A Warren Buffett Sketch

A Caricature

Bamboo Bikes by Calfee

• This is not just a cool bike. It is appropriate for everyday use and for racing. The vibration damping is a performance advantage on longer rides. Each frame is built to order and every frame is a unique. Tubes are selected for the weight of the rider. The geometry of the frame can be any of our usual geometries: Pro, Tri or Cross. Custom frames can also be made. Mountain Bike frames are now available.


• Details. The bike is made from Bamboo that has been smoked and heat treated to prevent splitting. Lugs are available in carbon fiber or hemp fiber, for the all-natural look. The chainstays are available in carbon fiber for extra stiffness in the drivetrain.


• Finish. We coat the bamboo with Tung oil to seal it up.
  Awards. Calfee Bamboo bikes have won awards for Best Road Bike, Best Off-Road Bike and Peoples' Choice Award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show.
  A Calfee Bamboo bike won 1st place in the open class at the Great Western Bicycle Rally's Concourse d'Elegance show.


• If there were an award for "Bicycle with lowest carbon footprint" (least amount of carbon dioxide emissions in the production of the frame), this frame would win, hands down

Bamboo Mountain Bike

Bamboo Cross Hemp

IKEA job application

ANIMATIONMENTOR.COM - by animators, for animators

ANIMATIONMENTOR.COM is an online animation school that opened its doors to the public on MArch 27, 2005. She is certified by the California Bureau for Private Post Secondary and Vocational Education since its sunset on June 30, 2007. Upon completion of her 18-month program. students will graduate with a certified diploma in "Advanced Studies in Character Animation."

School pioneers and professional character animators Bobby Beck (CEO/President and Co-Founder), Shawn Kelly (Co-Founder) and Carlos Baena (Co-Founder) designed and built Animation Mentor with one question in mind, "if we were to start over again, how would we want to learn?" Everything at Animation Mentor has been built wit hthat idea in mind, and the end-result is a groundbreaking system that combines real-world apprenticeships with cutting-edge Internet technology.

"At Animation Mentor, we will focus your talents and hone your matery of these time-tested animation principles, and prepare you for your dream job as a television, games or feature-film animator. Come with a desire and dedication to learn, and we will live up to our own extreme expectation of providing the most personal and fulfilling learning experience on the planet."

-- Bobby Beck, Shawn Kelly, Carlos Baena

To learn more about Animation Mentor, check out this site http://www.animationmentor.com/

Founders Bio

Bobby Beck was an animator at Pixar in Emeryville, CA where he worked on TOY STORY 2, THE INCREDIBLES, CARS and the short film BOUNDIN', before being promoted to senior animator/ character developer on MONSTERS, INC. and FINDING NEMO. For MONSTERS, Bobby co-developed Boo and for FINDING NEMO, he was the developer of the youthful fish Nemo. In both cases, Bobby determined the characters' appearance and how they expressed their essence through gesture and movement. In September 2004, Bobby left Pixar to devote himself full-time to running AnimationMentor.com.

Shawn Kelly realized his dream to animate films with the help of three mentors who took personal interest in his career. A summer internship at ILM in San Rafael introduced Shawn to another influential mentor, animation director Wayne Gilbert, and to the knowledge that he wasn't learning what he needed in school. He left school in 1996 for a job as character animator at former video game and educational company Presage Software, and to continue his studies via twice weekly meetings with Gilbert. In 1998, Shawn fulfilled his aspirations and landed a job at ILM. Since that time, he has worked on numerous films including DAY AFTER TOMORROW, where he was on the team that animated the wolves; WAR OF THE WORLDS, for which he animated tripods and probes; and STARWARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH, where he helped develop and animate vulture droids and animated YODA in a pivotal swordfight. Shawan just finished working as a lead animator on TRANSFORMERS and was recognized for creating The Best Special Effect for the TRANSFORMERS Desert Scene by the Visual Effects Society (VES) in 2008. Additional credits inclue THE INCREDIBLE HULK, STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 - ATTACK OF THE CLONES and AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Carlos Baena is an animator at the Emeryville, California studio Pixar Animation Studios. His first job was animating commericals at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon and four months later, he headed back to San Francisco to work on spots and short films at Click3X and WildBrain, Inc. before moving to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). At ILM, Carlos worked as an animator on JURASSIC PARK 3, MEN IN BLACK 2 and STAR WARS: EPISODE 2-ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Captivated by fantasy and comedy, Carlos left ILM for Pixar in 2002. Since then, he has worked on FINDING NEMO, THE INCREDIBLES, CARS and RATATOUILLE and the short film BOUNDIN'. For CARS, Carlos animated several scenes with the two Italian cars Guido and Luigi (he describes them as two of the funniest characters he has ever animated) and received an Annie Award nominated for his work. For RATATOUILLE, he worked mostly on the chief villain Skinner, who expresses his anger in many subtle and funny ways.