jonyoder.com » story http://www.jonyoder.com the life and times Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:40:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Heber slideshow spring 2010 http://www.jonyoder.com/2010/05/heber-slideshow-spring-2010/ http://www.jonyoder.com/2010/05/heber-slideshow-spring-2010/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 23:48:09 +0000 Jon Yoder http://www.jonyoder.com/?p=1191 Sometimes I guess there just aren’t enough rocks.

This is a time of my life that I happen to have more free time than usual.  One result of this abundance (an overstatement) of time is the following video slideshow.  Good times, good times.

For slideshows, I usually tend to pick one of my favorite songs of the time that I’m making the slideshow, but this one is different.  I do like Mae a lot, but the reason I chose Crazy 8s is for symbolism–not because it has been on my mind lately.

A long time ago, I did a very similar slideshow with a very similar song.  I remember borrowing a “nice” camera from the communications department at Harding and heading off to Heber with some friends.  These were the days of fearlessness, and all my friends were ready and willing to do crazy things off cliffs into water.

The time was Fall semester of my freshman year– roughly two and a half years ago.  The pictures I took were some of my favorites ever.  Soon after, my laptop was stolen from my dorm room, along with all the pictures that were on it.  I had somehow backed up all the pictures that I took prior to this Heber trip, so those pictures were the only ones that I lost.  The only thing left of the pictures was the Heber slideshow that I made back then that I put on my site.  They are small facebook-quality sized pictures, but the memories are still there.

Material possessions pass, but the memories proved to be worth more.  How much more, I don’t know–but the memories of friends and good times stick with you longer.

So what is the symbolism in using the same song in this Heber slideshow as the Heber slideshow two years ago?  Well there isn’t really any, but I thought it would be neat to use the same song.  ;)   Moral of the story–try to keep your pictures backed up, watch out for sneaky pre-college kids walking through your dorm (and lock your room), don’t get too attached to what you own, don’t let anyone look down on you because you’re a freshman (just have fun with it), and be sure to do some crazy stuff sometime in your life.  =)

Here’s the old heber slideshow–

Oh yeah, and it turns out that my friends are still crazy.  =)

Much love to all,
~ Jon

]]> http://www.jonyoder.com/2010/05/heber-slideshow-spring-2010/feed/ 0 Zacchaeus in the Sycamore tree http://www.jonyoder.com/2008/05/zacchaeus-in-the-sycamore-tree/ http://www.jonyoder.com/2008/05/zacchaeus-in-the-sycamore-tree/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 05:10:23 +0000 Jon Yoder http://jonyoder.com/blog/?p=13
Well after listening to this awesome song, I was inspired to do a little picture illustration thing. Took me quite a while to do, just because I was always tweaking it to get it how I wanted it. ;)


source pic: some old story book (found here)

It was inspired by the song from Flame’s newest album, Our World: Redeemed. Originally I didn’t like the song as the distortion kinda reminded me of some secular rap songs that I’ve heard and somewhat despise. ;) However, after letting the lyrics soak in a little longer it really got to me…and it’s so relevant to my Christian struggle–the battle is in myself, between having more me in my life, or more God. To me it seems like everything hinges on these two opposites, I only hope that I will be able to continue to grow away from self and live more for Him each day.

~ Jon

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