So-cal Media

GAMETIME. Today I received my first trays of the incredible orthodontia technological invention of Invisalign. I'm rockin' them in this pic. Can't tell? Good.




It's been a crazy week. What's new, you ask? These days, every week is crazy. Taking 6 units is a challenge. Sure, I'm in class two days a week for a total of 6 hours. I have loads and loads of reading, but, you say, it's ONLY two classes. Here's the story: last semester, I had 21 units left to take before I was eligible for graduation. I had two options: take 21 units and become a slave to all things academic OR split the 21 into two semesters to allow room for somewhat of a work/social life. I chose to split my remaining units into semesters of 15 and 6. Sure, it's a tad more expensive, but for the sake of the memories, opportunities, and life experience, WELL worth it. So that's where I sit. 6 units. And BOATLOADS of outside-of-school work. Last week, I told you about Mr. Marc Wymore and his kidney transplant. Here's the video again:



This video has been received fantastically, it's been a privilege to watch Marc's story inspire and encourage over 3000 people in the last 3 days. Marc's sister, Corri, sent me this:

 

I am SO honored to be able to work on projects that not only are fantastic stories, but share the love of Christ through real life scenarios. Jesus is embedded in so many stories and I am continually seeking to capture those on film. Mr. Isaac Svensson and I are so excited to see what's next.

This week.

I'll let social media tell you a little about this week.


Yesterday:

Valentine's Day (more on this in a later blog):

Other:

And a couple videos:


This is a FANTASTIC&HILARIOUS drum cover of the famous Gangdam Style by America's favorite Korean artist, Psy. This dude is immensly talented, plays traditional, and performs unbelievable satire. The guy is brilliant.



Next: The Harlem Shake. This last week, the Harlem Shake has taken the world by storm. It consists of a 30 second snippet of Baauer's song "Harlem Shake." Let me show you:



And this is my friends, Mr. Ryan Cook, Mr. Sean Cook, Ms. Carley Redpath, and who knows who else.
 

The Harlem Shake is BRILLIANT. I'll tell you why: With a video like Gangdam style, every other video is an imitation of the original by Psy. No matter what the copy is, it always stems back to the original. With the Harlem Shake, however, no one really knows which is the original. Because they are all amateur quality and super low production value, ANYONE can make one and make it look like it was the original. And, because of this, people can be inspired to make their own by watching the original, a copycat, a copy of the copycat, or a 15 generation copycat. It's exponential. This is HUGE for a viral video and is the primary reason the Harlem Shake as EXPLODED this last week.

Lastly, this video was supposed to be embedded last week, but it wasn't. Bummer. This is an incredible movie trailer with a number of techniques that get my creative juices flowing big time. I dig it. Hope you do to.





And that's the post folks! IMMENSE! Lots of social media this week, hope you enjoyed that. Kind of an interesting way to go about it huh?

Challenge: make all social media posts INTENTIONAL. Form them, write them to document your life. Imagine that!

Pictorals

Remember how last week there was a really good blog post with stories and pictures and all sorts of other fun stuff? Well you should probably go read it because this week is unbelievably busy busy busy busy busy busy.  http://emliv.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentined.html

That's why this post is a day late. It's not really late because it was ready to rock yesterday, it's just being posted late because last night was simply too balognay hectic.



I guess I just have a few photos for you.  Because that's all I have time for. Sorries.


TARP-SURFING

A trip to Disneyland with THE FAM BAM.

And a trip into dwntn LOS ANGELES with friends.

It seriously pains me to leave you like this. Which barely nothin.

I'm sorry. I hope you enjoyed the pictures though.


Take a few pictures yourself. Have fun. Shoot anything and everything. Capture life.

Valentined

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Friends, this is the 200th post of this blog. 200. Something else monumental happened this week. 20,000 views. "It's Wednesday!" has been viewed 20,000 separate times since it's creation in 2008.  And this is the 200th post.  It's been quite the journey, people.  This thing has survived through the best of times, the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the epoch of incredulity. This thing has survived through times of drought, through times of abundance, through times of obviousness, through times of mystery. 

20,000 views from you, the reader. 200 posts from me, the writer. Thank you. Seriously.

It was raining today. Rain is the pits. I'm not going go into that.

Don't mistake me though, today was great! Other than the rain. Here. Take a look. I took this picture about a half an hour ago right outside my apartment:

This rainbow rainblew my mind. The picture doesn't do the real thing justice, this rainbow was off-the-wall vivid, the colors radiated through the sky and pierced my pupils, making my eyes get real big, forcing me to take off running, grabbing my roommates to check out the "they're-after-me-lucky-charms" extravaganza.

Rainbows are up there on my "favorite things" list.  It's a promise given to us by our Creator. And a reminder. Unreal. In awe. Awesome.

¹³ I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. - Genesis 9:13-15

So yesterday was St. Valentine's Day. This was me yesterday, during St. Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day is one of bizarre-est holiday's on this planet.  It's a day about love... I guess. I enjoy watching the festivities take place. Lots of roses, lots of holding hands, lots of smoochy smooches. I wore my Grandpa's Sun Maid Raisin's hat and my 101 Dalmatians tie from Ms. Ellie Mullins.  Red and white, red and white.  Good day, no doubt.

The night is better though. So my Tuesday's are crazy, I've got class for hours and hours on end.  I get out of class at 10:00 PM and head back to Tropicana and find an apartment full of girls who were previously going to see The Vow but had bowed out and bought the newest Twilight movie instead, insisting on a movie night. So what did I do? Well, I watched a movie I've only heard girls squeal about. I watched a movie about vampires, werewolves, weddings, and love. I watched a movie that millions upon millions of people, mostly of the female kind, absolutely adore. I watched Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 with a bunch of girls and a couple dudes. I also ate chocolate, a lot of chocolate. 

So, the movie ended, the girls swooned, the guys gaffed. The Ms. Amanda Cooper had this brilliant idea: "LET'S GO TO THE BEACH!" It was 1:30 AM. Earlier that day, I had eaten a Dove chocolate and this is what it read:

Friends, end of story. We had to go. So we took off, Ms. Amanda Cooper, Ms. Veronica Luckey, and Ms. Brittany Watts, Mr. Ben Jacuk and I took a drive to Seal Beach in the middle middle of night.

It was cold, real cold.  It was also strangely reminiscent to the madness that was the Kids of the Run all-night-bonfire-party that took place last semester (take a gander at that story here, near the end: http://emliv.blogspot.com/2011/11/tick-tock.html). Seal Beach is an interesting beach, very industrial. Also, I had IMMENSE stomach pains the entire time, I think it was the massive amounts of chocolate I ate while feasting my eyes on Twilight.  BUT, definitely definitely definitely a good time. Spontaneous events like this make life just THAT much better. Seriously. Here's a picture of us laying perhaps a little too close to the water on the frigid sand.  Good times.

We ended up getting back to Tropicana around 4 in the morning. It was early. It was late. I'm sure we all had problems getting up/staying awake the next day (today). But you know what? It was all worth it, all 100% of it. This is memories in the making. These are memories in the making. Then BOOM, we've got a memory. It's a beautiful thing.

And I believe that is all there is to report on! I always enjoy blog posts like this, blog posts with stories, blog posts that are interesting to read, look at, watch. I hope you do too.

I'm going to pass Dove's advice onto you:

DO SOMETHING SPONTANEOUS!