I like to write and film films.

I'm also a magician (its my job :D ) www.balukmagic.com

heres a video: http://markbaluk.com/vids/matrix.wmv

cheers...

I am an artist and musician...

www.artlessing.com

www.myspace.com/artlessing

and my name is not art

its Dan

Hobbies - just the normal - collecting various stuff - especially sound board /audience tapes of Grateful Dead shows ( approx 800 so far, so many more to go), and old books. Do some offshore fishing, diving, and generally messing around.

Avocation - marine law, western philosophy.

To pay bills and buy kites - port captain.

other hobbies are psychology and women =]

Baluk nice slight of hand. I think the slight of hand, in your face tricks are the best. I try but not very good yet. I got some dvds from http://www.ellusionist.com/ , but if I practice enough I will get it.

Lets see, wife, house, 3 kiddlets, day job. Not much else other than kiting in the free time. When there's no wind I get caught up on chores.

yeah, wife, 2 kids with travel baseball, and piano, and a house and yard to take care of. Day job designing neighborhoods. Then the fun stuff, water skiing, snow skiing, Tennessee football, roller blading, mtn biking, camping, and hiking (I'm afraid I'm missing something). No wonder my wife gets antsy when I start a new hobby. But I have only bought 4 kites this year! Always something to do. Almost no couch time, thank goodness.

On another note. I love the different seasons but I hate it when the sun goes down at 5:30. I guess I could live in yellowknife where it is daylight between 9:30 am till 3:30 pm right now. I just couldn't have a day job there. Work in the dark, play in the warm 0 degree F outdoors.

OK - so I forgot one........LSU football (hate overtime tho!!)

BeamerBob, you ever have any time left to sleep???? Um, also.........warm to a thin blood like me is over 65F, hot starts at 95F, cold is anything even close to 50F!

Uh oh, I guess we can't be friends till after Saturday night then. Overtime is a friend of TN fans this year. Overtimes have gone our way every time this year. When we lose, we do it much earlier than the 4th quarter. The Georgia fans around me have been hoping we would lose for the last month and even the winner between TN-LSU won't be in as good a ranking as GA is now.

I put a jacket on below 50. My blood is thinning since moving to GA though. I love not having to ever wear a coat home from work or usually even to lunch.

It was 99 when my avatar pic was taken.

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Originally posted by bloah other hobbies are psychology and women =]

Those two have to go together don't they?

ummm.lets see - if LSU wins and Missouri and W.Va loose, Tigers could still make it to the Sugar Bowl, kocking GA out.............or something like that.

Forecast - winds 15-20, temp 75F at SLP today - think I"ll go platy with the buggy............beats football anytime.

I'm all over the map. I guess I'm still looking for that one that hooks me (maybe this'll be it?)

RC air / heli / trucks......rock climbing......motorcycling......mountain biking.....scrambling

Funny enough, the RC stuff is primarily the calm wind hobby so when the wife caught wind of the kiting urge (no pun intended) she figured she better look for a part time husband!

Comic books, airsoft, electronics hacking, competitive gaming, web design, building random gadgets and such...too much. Attempting to cut down the amount of hobbies I have. Kiting still reigns supreme.

I also like photography... here are a few recent photos:

http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22904&l=11034&i...

and

http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22910&l=89abc&i...


cheers.

does sleeping count?

Only if you sing while you sleep.

I draw incessantly (mostly surreal art via pen, ink, PC), and took up stone-carving last year. Chippin' away at marble is a great way to get rid of Zero-Wind Frustration.

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Originally posted by crosshatch I draw incessantly (mostly surreal art via pen, ink, PC)

Ohh, please share. Is it anything along the lines of Ben Templesmith or
Ashley Wood?

I started rock climbing this year, indoor only so far but it is lots of fun and is a great workout for the arms.

I ride motorbikes, drink alot, women when possible, and just started up parkour (but i need alot of practice)

if it makes my heart beat faster, i like it..

It;s all wind related in my life, sailing is my other passion and also my home...........aj

Houston's a funny place. If it's over 75F, it seems it's too hot for many people to be outside. If it's under 70F it's too cold for them! It tends to make it hard to share outside hobbies with people here. Oh well, fewer people outside to contend with!

My other hobbies include hiking, biking, motorcycling (Honda Shadow ACE 1100), rock climbing, running, rollerblading, playing anything musical (mostly vintage keys, some winds, most recently Irish bagpipes and B3!), involvement with church activities, and some MMORPGs (EQ2, DAoC, DDO). The rest of my "free" time is spent working on or around my Houston hovel.

I ride my bicycle or rollerblade to and from work. I'm not so sure that is a hobby as much as a great way to get around. Before finding power kiting I thought skiing was the best thing in the world. I still love it but am happier if I'm doing it attached to a Flysurfer now !!!! I get a special thrill knowing the line of traffic is paying $$$ to ski at Whistler and I'm riding the Lake for freee !!!

A little late on this but here it goes: Yes wife, yes 5 kids, I am a poet and I like to fly remote control planes. Gotta get in the air one way or another. Thats kinda how I got started kiting I could not fly my planes when it was windy so I found something I could fly in wind Me. Oh and I love the Ocean I go as much as I can. Very serine and spiritual for me.

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Originally posted by Sthrasher38 ... and I like to fly remote control planes

Hey Sthrasher - I'm into RC planes also - they're my low wind hobby What planes have you got? I've got a gas 40 trainer and a 40 homebuilt SPAD. I haven't flown for a while though... been meaning to get back into it. I've been debating whether to sell all my gas stuff and get into electric instead, since with an electric park flyer I could just step outside and fly.. the gas stuff takes a lot of prep and cleanup...

Yeah, but the gas is just so much better in the power dept. Favorite plane by far was the Sig Fazer, fun fly profile powered by a OS 46FX. Used to climb out to about 20 ft straight up on takeoff, hover it for a bit and fly out knife edge. Such a easy and stable plane to throw around the sky. The other end of the spectrum was flying my buddies modded Big Bee, powered by a high output gas burning G-62 pushing a 24" prop. Rated for something stupid like 8 hp.



Still have an electric park flyer that I've got to get around to building, sold off most of the gear, have everything for the electric but a decent transmitter. Seems this kite thing keeps emptying the bank account though.

Christmas came early and I just got an R.C. helicopter for waiting on the wind. :cool2:

Now you're in for it. I'm willing to bet the heli will be the hardest thing you've done yet. If you're like me a d went right to the collective pitch machine you'll be miles ahead but it'll take wayyyy longer than the coaxials out there nowadays. I fell in love with the MX 400's and have three in the fleet with one 450 being built up into a scale bird. You will love it.....once you "get it".

I got rid of all my gas planes. Like you said to much maintinence. I do have a slow electric park flyer still So I can just jump out and fly just about anywhere.

It's not the headache or the mess, it's the lack of time, working 5 days a week, running a business on the side, then teh 3 kiddlets kicking around the house. Sat is usually kite day, that only leaves sunday to do something else. Usually kiting again if the wind's good.