Yesterday afternoon, Joy and Kyle invited some friends over for a Kentucky Derby party. Kyle’s from Kentucky…or is it Tennessee? In any case, we were there to watch some horses race around a track for 2 minutes. They provided the KFC, we brought some fruit, the girls wore hats. Street Sense won the day, though I was really pulling for Nobiz like Showbiz (or Nobizzy as we call him in the hood).

Afterwards we went outside in the warm Petaluma sun and threw some horseshoes, which only occurred to me now was entirely appropriate. I risked life and limb for these killer action shots:

Stephanie made sure to get some DDR in, Kyle has two plywood reinforced pads connected to his XBOX, and he can actually “play” across both of them—a sight to be seen for sure. Stephanie and Kyle went head-to-head several times, though it was Kyle who cleaned up.

Finally we watched a few YouTube videos through Kyle’s hacked XBOX (which was pretty radical). The whole time I was looking for a video I’d seen that morning of 2000+ stop motion photos taken from midnight til 10:30am that this guy made into a movie. The only problem—I couldn’t remember the exact number of photos he used (which is what he named it!). In any event, here ya go: 2388 photos.

As an aside: how amazing was it to be watching user-created content on a TV at a party? We didn’t want to watch actual broadcast network TV, we wanted to share 2-3 minute clips that one or more of us had seen before. Ask a Ninja. Robot Chicken. Beatboxing flautists. This is the future of interactive TV.