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Farther Than the Eye Can See
North America City Tour
Boulder, Denver, New York, Marblehead, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Taos, Toronto, Banff:

On the Way to Banff
Erik's new billboard in the Denver airport. Other passengers were horrified to see me with my hand over his eyes.

26 October 2003 Montreal International Adventure Film Festival
Erik Weihenmayer signing his book, 'Touch the Top' with friend Randy Ferguson of Mountain Hardwear Canada. Randy was our host to the festival where Farther Than the Eye Can See was awarded the Grand Prize.

Photo by Michael Brown

12 October 2003 Taos Mountain Film Festival
Farther Than the Eye Can See awarded Best of Festival at the Taos Mountain Film Festival. Sorry, no image. Come to think of it, email us a good picture of Taos to use and the photographer of the best image will get a free DVD. It should be 500 pixels wide and close to that tall. send entries taosphoto@seracfilms.com and we will provide a photo credit and a link, if you like.

Thanks and thanks to Jonathan Slater and his team for putting on a great festival.

8 October 2003 Filmmakers of Farther Than the Eye Can See
Director Michael Brown, Executive Producer Les Guthman, Producers Chris Blum and Joshua Colover of Aperture Films. Thanks to Chris and Josh for putting this screening together. It is a great evening for all of us.

Photo by Dave D'Angelo

8 October 2003 Proud Director Michael Brown
Michael Standing below the sign at the Writers Guild Theater. It is a good day when your film screens to a packed house at the Writers Guild Theater.

Photo by Dave D'Angelo

8 October 2003 Getting ready for the big night
Dave D'Angelo on a shopping spree. Gotta have nice duds and cool shoes for the Hollywood Premier of our film.

Television Executive
Les Guthman Executive Producer of Outside Television in his 70th floor office in downtown Los Angeles.

Les is the executive producer of two of our most successful films, In the Shadow of the Condor and Farther Than the Eye Can See.

Thank you for supporting our filmmaking Les!

7 October 2003 Marina
Gordon Brown next to his sailboat in Marina del Rey. We'll take take it out for sail later if the weather improves.

Check out Gordon's website here...

7 October 2003 Marina Del Rey
Hanging out on Gordon Brown's boat. Checking the election results. Today Califonia voters will decide if they want to terminate the governor and place Arnold in office.

I'll be back.

Credit
Oops, Credit! The picture and video below were taken by my good friend Rebecca Ho. Thanks Rebecca!

4 October 2003 Windsurf
A little video test, Michael taking off from shore. Guess we'll have to learn kite-boarding next.
Video clip

4 October 2003
Michael Brown windsurfing in the Bay.

Photo by Rebecca Ho

4 October 2003, Larry Russo
A good friend and mentor to Serac Adventure Films for many years, Larry Russo, has lots of gear and always extends an invitation to go windsurfing. Larry teaches and his specialty is teaching women. Thanks to him there are many more women (more than 200) than there otherwise would be in the still male dominated sport.

1 October 2003 San Francisco
The Larkspur Ferry across the bay to the Sebastian house for a great dinner.

Tomorrow night we screen Farther than the Eye Can See at the Herbst Theater.

Read the story on MountEverest.net

24 September 2003 Marblehead, MA
Each Wednesday night in Summer the Boston Yacht Club hosts the Wednesday Evening Series sail races. Loads of fun, especially for new sailors.

Tomorrow night we will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for a screening of Farther Than the Eye Can See.

24 September 2003 Atlantea
Wednesday night series sailboat race. 80 years of sailing experience between Gary Swain and the Skipper David Felsenthal. The rest of the crew are Judy King, Elaine Chu, Kevin Stotts, Jennifer Richards and filmmaker Michael Brown. We are sailing on Atlantea and we are winning the race!

20 September 2003 New York City
Aircraft Carrier Intrepid: In the final stages of the Balance Bar 24 Hour Adventure Race the participants rappell from the bow of the Aircraft carrier Intrepid before climbing back up to the deck on rope webs. They then tie into a zip line that splashes them into the Hudson river and off to the finish line.

19 September 2003 New York City
Grand Central Station: We are scouting around part of the course for the adventure race.

19 September 2003 New York City
Yes we look like tourists in NYC because we actually look up at the buildings. They look cool actually and today especially because the fast moving clouds reflect in all the windows. What a great place! So far the restaurants have been phenomenal too.

18 September, New York
Reunion of the Colorado production crew. We all worked on the Beaver Creek Balance Bar 24 Hour Adventure Race as well, thanks to Octagon. From left to right Rob Stookey, Scott Ogle, Michael Brown, Cathy Cooper, Gene Moffett and Reid Nelson.
Photo by Marni Deutsch, all other photos by Michael Brown

18 September 2003
Early this morning in NYC, 'Hells Kitchen'. Looks like we will get some wind and rain from Hurricane Isabel starting tonight. Today we will head out to scout shooting locations.

17 September 2003
That's my plane to NYC. Thank you Sally Berg for putting together this whole trip itinerary. It gets a little complicated with all of these cities and my inevitable changes. You are the best.

17 September 2003
New adventure, this time in the USA. Sunrise from the office window at Serac Adventure Films. Michael is off to NYC for the Balance Bar 24 Hour Adventure Race. After the shoot he will be in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Taos, New Mexico for screenings of Farther Than the Eye Can See.