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

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

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

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

Jonghwa on the way to the intramural fields / queening.

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

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~ Jon

I did a photo shoot with the BOX queens about a month ago for St. Patrick’s day.  It wasn’t my favorite shoot due me forgetting my umbrella for the flash, the strobes not always firing when I wanted them to, and I just wasn’t on top of the game in terms of having an idea of what to do for the shoot.  It still went alright though.

The St. Patty card!

The window shot.

~ Jon

Everybody that showed up. It wasn't the biggest function ever, but it was just the right amount of people. ;)

Twas a good function (group picture huge).  I’ll just share my favorite pictures from the day.  I’ve been kinda undecided about how to share the pictures that I take at functions, being historian and all.  I’ve thought of the idea of keeping them all until the slideshow at the end of the year, but I think that’s kinda lame, since a couple people already seeing the pictures doesn’t really make it that much more epic.  I think the motto that I’ll use for now is that I’ll only post my favorite pictures on here, unless anyone wants the rest of the pictures, and asks me for them, in which I’ll upload them to the gallery.

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Old people (out team) haven't lost it. Dominated some kids.

baha--my brother is hilarious.

~ Jon

~ Jon

A few weeks ago I did a slideshow of the best pictures from this year to show at the formal.  I found out that I didn’t have as many group or happy pictures that I wanted (I certainly had enough pictures of sports), but everything worked out okay.  I also think that I overdid the sad factor a little too much.  The last slideshow that I did was for a week of senior high camp, and the idea there was to make them really happy at the beginning, then go to the sad stuff and try to make everyone cry. ;-)  This concept worked well at camp, with the slideshow being the last scheduled thing before everyone goes home.

I think that the exciting-to-melencholy outline for slideshows is still good, but at the formal, I don’t think that it worked as well as at camp.  After the slideshow was queen entertainment, which is supposed to be funny.  Having some really sad stuff beforehand might have been weird.  I’m probably overanalyzing it, but for next time I think that I’ll keep the happy-to-sad method, but make the sad part a little shorter and less intense.

And here are the videos by song:

~ Jon