The Unofficial Luis Hurtado™ Fan Club - All Hurtado, All the Time

[ Luis on his Motorcycle a day before the accident ]

“No broken bones!” Is the phrase I keep repeating to myself as I pop up from the asphalt as if I’m rooting for “No Wammys!” on that 80s game show, rotating limbs to check for anything broken or hurt.

It may sound cliche, but it definitely holds true, “it all happened so fast.” I was merging around a group of cars when the lead car merges into my lane and hits their brakes.

I’m giving it throttle when I realize I’m not going to be able to get myself out of this situation. I buckle down and grab a fistful of brake, preparing to screech to a panic stop.

Not a moment goes by and I find myself sliding on the pavement at 40 mph. My first thought is, “How the hell did I get here?”

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Taliesin West - Scottdale, AZ. Utterly impressed would be an understatement. I must admit, I had very low expectations when Angela pitched me the idea to go out to Scottsdale, Arizona and go tool around Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter house for a weekend.”Alright…” I told her. I honestly thought Arizona was a hellhole. Like, the utter arm pit of humanity. I mean, who the hell wants to live out in the middle of the desert like that? Boy was I wrong!It literally made me consider moving to Scottsdale.An amazing arts community sprung up into Scottsdale from the Frank Lloyd Wright’s amazing Arts and Architecture Colony, now an accredited school.

 

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Adium has this feature that allows you to log-on to MySpaceIM which I hear is a haven for random MySpace trash, so I decided to let the floodgates open, log on to MySpaceIM and see who randomly IM’s me.

Being that I used to work for G4tv and Attack of the Show, I get a ton of 14 year old fans of G4 adding me on MySpace.

I got tired of ignoring them or sending them tersely worded MySpace messages about how it’s not in my personal MySpace policy to add people I don’t know…so I just started adding them instead. My how times have changed, This is my latest random IM’er.

r_e_4: dude who is this anyway and why r u my friend???
Hurtado: huh?
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During the holidays Smorgasbord Productions asked me to help them out with their Flash cartoon. Much props goes out to Smorgasboard for pulling it all off in such a short period of time.

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Over the holidays I helped out G4’s New Media production team with some VFX lens flares.

Steve Jobs showed off the Freestyle101 show open Hurtado designed & animated to showcase the new iPod Nano’s video podcast features.

For the uninitiated:
Freestyle 101 is a weekly freestyle hip hop video podcast produced by Frank Meyer on G4 ’s new media team.

Click here to check out Steve Jobs’ keynote where he showcases Freestyle 101.
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