Monday, March 21
So today at my internship... quite interesting. One of my bosses had this old water cooler that looked like it was from the 70's (I think because it actually was from the 70's), he asked me to get some spray paint and paint it white. So I walk around downtown and went to this art shop and the only spray they had was the legit like tagging spray paint. So I take this cooler and paint it and wow- that was the freaking most powerful paint I have ever smelled. No wonder people wear gas masks when they tag. I would literally have to take a huge breath, spray as much as I could and run about 40 feet away to breathe again. And I think I still got high... okay well not really, but holy crap that stuff freaking killed some brain cells. Since church was canceled the day before because of that marathon, we had church tonight, so I went straight there from work. It was a really informative sermon on women in the church. Chordle has had one of his friends (also named Luke) visiting this week, so when we got back that night we went to this really cool local burger place and hung out there for a while.
Tuesday, March 22
I'm not sure if I have mentioned it yet, but I have been working on this title sequence for our short film. It has seriously been one of the most fun projects I have ever worked on. I'm pulling my inspiration for it from three different title sequences - Catch Me If You Can, Kung Fu Panda, and a third one that I can't think of right now. Anyways, I'm sure I'll put it up online when it's done. After dinner and a good dose of free samples from Yogurtland, we had our bible study and then I had some good blogging time.
Friday, March 25
We filmed for our short film today (The Adventures of Andy Wilston). We filmed at this really awesome park which overlooks LA. It was a really cool location and we hired these stunt guys to be pirates and ninjas in our movie and they were super legit, it was pretty awesome. At the end of the day, I realized that I had gotten a nasty sunburn though. Which taught me a lesson that I've learned many times before and still haven't grasped - even though it's overcast, you can STILL GET SUNBURNT. Anyways, I went to the hot tub with some friends when I got back. That was just what I needed!
Saturday, March 26
We had to get up real early and filmed all morning and afternoon, but we got done at like 3:30, so that was pretty cool having the rest of the day open. I took a short nap, which of course turned into a much needed 3.5 hour nap. After that I had a really good talk with the parents and then went over to the school to work on stuff. Some friends had just started watching Jaws, so I gave myself an excuse for a distraction and joined them in watching the movie. Afterwards I didn't really feel like working on homework so I just blogged for a while, that was good. I think blogging is good for me, it's kind of comforting to be able to list off my thoughts and feelings and listen to music. It's kind of an escape from the constant busyness and noisiness of LA.
Tuesday, March 29
Normally I don't go into my internship on Tuesdays, but today they were doing a shoot for a promotional webisode we are shooting for a website, (I sure hope my work doesn't sue me for uploading this picture of me slating the video and wearing their T-Shirt!)
Wednesday, March 30
After my internship I stayed up all night editing and color grading the final cut of a short film that our group had done a couple weeks prior. It's actually pretty cool though that this was my first all nighter since I've been here, the work load has definitely been a lot less because of being able to work on group projects.
Thursday, March 31
Quite an eventful day. Tonight we are having a huge party at my work, so they asked me to take tomorrow off and come in today to help set up. After class I went back that night for the party. I knew the party would be awesome but I wasn't personally thrilled about it. I'm not really a big fan of being in a place with a bunch of people that I don't know and I don't really want to intrude on the conversations of others. Anyways the party itself was awesome, but I kind of awkwardly shuffled around and just talked with one of my coworkers. After about 45 mins or an hour of that I met up with my good friend Caleb Pyles. I met him over at the Dream Center, which was actually my first time actually being at the Dream Center. It was really good to see him though and we walked around Echo Park (which apparently is one of the more ghetto areas of LA) and we had a really good talk catching up and everything. THEN my friend Zachary Kidder is supposed to be flying in tonight so we started driving to the airport to pick him up. Unfortunately my car has been having trouble with the rear brakes and my car just skidded forwards. It was pretty freaky so I pulled into a McDonald's parking lot. I couldn't move my car and didn't really know exactly what was wrong with it, so I had to have a tow truck called and waited till 3:30am for that to show up. So that all kind of sucked, but there's not much in my life that seems like that big of deal anymore compared to other things I've faced. I was actually really blessed how everything worked out... first of all that my car froze up literally right before I pulled onto the freeway, secondly that Caleb was with me and we were only a couple blocks from the Dream Center. He was able to walk back and borrow a friend's car to go pick up Zach at the airport and then they came and met up with me and hung out in the parking lot until the tow truck showed up. Sure, I wasn't at all thrilled about this all happening, but I don't think it could have happened with better circumstances for me, so praise God for that! Needless to say, I was exhausted by the time I got back and not excited about having to pay money to fix a car worth like $500.
Friday, April 1
Gmail Motion looks soooo cool!
April Fools! I seriously just looovvve Google's annual April Fool's day jokes. Incredible! Today I gave Zach a tour of my school and then he and I worked on some homework for a while. Then we drove to Huntington Beach to meet up with my roommate Jake who had been staying with his family at this fancy beach resort. It was such a great night. Zach and I got bodyboards from the hotel and got to use them in the ocean. It was so fun. But I was pretty exhausted after that. After we dried off and got cleaned up, Jake's parents took us out for a great BBQ dinner and ice cream.
Saturday, April 2
Gotta love waking up at 7:00 AM on Saturday, huh?! This morning Zach and I got up and went with some of my classmates to Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena for the Reel Spirituality Conference: The Death of the Critic.
It was really awesome getting to hear some film critics and filmmakers speak about the role of a critic and they're importance. We also got to view the Academy Award winning short film "God of Love"
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