"Yes!"

It's one of those "Yes!" "Score!" or "Right on!" kinda days. 

Don't you agree?

Sharing the Love

Instagraming? Been around for a while.

I'm just barely scratching the surface on discovering it though and so I go to town when the phone is in my hands. Plus, I ran out of space on my laptop and instagram photos take up a lot less space than my lovely T3i. These are a few of my favorites.

Not so happy about the floaties.

Dave's bed head is incredible.

My happy place. One of many.

We had to teeter toter for at least 30 minutes because Sadie loved it so much.

Can you see the resemblance?

I believe in lazy Sundays.

Making the Best out of a Bad Situation.

Uncomfortable. Angry. Inadequate. Lonely. Inferior. Lost.

Smidge of a Lousy week.

However. . .

• My hands held a horse.
• Katie and Brent let us come swim with them.
• I've ran 18 miles since monday.
• Kim's phone call could not have been timed better.
• Dave and I spent hours singing loudly in the car. Jam sessshhh.
• The anger made it so that we were absolutely unstoppable at volleyball.
• I've spent quality time in my favorite thinking spots.
• Linda called me when she was nervous about school. Me. I felt so incredibly honored. 
• I leave for New Orleans in a week to film a Documentary.

I believe in long drives.

Dumped

dump

1.

drop heavily or suddenly

2.

to empty out

3.

to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract

4.    

to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly

Dumper: the unloader, in the know, often flighty.
Dumpee: receiving the fuzzy end of the lollipop, often blindsided.

Many people mention how college students fall in love during this time of year but forget that there are a lot of break ups during this season as well. Whether looking for a fresh start, a summer fling, or for no real reason at all, Dumping sessions are attracted to some of my favorite places around town.

I overheard another break up yesterday. The same cliche phrases, the guy was so surprised he couldn't handle himself and the woman was looking for an escape. It was exactly what I needed to hear. Breakups are oddly comforting: no words that perfectly capture the emotions, both parties get hurt, no reason is good enough and no one else can pin point what those specific people are feeling. All this, accompanied by gorgeous surroundings in a calm quiet place. Simply, beautiful. My issues and the reason I ran away for the day made much more sense.

I believe in personal sanctuaries.

Movie Recommendations

Sherlock Jr is the best movie I've seen in the film program. Satisfying for everybody. 

Short. Clean. Funny.

 

I recommend The Asphalt Jungle because it was a more honest attempt from Hollywood. The heroes aren't all good and the villians aren't all bad. Marilyn Monroe also premiered first in this film. It's not exactly a feel good film and doesn't necessarily have a happy ending but it's more realistic and I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

Catfish. Intense show. Seriously mindblowing. 

Don't read about it, the less you know, the better it is.

(Not for children though.)

Straight Up Hands Down Jaw Dropping Miracle:

Hairy Chest and I drove to North Orem for family dinner yesterday . The car went as fast as 50 miles per hour. Dave isn't exactly the smoothest driver in the world but he hasn't been fired from the position yet. We arrived at my sisters, got out of the car and saw my laptop on the roof of the car. . . . .Logistically speaking, there is no way my laptop should have survived that. I did a lot of thanking last night.

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day!

UNIVERSE is an incomprehensible and gloriously exquisite word. Yet, the universe is a small reminder that there is so much more. So much more to life to grasp and hang on for dear life. Take care of the world today, or if nothing else be outside with bare-feet and feel the earth beneath you. This is a great scene from Tree of Life, my favorite shot is at 2:34. Enjoy!

I believe in potential.

I'm a Lover.

I told you I'd do ethnographic typography.

It took hours to figure it out with J. Coop but now I can easily go back and make more of these. I can also say that I know a lot more about after effects too. 

When I was interviewing Jess, I loved that she said this. It is so true that if you want to be a teacher, you should be a lover. Her argument is that you have to care about the success of those you teach. While that is true, I think there is even a deeper message to this sentence.

The best teachers are lovers of everything. 

They love to learn, to discover, to indulge in curiosity, to be enthusiastic, to share, to see others grow to love the same things you love. The best teachers love something so much, it makes you want to love it as well. Teachers make a huge difference, just by their attitude.

So, voila, I'm proud to say I'M A LOVER.

Keep Calm. Keeping Calm.

I like the poster 500times more now.

This message is for you, you know why. This message is for me. I'm freaking out because everybody is graduating and I don't have enough to do. 

I believe in stir crazy. 

We know each other well.

Fishy Weekend

People often post an unnecessary amount of pictures of themselves. 

As if when they're driving in the car, they always have a perfect smile placed on their face (yea, I buy that. Road-rager.) OR They wear full make up and take a picture right before they go for a long run and say that it was after they ran. OR how could anyone doubt that they have the ultimate best time with their friends? They take a bunch of pictures of themselves with their friends laughing really hard. Man, life must be so good for people who post a bajillion pictures of themselves. 

I have slowly shifted into becoming not a personal picture poster. My cheeks are too overwhelming to repeatedly put you through that. I do however, take a lot of pictures of people I love. Not because I have anything to prove to anyone but simply because I love them. And I love that I love them. And I love when they are spending time with me. And I document. I document like a crazy person. It's who I am.

 This guy. Let's be real here. If I didn't start with Dave, I should be disowned. He is one hunk of Yum.

My new camera was an adjustment for my family but I think they are more used to it now. I look back at all of my first photos and there are too many poses. Except not of Dave.

 When Goosie was awake this weekend she was quite happy. 

For some reason, Brooklyn's little soul speaks to me. She is little Linda. She is little Eden. She is at that milestone in life where life can be enjoyed as close to it's potential on this earth.

 After I took this picture, Dave wanted me to take a ton more of the fish. He was excited about it so I did it for my husband. So these fish represent a piece of my past where I spent time with my family.

Then, we all put into practice what we had learned and swam until our fingers turned into prunes.

Oh the joy.

This is my family and I couldn't be happier about that.

Personal Benefit Post (Sorry)

Growing up, I wondered what I would be doing at this stage in my life. Needless to say I'm surprised with the result. Here I am at the peak of my academic career and what do I do? I watch a ridiculous amount of films. That may sound like a dream to some of you but it is in reality quite exhausting for myself. For kicks and giggles, I collaborated a list of what my most recent semester has entitled so one day if I ever wonder what I learned in college, I can get a slight idea. I do not recommend all of these films. Some were watched by force.

JANUARY 1, 2012-TODAY, 2012

Films:

1. Rome, Open City (1945)
2. The King of Kings (1927)
3. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
4. Forks Over Knives (2011)
5. Dead of Night (1945)
6. Strange Cargo (1940)
7. Night of the Hunter (1955)
8. Life in a Day (2011)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
   
10. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
11. Los Olvidados (1950)
12. Black Narcissus (1947)
13. A Knight's Tale (2001)
14. Sanjuro (1962)
15. Fires on a Plane (1959)
16. The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
17. M. Hulots Holiday (1953)
18. 8 1/2 (1963)
19. Shanghai Noon (2000)
20. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
21. Yellow Submarine (1968)
22. Ordet (1955)
23. The Help (2011)
24. The 400 Blows (1959)
25. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
26. Shock Corridor (1963)
27. Leap Year (2010)
    
28. Equinox (1970)
29. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
30. 10 Things I Hate about You (1999)
31. Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
32. Buck (2011)
33. Jaws (1975)
34. Waking Ned Devine (1998)
    
35. Badlands (1973)
36. Calamity Jane (1953)
37. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
    
38. Catfish (2010)
    
39. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
40. Hairspray (2007)
41. Planet of the Apes (2011)
42. Decalogue (1989)
    
43. Knight and Day (2010)
44. Hugo (2011)
45. Andrei Rublev (1966)
46. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
47. Woman in White (1997)
48. Tower Heist (2011)
49. Project A (1986)
50. Mr. Vampire (1985)
51. The Hunger Games (2012)
52. Midnight in Paris (2011)
53. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
54. Ratatouille (2007)
55. Captain America (2011)
56. Troll Hunter (2010)
57. Chicago (2002)
58. Usual Suspects (1995)
59. O Brother, Where art Thou? (2000)
60. The Holiday (2006)
61. The Temptations (1998)
62. Pretty Woman (1990)
63. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
64. The Duchess (2000)
65. Oceans 11 (1960)
66. Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
67. Dear Zachary (2008)
68. Places in the Heart (1985)
69. Babette's Feast (1987)
70. Tree of Life (2011)
71. 4 Screening of 1 1/2 hours of Student films-Final Cut Film Festival (2012)
72. This Means War (2011)
73. The Three Stooges-Gents without Cents, Manny week, Ape Wild (1944)
74. Princess and The Frog (2009)
75. The Bodyguard (1992)
    
76. Oceans 13 (2007)
    
77. The Music Never Stopped (2011)

This list doesn't include the television series we've stayed up to date on.

Books I've read since the beginning of the year:

1. Experiment on Criticism~C.S. Lewis
2. The Koran
3. Documentary Filmmaking
4. Culture and Values~Cunningham
5. Persuasion~Jane Austen
6. A Marvelous Work and a Wonder~ LeGrand Richards
   
7. Oxford History of WORLD Cinema~Nowell-Smith
8. Transcendental Style in Film~ Schrader
   
9. A Critical Introduction to Film
10. Vindication of the Rights of Women~Mary Wollstonecraft
11. The Origin of Species~Charles Darwin
12. Communist Manifesto~Karl Marx
13. Davita's Harp~Chaim Potok
14. White Savior Industry Complex~Teja Cole
15. Emily's Runaway Imagination~Beverly Cleary

Papers:

157 pages worth of papers for school. Not including emails, social media or journal entries.

• 20 pages film journals
• 5 page responses to journals
• 10 pages for TA instruction class
  
• (3) 3 page reading reports
• 12 page reading summary
• 2 page documentary correlation
• 22 page study guide for Humanities
• 36 page study guide for Humanities
• 2 page Response to Kony 2012 and White Savior Industry Complex
• (2) 5 page papers for Humanities
• 5 page paper for film history
• 24 page Documentary proposal

Artists /People I've studied:

1.     Tintoretto

2.     Vermeer

3.     Rembrandt

4.     Michaelangelo

5.     Bramante

6.     Bernini

7.     Rubens

8.     Mansart

9.     LeBrun

10.   Grunewald

11.   Louis XIV

12.   Madame Maintenon

13.   Titian

14.   Bosch

15.   Caravaggio

16.   Kant

17.   Rousseau

18.   Voltaire

19.   Fragonard

20.   Chardin

21.   Watteau

22.   Madame Vigee-Lebrun

23.   David

24.   Charlotte Corday

25.   Marat

26.   Marie Antoinette

27.   Mozart

28.   Beethoven

29.   Chopin

30.   Liszt

31.   Delacroix

32.   Gericult

33.   Goya

34.   Manet

35.   William Blake

36.   Wordsworth

37.   John Keats

38.   Lord Byron

39.   Courbet

40.   Darwin

41.   Wollstonecraft

42.   Karl Marx

43.   Monet

44.   Renoir

45.   Munch

46.   Matisse

47.   Nietzsche

48.   Archduke Ferdinand

49.   Wilfred Owen

50.   T. S. Eliot

51.   Duchamp

52.   Berthe Morisot

53.   Rodin

54.   Cami Claudel

55.   Mary Cassatt

56.   Cezanne

57.   Van Gogh

58.   Picasso

59.   Magritte

60.   Dali

61.   Valcav Hanvel

62.   Jackson Pollock

63.   Duane Hansen

64.   Henry Newman

65.   Ralph Goings

66.   Christo and Jeanne Claude

67.   Stravinsky

68.   Elgar

69.   Rachmaninoff

Student/Work Films I have contributed to since the beginning of the Year:

1. Chronicles of A Country~Jacob Johnson
2. Walk~Jessica Cooper
3. Sports Hero Day~Y-Serve
4. Writing~Jessica Cooper
5. I Love Both of You~Lizi Fesler
6. Locks of Love Promo~Y-Serve
7. Edward Scissorhands~Nick Dixon
8. BYU Experience~Y-Serve
9. Voices of Childhood~Jessica Cooper
10. The Vineyard~Y-Serve
11. Hands on a Camera~ Jessica Cooper
12. Spring Reflection Video~Y-Serve
13. The Bitter Pill~Sarah Butler
14. Student Film Association (SFA) Final Cut Film Festival

I believe in miracles.

"An artist is never poor."

-Babette's Feast

Getaway.

I believe in weekends.

Super Cute.

Another Jess C. and Lizi production! 

We're loving our youtube channel if you'd like to subscribe it's wordscoop. Of course Goose is a star again, she's just too adorable.

I believe in twirling. 

The Music Never Stopped

Just a slice of life for your day. 

The Music Never Stopped is a film I'd like to see and I also included a clip of a similar situation. I guess there are slight similarities between my project idea and The Music Never Stopped because of the aspects of longing to reconnect with family.

Anyone else have family out there that they wish they knew better? What song brings back the oddest memory for you?

I believe in soul searching.

Once again, Thrilled!

I pitched to the faculty on Thursday for a personal doc capstone idea and this was the response:

I'm ECSTATIC. I can hardly breathe. It is really happening!

What news! What a week! What a life!

They believe in me...and I refuse to disappoint them.

Let it move you.

Inspiration comes in array of places. These particular pieces spoke to me. I felt like I could reach out and be a part of their world for but a small moment. Enjoy.

 Massimo Sbreni.

Black and white photos have become quite an obsession recently, especially when depicting wrinkles.

"Lolita"

 Golpeavisa

Post-Modern Cubism

"Art Rough"

 Loish.

Unsure about the photographer. 

Possibly H. Armstrong Roberts.

I believe in captured moments.

Best. Weekend. Ever.

Rachel Sommerfelt said something profound today. She first distinguished the difference between our physical bodies, our spirituality and our souls. Then, she explained that when we as humans neglect our physical bodies it eventually catches up to us and we become aware of our current state. (That moment of awareness happened to hit me last night. Irrelevant.)

It is the same with our spirit. The soul connects our spirit and body causing a completion of personality. If our spirituality is lacking...one day (whether it be days, weeks or years) we will realize our soul has not progressed in the ways we wished it to. Deep down inside.

There will be a moment in your life when you feel as if a dark cloud is following you where-ever you go or a sense of loneliness (even in a crowded room.) It is a part of mortality to feel pain in its highest and hardest form. If you happen to currently feel your lack of spirituality or presence of emotional pain there is hope. You are an infinite, unlimited, precious soul that deserves more than you could imagine. I care so much about you. Every last bit.

As for the photos: I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. Truly, this weekend held so many treasures and I felt so much love from so many people. 

 The girls had to wear bunny masks while hunting for their eggs.

Final cut went amazingly! We had a surprisingly glorious turnout and I feel that this festival accurately portrayed the hundreds of hours of hard work that was put into the films this year. I'm awed while looking back at the experience and know that I will forever reminisce fondly.

I believe in intuition.