January 23, 2012

So last weekend in a word was CRAY (“cray” is how the kids have shortened the word crazy to be cool). I for reasons I find hard to explain went winter camping with my good friends Billy, Vitor, and George. Well to be fair it’s not that hard to explain. The city has made me into a bit of a weenie so I do these excursions to make myself a bit tougher.

We got to the camp site at about 3pm on Saturday to find the temperature to be a nippy 19 degrees. I was worried to say the least. Don’t worry I went to REI the night before and got some Long John’s (which I promptly renamed Long Paul’s) I also got some new gloves and the thickest socks I’ve ever seen. After walking to the camp site which isn’t too far we started to gather all the wood we would need for the fire. If you ever go camping with Victor you learn quickly that it’s impossible to gather too much wood for the campfire. As the day light slipped away we stared the fire and started in on drinking the only liquid you can bring to a campsite that is far below freezing (pictured below). Couple of quick highlights, a assortment of fire works were set off. Many unintentional falls. A fire pass out (we’ll leave that there). Delicious sausge fajita. Lastly an amazing thermos of Hot Apple Rye Cider and 3 LBs of cured meats. I think the pictures tell the rest of the story pretty accurately. Billy snapped most of these as I decided it was far too cold to try and operate my camera. I can’t say I regret that choice. Oh one last thing. By the time our frozen feet got us back to the car the next morning the temperature was at a cruel 7 degrees. WOW! this might have been my first and last winter camping trip. cold!


the camp site


the fuel




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January 16, 2012

#lessSchulman

Following the exceptionally warm reception of the last video post here on the site we thought a follow up was necessary. I’m sorry to present #lessSchulman.
Enjoy. Well try.







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January 14, 2012

Jon the Jew is in town this weekend for the MLK holiday and wanted to make a video to share with you. So we sat down this morning on the couch and tried to get a song out. Just a warning buttFUZZ makes a cameo so beware.



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January 12, 2012

As promised from a few posts ago. I’d like to introduce you all to a new character here on dport7. Krissy my cousin and member of the dport7 family had a baby last week named Ethan. Before he was born she had asked if I would do a safari or jungle themed drawing for the nursery. I instantly decided on an elephant and thought it would be great to do him in the style of turbo and dport7. Some of you may remember we used to have a character on the site years ago that was an elephant and his name was Dumpy. I thought this would be a great way to bring him back to the site.
Anyway Krissy received it the other day and said she liked it, so I’m a happy camper. What a fun project, it was a pleasure.
Check out the pics below and enjoy!!!




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January 3, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!!!!! So this year we spent NYE in beautiful Surprise NY. Good friend of the site Billy has a friend Charlie (that he knew from high school I think) who’s family has a country house. It’s the big white farm house in the pictures below. Kate made her famous apple and pumpkin pies that went over really well. I was a bit more than slightly over dressed in my new navy velvet sport coat and tie. Everyone was super nice. Most of the folks there were actors. I guess some of them had known each other from being in the movie “Black Hawk Down” together. Charlie has been on everyone’s favorite show “Mad Men”. He played Abe, Peggy’s man friend in season 4. I’m rambling.
Long story short we had a great time. Explored the big old barns. Took a walk around the country side with all it’s hills and views and what not. Lovely.
I hope you had a great New Years wherever you are! Time for Paul to get back on the treadmill and run off some of this Holiday Gut!





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December 30, 2011

So tomorrow is New Year’s Eve…. I suppose there’s something to be said for this year…. Although why be nostalgic when it’s gone. Nothing we can do about it good or bad.

2012 could be a buster. We just got the information from our Land Lord that the building is being turned into condos. No need for concern we don’t get evicted if we don’t buy. Although we do get an insider price if we do. This could be a to do!

In other news I’ve been working on a baby elephant character at the request of me cousin Krissy. She asked for an image that is jungle themed to hang in her soon to be new baby’s room. I’m finalizing the rendering as I type this. I found this motion gif and it made me wish even more that I could animate. I love this thing.

Have a Save and Fun New Year’s. We will be in Suprise NY if you need us. Pictures will follow!!


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December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!! Kate, Brian and I are here in beautiful Denver Colorado at the Rybicki’s. We have had a lovely holiday with Christmas Eve dinner at the Brown Palace which is a lovely old Hotel in downtown Denver. Christmas morning was beautiful with presents for everyone and a Jets hat for me!!! Along with that belt buckle I found in Asheville that I loved so much. I got Kate tickets to see “Anything Goes” and she also got a juicer that she wanted so badly. We got Joe and Mary an Apple TV so that they can enjoy the Netflix on their new Samsung TV. Brian got a flannel shirt from Ralph Lauren signed by Ralph himself. All in all a great time! Watch for more photos as we go!!


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December 20, 2011

Well, it’s the week before Christmas everyone, and as always we are just too busy to be excited about it. Kate is fresh off Jury Duty, so work is a bit chaotic. I’ve been pretty busy all month and just kinda want the year to be over so we can start making our way to spring time.
In honor of the holidays my office had a Christmas party, and at that party there was a photo booth. Not wanting to hog camera time Kate and I only took one picture and chose to channel the Boss (Bruce Springsteen) from the album Born In The USA. Kate and I didn’t spend much time at the party as we had a concert to go to. We saw the National at Beacon theater.
Long story short as we do not send out Christmas Cards please enjoy this rock inspired holiday photo.

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December 13, 2011

So I’m a proud survivor of my second Jets game. Now, I know what you’re thinking “Paul you don’t know anything about football, hell you don’t even like football”. Your right I don’t, but with my new found gang of Jets fans I’ve changed my tune. Plus I got Kate to come to this game. Full disclosure Kate complained about going to the game all week. “It will be too cold” she said. “I don’t like sports” she said. Well her tune is changed as well, she had a great time. Dport7 want’s to give a huge thanks to Billy for being in a sense our Jets sponsor of sorts. The thing is that after going to college with no football team we never really got use to the early morning party that is tailgating. This really kick our asses and we have just recovered it now being Tuesday. We may not be able to handle another till next season but all and all we’d do it again!!!





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December 10, 2011

So today for the first time in 3 1/2 years I went skateboarding. It all started last weekend during Big John Diehl’s visit to NYC. We went down to Chelsea Piers and while we were there we walked past the skatepark. My mind was blown. It’s a all cement skatepark. Built California style to flow and snake. Be it that I’ve never been to such a skatepark and my current status as a “jogger” makes me feel old. I decided I must go.
It was amazing. First off I can still ride and pop a few tricks. I’ve lost a bit of my skills pushing through the transitions but that’s leaning a new park. I got there at about 9:20am and for the most part it was empty. Then about 10 it started to fill up. It was a beautiful day so people were out. I hope I can make it again soon.



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