The Quest for various things in my life... Ch. 5

It's been awhile, quite possibly too long since I've last posted something here. Business. Christmas and my Birthday have happened (I'm 20 now) and I have been quite spoiled with lavish gifts. I also had an awesome ninja Birthday Party. I really can't recap everything that's happened since my last post, so I'll simply sum up what I'm doing now:
1. Searching for a job
Went hunting at the mall today, it's bleak. I'm also continually pursuing a position at a local coffee shop called "It's a Grind" about one mile from my house. I'll have the joy of online application tomorrow!
2. Producing a tv show. Wrote a pilot episode found myself a casting director, and a cameraman/editor, now I'm just working on filling all the roles with actors and securing locations for filming. P.S. if you act, email jessica@dragoncowproductions.com to get a copy of the pilot episode/sign up for an audition. (I'll put more about this project in the monthly newsletter)
3. Writing the monthly newsletter.
4. Applying for USC. Currently working on that whole essay thing.
5. Finishing up Ghetto Movie. Almost there. About to start looking for a venue to premiere it.
6. Volunteering with a political organization called Year of Youth 2012
7. Soon to begin the busiest semester of school ever, 7 classes : )
8. Working out. pumping the iron, started today. sore.
9. Reading the whole bible in a year, need to catch up a couple of days.
10. Writing the blog.

As usual, wish me luck : )

The Youth Revolution - Project 2012 [Extended Version]

Check out this fantastic video from YearOfYouth.org I am currently volunteering as a core-team member in their marketing department and helped make this video, (did the paper-animations.)

It's time for real change. Prepare for the Year of Youth.

Watch the video in high-def on YouTube → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_adrf-qKwQ

Like it? Help make our Viral Video Experiment a success. Get your own copy of the vid file and upload it wherever you want. Details here → http://www.yearofyouth.org/the-viral-video-experiment

You know you love us. http://www.yearofyouth.org

Oh - and send us to Washington. Just $5 gets you on our 'good list', with all sorts of goodies for you. http://www.yearofyouth.org/contribute

THe Quest for various things in my life... Ch. 4

It's been awhile since I blogged. I've been quite busy. Finished up my Environmental Impact Journal, which included my valiant bicycling efforts. Also I've made another trip down to Universal Studios (making the most of my annual pass). Also Thomas and I have been hard at work for a Top Secret video for our Mass Communications class as well as continuing work on Ghetto Movie, and Elmo Vs. Death 2. In addition to working on video related efforts, I have been exploring possibilities on the college front. Recently, I took a trip down to CSUN with AVC's transfer center and was able to get some good information about transferring, as well as being able to take a tour of the Cinema and Television Production facilities, which was a great little film-maker geek out moment for me. Then yesterday, I went down to USC and had some even greater film-maker geek out moments as I attended 2 informative sessions for USC's School of Cinematic Arts as well as taking a tour of the new facilities (the $175 million dollar facilities donated by George Lucas). CSUN looks a great school, at an affordable price, while USC looks like a fantastic dream-school, at a not so affordable price. So I am applying to both and USC #1 choice and CSUN #2 choice , if I get into USC then where there's a will there's a way will be my motto for finding the means to pay for it. As always... wish me luck!

The Quest for various things in my life... Ch. 3

This weeks has been good exercise! I began parking my car at the college and riding my bike everywhere i need to in town. So far I have ridden: 34.7 miles. Tomorrow I am going to ride from home to my Dean's house to the college and then hitch a ride home with Thomas. Should be a fun day. Yesterday I stopped and took a few pictures as the sun was setting, I'll post the best of at he bottom of this blog. And today I dropped off applications at Red Robin and Applebees as well as checked up on my Old Navy, Oak West and Bath & Body works apps AND picked up apps for Aeropostale and Wet Seal. In other words, I've been busy busy busy all day everyday. My girlfriend has a Cross-Country trip tonight and tomorrow so I shall be homesick as the possessor of my heart travels up to Mammoth, but as always absence makes the heart grow fonder. Saturday (i apologize for the highly un-chronilogical order of this blog) I had to work, but got back in time for most of the church's Open House/ Fall Festival, muchos fun! This Sunday Wayside Chapel had their dedication service, very touching to see how our dream has been completed and awesome to be able to serve a meal in the fellowship room of the building. Also Gloria (the partially spanish choir song) went very well, speaking of choir its time to wrap this up and head off to practice. As always wish me luck!

This is what blogs were made for right?

I know youtube was made by people that wanted to share videos of their cats, so i can only assume that blog were made for people to share pictures of their dogs in christmas sweaters, so I present to you the magnificent mercury!

The Quest for various things in my life... Ch. 2

Well, you better make fiends with me now, before I get too famous. Today has been a good day. I was interviewed for a Time Warner television show called Reel Chasers. Our video "Landing" was on the October episode of the show, and this next episode will be an exclusive DragonCow Productions themed episode. You can catch the show on Time Warner Cable channel 3 Mondays at 6:30, Fridays at 10:30 or Saturdays at 4:30. I also decided to try connecting my old "broken" external hard drive to my new macbook, and lo and behold it worked! Thank the Lord! So I am currently copying all the files off of it onto my new hard drive, which means I should be able to access all my original full quality videos as well as several projects that I thought were lost forever including: Elmo Vs. Death 2, Fatninjas: The Movie, and the Hit 2. Very exciting.

This week is turing out to be a very busy week. I am working down at the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, which is a blessing to have that boost in income. This morning I finally recycled my old iMac G5, farewell and rest in Peace! Yesterday the Masters Chorale from the Master's College came and performed at Wayside Chapel in Rosamond, it was a great concert. This Sunday is Dedication Sunday and we're dedicating the new building to the Lord and having our first meal together as a church in it after the service. I am singing in the choir sunday and am a little nervous because the song we're working on is something the choir snag last year, so we just starting working on it last week, and its partially in Spanish. Thats all for this chapter, I'll hopefully make it through the week and onto the next chapter, as always: wish me luck!

The Quest for various things in my life... Ch. 1

Ah, that's a title that I can go for. The search for admission continues. I am beginning to find my way through the tangled web of transferring colleges. All the courses I need to take at AVC are available in the Intercession and Spring Semester, Hooray! I also found out that the Pasadena City College has the pre-requisite course I need to take (again hooray, because there were complications to taking the class at College of the Canyons). However oddly enough, I managed to misspell my own last name on my application to CSUN, Benjamin Aandrews! So I need to call and get that straightened out, magically enough the automated system at CSUN does not respond to me pressing numbers on my cellphone, so I need to call from my home phone hopefully tomorrow morning. Enough of that school stuff though, onto business:

Exciting things are happening with DragonCowProductions. I edited a video for a friend from church's Air Force Retirement, $20. Picked up a bunch of used dvd covers from a friend, used one for the Retirement video and made a very professional cover, on Photoshop. I am currently (and nearly finished) editing a video made by Dean's band mates, it's about a killer teddy bear, pretty funny so look forward to that. In October my sci-fi video "Landing" was featured on TIme Warner's Reel Chasers and the producer of the show wants to do an episode about DragonCow Productions for November, hooray television exposure! Matt Baldwin (from Landing) has also agreed to be in the upcoming web-series "Rebel Filmmakers" which I am writing a pilot episode for. And last but not least filming for Ghetto Movie is nearly done, there is also a new Preview for it online now at http://dragoncowproductions.com/ghettomovie

In other news Alta Dena has egg-nog on sale. I love egg-nog. Happiness tenfold! Thank you for reading, have a great day, and as always wish me luck!