My Photos From The 2012 Sundance Film Festival

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The 2012 Sundance Film Festival was awesome. It was my fourth Sundance ever, and I think it was the best one I have ever attended. This, of course, was largely due to the fact that I dished out the money this year to actually get myself a ticket package, so I was able to see 12 different films and attend a number of the additional Sundance events.

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A Fine Frenzy At The Sundance Music Cafe

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a fine frenzy at sundance film festival

Today I saw “A Fine Frenzy” (Alison Sudol) perform five songs from her upcoming album at the Sundance Film Festival Music Cafe. After the first song was over, I thought to myself, “This is why I love Sundance!” Be sure to watch the video at the bottom of this post.

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Hitting The Slopes With Josh Miller

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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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Christmas In California

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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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Inspirational Videos - 2011 Edition

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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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Kimbra

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This month was all about New Zealand. For the past 31 days or so, the country of New Zealand has continually popped into my life in one way or another. For example: I have several friends and acquaintances who are traveling by bike in New Zealand at the moment. I also read several magazine articles about New Zealand this month. I even received some free product from New Zealand last week. And about three weeks ago I discovered a new recording artist named KIMBRA who is from… can you guess?… NEW ZEALAND.

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The Secret Of The Lost Machu Picchu Photos

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Darren Alff's photos from Machu Picchu, Peru

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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It's Official: I'm A MAC Guy Now

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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.