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| Building My Online Portfolio1. Make a webpage for an online resume. (use a free page using freewebs to get used to the interface and see if it will work for 'felix')
2. Google myself, get rid of anything unflattering to my professional image.
3. Make a collection of videos posted online:
-Go though "lubj00" videos on YouTube, pick the best ones.
-Upload kitty videos 2, 3, and 4 to "HelloCamille" YouTube.
-Upload both video production short films to Facebook. (add Scott Phillipson and tag him in these for future class example.)
-Get link to Comm Media Slideshow video from Bob White's YouTube.
-Upload short film from Comm Media and animation from Simmons to "HelloCamille" YouTube.
-Edit other kitty videos.
-Edit "Cj's first skateboard" video.
-Go through old tapes from home and see if there is anything good on them.
4. Clean up Facebook, Twitter, and Xanga so any info that is too personal is hidden/private.
5. Update Xanga and Blogger with more interesting blogs.
6. Start looking into doing some freelance on paid content sites like:
-eHow, Helium, Associated Content, Suite 101, Zoopa, Orato, HubPages, Creative Byline, Writing.com, UNUSUALS, To the Bone, Creative Writing Corner, Bukisa, Niche Blog, InfoBarrel etc. (read into which ones are more reliable.)
7. Start working on website design for "felix" and "useless". | | |
| GenreBritish pop music is so much more interesting than American pop music, we have Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers whereas they have artists like Keane and Kate Nash that are considered alternative or indie here.
I always have such a hard time coming up with ways to classify the music I listen to, because I don't feel like a lot of it necessarily fits into those typical categories. I like music that is more interesting, it's usually more of a blend between categories or just stuff that, especially down here, a lot of people would just consider "weird" (even though I have heard by far weirder stuff, and a lot of the stuff I listen to is pretty normal up north). Feel free to check my references and tell me what you think: http://www.last.fm/user/OrangeCrushes
These are some of the working genre definitions I have come up with for my musical tase:
-Alternative/Pop Alternative
-Indie/ Indie Pop
-Piano Rock
-Accoustic
-Pop Punk
What kind of music do you think is interesting, and why? | | |
| Money, Money, MoneyI crave material possessions like it's nobody's buisness... the urge has been almost satiable for two years, but I'm not sure if I control my internal capitalist bred consumer tendencies for much longer. Three weeks, at least until I can even start looking for a job. I can't wait for the day when purchasing the things I really want is plausable and splurging on even the littlest things doesn't bring me such great guilt and regret for spending any portion of my food/rent money.
It's a little pathetic really, but I can't even imagine what it will be like to have some disposable income, a little spending money or even pocket change! Its more the enjoyment of the loot than the thrill of the chase. Those retail therapy days of yore... the accomplished and fulfilled feeling of owning/using new things, and especially the pride and triumph in finding a good deal. I miss that. The satisfying feeling of wearing new clothing that I just love, or reading through the crisp inky smelling pages of a new comic, or actually having a disk in my hands and being able to install a game I've waited for months to come out.
⁄¡Viva el Capitalismo! | | |
| An interesting Bible quoteI just learned this... "The ESV Bible [English Standard Version] seeks to translate the original Greek and Hebrew words with the greatest possible accuracy and precision, it carries forward the great historic stream of Bible versions in English with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning, in a fresh and compelling way."
It is a Bible, and a Bible nonetheless. It is still not something I would necessarily read or follow or could believe in completely. I do have beliefs, I just like to keep the parts with me that I like or find comforting from wherever I may find them. But I think it is a really interesting idea, for scholars to translate the Bible in a way that reflects historical context... I am sure people still take the passages very literally regardless and I am just not that naive, but I still think it is a cool concept.
If I had it my way people would still be able to follow the principles and the teachings of the Bible, but would realize that most of the stories were, in a sense, Christian mythology and that every word in the Bible need not be taken as absolute fact. Especially not in ways that promote discrimination and obstruct the civil rights of other human beings.
I do, although, commend people who are willed enough to believe in something, especially if it helps them be a better person or lead a better life. I have no problem with faith or worship, I just think that when religion becomes as organized as, the Catholic Church for example, or even Christianity as a whole inclusive of all denominations, that things can get out of hand and pushed too far.
Many Christians, and I'm sure people of other organized religions as well, are all too willing to accept ideas that are potentially harmful to other people in numerous ways without even questioning them. They accept these ideas because of these words in this book, without a second thought as to whether it truly is right or wrong, and they define that as "morality," which all in all doesn't sound moral to me at all.
Which is why I liked this quote from the ESV Bible:
Wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. Jam. 3:17 ESV
I'll tell you something, that sounds like the God I would like to meet. Open to reason, full of mercy, impartial and sincere. All of the traits that Christianity was supposedly found on which are seemingly all too absent in today's religion... I have never talked to someone who was overtly Christian about a controversial topic and had them be any sort of open to reason, and never impartial or even capable of mercy towards the other side of an issue. If people followed passages like that as closely as they followed creationism or obscure lines from Leviticus that are severely outdated, the world would be a much nicer place to live in.
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| Hugh Jackman quotes on Gay Rumors
"I think it means I've finally made it, You can't be a star without having a gay rumor."
"I'd be happy to go and deny it, because I'm not, but by denying it I'm saying there is something shameful about it. And there isn't anything shameful."
"The questions about sexuality I find more here in America than anywhere else, because it's a big hang-up and defines what people think about themselves and others. It's not a big issue in Australia."
"You know how i feel about it, I think its not that interesting a conversation. I don't think its as big a deal as everyone makes it out to be."
"I mean, you don't see anyone sitting here asking me "would you like to live in the country or the city?" but to me it's a similar question. Do you like blondes or brunettes? Do you like reading biographies or do you like reading fiction?"
"Yeah on some level it tells you something about a certain person but it doesn't define who a person is. And if it does define you, I don't care what your sexuality is, if it defines you, well then we aren't going to have much to talk about."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKrl8qePOt8&feature=player_embedded
Hugh Jackman has been happily married for 13 years. I think he's cool, I like the way he thinks. | | |
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