Time to go...

... to bed.
To Africa.

Time is a funny thing. It seems to be so exact and even for everybody but I swear that it is relative. I have been waiting a month for this Africa trip and now I am up at 1am working on a video that I should have had done 3 days ago.

I hope it goes by this fast in the airplane. I don't like them much.

It feels that time has become a valuable commodity these days but I am confused. Time is free for most everybody. Everybody has it (though I don't believe that it is equal for everybody as stated before). Time is not manipulated though it can be molded. I have been thinking about this recently and I think that we should value time probably most of all.

I apologize if this is crazy and incoherent because I am tired and stressed. Fun posts will follow soon. Very soon.

Math is very useful...

... especially if you are a Portuguese janitor who wants to be a baller. Confused? Watch.

3x3 short-film from Nuno Rocha on Vimeo.

An amazing biking video...

... showing how a city can be bike friendly. Wow. If only more cities had bike lanes on their streets. I think UDOT would have a fit if they had to shrink the size of their streets to put in a bike lane.



The thing is that biking in the Netherlands is very efficient and safe. Out of all of those people (who are very smart and concerned with their health and safety like modern Europeans are) who do you see wearing helmets? They don't have to because they have their own safety rules and actually follow them. There is a bicycle culture there, where here, it is just a sport. I recently was talking to Brad Woods of MadDog Cycles about biking culture and he completely agreed with me. Biking needs to be instilled in the culture of America and when that happens, there will be much more change than we could have imagined. So, go biking to the grocery store or school or to your neighbor's house or to work. Give it a try and see what happens.

This is a test...

... and it is only a test.  Just got the remote timer today to start doing time-lapse photography and wanted to give it a try.  There was too much light and then not enough, so I adjusted things and it didn't turn out that cool, BUT it IS cool that it worked out pretty good.  THAT is what is cool.

2hrs in 15 secs.  Not bad.  More tests soon.

I am a monster...

... because I got stung by a BEE on my EYELID!  Here is the aftermath.

Yep.  That was a bee.  Yesterday I was fine.  I guess sleeping caused it to be rubbed around and irritated and I woke up this morning like this.  A bit embarrassing but one for the records.  I am fine just so you know.  Thanks for the concern.

Now you can know...

... how I sound on the radio.
Here is the link

http://media.byub.org/mp3/fmarchive/thinkingaloud/2010/5/ta100517.mp3

Check it out and let me know how I sound.  It is all about Beehive stories and was actually very fun despite me being a bit embarrassing.

If you want to hear me...

... you can listen to "Thinking Aloud" of KBYU FM. It will air on Monday at 11am and 8pm on Classical 89.1 KBYUFM.  I went with Brad Barber and being the generous person that he is he invited me to talk with him and Marcus (the host) to talk about our experience and everything.  The interview went great and Brad did an excellent job at describing things well.  He has a knack for being calm and level-headed.  Meanwhile, I was super nervous and probably sounded stupid.  I will let you decide for yourself.  Check it out on Monday and know that you can hear my goofy voice on the radio then!

PS I really do love the radio and I hope that it does not die.

Another beautiful video...

... from my favorite video community, Vimeo.

my daughter, winnie. from jared hogan on Vimeo.

Late night...

... but I got results this time.  So, I stayed up late last night again but I was having too much fun.  This is the new video that I made for the Tipping Bucket (a one and a half day miracle start to finish).  It was a ton of fun.  Sometimes I wish I would have studied animation because I think it is so much fun.  Maybe I can learn it in my spare time?  Ha.

Here you go.

If you have a buck, help build a school in Ethiopia.

I am up...

... and it is way too late.

These are the things that I do for the Tipping Bucket.
I do like them.

The video is something new that I haven't tried ever before, so you will have to tell me what you think.

While I am up and the video is rendering I would like to take this time to apologize to all of my friends and family.  You see, because I am working on a billion different projects (Kenya, Uganda, Tipping Bucket, Conservation Conversation, Central Utah Gardens, HELP International stuff, JRCB Law School, and BYUTV) every single brain cell that I own goes to thinking and managing all of those projects.  There is planning and producing and sketching and stressing and bureaucrating and saving and spending and communicating and creating and destroying and a bunch of other things.  Needless to say I get very worn out and I forget things and I question my sanity.  I am looking forward to going to Kenya and loosing myself in working there and concentrating on one thing.  It will be nice.

Until then, please forgive me if work is all I will talk to you about.  I have forgotten to talk about anything else because work is all that I think about.  I am obsessed and I don't live a well rounded life (right now).  I hope this will change fairly soon and we can have other conversations about other important things like bugs or the weather.  Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,

Crazy Travis

Just a little brag...

... about myself. These are my grades for this past semester.

I am awesome.

I also got a small Dean's Scholarship for spring semester and fall semester.  Yeah!

Beautiful...

... and amazing. I love this video SO much.

The Dancer from Kensington on Vimeo.

Here is another one by the same person that is also good (for reference).

Kenya 2010 from Kensington on Vimeo.