If I remember correctly, I started making videos with our family’s camcorder as a child because my older brother did it and I wanted to be cool like him (I’ll try to get some of those on here sometime). Naturally, my stars were my toys because I only had one friend and I wasn’t allowed to use my brother’s action figures. I couldn’t edit so I would rewind the camera and stop it where the next shot was supposed to start and my titles were written on paper. I also played on Spiderman Cartoon Maker which may have had an influence but I guess I played a lot of computer games. After moving to Utah from Las Vegas, I took the video class every year of High School with my friends. I got an Associate in Applied Science degree from the Digital Media department of Utah Valley University. I worked on a few shows at a local TV station (KJZZ14) for a year, taught English in China for 5 months, and continue to do video production as my job. I also participate in Rhombus Magazine’s tech podcast regularly.
Things I like more than the average person
• listening to British female singers with brown hair for not very long
• rules
• motion graphics reels
• the Onion‘s video production
• Excessively long hot showers
• games made by Valve and the Half-life series
• Shadow of the Colossus, Rockband, The Orange Box
• Wild West Pinball
• Garden State
• the first Transformers movie
• the music video of “a little less conversation” remixed by JXL (except the bridge)
• the music video of “California” by Wax
• the Tesla Roadster and Conquest Knight XV
• fiberoptics as a standard
• my SWAT vest I use for shooting
• the Canon 5D mark II
• RED cameras
• OK Cupid’s statistics blog
• Bill Cosby
• Tom Hanks
• Bobby McFerrin
• Steve Oedekerk
• Gary Larson
• Leonardo Davinci
• Benjamin Franklin
• Nikola Tesla
• Charlie Chaplin
• Gordon Freeman
• Rowan Atkinson
• Edgar Wright
• C.S. Lewis
• Ghandi
• Stephen Spielberg
• Oprah
• Zach Braff
• Tiger Woods
• Barack Obama
• xkcd
• Kohler’s in Highland
• net neutrality
• argyle
• etc. (there’s plenty more things I like but maybe not more than the average person)
Things I dislike more than the average person
• being cold
• school spirit
• platitudes
• girls doing the retarded voice by default to imitate guys
• the sound of honking
• people not using their blinker or not letting others in who are
• “don’t judge me”
• “get over it”
• people typing “haha” when they wouldn’t be laughing
• “fail.”
• girls saying “random”
• abbreviating common words and the use of “ur” by people who wouldn’t understand whether to put “your” or “you’re”
• car ice
• alarmists
• variations of the “got milk?” campaign
• extreme feminism
• songs that use variations of an already famous song without being as good as the original
• people who like those songs in ignorance to the original and better version
• “(first name) (last name) photography”
• people thinking they’re the only person who has the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song memorized
• people hating Indian call centers
• parking tickets for unregistered cars
• that there are so many signs surrounding the road, but not seeing a small one is illegal
• car boots, the principle thereof, and especially University Parking enforcement
• people getting in the turning lane too early and being mad when someone merges in front of them.
• people who own the rights to creative property of deceased famous people who insist on getting the continual proceeds
• Lunar mission and 9/11 conspiracy theorists
• zombies
• Bing
• George Carlin
• Hillary Clinton
• people saying that you would die of a heart attack before hitting the ground when jumping from extreme heights
• “Lite”
• people switching to disliking something because it’s become “mainstream”
• using the word “cult” to describe any religion
