Hey Everyone!
So, I'm posting my latest video, and it's a little lame. I'll be the first to admit it. A big part of that is that my computer dies every time I go to edit. So all my cool effects and taking out my babbling just can't happen right now. Sorry about that. This will probably deter you from watching the video, but the beginning isn't bad.
In case you didn't watch the video, though, I have an exciting announcement!! I'm going to be in a movie!! It's called Something to Fear, and it's an independent horror film. Right now we're still in rehearsals, but we're going to start shooting really soon. The sweatshirt in the video is merchandise from the movie (available for your purchase now!!), and it's really comfortable. (I'm not just saying that because merchandise is included in my contract percentage!)
So, anyway, now you know! We'll be premiering in July, so anyone that wants tickets, let me know!!
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Phone Messages
I'm NOT feeling good and I have thesis anxiety. However, here is a recent YouTube video because I have sadly neglected my beautiful blog.
I feel like a crack monkey, and from Sandip's comments, I'm acting like one, too. Stupid allergies and colds and the medicine that allows me to breathe but takes away my ability to function in reality. BLEH.
I feel like a crack monkey, and from Sandip's comments, I'm acting like one, too. Stupid allergies and colds and the medicine that allows me to breathe but takes away my ability to function in reality. BLEH.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Epic FAIL!!!!
This is one of my very favorite videos on YouTube.... I could watch it over and over again. AWESOME!!!
Hope you enjoy!!
Hope you enjoy!!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Project for Awesome!
Hey everybody!
I just wanted to clue you in on a youtube phenomenon called "Project for Awesome." This project involves many YouTubers posting videos about favorite charities and non-profits in order to make the world a better place by raising awareness. Most of the videos have been pretty fun, and I just wanted to share my submission. Here ya go:
Thanks for watching!!
I just wanted to clue you in on a youtube phenomenon called "Project for Awesome." This project involves many YouTubers posting videos about favorite charities and non-profits in order to make the world a better place by raising awareness. Most of the videos have been pretty fun, and I just wanted to share my submission. Here ya go:
Thanks for watching!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
We be jammin'
Hey guys!!!
So, I made another Youtube video that seemed like fun to share. I'm sort of learning how to play guitar and/or bass. Except that I'm not at all. But, every time I'm near a guitar or bass and one of my rockstar friends, I ask them to show me things. So... here is a video of some of what happens:
As you can see, it's not very exciting. But still, I played actual notes. That's better than nothing. That's really all I have to say because I'm working on my thesis and textual analysis. So, I should get back to it! Laters!
So, I made another Youtube video that seemed like fun to share. I'm sort of learning how to play guitar and/or bass. Except that I'm not at all. But, every time I'm near a guitar or bass and one of my rockstar friends, I ask them to show me things. So... here is a video of some of what happens:
As you can see, it's not very exciting. But still, I played actual notes. That's better than nothing. That's really all I have to say because I'm working on my thesis and textual analysis. So, I should get back to it! Laters!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sarah's gone political
Yes, the message can be both me and Gov. Palin. But I have a couple of things that I want to show you all. One is serious, the other.... not so much.
First, I wanted to post Deepak Chopra's message that I received in my e-mail.
"Obama and The Palin Effect
From: Deepak Chopra
Posted: September 4th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the National psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week.
On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure.
Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other."
For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.
--Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is."
The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good.
The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise."
I would now like to post something a little more fun, if not less telling about Gov. Palin.... I'm hoping it embeds, but if not, please go to this website:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/
I know, very little of me went into this message, but I feel like these two messages say it better than I can.....
Here's one of me....
There's no real point to that video, but I love how I get completely derailed by the chocolate sauce. All other concerns flew out the window in comparison to the chocolate sauce. It was a very desperate time in Peru, for me..... Later days!
First, I wanted to post Deepak Chopra's message that I received in my e-mail.
"Obama and The Palin Effect
From: Deepak Chopra
Posted: September 4th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the National psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week.
On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure.
Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other."
For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.
--Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is."
The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good.
The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise."
I would now like to post something a little more fun, if not less telling about Gov. Palin.... I'm hoping it embeds, but if not, please go to this website:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/
I know, very little of me went into this message, but I feel like these two messages say it better than I can.....
Here's one of me....
There's no real point to that video, but I love how I get completely derailed by the chocolate sauce. All other concerns flew out the window in comparison to the chocolate sauce. It was a very desperate time in Peru, for me..... Later days!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Attempting to embed a video...
Hey guys!!
I am all about the YouTube phenomenon now. I've got four videos up and more coming!!! Anyways, I thought I would try embedding one of them in my blog. Here it goes:
We'll see how that went now....
I am all about the YouTube phenomenon now. I've got four videos up and more coming!!! Anyways, I thought I would try embedding one of them in my blog. Here it goes:
We'll see how that went now....
Sunday, June 22, 2008
First day at Machu Picchu
This is from my first day, on part of the Inca trail.... The mountain in the background??? Yeah, that´s the one I climbed the next day!!! No idea if I´m saying anything embarrasing. I don´t have headphones, so I just don´t know!
I found this internet place to upload, so I´m hoping it all turns out!!!
Huayna Picchu and her more famous sibiling: Machu Picchu!!
The famous rock out face and the famous Machu Picchu!!
A guy with the EXACT same camera took this with his wide angle lense!! Ithaca is gorges, but so is Machu Picchu!!!
I had to get a fedora, in the land of fedoras, and what better one to get than an Indiana Jones style fedora!!!! I am actually doing a cool leap of faith kind of thing in this picture, but you´re missing out on the coolness. However, I´ve got the hat, so it has to be awesome, right?? (Theme music plays!)
I hope you enjoy my mini-tour of the top of Huayna Picchu!! Although I thought I was going to die (many, many times) on the way up, it was totally worth it!! Of course, if I died, it probably would´ve been less worth it... It was an absolutely amazing experience, and I totally bonded with a lot of people on the way!!
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