new stuff...

Stuff. We all accumulate it and we all have probably more than we need. I tend to have a great liking for stuff, judging by my surfboards, bikes, cameras, and hats. There is stuff that I just like. I have really stopped buying stuff that I don't really need a while ago when I cleared out and took inventory of all the crap that I own. Now I just buy crap that I am pretty sure that I need.

Which leads us to my latest purchase. Thanks to the government and my paying taxes in full for the past year, I am now the proud owner of a Canon EOS D20

Yeah, it is really cool. I bought it from my friend Jenica for quite a reasonable price. She is getting a new camera and needed to sell her old one so I was glad to help her out. I haven't really taken it out to shoot anything yet because I don't have a case to protect it and there is always the time issue. It has a super nice lens and is wonderful. I am soon going to not only purchase a new case for it, but also a tripod (if they are not too expensive), a CF card, a CF card reader, and also hopefully a remote so that I can do perfect time lapse shots with it. This camera will help fuel my latest ideas for projects, using stop motion to tell documentary stories, and it will be good to do more time lapse with as well.

That is the latest "stuff" that I have consumed. Now for the stuff that has been going on in my life.

I got a free lance working job that will pay about 25$ an hour this coming weekend filming an art show with my steadycam. Becky and I still like each other and are enjoying the visit from her sister, Lisa, who is wonderful and Asian.
I am excited to have new tires on my scooter, since my old ones were super worn bald, and am anticipating warmer weather and lower gas expenses.
Snowboarding class has ended but I hope to go up every so often to get my release.
The South America project that I and Christen are working towards is going to be yay or nayed this coming week, so I can finally start planning my summer (for those of you who don't know about that, I was approached by Christian to help co-direct, shoot, and help edit a TV show for BYU International where we make "Sketches" of South American artists and show culture, art, and humanity in the shows. It is a great idea that I am super excited about. If approved I would spend lots of the summer traveling to these countries and filming).
SEGO Art Center and the Downtown Provo Alliance have approached me and asked for volunteer help to make small short and simple documentaries of Provo and the culture that is coming up. This involves artists, musicians, historians, business owners, and the whole community helping reestablish downtown Provo as a hub of culture and business. I would help get this out there by participating and making videos for them that would air on a podcast that would be available and on the Provo cable TV station. Cool.
School is still going good but my development classes are taking more and more time that I don't have.
I am still playing music and Brian and I made it to the big BYU acoustic concert thing, Guitars Unplugged. That is cool since we have tried out for like 3 or 4 years and we finally made it. We didn't even have to go back to call-backs. That will be on March 20th.
I think that is it. I am also taking off music from my blog since that was nice but has become annoying and putting up a new survey. That is all.
Cheers.