in the midst of a crazy week--Dordt Discovery Days video and Jubilee--i thought i'd post a picture.

here's me now:

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rumor has it i can just attach pictures through blogger now. what a deal. no more third party ness for me. wooohooo!

so this picture is from last weekend when i was in strawberry point. im the one on the right and jasmine is the one on the left. (in case you were having trouble)

i've had a slow coupla days lately. i'm resting up for next week, that's what i tell me self. and it works. next week is the crazy busy week. here's what's going on: filming dordt discovery days video. editing dordt discovery days video by friday. filming jubilee events wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday. two plays, and many other live events. how exciting!

i'm not really fan of live events, they require so much prethought, and good execution. it's not that i don't like to do goo execution, but it's hard for me. i like to be able to go back and do it again, or re-edit. but it will be good for me to do.

so i watched the last half of this year's west wing season over the past few days. it was about 9 episodes i guess. i missed a few because my family accidently erased them. i really enjoyed it. i'm quite impressed ingeneral of the camera work in the west wing. it's very non-traditional for a tv series. lots of fluid camera work. lots of dolly shots. lots of planning. not a lot of shot reverse shot. in fact they used that in the second or third to last episode, quite a bit, and i noticed....i wasn't used to it in the west wing. i was also impressed and glad that for the final episode at the democratic convention they decided to use a more documentary feel. they did a lot of snap zooms and it felt like we were just getting all the information right now....behind the scenes almost, it was a very good choice.

did they win an emmy this year? i don't pay attention to those tv awards. what a snob.

i watched "He loves me, He love me Not" last night. it was really good. it had audrey tatou (sp?) in it. she is amazing. very good actress, and very cute. and even though she can play the innocent very well, she does play crazy pretty good too. maybe there is a connection.

it's a french film. and i usually have this thing against sub-titles, because i read slow (i think), but it wasn't bad in this film. i think french film is easier to watch than other foriegn film--because it is more visual--from my experience.

to my cousin jon: i'd rather watch a movie in the theatre. better sound, better picture usually, and a big audience usually makes a movie better. there are instances where an audience can be annoying or a bad picture (orange city? anyone?), but the theatre experience out weighs those things for me. but i am very partial to watching movie on my tv. not anyone elses. with my component input and my surround sound. it makes going to someone elses for a movie a lot harder.

i'm enjoying a saturday at home. no traveling or working, just watching some good television and sleeping in late.

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art number two.

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number one art.

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so, i haven't blogged for a few weeks. i guess i've been busy doing lots of work and traveling.

spent some time in strawberry point visiting jasmine's parents. she threw them a surprise 30th anniversary party. it was fun. i had a little to do with it, but it was mostly her organizing and doing. they were really surprised. it was about a week before their actual anniversary, which helped the surprise, but all of their friends kept their mouths shut, which is fairly impressive. when we got their jasmine was most worried that she or i would accidently spill the beans. be we did our jobs and they were surprised.

i also helped jasmine with zippity zoo day, two weekends ago. it was a carnival at the zoo, and i took pictures. i enjoyed it. the weather was supposed to be horrible, but it was actually a near perfect day. really nice for taking pictures--overcast, and then it got sunny in the afternoon.

i've been doing some new art lately. i use photoshop and vector masks. i really enjoy it. in fact i spent most of last week trying to find free time to work on it.

we bought dad tivo for father's day. he was surprised and he likes it.

i guess that's what i'm up to lately. i'll try to put some images up of my art.

jack.

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visited matthew gerrard and brielle this weekend in grinnell. i'm quite sure i spelled that wrong. grinell is about 5 hours away, and it was a good time. we saw madagascar together, it was funny. we played a settlers game, that was fun (i lost).

we sat around, we walked downtown, we walked every where. it was good. saw some cool stores. brielle works at a super cool paper store. it's really interesting stuff.

lig=life in general is good. i feel a little overwhelmed by my four odd jobs. even though they are all going very well, i'm just anxious i guess to get the hours all in. i probably shouldn't be too worried, but i am.

this whole blogging thing is weird to me. i guess it's weird because i don't have any idea who reads it. i don't know if i'm really generic or if i'm too specific. i'm not sure what people expect when they read this, but i like to write on it.

i was thinking today, whist driving, that if i really want to write, seriously, i need to dedicate some serious time to it. especially if i'm going to write anything good. i can think and ponder all i want, but before i put pen to paper, or fingers to keys, i haven't really accomplished anything. the other thing is i am learning that to do good quality work, requires putting serious time into it. in this case it means time writing. and more and more time. and i don't really feel like i have the hours prioritized to write at the moment. do i'm trying to decide what i want to do right now. i'm not going to quit working, because i need the money, and i enjoy what i'm doing. maybe, i should spend some time working on it between coming home and sleeping. but the problem with that is i'm not sure it will be relaxing or good...think about something long enough and you've already made your decision, to think rather than to do.

today, i've had two instances that senses besides sight reminded me of a memory. i drank some blue moon beer, and it reminded me of drinking beer at stephens during the fall semester. i ate some pizza that matty loaded up with vegetables, and i flashed back to two summers ago when i had almost the same pizza in his b2 apartment.

i enjoy flashback memories--especially ones that are instigated by smells or tastes.

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