amazingness

the best app ever to come out for a mac- The Mac Saber

pretty much you install it and you swing your laptop around and it makes lightsaber sounds according to how you swing your laptop... little bit dangerous... but a lot a bit fun.



if you have a mac, i recommend you get it.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21732/macsaber

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best thing about the graphic design major

So i am pretty stoked about my major. Graphic Design.
One of the few majors where i wont have to write 10-a billion page papers for any sort of research or anything.
I just sit and play on photoshop all day. So its pretty much what i do at home anyway.
The one downside to it is that i have to take 2 art classes where i have to actually draw stuff out ,which i am horrible at... but nonetheless, its better than essays.

i think everyone should become a graphic design. Its a pretty legit major. Hopefully i will get some sort of career started once i graduate. We shall see.

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self portrait graphic design yo

so in one of my classes for graphic design we are doing self portraits. Its pretty cool because the teacher has me take the pictures with his fill frame 5D. I dont really prefer canon cameras at all, but full frame is pretty legit... so im down. I edited my self portrait today and i think i made my eyes a bit too creepy... but i kinda like the picture...


creepy or no?

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my encounter at jury duty.

so today i had jury duty.
i was meaning to go in a few days before to get out of it because of school, but i never had the chance to.
So i wake up today at like 7:25 and roll out of bed to get ready.
I get on the freeway around 7:43ish thinking that i would be good on time by 8:00
around 8:20 i get to the building after stop and go traffic on the free way and 2 full parking lots that i was directed to.

but this who blog doesn't really have much to do with jury duty itself.
ill start my story at lunch time.
If you havent read my previous blog you will find that ive been reading the book "crazylove" by francis chan.
After i eat i head back to the Court room and sit outside to read my book
as i do i overhear this guy talk about how he is blind in one eye and going blind in the other and how harvest gave him a Bible with large print.
A few minutes later i hear"hey man why are you wearing that bracelet?" ( i soon find that his name is dave)
he was referring to the bright green bracelet that i got from sandals on sunday for writing out what i struggle with on. (if you missed that service pod cast it... its amazing)
I told him "I got it from sandals church, its inside the California baptist university gym."
"is it a correctional church?" he asked
"No, just a regular one"
he then proceeds to tell me his story about how he spend 9 years in jail because of drugs and that he is a ordained minister. He has been out of prison for about 3 years and was trying to find a Christan halfway house because a normal one would cause for him to stumble and get back into his old ways.
I let him use my phone so he could call a guy who runs a chain or Christan halfway houses or something like that.
His passion for right now is to be a sort of minister for 3rd-5th graders- to warn them of the dangers of drums, violence and gangs. He said that those are the most vulnerable ages for experimentation with drugs and gangs and he wants to prevent kids from making the same mistake he did.

Dave has a real passion for God. He knows he screwed up his life bad and is quite humbled by it. He finally recognized his weakness and is trying to become stronger so that he can help people who where in the same spot as him.

it did cross my mind that he could be lying about everything just for the attention, but he seemed real about all that he said. He had a bible with him with paslm 35 bookmarked and said that he has been praying with that verse in mind constantly.

ever since i got jury duty i dreaded it. but now. im glad that i went (i still got out of actually being a juror) i was able to listen to daves story and give him my input for his story. There is a lot more that i could have written my story about my encounter with dave... but chances are no one will read all this anyway... but if you actually did, ask me in person.. and i will go into more detail ha. good stuff.

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crazylove

I am reading a book.
really... i plan to read it from cover to cover
every word, every line, every paragraph, every page, every chapter... you get the idea
If you dont already know by the picture, its "crazy love" by francis chan.
This guy is probably one of the best speakers that Ive ever seen.
Because of that, i decided to actually sit down and read his book.
not something i would normally do...as im sure you know, im not really a book person.
But given all of the amazing things i have heard about this book, i figured i would give it a shot.
On another note, i actually have another book in line to read after this by a guy named jay bakker.
Im not sure how good it will be since i haven't heard much about it, but its written buy a pastor in new york who has full sleeves and has somewhat of an interesting story, so i looked on amazon.com and $6 later i have a used hardcover copy of the book.
Well technically i dont have it yet since the website decided to ship it dead snail mail style. (which is pretty slow) but nonetheless, it will come.
So we shall see how well my crappy silent reading skills will get me though this book
it should be fun.

rock on.

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FoHo college briefing

so this weekend i shot 2 major things... college briefing and "the ranch" at horizons church in san diego with greg laurie and mercy me.

for the sake of unedited pictures all i will show in this post is college briefing, where it seems that the only good shots worth showing people who werent there are just silouete shots... easy to do and sometine they look good... maybe its just me being a lazy photographer.... or its me being the nice person who dosent want to flash people (with the flash on my camera) during worship services and be a major distraction.

well, when in rome i say...

pictures..

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