:30 sec Trigon Commercial BlueCross/BlueShield

Ok, so today while I'm on campus I met these random guys while kickin' it at a table in the Wilk terrace. Long story short, they showed me this hilarious video and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to post on my blog about it. Basically in the video this little boy (seen above) is trying to explain what he saw while watching a movie with his Mom.
I found a site that had a decent looking file so here it is. Check it out. You can also see it on google video. (Make sure you click the little carrot on the bottom right of the video screen if you go to google video and make sure the file is set to the original size rather than full screen or fill to window. It looks a lot better that way and runs smoother.)

Blogging for Newbies

So today someone asked me what a blog was. My friend Seth and I were able to give him a short decent answser I thought. And then later today I came across this post on Scripting News (curtosy of bizstone) and thought it was a good read; Bizstone desribes it as a good way to explain blogging to a newbie , and I think I would agree (and that's coming from a newbie).

Just Downloaded the Blogger Widget

I'm not sure how practical this widget will be in my actual usage, but it seems kinda cool. I'm actually using it to write this post. Dang, I love macs.
-google widgets-

Cake Day

So this girl that Jason knows (her name is Seretta...like Beretta but with an "S" for "Supergreatcakedecorator") is in this cake decorating class and she invited us over tonight for cake. It was rad. As you can tell from the pics, they look great, especially the one that looks like a freakin tree trunk! You might not be able to tell from how small the pic is, but that's bark on the side of the tree trunk cake (Ok, not really; she melted chocolate chips into a thin layer and then broke it up into bark-like pieces.) All and all, it was quite a tasty evening. Now I'm on a sugar high and can't fall asleep. Thus, I'm up late once again posting on my blog.

Familiar Insults

Some of you know that I spent my three day weekend volunteering on a student film shoot (Justin Cook's 419 project). It was a blast. I'm excited to see it come together in post production. I was able to work with some great people on the shoot and learn a lot as well. It was definately a worth while experience and an enjoyable (if not a little stressful and tiring) way to spend the holiday weekend.
My capacity in the making of the film was thus:
Best Boy: Grip
I was also able to begin my big acting debut as a stand-in during one scene, and was able to do some gaffing as well.

I've included some sweet pics that I took with my cell phone on the shoot of several car mounts Derick (Key Grip) and I rigged up. The setup we had for the sidemount was interesting. There are a ton of these medal pieces you can piece together all kinds of ways.
"You're only limited by your imagination." Right Derick?
Also, I have this great pic I took of this little saying that was painted on the back of this roach coach. When Johannes and I saw it we both whipped out our camera phones.

Random Fact: What the eye really sees

"We make the bars in bar graphs and histograms equal in width because the eye responds to their area. That's roughly true. Careful study by statistician William Cleveland shows that our eyes "see" the size of a bar in proportion to the 0.7 power of its area. Suppose, for example, that one figure in a pictogram is both twice as high and twice as wide as another. The area of the bigger figure is 4 times that of the smaller. But we see the size of the bigger figure as 2.6 times the smaller, because 2.6 is 4 to the 0.7 power."

Moore, David S. Statistics: concepts and controversies. 5th ed. New York: W. H. freeman and Company, 2001.

Apologies from the Management

So...my last attempt at posting this new game: Warehouse was somewhat of a failure. Please stay tuned. I will try to fix the problem sometime this week.

SNL - Lazy Sunday: The Chronicles of Narnia Rap

So, my sister and her boyfriend showed me this video over Christmas break and then I just saw a post about it on my friend's blog and it made me smile. I'm providing a link to the video at the end of the post. I think you need quicktime 6 for it to work.

You can also just go to Steph's blog and go to the link she has for it. The only problem is that her link is to a copy of it on google video and the quality just isn't very good (no offense Steph, I do like you...and I do like google video).
Anyways, check it out. It's awesome.
SNL - Lazy Sunday: The Chronicles of Narnia Rap

Game of the Week: Tanks

So, I don't really know if it's the "game of the week" per se, but that phrase just kind of sounds good. I highly doubt I'll add a new game every week. Escpecially since this game is so cool.
I found it the other day and ended up getting quite distracted for awhile. I hope it can help distract you from some of your school work or whatever for a little while. Enjoy.

(I had some minor difficulties posting the flash file within this post so the game is actually at the bottom of my blog page. Scroll down and check it out).

How to Pimp Slap

So after seeing the words "pimp slap" in a comment on a friends blog I thought to myself..."hmmm....this topic is due for some further investigation." After a few moments of "investigational research" (aka...googling) I found this marvelous website, www.playerappreciate.com On this website, we find the proper way to deliver a pimp slap. So...just so you all know:

Google video???...Google, thou dost rock!

It looks like google has devoted a page to video hosting commercials from the superbowl. All you ad peeps out there....I'm making it easy for you to check them out. Just click on the link below.

Click Me Click Me

Jason Joins the World of Blogging

Well friends, it looks like Jason Graham has joined us. With our special influences he has decided to create a blog of his own. He calls it: Jasonity... A State of My Mind. I don't know about anyone else, but anywhere in Jason's mind might be kind of...shall we say "different."
Lets put it this way: Jasonity is not a place you want to live...it's not the kind of place you buy your first home, or raise your first couple of kids (probobly not any of your kids for that matter), but it is a place that everyone should visit from time to time. So...that said, I hope you all take a jaunt on over to Jasonity and check it out...maybe even add his blog to your sidebar. Heck, considering how much lack of motivation he has for school...he might very well pass me up in number of posts posted since starting my blog. Heck, he just started the blog like an hour ago and I think he's already surpassed McGowan's Blog... :)

Brokeback to the Future

I wonder if Larry Miller would allow this movie to be shown in his theater. When you have a minute, check out the trailer to Brokeback to the Future. Haha...

New York Doll

So...on the subject of great movies. If you haven't seen New York Doll, now would be an excellent time to see it. It's definately a movie you don't want to miss watching in the theater and right now it's at the dollar theater here in Provo. (Pace, you have no excuse. It's cheaper now in the theater then it will be for you to rent it).

Mr. Dungbeetle

So, tonight I went to the cast and crew screening of Mr. Dungbeetle. A feature length film written and directed by Tom Russel and produced by Jeff Parkin (both BYU film professors). I admire and respect both of these men. They are amazing. And I must say, the film was a true reflection of that fact. If any of you ever get the opportunity to see this film (whether there's another screening sometime or it's picked up by a major distributor) do not hesitate to see it. There's a powerful message of faith, love, and healing in the film that I think embodies, to some respect, the truths that we as members of the gospel of Jesus Christ hold dear.

Outdoor Retailer Convention

So Saturday I went to the Outdoor Retailer Convention (held in Salt Lake in the Salt Palace) with two of my friends: Chris Raver, and Ryan Gardner (partners in an online retail store for climbing, hiking, and camping equipment called Camp4Gear). For all of you advertising/marketing peeps out there, I highly recommend going to a convention if the opportunity ever arises. Strictly from that perspective, it was a great experience.
What made it even better was the fact that I won a free backpack full of cool stuff from a raffle drawing at the Leave No Trace booth. It was sweet.

Velour

For those of you in the Provo music seen I thought I would let you know that there is a new music venue in town. Yes, there's actually a good place for bands to play in Provo!
Opening night was last weekend, and it was great. I went Saturday and watched Between Sleep and Sound, Taught Me, and Return to Sender perform. I had heard "of" but never heard any of these bands play and they all put on a great performance. The venue is way sweet. I hope everyone and anyone who likes live music and wishes to support the local music here in Provo will check the place out at: http://velourlive.com/

You ever have one of those days?

So, I haven't posted in a long while and I need to repent. Since there's no school tomorrow I figure I'd take advantage of it by updating (to some extent my blog) haha.

Anyways, have you ever had one of those days where it just seems like no matter what you do, you can't get a date? haha.
I think it's just funny. You call one girl, and she's busy that day. You call another, but she doesn't answer the phone...so there's the question: do you leave a message??? If you do, depending on what you say, you risk the chance of locking yourself in. What happens if she doesn't call back until the day before the anticipated date??? You can't ask someone else out until you hear back from her and know that she can't go...
So, you decide to leave a generic message and just say you wanted to "see how she was doing, etc, etc" and ask her to call you back. You call another girl (we're on 3 in case you lost count). She doesn't answer either so you decide to not leave a message this time.
By this point you still haven't heard back from any of the girls and the day for the date is fast approaching. You're by no means a Casanova...so you don't have a never ending list of girls you can call. You decide to call a girl you've just met in the ward that you're only minutely interested in....and guess what. She's busy that day too, but is genuinelly busy and says stuff like "you'll have to call me again sometime," "I'd love to do something some other time....blah blah blah." So not only have you attempted asking 4 different girls for this date and still have nothing to show for it. This girl whom you are only minutely intersted in is now expecting you to call and ask her out again.
It's just been one of those days...

it's so over

I have like negative-finity motivation to do any school work whatsoever.

quite possibly the best $5 I've ever spent for a concert

OK, so it was actually $10 because I had a date, but holy cow what a show. I went to this place called Mo's Bar and Grill to see a friend of mine (Mick Coon) and his band (MadisonSomething) play. Our friendship goes back to the good ol' days of high school, and I think the last time I saw him was for like 2 years ago for like 5 minutes at his wedding reception...or maybe it was his brothers, I can't remember...it was that long ago.
Anyways, I'm digressing. Mick really wanted to touch base since I'm down here in Provo and he's living in Salt Lake with his wife. He was dieing to have me come up and hear his band so invited me up to Fridays show.
It was awesome!
If any of you have the opportunity to go to one of their shows...do it.
Overall their music is just chill, smooth, almost jazzy at times, and yet poppy and with an edge of rock in there keeping things real.
Mick (vocals) great voice that's easy to listen to and yet has this hint of roughness to it that lends itself to a great sound.
Mike (guitar and sax) allthough he appears at times to be expressing no emotion in his body language the solos coming out of that sax and guitar scream otherwise.
Nate (drums) he makes it look easy
Jake (keyboard and back vocals) somebody needs to put this kid in a straight jacket! the insane amounts of energy that he channels behind that keyboard to the stage and to the rest of the band make for an incredible show
Michael (bass) he's just solid...and then out of nowhere he starts harmonizing witih Mick and Jake...then when you think that's all he freakin goes off on this bass solo like it's nobody's business and it's like (jaw dropping sweet)

The set started off great and then after maybe 40 -50 minutes into the thing they took a short break, then came back out for another 40-50 minute go at it. The finished strong and then after cries for an encore, came back out and played two more songs, one of which turned into something like a 10 minute improv jam session where each member of the band in turn just went ballistic on their instruments and then the keyboardist jumped from stage and proceeded to do the robot around the venue and then busted into a breakdance routine.

There was just an amazing energy at that show.

I guess what I'm saying is CHECK THEM OUT at madisonsomething.com (there's a link over on my sidebar). and if they ever come to Provo...man, what a treat Provo is in for.