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

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