Look at That: August 2017

BE WILD from Raphael Rogers on Vimeo.

One week in an RV traveling the beautiful state of California. Our route showed us the diverse vistas that our home has to offer. We began traveling from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree, then on to Big Sur, up through to San Francisco, then over to Tahoe and finally Yosemite. A trip I'll never forget. With just two cameras and our friends to film it was a chance to let our creativity flow. Our adventures included climbing down a cliff in Big Sur to retrieve our one fallen drone [not recommended], freezing at night in Tahoe and witnessing the most glorious sunsets man can lay eyes on. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Shot with the Sony FS7 and the Arri Alexa Mini.

Thanks to Stevie and Sazan for making this happen!
And to Max, Brittany and Jon for the best trip ever.

Director, Editor, Drone, Cam: Raphael Rogers
Director of Photography, Cam: Andy Patch
Music: Jordan Critz - Father's Dream
Some of the words: John Muir

more: www.raphaelrogers.com

British Office Compiles List of Odd Names LONDON (AP) - Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus.

Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records. The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries.

Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century.

``My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane,'' she said. Other discoveries included Boadicea Basher, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Faithful Cock, Susan Booze, Elizabeth Disco, Edward Evil, Fozzitt Bonds, Truth Bullock, Charity Chilly, Gentle Fudge, Obedience Ginger and Offspring Gurney. Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797. Other remarkable duos in the marriage records included Nicholas Bone and Priscilla Skin, joined in wedlock in 1636; Charles Swine and Jane Ham in 1711; John Mutton and Ann Veale in 1791.