The Myth of the Week

     The film today was interesting to say the least. I myself was extremely tired and therefore towards the last ten minutes began to drift in and out of conscientiousness. While the interview was going on I couldn't help but notice how not Campbell but how the other guy would say a phrase and then say it again and again twenty different times. It made me think about high status and low status which I do tend to think about quite often. It lead me to believe that the interviewer felt less intelligent while in conversation with Campbell and was trying to make himself look smarter. It started to bother me and while the topic of the interview was inspiring I couldn't help but want to maul the interviewer for distracting me. It could've been my imagination but regardless, it was irritating.

     My favorite part of the film was when Campbell said, "Life is not about finding meaning. Life is about the experience." This is something I identify with. I live everyday looking for something different to do, a new place to go, or talking to new people. This past summer when I went on my cruise a group of kids (believe it or not) went on and on about "Why do we both see the color purple the same? How do we know your purple is not my red? Why is the sky blue?" I continuously rolled my eyes because I hate trying to find the meaning in things. I take them for what they are, why bother dwelling on things that I most likely will never know the answers to and fry my brain in the process? Experiencing events makes my day to day life full of meaning. There's no need to go and try to find it. I take the little experiences and the big ones and try to focus on the positives of what is going on in my life. I move with the moment.

10,000 hours

I've had a Youtube beauty channel on and off for three or so years. My cousin and I have recently decided because we sometimes get bored of just talking when we hang out that we should create a Youtube channel. It all started when my cousin was looking at the list of most downloaded free apps for the week and came across the iMovie trailer app. We had four hours to hang out one day and she suggested we make a film trailer. This app has all of the shots and allowed time for these shots in the presetting's of the possible trailers. Then there are a few word screens you use for necessary captions. It took us about an hour to draw up the storyline of the trailer. We had my cousins house as the set and anything that entailed. We used the iPhone 5c to record. At first we thought it would be a good idea to having the trailer be about searching for food around the house and finally finding it in the fridge. We threw this idea out after realizing there was not enough of a struggle to get to the fridge. Instead because she had regular and golden oreo's we decided to make it about that because the original goal could be to get to the golden oreo's but after struggles realize that we might have to eat the regular oreo's instead. Overall it was easier to make because the only thing we had to come-up with ourselves was the story, because everything else was provided. It made the process much easier. I am already brainstorming ideas for short films because we hang out usually once a week so we set the parameters to be 2-3 people in the film and the longest it must be is 3 minutes in length. We are also making these videos mostly to entertain ourselves but we are going to document it on Youtube to show our evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozti9SqM500

My Achilles Heel

Freshman year of high school I was obsessed with television. It was my drug of choice. I used to go on Netflix, pick a show, and watch every season until I finished the whole thing. Sometimes I would watch up to 7 episodes of 40 minutes each night. It didn't matter whether it was good acting, plot, or filming because I needed to fill up my time with something. Of course if it isn't obvious my grades dipped somewhat during this time. Now my drug of choice is reading. On average I've been reading about 6-8 books a week. The reason for this switch is because after a while I realized that one, I don't like to watch the same thing twice, and two I needed something that took up much more time. As a result during this summer I turned to reading as the alternative. I love stories about bad boys so I used my trusty friend Google to find material. Now I use this website "goodreads.com," and I just scroll down the list of books under the category of "popular bad boy good girl books." I have come to realize the difference between a good book and a bad book, is similar to a bad show.

A way I can tell if a book is bad is by first and foremost which it language uses. If there isn't sophisticated language it is usually a sign I could be reading something better. If the author gives away hints to the plot but not enough for me to figure out exactly how things are going to pan out for the characters, that's a sign I should continue reading. When the author makes the action sequences so that I cannot understand what is happening and I have to reread the section more than once it is a tell that I will not be reading the sequel.

Overall I think I am going to start writing book reviews on my blog to make a daily practice of actually writing because its taking something I already like to do and adding some work aspect to it.