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

I Wanna Live

I wanna live a life way beyond myself.

• Way Beyond Myself (song)
• The Only Thing (song)
• I don’t want my life… (tumblr)

Memorial Day Campout stuff

It’s crazy, but the 3rd annual Memorial Day campout “Blast” at my house was one whole week ago! It was a blast. It happened to be one of the smaller campouts, since lots of people bailed, but it was still awesome. A smaller group just makes it more personal.

Well, that may or may not have been the last one. I think I’ll pass the whole shabang on to my brother. I don’t remember him organizing things, but we’ll see what happens soon enough. ;) I just don’t know what I’ll be doing next summer. I’ll be finished with college by then (crazy!), so I guess by that time I’ll officially be an adult. I have no idea where I’ll be one year from now, but it will probably be great. :)

On to the pictures…

Kicking it back over the fire.

Roman candle fun. hah.

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Yelling, lighting, burning, babying

Not feeling to lyrically inspired right now (aka don’t feel like writing), so I’ll just leave you with a couple teaser pictures from the “Memorial Day Campout Blast 3″ at my house and a video that I found. I took very few pictures during the campout except for a night that we walked out to the field by our woods and did random pictures and shot fireworks. Harken:

Doing some light painting. My favorite of the bunch.

My brother fire burning on the dance floor.

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One day, old spice, sugarloaf

It’s Tuesday.  It’s been a pretty chill day for me.  I’m still a tad sick (mainly congested), but it isn’t too miserable.  I had the last class of racquetball before tennis starts up after spring break (it’s just a 2-hour a week activity class).  I like racquetball a lot, and hopefully I’ll get around to playing it some more.  It’s fun.

I could go to the nurse and get excused for my other class, but I kinda don’t feel like it.  ;-)  I don’t have anything too specific to write about this time, but here are a few random things that are on my mind:

One Day, by Matisyahu, great song.

I’m kinda thinking of making a video to this song.  I have a few ideas.  I also never really make videos, so we’ll see where that goes.

Here’s another video that I discovered today.  It’s from the superbowl, and I think it’s pretty great.  It was also done in one take, which is amazing (take 57 on day 3).  The bathroom was a built container that was raised with a crane, the boat was also a set (it was actually just half a boat), then the ex-NFL player actor sad onto some sliding/roller type thing which slid him onto the horse.  Very few digital elements.  It’s pretty mind-boggling to me.  :)

Details on how it was made, where I found this, and an interview with the minds behind this commercial can be seen here (making of Old Spice commercial).

Finally, here are some pictures from our late mountain climb up Sugarloaf.  Just some snapshots.

This is a 20 second exposure. It was pretty dark out.

I like how this turned out. =)

Much love to all,

~ Jon