Update

Surprisingly, I have been receiving a lot of questions about my vlog!

First, I was just shocked that people actually read my blog.

I mean, it's not even good!

But, anyways, my vlog is having issues. I'm still trying to do it, but the footage that I have gathered so far has been destroyed.

This sunday I went on campus with my parent's little DV camera (the only one I have at my disposal), and filmed all the church footage I needed.

The next day I checked the footage out, and discovered that everything I shot was all jumbled, and completely unwatchable.

This is no good, but as soon as I can get my hands on a working camera, I will start filming once again, and my vlog will be posted in no time!

Mission: Mesmerization

Does anyone have that one thing memorized from when you were a kid?

-The Gettysburg Address

-Scripture Mastery from seminary

-A poem you had to recite

For me, it's a poem. It's been three years, which I understand isn't a long time, but I still have it memorized.

It's actually a very depressing poem, but for some reason I really like it.

I Am by John Claire

I am. Yet what I am non cares or knows.

My friends forsake me like a memory lost.

I am the self consumer of my woes,

They rise and vanish in oblivious host.

And yet I am, and live like vapors tost.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,

into the living sea of waking dreams,

but the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems.

Even the dearest that I love the best are strange,

nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod,

A place where women never smiled nor wept,

There to abide with my creator God,

to sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,

The grass below, above the vaulted sky.

It's funny how I can memorize this, and yet I struggle with remembering the little things in life.

Mission: Vlog

Obviously, I am not so good at this whole blog thing.

I never seem to be consistent in my posts,

My writing is horrible,

and I just can't ever seem to come up with good things to write about.

It took me a year to figure out that I don't have to write a blog in order to share opinions.

I can actually do what I'm good at in order to pass messages along.

That is why I am starting a Vlog.

Documentary film is my favorite form of visual arts, so I am going to (try to) make a weekly vlog of my life, or just life in general, here in Provo.

Now, to some this may seem stupid, but it is actually going to be directed to non-LDS people.

If you have lived, or grown up in Utah as a Mormon, daily traditions that are normal to you, are not anywhere else. Just the way we act here in Provo, is different. I'm not talking in a negative way, I just mean different.

I want to show people that there is no reason to be afraid or hate the Mormon culture. There are some traditions I, myself, disagree with, but that doesn't mean you should hate the people and their intentions.

Some examples of what I want to film are: clothes shopping, dating, family dinner, weeknights, classes at BYU, etc.

It's the little things that make up the culture, and now people can see what the similarities and differences actually are.

Mission: Pick-ups

Have you ever exhausted yourself on a project so much, that you just can't even think about it anymore?

Th

is is me right now!

Cimmeria Grove is going great, but I've been working on it for the past year and three months. That is a long time for a college student.

We are so close to finishing, but we still have to shoot some pick-ups this week. Now that festivals are seriously just around the corner, we need to crack buckle down and get to work!

This seems simple, right?

Wrong!

Now that I have overworked myself with this film, I have no desire to think of it. Every once in a while I get this thought in my head saying, "Hey, how about that Cimmeria Grove? you should get to that." Then, I never do.

Luckily DJB is there for me, or else I wouldn't finish...probably.

Secretly, I think DJB is having the same problem as me, though.

This might be a problem for my future career.