2 of the sweetest mashups!!!

here's a video i just found in a forum... yeah, i should be studying for my last final, but i found out that its available an hour later than i expected... but yeah, i do still need to pack.

This one was taken from a bunch of instrumental instructional videos that musicians posted on YouTube:



This one was made by a bunch of guys traveling all over the world, getting street musicians to all sing the same song, Stand By Me, and editing it so they sing together. Brilliant.



they've got a bunch more, just search, Playing for Change Song Around the World.

Besides all this funness, Jewelyn and I have finally gotten all of our stuff moved!!! We took loads from my house yesterday and I had to clean my apartment, which was a beast in itself. and then we took a load from Jewelyn's house last night. she has to clean today.

i spent the night for the first time at our new place, and it was great. nice and chilly downstairs. i woke up to JJ hauling stuff in from the car and eating breakfast.

As for finals, i still need to study and take my religion final, and finish my final project for Recording. so... i'm off to do that now... toodles!

Valley 3 News: BYU Brings Caffeine to Campus from Jimmy Newell on Vimeo.

Isn't this the most awesomeist video EVER!? check out all the new can labels! HA!

Surprise!!!

so i actually wrote a new post! go ahead and pat me on the back. :)

things have been really hectic lately. The Book of Jer3miah web series takes up so much of my time, i hardly have time for the really important things (aka. Jewelyn). she's such a good sport though and supports me in all that stuff, which is just one more reason!!! the episodes are being received pretty well. every now and then we get some criticism, but i usually post a comment on the episode sometime after the critique and try to make them feel bad. its fun, trust me.

so if you haven't seen the SNL/Lonely Island music video "I'm on a Boat", you must. if you're sensitive to bleeped out foul language, let me recommend against seeing it. they've done it again... successfully made a high production value music video, with a high production value song, and it just seems like they're goofing around. this song/video is extremely popular for some strange reason on the set of jer3miah, so bryan and i decided to 'remake' the song. how often is there a parody of something done on SNL?

on monday, i wrote all of the music in MIDI, trying to copy each instrument's notes, rhythm, and voice. then on wednesday, bryan and i went into studio Y and recorded me rapping all of the vocals, with words i've been working on for about a week. we used it for this week's lab project. :) so we had to apply all of the effects and mix it in 2 hours or so... but we finished with about a minute to spare. maybe you'll be lucky enough to hear it one day.

wedding plans are going well. we're about 5 weeks out. people ask me if i'm nervous, but i don't really feel nervous. its a new, exciting chapter in my life. nothing to be nervous about. Jewelyn actually just left for her cousin's wedding up in Idaho Falls, so she's gone until sometime on sunday. in the meantime i guess i can catch up on some sleep. :)

web series

so i take it that you noticed that i haven't written on my blog in quite some time. here's a real quick update on the happenings of the past few months. i asked Jewelyn to marry me, and she said yes. (thank goodness) she's so awesome. :) my petition was accepted to the Media Arts program, and i'm actually going to be able to graduate. :)

and the thing in my life right now that is sucking all of my time is working on a web series--The Book of Jer3miah. it's really fun, but is a whole lot of work. Bryan Densley and I do all of the production sound and post-production sound. most of the time we only get a couple days to do our edit, but hopefully as everyone gets in the groove, we'll have a little more time to put some nice touches on everything. check out the widget at the top of my blog and watch all the episodes. :)

...yeah i know, it's been awhile...

if you can believe it, the only reason i found any time to write is because i forgot the power supply to my hard drive and can't edit in the lab... so, as i wait for Cinema History to start, i might as well appease you all by writing a few words.

school has been in for awhile now... several weeks actually, and things are good. i'm taking 16 credit hours, which sometimes feels like more and sometimes feels less... come the end of october though i'll be down 1 class in my

 schedule because it's only a first block class. by far, my most involved class is TMA 185. it's a production class and has been non-stop writing, shooting, pitching, etc. it's pretty fun, nonetheless. 185, 114, 105, and 291 are all in preparation and anticipation of petitioning to be a major in January. cross your fingers.

back in June, i was supposed to do Sound Design for Gladys, a documentary by Josh Wagner. well, deadlines were set back again and again as it went through several edits. just this past saturday, we completed it. sometimes it's frustrating when you do sound design for a 28 minute documentary, and then it gets re-edited and re-sent to you, again and again. so far,

 i've spent 40+ hours on it, when i could've done it in about 10. most recently, though, we had some problems with music rights. the opening and closing scenes take place at a new year's party with music playing in the background... we have no clue what it is. so, we had to go in and mask it over with some music that we actually have the rights to. it took awhile to get it just right, but i think we've got it pretty good now. Josh and I reviewed it with Brad Barber last thursday and he gave us a few more pointers on things to look at and correct.

work has been unusually busy. i think i've done 4 mission conferences in a row now... ridiculous! we also had more work this week due to general conference. we also had a fireside on sunday night, where i was in charge of graphics. that entailed a whole lot of partial hymns, camera support, slideshows and video clips. very involved and even more stressful. add teleprompting into the mix and the fact that i was up all night working on Gladys, you could say i had a rough weekend.

Jewelyn's sister, brother and sister-in-law came down for conference we

ekend. after 11 hours of work and an hour of class on friday, we went to see Kung Fu Panda at the dollar theater. Jewelyn and i saw it two weeks ago for her birthday, but we wanted to go with everyone else. i showed up a little late because we had to set up the gym on friday night for conference, rather than saturday night for relief society. we finished at about 10:10, and then i still needed to shut down 1M and 11M. we went to Aunt Ginger's house for conference on saturday morning, then JJ and i went in to work for the afternoon session and priesthood. she ran a rebroadcast of relief society for the sisters while priesthood ran. right after work is when i went over to josh's and worked on the music for Gladys. my phone has been acting up and won't receive any calls, missed calls, voice mails, or text messages until i make an outgoing call. retarded... i know. i slept in (meaning 9:30) on sunday morning, shaved an

d showered and listened to the first half hour of conference in the car heading back out to Aunt Ginger's. there was a bigger crew than on saturday. she fed us lots and sent J and i off to work that evening.

oh, and btw... did anyone hear "put up your dukes" at conference? ...awesome.

lately i've just been wanting to take a nap, but 

really can't find time to do so

... kind of like writing on my blog. the first i've really been able

 to relax recently was last night at Jewelyn's. we had toast and jam and watched waking ned devine. she had seen it before but somehow totally forgot about the two naked old men riding on a motorcycle... to be honest, that's the only part of the movie i remembered. :) i think every day in TMA 185, there is some reference to Sense and Sensibility, and Waking Ned Devine.

i'm off to work tonight at 5, and hopefully i'll be able to get my reading for Cinema History done, though i'll probably be distracted by watching Prison Break - Season 4 on Hulu. this season started sooooo good. well, gotta' run... not that i have to go anywhere, i've still got  an hour before class starts, i just don't have anything more to say really. :/

go captain go!

so i thought i'd start off with a little entertainment. this is one of the best youtube videos i've ever seen.

so it's been awhile... i feel so lame saying that, because recently i've said that in just about every post. things have been going well. i went home for the 4th of july, which was great. spent some time at the beach, and some time at home (evidently not enough). but it'll be nice to go back mid-august.

i worked on another shoot a few weeks ago. it was a commercial for Community Action Services. basically, it's a small company somehow affiliated with the local food bank and the united way, and they help people avoid foreclosure on their homes. there were only about 5 of us on the shoot. the only reason i was even called is because i met the DP on Staying and Going and she wanted me on her shoot as well. the best part is that because it wasn't affiliated with BYU, it was a real contracted job, so i got 50$ out of the deal.

a little while ago Jewelyn, Elisabeth, and Kevin went tubing down the river. great idea. BUT... not so good of an idea going as late in the day as we did. the sun had already gone behind the mountain and we were in the shade the whole time, and i'm guessing that the water in that river is as cold or colder than the ocean on the central coast. *burrr* it was really fun though. the best part is no one wanted the pool raft, everyone wanted the tubes... so i got stuck with it. little did everyone else realize that you can paddle on it like a surfboard and fly down the river. this helped out quite a bit when i lost my shoe at the very beginning. :)

as of late, i've been subbing quite a bit for people at work. i can definitely use the extra shifts because i'm going out of of town.

i'll try to keep this up to date more often. i'm sure tons of other things happened these past few weeks... but to be honest... i just can't remember them. better luck next week?

2 days of crocodiles and fake oreos

so... being the generous guy that i am and having sunday afternoon off of work, i agreed to help genna muggleston with "helping [her] brother move and unload his truck". i'm thinking a pickup, a few bags, plastic tubs, and a desk. well... upon arrival at the apartment complex, i was saddened to find out that the truck i was hoping for was a little larger than expected. ...kill me now... but wait... there's more! upon discovery of the behemoth uhaul, i was also informed that it was packed full. "of what?" you may be tempted to ask? reptile cages. it was full of reptile cages. alright... so this apartment is smaller than mine, and you're going to fit the capacity of a 30 foot uhaul within it's walls... it's a good thing he doesn't have a roommate... for more reasons than one. (no roommate yet, that is) all of the slithery slimies were already inside, chilling in his kitchen tupperware, while i slaved away... dragging in cage after cage, after box, after box... i didn't know that you could even have a 15 foot long snake cage? oh, nevermind... it's for a 12 foot snake... that's right... taking in the incubators was murder as well... they looked like a pair of aluminum bathtubs. if you ask me, it looked like he was gettin' ready to brew up some moonshine, but i've been assured that is not the case. i try to be a nice guy... ya' know. and i get swindled into helping the crocodile hunter move into his apartment with all of his cold-blooded friends. *shudder* and what's worse is that i had just changed into clean clothes after church, and now... i smell like the snake's lunch... or what's left of it. he said that he'd repay me by having me over for dinner, but the meal at pankot palace from indiana jones and the temple of doom didn't seem too appetizing at the time. (that was the only picture i could find :( )the surprise part of 'snake surprise' is unsurprisingly unsatisfying.

monday brought a whole new adventure. i got a call from joel ackerman on sunday night asking me to come back to the movie shoot the next day. yeah, we had finished shooting on saturday... but the DP evidently forgot to backfocus the camera onto the lens adapter, so everything was out of focus. who do i blame? everyone but myself... and that's the way it should be. :) actually, i blame Panasonic. they're definitely not my favorite company.

1. they advocate the use of p2 cards... the most horrid invention of all time. ok, so i'm a nerd and you don't know what i'm even talking about. a p2 card is a proprietary memory card only for their cameras that is basically 4 compact flash cards (that's right, the same card that many normal digital cameras use) one 16GB card costs 899$, whereas the equivalent in compact flash cards would cost less than 50$. i actually talked to a sales rep from Panasonic about it at NAB in vegas, and he just kept avoiding the whole topic, completely knowing that it's just an exploit of old technology in a proprietary form in order to make more money. thanks a lot P-sonic... remind me never to buy from you again.

2. the only high definition preview available on the HVX camera is via a proprietary connector (there's that bloody word again). well, the poorly-designed connector is supposed to lock onto the camera's connector, but doesn't work... at all. so the DP could only preview in standard definition... hence the bad focus. thanks again Panasonic.

sorry for that little rant. i'm just not a fan of convoluted and retarded ideas. that's why products like Numatic Henry are pure genius!

so, they were looking at the dailies throughout the day and kept saying that they looked great... i guess in this context, great means 'out of focus'. so saturday's 12-hour shoot went down the drain. all the actors had to be called back in, and we only got half of the crew we had on saturday. we wound up wrapping after 9 hours, which is earlier than i expected... considering that when we started shooting, we were already over an hour behind schedule. the best part about this shoot was we could finally eat the prop oreos!! they were nice, warm, and oooey goooey.