.: 02.06

A contest to combine two movies and make them better

Exciting

i preform tomorrow for a few hundred people. A swing rountine with Liz (Tinker Bell) and a Country Waltz with Melissa (a girl from another studio. pray for me because i'm feeling slightly nervous. i don't expect to mess up because we've been practicing like crazy but i just want it to be really good. we recorded ourselves to see what we look like and i was disapointed. God's in control. i'll be happy either way.

other excitement. Natasha Friedrichsen is flying into LAX this Friday from Canada. we're going to spend the weekend with my family before she goes to Cal Baptist University. Yeah, Capernwray friends!

i liked this from Josh's blog

Don't take pictures of an object (subject). Take pictures of concepts.

i think it can be applied to all forms of art

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

~Benjamin Franklin

I appologize now for posting this because it's not really my style but i found it interesting

and yes i edited out some for the sake of the children that read this blog

Josh, these remind me of the ones we made at Capernwray which i still haven't got from you. all you have to do is burn a cd and put it in the mail... if you still have them. or maybe it just got lost in the mail because you've already sent it. maybe? maybe not?

Boanerges & Bolingbrokes

[Walker Percy said, "The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be into despair." i like shadows because of how they investigate light; i appreciate putting quality into things, and i'm facsinated at how the world discentigrates at the loss of human touch; i nearly lost my life in a car accident and have gained the parodoxical privelege-curse of looking at the world through a grim-lens that's close to death and full of life; i believe that God created this world to please us, and that people are the crown of his creation, yet due to sin, we are riddled with misplaced affections, splitting us ever further from God (and those things he made to please us). Jesus is the Great Restorer of humanity...]

i took this from his blog because i fould it very interesting. you should read some of his posts. very articulate.

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible"

~Jonathan Swift

Post Surgery

"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."

~Wilferd A. Peterson

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."

~Hans Christian Andersen

i went to visit my family last weekend. it's the first time we've been together for awhile. and here is a picture of Ken with my mom's teacup Pomeranian.

sometimes i have a hard time figuring out who's better looking. hahaha

Happy President's Day

LET GOD BLESS WHOEVER HOLDS THIS OFFICE BECAUSE THEY TAKE ALOT OF CRITICISM

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil, it's about gasoline.

In California, 50 women protested the im pending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio. (Sorry Jimmy)

~Jay Leno

Lost in Direction

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If Canada Ruled Us... Eh?

The last photos every taken

got these forwarded to me by my cousin David in Alabama

To the world of Dreams

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

~Walt Disney

"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it."

~Kin Hubbard

i guess it is a small world after all

A very useful visual thesaurus for any literary project

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"

~Steven Wright

"When I look at you I refuse to believe the world is balanced. There is nothing that could be imagined or created hideous enough to counterpoise your beauty."

~Ian Decour

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

~Neil Armstrong

this is a big part of how i'm going to motivate the student's of Whithall to want to learn. believe it or not, there is still alot of mystery in the world. it is all on how it is presented to your perception. that's part of the reason why so much thought is going into the location and actual building itself. and by the way, someone asked when i started calling it Whitehall. this is just the name given to it while in the formative stage. i did not want to refer to it as 'my school' any longer because when created it won't be. it wasn't even my idea to begin with.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

~Pablo Picasso

lets do our best

Rapid Cognition

I've been reading about how the body begins to shut down one by one different area of the brain in stessfull situations in order to limit the amount of information the brain has to process. This allows use to focus in a stressful situation on the things that are most important, in an extreme example being survival. In extreme situations are body doesn't deem things like bladder control as a necessary use of energy. that's why many people wet themselves during extreme fear. because more energy is devoted to things like sight in these circumstances our brains can process more frames per second (if you will) that is why time often seems to slow down during things like car accidents, high speed chases, shooting a gun to kill. Interesting enough, the last area of the brain left operating when your heart rate is somewhere up above 200 bpm is, i think, somewhere in the frontal lobe. It's the same area of the brain that a dog uses most of the time.

We become purely instinctual. like wild animals. that's why it is so difficult to argue or reason with a person that is afraid or angry. they're not fully using the logical bits of their brain. it's like trying to argue with your dog.

So next time your stressed "Beware of the Dog" because you just might end up proving Nicolas Cage right:

"Maybe we're just two-legged dogs. Maybe that's our best part."

~Nicolas Cage in Lord of War

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it"

Happy Valentines

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Just finished reading this book. It really makes you think but does not have an exact purpose or strong conclusion. It's about rapid cognition and how the brain makes many of our choices for us, especially in high stress situations. His first book "The Tipping Point" was good as well. It was about how psychology affects marketing.

i've been dancing non-stop late into the nights lately prepare for two routines with two different partners for our Feb 26 event. i'll try to record it and find a way so you can see it. (only if it goes well though)

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

~Muhammad Ali

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Saturday, February 25

A contest to combine two movies and make them better

Exciting

Friday, February 24

I appologize now for posting this because it's not really my style but i found it interesting

Boanerges & Bolingbrokes

Thursday, February 23

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible"

Post Surgery

Wednesday, February 22

Tuesday, February 21

Monday, February 20

Happy President's Day

Lost in Direction

Sunday, February 19

If Canada Ruled Us... Eh?

Saturday, February 18

The last photos every taken

Friday, February 17

To the world of Dreams

A very useful visual thesaurus for any literary project

Rapid Cognition

Thursday, February 16

Happy Valentines

"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Wednesday, February 15

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