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I Recently Met a couple of Stars...

 
Cog
  
 
Kismet
  
Pictures thanks to Martin Martin


Wakeboarding
Last year(2001), in partnership with one of my closest friends, we bought an old ski boat and gradually fixed it up. Since then we take every chance we get to drive up to the lake (Valle de Bravo) for the weekend and hit the water.


You need to be very careful not to land with the wrong edge of the board - can you say face plant?? Probably not with your head full of water and peeled back eyelids...
 


Scuba Diving
I became a certified PADI Advanced Open Water Diver at 19 but I've been diving much longer, when I turned 5 years old my uncle gave me a tiny scuba tank and taught me the basics. While I lived in Puerto Aventuras (1999) in the Mexican Caribbean I never missed the opportunity to perform at least 3 immersions each week, thanks to my good friends at Bahia Divers. I'm particularly fond of night and cavern diving and I'm looking forward to becoming a Cave Diver soon.

Photography
I had already explored sound so I taught myself photography. I enjoy the process of taking pictures much more than looking at them. Not so long ago I even made my little darkroom and processed the entire material from beginning to end. Unfortunately most of my material is in print so I don't have much to show here (unless I find someone patient enough to sit behind a scanner for hours). However, I recently shifted to digital and you can take a peek at whatever I shot recently here.

Music
I was part of an experimental band all throughout high school and midway through collage. I played the drums and handled synthesizer/sequence programming. We were rather popular (underground) and played almost every single joint in Mexico City as well as some mayor forums. We even had a couple of international TV appearances. It was a very fun hobby but you know what they say about artistic differences...
Although I haven't played anything in a few years I still love to plug in the headphones and turn off the lights.


Is there anybody out there?
 At the end of every night, one of my little pleasures comes from checking how much did I (and my computer) contributed to this magnificent distributed computing endeavor. Click the link bellow if you believe that we are not alone and are interested in contributing to a scientific and objective Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, from the comfort of your home or office.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

The Master in the Art of Life...
A true master in the art of life does not have clear distinction between his work and his play, his work and leisure, his mind and body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He barely distinguishes between one or the other. He simple perceives his vision of excellence in everything he does, letting other to decide whether he is playing or working. In his own eyes, he is always doing both.

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Rodrigo Alvarez Icaza Rivera