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NEW BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT

2009-04-10T15:20:00.001-07:00

To celebrate my one year blog I decided to make a completely new one with more style and a central theme:

www.thecraigiknow.blogspot.com

This new one is my new official one. Hope you like it!

You Have To Watch This

2009-03-31T21:39:00.000-07:00

My favorite teacher here at school, Sister Esplin, has a daughter who goes to Harvard. I guess at Harvard they had a day where people of different faiths got to represent themselves in a press conference kind of way and her daughter was chosen to do it. She's so well spoken and really remarkable to watch and listen to as she explains her beliefs in Mormonism. Way good.

Day of Faith: Personal Quests for a Purpose - 3. Rachel Esplin from Harvard Hillel on Vimeo.

Room With A View

2009-02-04T16:51:00.000-08:00

This is the sight I get to end every day with from my bedroom. I always try to be in my room around 5:30 with the blinds open and watch the sun fall asleep over the "R" mountain with the view of the temple. I try (mostly wish) for this time to be a relaxing time for reading my current my book (East of Eden) and the scriptures.

"And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." - Psalms 90:17

Ketchup with Craig

2009-01-26T19:37:00.001-08:00

This whole having no computer thing is a real drag because I don't remember often to update and check blogs and all that jazz. I usually have to steal Matt's computer when he's never home and use it for an hour.

Life is good. I FINALLY GOT A JOB!! At...

...you guessed it....RED ROBIN!!!

The morning of Jan 17 at precisely 8:31 a.m. my phone rang. Being DEAD asleep (as a result of going to bed rather late...or early depending on how you look at it =) I was in a stupor to realize it was my phone ringing and that I didn't recognize the number. With a numb arm (from sleeping on it funny) and a sleeping voice (of which I coughed and growled to try to wake my voice up), I answered anyway. It was the hiring manager from Red Robin asking if I could come in for an interview and to be there in 45 minutes! I jumped up and started to get ready for a shower...only to remember I let Matt borrow the car this morning so he could go to work (his car was in the shop)!!! I texted and called him to no prevail...he's a lifeguard at the pool so it isn't like he could just get up and leave anyways...So i called a few friends until Stevie finally let me borrow her car. But in reality all she had to really do was just drive me to campus so I could get my keys from Matt. So half-dressed (literally with an untucked shirt and half buttoned up shirt...belt undone...scruffy face....) i made my way to Idaho Falls. I didn't have time at home to shave so I decided to bring my electric shaver with me to shave in the car. Bad idea. About halfway through my face with the shaver i heard the high pitch power noise from the shaver battery start to die as the tone got lower and lower and lower arriving at a dead STOP. My face was half shaven, and by now I was halfway to I.F. and had ten minutes to get there. After a brief moment of panic I turned the shaver back on and discovered it to be on high power for about ten seconds...then it died again. Then I turned it on again and it would be on a high power boost for about nine seconds...and the next time eight...and then seven...and so on....until my entire face was as smooth as a babies butt. Needless to say I arrived, I interviewed, I got hired on the spot, I had opening orientations, I signed papers, I called mom. Starting on the 19th it was the opening day of the restaurant, and being a holidy (Martin Luther King), it was ABSOLUTE CHAOS. I've worked every day since except Sunday and it is a ton of fun. It is seriously like a singles ward, with a few married exceptions. The manager might as well be a Bishop and the Assistant Manager the RSP.

My roommates are awesome this semester. One of them just came into some money and bought a 50'ish inch flat screen 120 hertz 1080 something-or-other HD television with a Blu-Ray Disc player. I watched Jurassic Park on that baby and it actually added to the terror of the whole movie scenario. I felt like the dinosaurs were literally in the room...um...no thanks.

I've gone on a few blind dates since I've been back from Christmas. I told mom i'm all about blind dates now. It worked for Josh and Robin and pretty much Jamie and Anita (who can i make my accidental phone call to?). I have no idea how Scott and Kiana met...anyway. Oh and I have a friend who just went on a blind date Jan 1 and just went this weekend to already 'meet the family.' "WHAT?"...i can hear mom and robin say. Anyway, wish me luck on my dating adventures.

I've applied for a graphic design internship in Indiana this past weekend. The company is called "Midwest ISO". Website: www.http://www.midwestiso.org. My friend Brooke worked their last summer and submitted my name and resume for me. It would be a great opportunity so we will see what happens. If not then I will continue with normal school this summer.

The weather here is FUH-REE-ZING. Ice ice cold. All the more reason to stay inside and watch Jurassic Park 2 and 3. Love to all!

Final Project

2009-01-26T19:17:00.000-08:00

Here is a final project from my Custom Images class last semester. Click on it to make it bigger. It's 3 ft x 1 ft printed out and in a frame. I took separate pictures of some of my ties hanging and took each one and played with each individual tie to get the desired effect on photoshop. I brightened each of them and added different textures and layers and blah blah blah. It was fun. It's hanging up in my room now and it...looks...AWESOME!

Back in the Rex!

2009-01-08T16:18:00.001-08:00

Well its that time of year again...the beginning! I had an awesome trip home for the Christmas time. It was a quiet year this year as I was the only kid able to make it home because all my sibs were with their spouses families. =( But us in Salinas (me, mom, dad, nana, papa, and uncle bob) had a fun and quick Christmas day as we were done with presents in ten minutes and watched movies for the rest of the day! But it was still great to know that mom still decorates the same...from the lights to the nativity (that i will always ALWAYS be scared that i will accidentally break someday) to the stockings...I GOT ONE!! For Christmas my parents took a picture that I painted on my mission that I had completely forgotten about and framed and matted it. It was a complete surprise...which make the best presents ever. Thanks mom and dad!

Well I'm back in Rexburg in the land of the snow and ice. Lots and lots of snow and ice. More than last year in fact. And my winter is now complete now that I have slipped and fallen one time so far. It was seriously an incredible fall...actually it more like flying...actually, I believe Buzz Lightyear put it best when he said, "This isn't flying! This is falling...with style!"

But it felt more like the Paper Boy in While You Were Sleeping:

Blog Tag

2008-12-29T00:26:00.000-08:00

So I was tagged by Meghan and I guess I'm supposed to put the 4th picture from the 4th album of my computer on here. I don't have a computer anymore so I'm on my parents and this is the picture. It's a picture of my niece Abby from probably 5 years ago playing the piano.

TAG! MIKE BRINEY! YOU'RE IT! put the 4th pic of the 4th album on your blog and tag someone else.

SNOW DAY!

2008-12-13T14:42:00.000-08:00

So today I was on my way out of Rexburg around 2 and got as far as the exit to the freeway and said I DON'T THINK SO! It was a blizzard and I couldn't see ten feet in front of me at all. I was with a friend who was going with me to Utah and we both didn't have a good feeling about it. So now it's a SNOWED IN weekend!!! Actually, we're planning on leaving in the morning so hopefully it will be better. Her flight is at 3 tomorrow so we'll see! Yikes!! So we're gonna rent some Christmas movies and get a pizza. Luckily my married friends are poor and can't afford to leave yet so I still have a few friends left here...

...and another...

2008-12-03T20:40:00.001-08:00

a new one

2008-12-03T17:51:00.000-08:00

Witness first had what exactly it is that I do...

2008-11-10T22:20:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I get caught up in my Photoshop activities that the hours literally fly by. It's bad. I'll look at the clock and it will by 5:52. Then I'll look 30 seconds later and it will be 9:13. I don't know what happens! Luckily, I have a project due tomorrow that took me forever so I wasn't actually letting the hours pass by for fun, but rather eduactional purposes. I had to edit eleven pictures in Photoshop that I took and do advanced editing techniques. To save confusion, lets just say I had to play in Photoshop for 12 hours. And then I had to buy a photo album from Walmart and put the printed edits in there. I also had to create a cover and a back cover to the album. Following are my pictures and complete from cover to cover (I believe if you click on them they get bigger.) My three favorites include the wagon one, the violin one, and the one of the Bannack Ghost Town. Also, I use my friend Marion a lot as a model cause she has it goin' on. Enjoy.

Cover

Back Cover

Halloween

2008-11-10T22:05:00.000-08:00

It's been ten days but Halloween was pretty fun this year. Most of my friends had to work that night. What? So I ended up just dressing up to be in a few pictures and around ten o'clock my friends got off and we went to the FEAR FACTORY in Rigby which is a haunted house that really scared me. It got me dang good. Anyway I decided to dress up as Cast Away. It was cheap and, MIRACULOUSLY, I even found a Wilson volleyball at Big Five. As in really, a legit Cast Away promotion volleyball. I originally went to Walmart to buy a white volleyball and red paint to paint my own Wilson face on but they didn't have any SO I went and tried Big Five and they actually had probably 40 Cast Away Wilson volleyballs!! It even says Cast Away on the volleyball. It was stunning. Anyway...it worked. But I fear my days of fun Halloween's are over (until I have kids) as nothing will ever top Halloween 2006 as the ultimate Halloween: when I was Quailman and my best friend Jon was Skeeter Valentine. That was da bomb.

Halloween 2006

Halloween 2008: Complete with my very own Wilson Volleyball.

2008-10-28T11:26:00.000-07:00

Just a few of my favorite print advertisements.

Abby

2008-10-25T15:21:00.001-07:00

My Niece Abby playing in the mud. I played with the picture on Photoshop.

Hay Maze

2008-10-25T13:36:00.000-07:00

For FHE this week we went to the Rexburg Hay Maze. I was kinda bitter cause when we got there it looked small from the outside and I didn't wanna pay five bucks to go through a two minute maze. But I was wrong...very wrong. We went in groups of four and it took us one hour and a half to get out of it! It was insane. I was humbled. Frustrations arose. But we finally made it out!...Also, Rexburg has a haunted house called the Haunted Mill that is really creepy. A group of us went and we took these pictures afterwards. You will notice in the second one that there is a creepy person (it was a Haunted Mill person we believe...or is it?) in the back middle that no one knew was there until we got home. It really creeped us out...and still gives me the willies!!

Creepy!

Absolute Chaos!

2008-10-21T10:58:00.000-07:00

This past Friday I went on a group date similar to one I've been on before. Brooke asked me and we went with all her roomates and dates. Pretty much we wear jumpsuits, go out in the middle of nowhere, and have a huge paint war fight. It's pretty intense and chaotic. But a ton of fun. Pictures are proof:

Logo

2008-10-20T14:22:00.000-07:00

My friend Josh is in an IBC Company on campus and their company is selling cookie dough and their company is called Dough On The Go! He asked me to design their logo:

My Child

2008-10-07T19:23:00.000-07:00

So I guess during the Saturday Afternoon Session of General Conference there was a children's choir (I listened to this one online while working on a project...). In the choir I guess there was a young boy who looks exactly like me. I had about fifteen friends from all over the place text me this! My friends parents in LA paused their television on the little boy, took a picture of it, texted matt and mike the picture...and so it begun. But also friends in Georgia, Arizona, and Utah all texted me as well! But I gotta say this kid does show some resemblence...what do you think?

Family Resemblance?

Parker and Ollie

2008-10-04T14:58:00.000-07:00

My sister Robin put this picture of Parker and Ollie up on her blog. I stole it and played with it. Hope you like it robin!

Eventful Weekend!

2008-09-30T20:50:00.001-07:00

This weekend was fun! Friday was our friend Meghan's birthday so we went to Johnny Carino's to celebrate. There was a camera and about 200 pictures taken. I somehow found myself in 198 of them...

Me, Seth and Matt...

Matt and Josie...oh, and me.

We went to the sand dunes this weekend, and I ended up getting stuck right next to the road in the sand. It didn't look that deep!!!! So this is me grieving. Two nice guys with a jeep stopped and helped us out. Tiffany (the car) is a good sport.

We/I also went shooting this weekend with some friends. I was nervous when my friend Brooke had the shotgun...

The semester is going great!

Here's Three More...

2008-09-25T13:15:00.001-07:00

More of Marion. I love playing in Photoshop and getting the tone for each picture. This is also a project I'm working on so that makes it even better.

This one below is better if its bigger so you may need to click on it to enlarge.

Photo of Marion

2008-09-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

I will be putting a lot of my projects this semester for you to see and critique. Tonight I did a photo shoot with my friend Marion. This was one of my favorite pictures I took and I played with it in Photoshop. I'll be taking more pictures and editing them in Photoshop for my Custom Images class. I thought this one turned out pretty cool.

Rainy Hike

2008-09-23T15:43:00.001-07:00

On Saturday, it rained all day long and we were tired of being inside so we decided to go on a sort of hike. Matt and I called our friend Kaitlin to come along and we went to Rigby where there was a hiking trail up the side of a hill and by the snake river. Ten minutes out of the car it decided to hail like crazy with close lightning and thunder. We then decided to go home after those ten minutes. But it was the most fun part of the day. We got soaked!!!

Freezing and wet. Good picture moment.
You can see the size of the hail in the picture.

Matt and Kaitlin seeking shelter.
Cold and wet.As high as we got. We could see the snake river.

4 years ago...

2008-09-22T23:04:00.000-07:00

Today, September 22, was the 4 year anniversary of me entering the MTC to serve my mission in Arizona. I can't believe it's been 4 years since mom and dad dropped me off and I was the first missionary to leave the orientation room, only to get a second hepatitis shot I hadn't done yet, and then on to the beginning of a 2 year journey. It was by far the scariest happy moment of my life! And the day after, September 23, still to this day remains the longest day of my life. YOU WANT ME TO GET UP AT 6:30 a.m. EVERY DAY FOR TWO YEARS??? Well I did it! And can't believe I've been home now for an additional 2 years. I sure miss it a lot sometimes and all the great people I was fortunate to meet. But life goes on...

Close Encounter Issues

2008-09-20T11:28:00.000-07:00

We watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind this rainy morning. No doubt its one of the greatest and the filmmaking is incredible (and music...the five note communication tool the aliens use is one of my ringtones). But we had one major problem with the end: Why was there no alien exchange for the life of Richard Dreyfuss?? They came to our planet, screwed up peoples lives here, stole some people from the early 1900's, returned them dazed and confused, and then play/act nice?? No, it doesn't work like this. In exchange for choosing Richard Dreyfuss (of whom lost his family due to his obsession in finding the mountain he made a model out of with mashed potatoes, chicken wire, and dirt), they should have voluntarily left an alien baby or adult for us to examine and study. Eye for an eye! Tooth for a tooth! Alien for a human!

We'll take the one on the far right looking lost. He's even questioning: "Is this really fair? Maybe I should stay..."

I'm Ba-ack!

2008-09-17T21:32:00.000-07:00

After a long absence from the blogging phenomenon, I am back. Yes it is true. A new semester and with it a new blog. The 7 week break came and is now gone with the wind. It was a blast living in L.A. with my friends and their family. Being back in Rexburg is great too. This semester will be fun and have brand new challenges...such as getting stung by a bee today for the first time in my life...after tragically losing a tennis match to my friend Jon. He stung me on the shin and it hurt for a while. It's all good now though. It wasn't as bad as I'd expect, and it's good to know I'm not allergic, as I have wondered this my entire life...wondering if a bee sting would be the way I go...

This semester I am taking great classes. My itinerary includes: Criminology, Media Management, Media Law and Ethics, Custom Images, and of course, Advertising Concepts. Criminology is very interesting and intense. Media Management is hilarious as we study commercials, skits, youtube videos, and video podcasts and analyze them. Media Law and Ethics will be the toughy this semester because, as it says in its title, studies law. Custom Images is with Sister Esplin, of whose it is my 4th class taking from her because, in my eyes, she is the best teacher this school has and is perfect at all she does in terms of visual design. Advertising Concepts is my favorite, duh, and the teacher is gonna be great as we expand on our advertising capabilities and designs.

I'm still living in the Ridge 708 and probably will stay here until I graduate. I'm in room number one, which nobody can understand why I love so much. But if you've been to our apartment, you will understand that the hallway is very long and dark. I like being in the front and just getting there already. Matt and Mike are still my roomates as well as second timer Ryan, from Hollister. Newcomers to the apt include Brock from Ohio, and Scott Hadley from somewhere in Utah. We're all returned missionaries from Argentina, Brazil, W. Virginia, Long Beach and ARIZONA BABY!!

Other activities thus far this semester have been getting back to exercising and playing tennis. My friend, Eric Vail, who was my first zone leader in AZ, and I play almost every day. We're on the same level of talent as tennis goes so it is fun. Life is great at the moment with no complaints (other than that stupid bee sting!). It's good to be back to the blog.

Me cooking

Our living room, complete with Mike

CA and Family Reunion

2008-08-13T19:30:00.000-07:00

Well for the past month I've been living in Los Angeles at Matt and Mike's house. It's been fun. They went on a trip with their entire family about two weeks ago on the Disney Cruise. I housesit and worked and continue to work for their grandma doing stuff. While they were gone I managed to 1) get lost for an hour and a half finding a movie theater a mile from their house 2) survive a 5.8 earthquake that caused a glass to fall and the couch to shift and 3) get a really bad sunburn. Halfway through that week I went home to Salinas for my own family reunion for four days. We went on a cool train ride, played by a river, played games, "relaxed", and took pictures to name a few. It was great to see everyone cuz it will be a while as my sister and her fam moved to New York and my brother and his fam are moving to Tennessee eventually soon. Below are some pictures. Meanwhile I'm back in Los Angeles working and having fun. It's been a relaxing summer of beach playing and olympic watching. I'm still in awe at the Mens Relay American Team beating France by .7 seconds. Michael Phelps is crazy! I also love the controversy on whether or not the Chinese girls gymnastics team members are really sixteen years old. Oh well...

My siblings and siblings in law playing games to the wee hours of the night...

My Nephew Oliver...
My brother Jamie, Dad, and I were all leaning on the table the same way on accident...5 of my nieces and Nana...

Holla!

2008-07-17T10:36:00.000-07:00

First off I am alive. Finals week is almost over and that rocks! This really has been an awesome semester. Everything about it was a blast. Socially, mentally, spiritually, physically...except near the end...yikes...!, even academically/school surprisingly! I loved all my classes (except USA Heritage...) and the projects I have from them. My website is FINALLY completed and perfected in all its glory!! Check it out:

www.sinkingshipples.com

Also, I just added the entire project I just completed for my advertising class to my website. We had to create, as a group of 4, a campaign promoting Service Activities on campus. There were five groups in the class and each group presented their campaign to the Service Activities director. It was so awesome to see every groups perspective and advertising ideas. If they were to just take a little from each group, Service Activities would have the ULTIMATE CAMPAIGN! I was the creative director of my group and you can see the ads that I created on my website by clicking: Advertising, Ad Campaign, View Projects, and then Click on different ads (the walk-a-longs are my favorite). We also presented our Websites in my Visual Media class today. Mine was received well and I like it a lot. I've put a lot of projects up and plan to put more when time allows. Here are some others from my class that you might enjoy looking at that I like a lot:

www.makeshiftads.com
www.paigeconley.com
www.westpianostudio.com
www.kaenie.com (watch her podcasts)
www.harperbeyond.com

On Saturday afternoon I am leaving for L.A. to go live with Matt and Mike and work for their family. I'm gonna be their personal family slave and butler and do obscene amounts of housework for pay. Totally kidding, but I will be working for their family business...not sure exactly what yet. We will see!

Digital Advertisement

2008-07-02T15:24:00.000-07:00

For my advertising class we had to design, in partners, an ad as if it were to appear on the internet, but we had to do it in a sequence of four. It could either be four strips, four circles, four squares, etc..!.. Me and my partner Tiffany (or...My partner Tiffany and I...(which one mom?) haha)), of whom we make a great team, created this ad for the olympics. We put athletes inside of Tetris pieces and had Tetris be a proud sponsor. We like it.

Big Judds!

2008-06-24T12:12:00.000-07:00

So for my birthday I went to Big Judds. It is famous for its one pound burger that if you eat you get your picture up on the wall. Thank you Mamie and Monkey for getting it for me! At first I wasn't planning on eating it...but the pressure built. My friends became vicious creatures that would demand nothing but that I ate it. I sat there for about an hour total trying to get it down. After a fourth of it I was done but kept going. I kept being told that it was all in my head but I could seriously feel it at the top of my throat. I even gagged a few times. Anyway, enough of that. Here are some pictures. There are some pretty bad ones of me eating it later on that I don't have yet. But here you can see most of my friends who came and the size of the beast! Thanks again everyone for a fun birthday!

Friends!

If I only knew...

Pepsi

2008-06-20T14:35:00.000-07:00

First off I had a great birthday. A friend of mine took the pictures so I don't have them yet but will put them on when I get them. Thanks for the many hundreds (jk) of texts and phone calls from all around the country and from my friends here in Rexburg! It was a busy day in that I had a billboard project due at five pm that night. We had to create a conceptual billboard where we had to "think outside the billboard" and use 3d and stuff. I did pepsi. I like it. Here it is:

Another Project

2008-06-14T13:48:00.000-07:00

For my advertising class we had to find an ad in a magazine and copy the exact layout and idea. I did mine on a Blu-Ray Disc DVD Player. I had to create and write everything on it but had to copy an ad. The one with the iPod speaker is from a magazine and is the one I copied. If you click on them I think they get bigger...

The one I copied.

The one I created.

A tragic loss...

2008-06-10T15:52:00.000-07:00

So this past week was absolute chaos. To spare the details I'll just say it was midterm week, i had three major projects due, tests, and papers. I was kinda going crazy. I spent a record thirteen hours in the Spori lab basement (with no windows and depressing fluorescent lack of light brightness) last Tuesday. I'm not complaining though. I found myself twice looking for my cell phone, only to discover that I was already holding it. So on Friday morning ish I was typing a paper on my bed, went up to get off the bed and my laptop fell off and the screen cracked. I panicked because the paper was due in two hours. It was quite tragic. Surprisingly enough I could and still can see the top 1/4 of the screen so my paper was still open (see pictures). I quickly saved it and used my roomates computer to finish the rest of the paper. I had a mild heart attack, especially with the crazy week I was having. I got the paper in tho. My roommate Ryan had an extra monitor (who just has an extra monitor?) and some cord that connects my laptop to it so I can see my screen on that one for now. I am thankful for that and that I was still able to see some of my paper. Prayer is good.

Tragic

My screen can now be seen on the left. Amazing.

Where I semi-live. The Spori Building. Heck, I'm in there right now!

...as you've never seen me before

2008-06-10T15:28:00.000-07:00

So it was the weekend and girls in our ward had an 80's birthday party for three girls. Probably one of the most fun nights of my life. I went as a rock star and had a blast. I died my hair white but it came out more silver. At midnight we went to a local dance at the Rexburg airport til one and as we were walking in, I was the last to enter, this one guy said "i don't know what just happened...". It was hilarious. Everyone was looking at us like we WAS CRAZY! we were...

Chad and I

Meghan and I

Sweet hair

Beth and Meghan

Mary-Kate and Ashley

2008-05-30T11:12:00.001-07:00

It was Matt and Mike's birthday so Meghan and I threw them an all twins birthday party! You had to come as a twin. Me and Meghan did the gangster thing (complete with a grill made of a mouthguard, glue, and little beads...it was fun). We had everything from Hawaiian tourists to dental surgeons.

Mike and Matt

Mike Matt Me Meghan

What?

Brady and Ashley as Hawaiian Tourists

Triplets

Jessica Kristin and Ashley Beth made them matching M n M cakes
Mamie and Monkey came as gangsters also!
Luisa paid us a surprise visit!
Her and KatyMe Kim Luisa and Kam

Me and KimParty! Success?? Me and Luisa

MaryKate and Ashley shirts

(Katie and Kristy, not twins but sisters seriously like 9 months apart...)

They couldn't make it.

Wedding Gift

2008-05-27T16:09:00.001-07:00

Saturday Matt, Mike, and I went down to Utah for Dani and Jon Itri's wedding reception. Jon's one of my best friends, he got married May 17 in Redlands Cali. We left saturday at 10 am, got to Layton around 1 pm, had lunch, saw Prince Caspian (which I thought was incredible, amazing Gospel symbolism....C.S.Lewis = genious....), went to the reception and spent about five hours there, and started driving back to Rexburg at 10 pm (discussing Prince Caspian and the Gospel symbolism for most of the way home...) getting home at 1 am. (Matt and mike had to be back in Rexburg because their older sister was visiting...). I woke up Sunday with food poisoning I believe (not from the reception...) and made it to two minutes of Sacrament meeting spending the entire time in the bathroom, then asking mike to take me home because there was no way I was going to get something out of church that day anyway, got home and spent a few hours with the "other" jon. All is good now. So my wedding gift to Jon and Dani was making their invitations and wedding DVD so I didn't need to get them anything. But for fun I decided to take romantic movie posters and put their faces on them as something they could have for fun. People at the reception loved them. Here are just a few of them:

Grill Assignment

2008-05-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Well our George Foreman Grill Machine marketing campaign is finally over! Our teacher put us into groups of four and she gave us a company that we had to create a whole new advertising campaign for. She gave us the grill machine and our target audience was 18-30 year old males, particularly college students. Each person in our group had to design an ad of our choice but all four ads had to flow together and be consistent. Our slogan was "grill in style" and it focused on how you can have the grill machine however you want it. At first I decided to create a billboard, but afterwards it looked like it had too many words, so I turned it into a magazine spread (both are shown below...but the magazine spread is the official one I turned in). We had to present our campain to the class and it went flawlessly. My group was great and actually we were kinda funny too. It was fun. The model is my friend Katy from up here. She was a good sport...

Billboard

(it had too many words so I didn't turn it in, I still like it though)

Magazine Spread

Website and Kickball

2008-05-05T22:32:00.000-07:00

Well the summer is finally here...I THINK. it snowed barely a week ago so you never know...but it was hot and rexburg is coming alive! yes! for FHE tonight another group challenged us to a game of kickball. Wouldn't you know our team won: 14 to 12. Good times. Today was spent doing homework and projects projects projects. I have a website that I'm in the process of setting up and will be all semester long. Tomorrow our homepage is due and only one link has to be working so far. The website is going to be used to show off our projects from the past and this semester. Anway, check it out:

http://www.sinkingshipples.com/

It's nowhere near being done but we have little updates we have to give it each week. Hope you like it. Let me know if you think of any ideas to make it cooler or better! Here are some pictures from kickball. All the guys are my roomates. Back row: Kam, Me, and Ryan (who is from Hollister). Front row: Chad (just went to the temple!), mike and matt. And the girls are our FHE sista's.

ahh

2008-05-03T15:48:00.001-07:00

What I feel like after being in the Spori Computer Lab all day:

Project #1

2008-04-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

The first project of the semester is complete! I had to do a photographic profile...so this is what came up. I think it's funny.

School and...Superman?

2008-04-22T15:34:00.001-07:00

Well I have officially been to all my classes and they're ggrrrREAT!...well. I am taking American Heritage again which, obvious from a year ago, is not my favorite subject nor a desired learning opportunity...but I am going to do well this time around, just you wait and see. Then I have intro to Sociology which is a cluster of choice I am taking. That class seems great and interesting. The teacher is cool and relaxed (but demands work to be done, yes yes), perfect for summer. Then there is Intro to Advertising which I am going to love. We have four major assignments throughout the semester. We even get to make a billboard (I believe that's what he said...). Anyway, our final project is a group project where we create an advertising campaign for a local business. The winners get an automatic A in the class. Bring it on! And then there is Advanced Visual Media which is gonna kick my booty but be awesome. I have to create a personal photographic collage by next Tuesday. No ideas yet but they'll come. As well we're going to create a website, a video podcast and some more stuff i'm not sure about yet. Wait I lied, a have a class I haven't been to yet, which is on Thursdays, called Group Dynamics. Anyway. I'm already super busy and having fun. It should be a great semester. And thank goodness I'm doing something! Now for Superman...

My Room

2008-04-21T19:05:00.000-07:00

This is kinda funny but I really like my room this semester so I'm showing you. I really wanted a clean slick room for the summer semester and wanted it really bright. Mom, my quilt fits it perfectly. I got these cool lights that remind me of Dr. Octopus's arms and hung some of my projects up from the past. I also got a really cool Lysol spray thingy that hangs on the wall and sprays good smelling stuff every 9, 18, or 36 minutes depending on how often I want it to go off. Iturn it off at night though cause it freaks me out in the middle of the night.

View from my room.

It's Me!

2008-04-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post saying I'm here. The internet has been down at my apartment but it's back and ready to roll. Rexburg has been empty but students are starting to flood the streets again getting ready for the new semester. Tip to self: stay clear of Wal-Mart for the next week, if I need toilet paper, go somewhere else. The sun is being felt and the snow is almost all gone. Friends and family are coming out of hibernation. It's good to see people going on walks and runs, including myself. I'm excited for school to start. I am never taking as long a break from the real world as I have this past semester, no sir. I applied for a part time job at Winger's and hopefully there is a possibility there. "We'll let you know by the end of the week," they say....but how many times have I heard that? So i'm gonna call and be annoying. Wish me luck

Bachelor Parties!!!!!!

2008-04-10T17:45:00.000-07:00

It's the season of love and you know what that means...BACHELOR PARTIES!!! I have three friends (Rory, Dru, and Jon) getting married within the next month so I threw them a joint bachelor party before their semester ended. Jon just bought a house in Rexburg so I threw it there. We had a nacho bar, pizza, and root beer keggs. Activities included "pin the garter on Katherine Heigl", bachelor Jeopardy, and "how well do you know your fiance?" where I asked their future wives questions about themselves beforehand and quizzed the guys. It was a massively successful party with plenty of surprises to be had. Here are the pictures I'm allowed to show you (just kidding).

Personal Discovery

2008-04-10T14:28:00.000-07:00

Well it's that time of year again! A semester has come to a close and college students begin to pack and leave one by one into their summer activities. Some will return for another semester of academic bliss, and others will stay home to work and save their pennies. Those who will return come back to a land of "almost melted- barely there" snow (at least until June, right?...), and welcome in the highly anticipated summer season of heat, smaller classes, snow cones, and bridge jumping. As well, they return to the one constant belonging in Rexburg, that one thing that rarely leaves and seems to be everywhere: me. That is right. Rexburg is my current home, the place in which I reside and live my life experiences. The recent semester did not find me taking classes, nor did it find me employed. But with it came not only fun, Fun, FUN!...but service. Lots and lots of service. It was a little frustrating at first trying to get any fun local jobs before the snotty other college students got them, each time to no prevail. This eventually led to acceptance of lack of employment, thus causing friends and others to realize they could call on me for whatever because "hey, he's not doing anything." While this claim may appear true at first, quite the contrary was eventually proven. I could go on and on with things I have done to keep myself busy: from running to making wedding announcements, to giving rides and even going home for 2 1/2 weeks to visit family and friends, but i'll withhold the details. Just know it was a serious test and journey of self-motivation and personal devotion. Do I sit inside and watch movies all day?...or help a poor married friend with filling his empty car with gas? It didn't take long for me to sum up the obvious choices of what to do with so much extra time: I could serve others. And through all this I discovered more of who I am. I believe that is the purpose of this little place in which I live that brings out major realizations of who we are. Many complain of such little places as being boring, lame, and non-eventful (myself used-to-be-included). But from these past few months I have caught a glimpse of what it means to be a participant of mankind, and that so much substance can be crammed into a small hour.