Input Appreciated

I just put up a poll on my facebook page asking what you want to see on this blog. Some of the options are easier to do than others, but I would really like to hear your input on this: what works, what you like, what you don’t like, etc.

My very first blog post was on January 8th, 2005 on the beloved Xanga. Since then a lot has changed–with life, photography, location, friends, plans, and experiences. Life is a crazy, fast, and changing place, it’s to be expected. Writing or even creating work in general is an odd thing. You think of questions like: is anyone listening? What are people thinking? Why am I doing this?
I have considered that blogging for this long does create a pretty cool timeline of my life…but I want it to be something more than that.

If I could make someone’s day better, if I could inspire someone to create, if I could show you how beautiful the world around you is…even when you don’t see it, that’s when I’ve accomplished my goal.

~ Jon

Tumble upon

Something I’ve always had a hard time with is deciding what all I should put on this blog. I’ve made a decision to make my photography business personal: avoiding the third person / removed commentary in favor of putting myself out there without apology.

But sometimes there’s things that are too random, too deep, or something that doesn’t seem to fit. I want this to be personal but also not all over the place.

So today I started a tumblr! I knew that having a facebook, a twitter, a google+, linked in, and this blog simply wasn’t enough, so I had to create a tumblr.  :-)  jonyoder.tumblr.com is the place.

My tumblr will feature more ramblings, more random quotes, more nerd-talk, more phone pics, et cetera.

~ Jon

Trade Tennis

First, a video that my friend showed me:

I thought that was a pretty powerful message. We have so many opportunities to serve and the ability to create even more opportunities to serve. I want to live a life way beyond myself.

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I stopped by the tennis games today partly to watch my friend play, partly to take a walk because the weather is stinking awesome, and partly to take some photos. =)

This was fascinating to me…the stringing of a tennis racquet.

Happy Holidays & Infomercial

Merry Christmas! It’s been a crazy arctic wonderland around here. Finals for me are finished. I can’t relax yet, but it’s alright. :)

Then there’s the original picture.

For the most part I’ve stopped posting random cool things that I found online, but I’m bringing it back just this once. This is a great music video.  Just found it…and I like it.  If you’d prefer to listen to this song just by itself, here it is.

~ Jon

Some things

Nothing too special here, just… some things.

For all the cool world cup videos that I’ve been putting up, here’s some more:

• Introduction To World Cup Soccer (the Onion)
• South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts (via the Onion, but I mainly just like the title. ;))

I think the Onion has been pretty good recently.  ;)  Also, there’s this:

My lovely mother, whom I love very much. :)

A flower, ehh no affection for this.

~ Jon