Flat Rock Fire Painting

The other day a bunch of guys from Harding headed out to flat rock for some camping and hanging out. Through the years, we’ve had a lot of good times out there. I’m a big advocate of getting outside of life’s regular routines and doing something memorable. A lot of times I don’t feel like doing something different, but sitting on the couch doesn’t make much of a story.

~ Jon

It’s a Blur

At times I create unrealistic expectations of how an experience will be. I’m a dreamer. Sometimes I have these ideas of how a moment will be a mountaintop experience. I’ll say something profound, everything will be amazing, I walk away with my theme song playing, leaving with a distinct feeling of success, going with guns blazing, etc., etc.

Sometimes things don’t work out how my mind hopes. Reality sometimes looks a lot less cool.

My solution? Don’t worry about it. Life goes on, just take it one step at a time, and do your best.

These two groups of people have made quite a difference in my life. I may not play much of a role in either of these clubs from now on, but I sure do hope the relationships last forever.

~ Jon

BOX’s “Fall 2010″ function

The first BOX function of the semester happened this past weekend. Whenever a ton of awesome people congregate, it’s always a fun time.  This was no exception–twas a blast!

Getting everyone together before we head to the farm.

We went into the woods, found some pumpkins (that had grown there naturally, of course), and then started carving!  Ashel and I had the great idea of carving a…camera!  :)

We also played some games.

There were some odd and interesting couples…

~ Jon

Box 2009-2010 Slideshow

There comes a time at the end of the spring semester when the historian of BOX has the opportunity to put a slideshow together of all the pictures taken throughout the school year.  I enjoy the challenge of trying to make it awesome, and I guess it turned out pretty good this year.

Being a perfectionist makes it a ton of work to do.  I didn’t freak out about it as much as I did last year (where I worked on it like 10 hours straight, if I remember right), but I still spend a decent amount of time tweaking the panning and zoom of each slide to make it’s being emphasized how I like it.  Also, whenever it’s shown, I get kinda nervious, thinking about stuff like–are there enough good pictures? Gah, I put [person] in too many pictures.  Is this slideshow too long?  Credits were probably a bad idea. Is this too awkward to include?  Etcetera.

I don’t know if it’s normal to be so picky about stuff like this.  It’s just another reason that I never try to pretend or tell other people that I’m normal.  :P

Anyways, enough boring sentimental hogwash.  Here’s the slideshow, in as many pixels as you want.  :-)

Edit: It looks like the second video was removed due to retarded record labels.  I put it up on vimeo here.

Hope you enjoyed it.  One person told me that it made them teary eyed / cry (is there a difference?), so my job is done.  ;-)  Adios!

~ Jon

Queening, track meet, little rock

I haven’t been quite as motivated to blog lately, but I’ve still been taking pictures.  I always try to pick out my favorites to put on here, and it stinks when I can’t find anything great.  However, once you go back far enough, you’ll always find something.  :)

Jonghwa on the way to the intramural fields / queening.

The rest of the story in pictures (and captions).

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~ Jon