...where you are...

2006-11-22T16:36:00.000-08:00

i thought it would be fun to play around with soft focus and stuff!!..--> so i took my sisters rings and this is what happened...

photo sesh photography from Dwayne Sims

2006-11-09T08:19:00.000-08:00

this was such an awesome day!.. i remember it well.. good times with good ol' pal dwayne.

2006-11-09T07:57:00.000-08:00

i just had a thought while i was sitting in class today. now today in our everyday life we all know the value of that special cup of coffee... mmmm its soo good! but now i have become enlightened. do you remember back in high school when they were teaching you about all the bad aspects of smoking? everything from health hazards to financial burdens. well how much does a pack of smokes cost these days?. im pretty sure that if you buy two grande lattes a day at starbucks you are paying just as much as you are if you were smoking a pack a day!

better or worse?

2006-11-07T22:04:00.000-08:00

is the world getting better or worse?

look around the world today, what do you see. your answer might include some things like media, war, aids, new technology, cell phones, the "myspace" world. do you think that the world is progressively getting better or worse? realistically you can look at both sides of this question. on one hand you may agree that the world seems to be getting better, but on the other hand, it seems to be on a constant spiral downwards.
while we are here. just look at how much medicine has progressed over the last few decades. today we are able to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness by just popping a little pill into our digestive track once or twice a day! this is incredible!
take a second and think about all the friends you have that own a cell phone, an i-pod, a pager... a laptop... how easy is it for you to get ahold of somebody today? if they dont answer their phone, you can just send them a text, or you can go and write them an e-mail... if your ears dont have enough noise pumping through them already, you can go online and share your i-tunes playlists with others online... the world we are living in is undeniably getting better.
now look for a second at a few common things we hear about and live through on a day to day basis. the amount of friends and colleagues that you walk by everyday that are infected with HIV/AIDS... how many people are coming from broken homes...

have you noticed lately how many kids are getting into drugs and alcohol? how come we are soo comfortable around a few of the things that ruin our lives everyday?

i believe that we are both of these put together, but not just somewhere in the middle. take a look into history and you will find that most of the problems we see around us are nothing new, we as a human race have been facing these issues thousands of years, but we are just now looking at them in a new context with a little different perspective. but essentially nothing is new under the sun. and as wee look at all the new "life improving" technology that seems to be bettering society, we still are constantly running into new problems which equal everything out. so the world is changing, but it is neither getting better or worse.

the way i see it, the world has been like a black and white picture. there are people that believe one thing, and then there are people who in direct contrast believe the exact opposite. but have you noticed that in most black and white pictures, generally the majority of the picture is some shade of gray between the two extremes. with the ever changing world and i don't want to use it but i have to, the post modern movement, the world is becoming less and less gray, and more and more black and white. people are set in their beliefs. either you believe or you dont. it is that simple. you cannot stand somewhere in between.

needle in a stack of hay

2006-11-06T18:39:00.000-08:00

2006-11-06T17:33:00.000-08:00

so this summer i had the privilege of taking a trip to europe! as we were gandering through the country side we stumbled across this city called Vienna in Austria. now this place is one of those places that has all this history in it and when we were taking a tour of the city, i took in more information about history and everything that i would have never been able to hold it all in! there were however a few things that i was able to catch and store in my mind. one place we visited in the city was this big square! heres a picture of it.. but what was fascinating about this particular place that was that about 64 years ago a man by the name of Adolph Hitler stood on the podium and made a speech in front of some 5-7 thousand people in a Nazi rally. that got me thinking.. i mean how could one man go and do all that he did...
now Hitler was just a normal boy growing up, and yah we all know he went to jail and wrote Mein Komph.. or however it is spelt.. but what we dont know is that he wanted to be an artist. one thing i learned on our city tour was that Hitler applied for university twice both times being rejected from the art program he applied for... i dont think you all know that part of history...
if we want to impact the world, we just need to look to the peopole who did this the best in history and learn a few things. yah so not all people, like Hitler, had the best motives, but you have to give it to them for there success they had. if we were wise then we would take a look at how these people lived their lives and what drove them.
as far as i can see, one thing that all influential people have in common is that they have a dream, they have a goal, and they are passionate about it. passion is one of the most attractive characteristics in the world. if somebody is passionate about something you automatically are drawn into them... its usually not until after your interest has been peaked that you find out just what they are passionate about. we all like being around people who are passionate. nobody likes a person who is half hearted about everything...
and the dream... this is something that we all have... we were born with one.. we have many of them, but too many times we just set them aside and say.. ahh that will never happen... HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?? i believe that God gives us certain talents, certain strengths and weaknesses, certain longings and certain cares for a reason... have you eve noticed that all of those things match up with what your dreams are??.. like not just those little dreams like.. i want to date that girl or whatever, but what you actually want to accomplish... so you are artistic... you like talking and hanging out with people... you enjoy music... what is your dream.. your passion.. im guessing that it has to do with those characteristics...
all i am saying here is that, we are put here on earth for a reason, we have things that we long for, and we rightfully should go after them. put aside what the world says what is right or "sane" take a chance... step out of your comfort zone and pursue a dream...

oooooooooooooooooooooo

2006-10-19T07:49:00.000-07:00

wild life...

2006-10-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

2006-10-13T07:33:00.000-07:00

mother nature

2006-10-13T07:17:00.000-07:00

5:30 in the morning
"july"

on the way home
from airdrie

a rainny day
after work

pictures

2006-10-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

heres a few pictures to look at.....

front lawn!!..

Germany

air Canada

2006-10-04T18:48:00.000-07:00

on October 21st which is a saturday i am opening for marc mykula! hes having his debut that evening at 7:00 and he asked me if i would open for him! its at evangel pentecostal church on 50th street. just south of the whitemud!.. and tickets are $5 if you can find me or go to the lighthouse church in stonyplain... otherwise $8 at the door... still a good deal!!.. haha.

but isnt it crazy to sit back and actually look at what God has done in your life? the other day in chapel at school we kinda touched base on this and we were taking a look at what God has done for us.. hes put a roof over my head, given me food to eat, awesome friends, he has got me to school, given me talents, let me lead worship at church, and the list goes on... i just encourage you to take a moment and look at what God has done for you!. for me, opening for this show is more than i can ask for, its a real blessing and a gift from God!

i would like to say thanks to marc!
so ... thanks marc!

if time stoped with us...

2006-09-28T20:15:00.000-07:00

right now im going through one of those times where i just have nothing to write... i am talking about music here byt the way.. i mean like why is it that we go through all these seasons and we learn and grow soo much but then we always find ourselves back in the season which always seems to be the longest one, the one that is the most frusterating! the most indeniably irritating one.. WRITERS BLOCK!

would you not think that over time with everything we learn and pick up on, that writing would become much much easyer... but then i think the problem might not lie with the writing.. because yes we do progress, but then our expectations increase with us, and throws us into the never ending reality of..... (progress??)

the other anoying thing right now is this trap i seem to fall into soo often. i get my heart into a place that it likes to be and it feels good, but then all the art, all the creativity that comes out of it all seems to be the same... somehow i need to break out of this place and get uncomfortable for a while and start again, and make a habbit of this.