Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Colorado Springs - Garden of the Gods

Graduation Party

One of my really good friends, Amanda, just graduated from Texas State University. I felt like pointing this out because she is still only 20! She is a year younger than me and when she moved to Texas they didn't hold her back due to her birthday like I've seen them do to others. Because of this she was a year ahead of most people her age. Then she graduated from our high school a year early. And now has graduated college. Making me feel like I'm doing absolutely nothing with my life (not true but still). Last night was her graduation party and it was really a lot of fun! Full of bubble blowing, tiki torches, and beer pong! Huzzah!

Steven and Laura's dog Boomer! The biggest/cutest 7 month old puppy I've seen in a long time!

People are starting to get desperate

So this is my final poster project for my Photoshop class. We had to make a poster showing the state of our economy so I decided to show how desperate people are now just for a chance at a job. I’m not sure how I feel about this because I am not a good graphic artist but I think it gets my point across.

Fully Restored 1902 A Trip To The Moon To Open Cannes Film Festival

Georges Méliès’ 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon will screen in hand-painted color at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night.  The movie was originally released in black and white and in a hand painted color version.

The fully restored version, 109 years old, was considered lost until the restoration was undertaken by Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage. With today’s digital capabilities, fragments of 13,375 frames were reassembled one by one. New to the film is an original soundtrack by French band AIR.

I certainly hope this gets released because I would absolutely love to see the restoration done to it! I'm extremely jealous of all the Cannes attendees that are going to be witnessing such a fine piece of cinematic history!

Harry Potter debates still happening

Today as I was expressing a frustration I had with the first part of the 7th film in the Harry Potter franchise I got into a long debate with my best friend on whether or not Lord Voldemort actually intended to make 7 horcruxes or not.

I was always under the impression that he did indeed want to make 7 but had not made his 7th one before attempting to kill Harry for the first time and therefore had unknowingly made Harry into the last horcrux. I could honestly be mistaken in this assumption but oh well.

What I do know for sure is that in the movies Dumbledore had told Harry he believed there to be 7 horcruxes. Two had already been destroyed by the time this conversation had happened and it was now up to the trio to find and destroy the rest. After Ron destroyed the locket he looked up at Harry and said, "Well at least we only have three left." Obviously Ron can't do simple math. Since I believe they knew they were looking for 7 and they had only destroyed three so far then they actually have 4 left. This is where our debate started.

Lauren does not believe they knew they were looking for 7. She believes Tom Riddle only ever had he wanted to split his soul into 7 parts. Which would make 6 horcruxes and then the soul he had left in his own body. I believe he said he wanted to split his soul 7 times. Which would add up to 7 horcruxes. Either way the movies differ from the books and so Dumbledore telling Harry exactly how many horcruxes there were in the 6th movie may just be a total fluke.

My point in this long boring post is that almost 4 years after the last book came out and only 2 months away from the very last movie I find myself still participating in debates over what happened. It's refreshing and slightly annoying. More refreshing actually considering it has been a long time since anyone has really wondered over what was going to happen.

I guess I need to read the books and watch the movies for the gazillionth time to prove who is right. Please don't twist my arm.

Fun in the Studio

Sean's Graduation Show