The News Review:

- “Change!” DVD/CD set: a worthy investment
- PRFILE: Nautical by nature
- Faces of Business 2007: Saul Griffith wind energy entrepreneur
- Larger than life sculptures featured at mile-long downtown Naples art…

“Change!” DVD/CD set: a worthy investment
nwsource.com – Dec 29, 2007
There were also songs and music videos from a number of other popular hardcore and metal bands. While most of the artists in the set are exactly what you’d expect on a. What really sold me on “Change!” was the price (just $10!) and the fact that it supports the Hot Topic Foundation which aims to support programs for youth in music creative writing filmmaking and more.

PRFILE: Nautical by nature
Staten Island Advance – Dec 29, 2007
Granted it doesn’t hurt that Captain Ahab & The Sea Crackens show up dressed in the striped mocks and pressed white pants of sailors that bearded lead guitarist Rory Merola looks uncannily like a sea captain and that they are often joined by go-go dancers. But there’s more to this music than a campy uniform. Surf rock was one of the most popular forms of music in the 1960s counter culture and early purveyors like Fender-bender Dick Dale — a left hander who learned to play his guitar upside-down — forever influenced rock music and legendary musicians like Jimi Hendrix. The Beach Boys were probably the most famous band loosely associated with the genre and most surf rock bands who tried to imitate the sound of crashing waves with reverb-soaked rolling instrumental music that utilized everything from the lightning-speed picking technique called tremolo to doo-wop chord progressions and eastern scales almost never made it passed their first hit single. Go ahead try and name a song by Surfaris that’s not “Wipe ut. ” But the mark of surf rock on most rock music that came afterwards is indelible and serious rock musicians often find themselves exploring surf eventually. You can hear that pedigree in the originals and quasi-covers played by Captain Ahab & The Sea Crackens… ” That’s where guitarist Merola and bassist Matt Wilson came in. “I’ve been into surf rock since I was in high school and I really wanted to play in a band but nobody was ever interested” says Wilson 28 of West Brighton. “Everybody just wanted to play metal. Rory and I have been playing for a while since then in different bands so I was excited to do this. ” “I used to be in a punk band that was influenced by Dick Dale and a band called The Ghastly nes” says Merola. “So I had some idea of how to go about it. I had the tremolo thing down: I’ve got quick hands.
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Faces of Business 2007: Saul Griffith wind energy entrepreneur
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 29, 2007
Griffith – tall with an oval face and a messy shock of reddish-brown hair and stubble – is also not the typical scientist whose work and life exist behind laboratory glass. When he drives he tools around in a modified VW dune buggy. In between trying to solve pernicious energy problems Griffith kite-boards crafts furniture out of sustainable wood and attends sing-along performances of “The Sound of Music” in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. In a two-hour conversation at his offices Griffith – barefoot the entire time including during a chilly stroll to the roof deck and observation tower – made jokes about lassoing geese to power the world and referenced Albert Einstein Archimedes and the fate of lowland gorillas in Africa. But at his core Griffith is preoccupied with developing renewable energy sources to literally save the planet. “The greatest risk to mankind is that we’re losing our environment hand over fist” said Griffith who is single but a proud uncle of two. Griffith was born in Sydney to an engineer and a wildlife artist… Makani with 29 engineers inventors software developers and kite designers is the largest. From his roomy windowed office Griffith looks out at San Francisco the Bay Bridge and the base’s old runways. Nearby in the near-constant wind sit assorted horse trailers metal awnings and a school bus painted bright orange and blue. The acrid smell of soldering drifts through the building a renovated concrete box with tall palm trees and Howitzer gun mounts outside. Because the company is still in quiet mode Griffith can’t say too much about how Makani’s technology works. But unlike most current wind energy systems that are relatively low to the ground and involve turbines high-altitude wind systems aim to capture far stronger winds thousands of feet above the Earth’s surface. Proponents of wind power such as Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution’s department of global ecology at Stanford University say that if scientists could tap into 1 percent of the energy in high-altitude winds it would be sufficient to power the planet.
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Larger than life sculptures featured at mile-long downtown Naples art…
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Dec 29, 2007
But Lorretta has the sense of style. I’m just the money man” he said. The art fair had something for just about everyone including jewelry clothing water colors oil paintings sculptures of various sizes and mediums live music and food. Several metal sculptures seemed to cause the most talking finger-pointing and at times giggling. A life-size steel giraffe by New Mexico artist Frederick Prescott stood about 10 feet tall at the top of Fifth Avenue South marking the entrance of the fair. Prescott is one of 300 artists who made it into the competitive show which had about 1000 artists from across the country vying for a spot in the annual art festival courtesy of the Downtown Naples Association and Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce. “I’ve been trying to get into a show in Naples for years.