The Gray Report

B and I are in searching for some good methods and ideas for our first music video since our glorious return to from the mission field. He showed me this video and I thought it was pretty neat. Plus - I just wanted to post something because I have been really bad recently.

Submerge Pictures 1st small scale production for SAlifeline. Support!

http://lds.org/ensign/1983/03/meekness-a-dimension-of-true-discipleship?lang=eng&cid=facebook-shared This talk absolutely articulates this attribute I have struggled to understand. It is stunning the imagery that Elder Maxwell uses and how his understanding of the concept enables him to so clearly elaborate on what it is. Any insights?

It is true, I am pretty obsessed with Inception but at least its not something worse. I had an exciting conversation about the movie with Ry and Nick a few days back and then I went and saw it again last night with a sold out crowd. It sure made the most since the thirdtime around and I found it even more exciting after some discussions we have been having in Shakespeare class. So I am working on my final paper for the class and it is all about Iago and how he manipulates Othellointo believing all sorts of bad things and then it all ends in tragedy. Well, as I was watching Inception it hit me! Iago never just tells Othello - "hey Des is cheatin' so go show her who is boss!" As a matter of fact - I have only counted at most 3 out right lies Iago tells. Everything else is just him inferring things and Othello "filling in the rest" with his own "projections" of what is really going on. Thus, like the team in the film did with Fisher, Iago is manipulating ...

So it is in some very sketchy stages - but Submerge Pictures is on the rise once more! B and I are hoping to crack down and start making some good things but we need some catchy ideas first. If there is any idea you have had, story wise - music video, or documentary - please let us know and we will give you full credit! We just want to start making some quality things so any help would be much appreciated.

I am in a class called Using Media For Culture Change in which we have talked about the influence that things like film, commercials, and especially stories can have in not only reflecting culture but in creating it. Our teachers wanted us to experience first hand the opportunity to try and apply some of the things we have been learning. So they had members of the BYU copyright office come in to share an issue in BYU culture they wanted us to discuss and try to begin to design a plan to change what copyright means to the BYU community. Basically, they were saying there are many illegal downloads each month, illegal print copying done, and other things that endanger the name of the school and also can become quite costly. As we discussed and I thought about it in more detail I came to the conclusion that perhaps one of the biggest issues at hand was that many people either don't know the law, or they don't want to know it so they claim ignorance and continue to break it. As one ...