Just To Be With You

Hello Everyone,
I don't know if you've gotten a chance to see the short film that some friends and I made a couple weeks ago for Apple's Insomnia Film Festival. It was a 24 hour film festival where we have to think of an idea, shoot it, edit it, and submit it within 24 hours. The 3 minute film is about a blind guy and his deaf girlfriend who are going to the movies because they want to get out of the house and just spend time together. It was a lot of fun and good work. We have a friend who works at the local movie theater and we got in before it opened and we set-up our two scenes, the entrance and the theater. Then we shot for 6 straight hours! We had a bunch of our friends come out and be extras which was nice on short notice. I really like the point of view shots of the guy, who is blind, so he doesn't see much other than darkness but he has great hearing while his girlfriend, who is deaf, hears muffled sounds but has great vision. But my favorite part of the shoot was when we set-up the lighting for the movie theater; since the actual movie projector didn't reflect a lot of light onto the crowd, we had to make it up. So I set-up a couple of lights and we just moved colored gels in front of them. It was a lot of fun. So tell your friends and family and coworkers to check out "Just To Be With You" by JARRA Films on Apple Insomnia Film Festival. Here is a link...I hope it works:

http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/item.php?itemID=1635&condition=2

Thanks again!

TWIRP

Well TWIRP was last weekend I think. Its where as a school, the girls ask the guys out for the weekend. We do a lot of crazy stuff. This year we went to the Barnum and Bailey's Circus, Ice Skating, had Panda Express cater, went to a Corn Maze, rented out a movie theater, had a giant pillow fight, and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember. So a friend of mine, Olivia, asked me and we went with my two friends and roommates Adam and Kyle, they were asked by Olivia's friends. Every year for TWIRP we have a theme, this years theme was Noah's Ark. Our dates went as the people who didn't believe that the flood would occur so they had swim gear and whatnot. Us guys on the other hand went as "Water", but we just wanted to paint our body blue so we're kind like the Blue Man Group. People loved it! Hope you like it. I don't know how my blue rubbed off.

Random Pics

Here are some random pictures of some stuff I've been up to. My friend Adam and myself visited an abanonded cement factory on the border of Idaho and Oregon so we checked it out. This is actually where I hope to shoot some of my senior film. Fingers crossed!!! Then our Mass Comm department had a grip seminar and we learned a lot. It was great. Here I am with my friend Rodney in a tulip crane. Very neat! Here's my friend Nasty Nate putting me in a headlock. And then we had a broom hockey night where we seniors every year have dominated the competition! Go WINGS!

New Haircut??

Hello everyone. Its been awhile since I posted anything. Sorry. Just been really busy workin' on school work and having fun. So a couple roommates of mine persuaded me to do something different with my hair. We buzzed it; I haven't done that since Ian buzzed Leo and my head like when I was in elementary school. Here it is.

316 Sheridan

Finally!!! I got pics of our house. We cleaned it up cause we're throwing a party for the premiere of Merv Griffin's Crosswords. We are one street over from campus but I can see Wiley which is the building that all my classes are in so it is real close. There are 6 guys living here: 2 bedrooms upstairs that 4 people share and 2 bedrooms in the basement.



Well this is 316 Sheridan. We have a nice fenced front yard. We grill and toss the football around. We have 5 cars and 1 motorcycle so parking is always a mess here but we manage somehow.





Yep these are roses. We try to keep them nice. We usually cut some and put them in a vase for when girls come over. Yet we are all still single.



Right when you walk in the front door, to your right is our upstairs living room/music room. We just got a friend to lend us her drum set and we have 2 electric guitars as well as 4 acustic guitars and 1 bass. So my friends Matt and Andrew and I jam out...whenever we feel like it. Sometimes real late.



This is looking to your left when you walk in the front door. This is our dining room and kitchen area then to the right it goes to our laundry and the basement.





This is our "dining room table". We don't really use it except in the morning when we eat breakfast. We stare out at our neighbors.



So when you walk into the house straight back to the left is where Matt and Andrew live. They have the biggest room cause they have the most stuff.



Another angle of Matt and Andrew's room.



So when you walk into the house straight back to the right is where Kyle and myself live. My bed is the one straight ahead with the green sheets. My desk is right next to it where I work on homework. The bookshelf next to my desk is shared by both of us.



Kyle's desk and bed are on the left. Then we split the closet in half so we each have our own sides.



Our laundry.



So to go down to our basement we put up some movie posters since we watch a lot of movies down there.



When you come down the stairs on the left we have a ping pong table that came with the house where we have competitions. I'm terrible at it but its fun. We have some big movie posters too down here.



We then have the couches around the tv and all our DVDs out. Between my friend Adam and I, we have about 500 movies. So we usually check movies out to people.









My friend Adam lives down in the basement. He's got his bed and a desk. The rooms downstairs are pretty small. The two bedrooms share a bathroom so that's nice.



This is Grant's room. It's always messy. That's why he lives alone and in the basement.

Back to School

Hey everyone! Well right now I'm in Oregon visiting with Leo and Jenny so that means I am not in LA any more and am headed back to school. I do have some more pics of LA to put up but I'll do that when I get back to school. I thank you all for being with me on this journey and will keep trying to update even while I'm at school. I am going to be living with 5 other guys in a house right next to campus so I'll get some pictures of it so you all know where I'm living. Thanks for the comments and hopefully I can keep this blog a little interesting. I know I can't keep up with Jamie! She's doin a great job with her blog of the boys. School starts August 28th but I'm heading up to Seattle to stay with a friend until I head over to school. I'll head over to Idaho this coming Wednesday so I can have some time to unpack and rearrange for our new house. Later.

Sailing

Well yesterday, Saturday, myself, my friends Adam and Josiah went sailing with our director, Bob Loudin, and his partner, Steve. Bob has directed many gameshows in particular The New Hollywood Squares. Both him and Steve are nice guys and they took us out on their 42 foot sailboat out of Long Beach. We cruised around the coast for a couple hours, had lunch, then went back. It was a fun experience.





This is Bob, the director of our show.



This is Adam, on the left, and Josiah, on the right.





Here is everyone just hanging out on the boat.





Long Beach off in the distance.







This is just my reflection from an air intake pipe on their boat. Thought it was a fun pic to share.