Paul Prins

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Digging back into the archives quite the ways here is a video put together during the summer of 2001 with footage from my first ever ski event held in bemidji, MN at Buena Vista ski area. It was a small turn out of about 20 skiers, a couple snowboarders, and a little crowd.

The event was fun and this started my launch into producing events and led to MSO2, MSO3, and the Midwest Skier Open in the following three years. As-well-as the production of two movies Good Ideas and espionage (which will be posted in part/full later).

After several years the time has finally come to send my camera into canon for some major repairs. I don’t yet know the cost but hopefully it will be sub $500 so that I can afford it… I’ve looked at the price to replace it and it is still very expensive. Then there are all those memories, don’t forget the memories snowflake. I shall miss you a bit. I hope that the doctors over at the Canon can take care of my camera.

If only Aristotle was alive today to observe and comment upon everything in our present world that he could have hardly dreamt of. Lately in two of my courses we’ve revisited his study of rhetoric in one form or another. They always say that ethos, or personal reputation, holds the most weight with people and is the most influential towards our decisions. Yet I wonder if this is true in the traditional sense anymore.

With the advent of the internet it has allowed anyone with grammatical skill, ability to research, and to present sound arguments and professional appearing materials and literature. What reputation does anonymous Joe have who creates an alias online under a presumed name and background. Only a perceived reputation and thus perceived ethos, this ‘phantom ethos’ would allow anyone with wit and skills to influence multitudes of people as themselves or as a fictitious character.
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