The First Week days 60-64 of 100 day's of production

After i got the call requesting my presence as the John Carter of Mars Intern I had one day to prepare my weak little legs, which was not enough. The first day I met my supervisor Chris Munro. The night before my mom had googled him only to find out he is an oscar winner and has worked many of my favorite movies, including!!!!! duh duh duh da! ...... A Muppet Christmas Carol. One of the many christmas films i worshiped as a small child. needless to say i did not sleep at all that night. Anyway's did i mention he was british.....and so is nearly everyone on the set. The first half of the film was filmed in London and they were hurridly flown over to utah to finish the second half of the film. His boom operator Stephen Finn has worked on nearly all the films he has including the recent Sherlock Holmes. While in the car I met Noel Espenoza another local St. Georgian. my first experience and thought arriving on set was that it looked like the alien base camp at the end of close encounters of the third kind. At 5:00am in the early dark morning there were trailers as far as the eye can see hidden in the trees, humungous cranes, and big lights in the sky. It was also freezing and it seemed like hours before the sun came out. The first thing the whole production crew does every morning is run to the breakfast trailer. I guess the catering company is from LA but the list of food is extensive. basically you can order anything you want for breakfast and it's made in a gourmet fashion. i like the banana pancakes. any who after breakfast we head to the trailers and unload all of the equipment to be taken to set. The first morning Chris and Steve were frantic looking for the tea kettle because they have to have their english tea at least twice a day, at which i have become quite the specialist at making and carrying boiling hot tea in ceramic glasses through a wilderness hike without hardly spilling a drop! The first day was the most intense work day i've ever had in my life! It was very difficult to make a good impression on professionals when i'm not experienced at all in this kind of production. I ran cable chords for the boom mics, wrapped them cleaned them. changed batteries for the headphones, pushed equipment carts through the kanab hills and basically ran back and fourth to the trailer for things we forgot or needed while being covered in mud from head to toe. why the mud you ask? The first U.S shoot was a scene that required rain so they had to haul these giant cranes in with sprinklers attached to the tops and there was about five fire hoses spraying the sets and the ground to make them muddy. by the time i got back to the hotel i was so dirty and exhausted i feared for my life the next couple of months. day 61 friday was much calmer and more relaxed because all the scenes were shot inside of an old bar set. That day i met all the other personal assistants and helped reposition the cables for changing scenes, assisted noel with what he needed and basically stood around and made tea. On saturday we moved locations down the road and filmed a few scenes with taylor kitch and bryan cranston out in the boondocks. my roommate is an intern for the makeup department and its cool to see them fix their fake beards and stuff under their tent. I haven't mustered the guts to say anything to the actors yet because i havent had any reason too but they're only like 5 feet away from me. but they are all very patient and friendly from what i hear. The best part about this internship is the FOOOOOOOD! everyday I wait till 1:00 because it's catered and gourmet again like breakfast! there is food everywhere on set. Baisically what i've had to eat has been smoked salmon, marinated chicken breast, crusted tilapia, cashew chicken and noodles, they also barbecue a different kind of meat everyday too it's just amazing. and everyone eats together there are no social classes. all the actors and directors and even me eat in the same vicinity like arms length away from eachother it's pretty awesome. I've met the director andrew a few times and he is very friendly. every morning i have to put new batteries in his, the script supervisor and the dialect coaches headphones and hand them over. Saturday night i drove home and sunday drove up to page. i woke up at 4:45am this morning only to be shot down at the marine docks and sent back to the hotel because PA's weren't allowed on the shoots today because of the limited space on the houseboat. so hopefully tomorrow i will be able to be involved in production. so today i've just been lounging around the super 8 and decided to write a short little heads up on whats been going on so far. i'll keep you updated! ; )

The Awesome ENFP

I guess i am pretty awesome because my personality test said so. I'm an ENFP and what does that mean...? I will get you in trouble and thats not a threat thats a promise. I'm supposedly the one that will tell you to go do something because its brilliant and then laugh in your face if you fail because you believed me. And i only make up about two to three percent of the population so you don't have to really worry about bumping into two of us. I'm actually not that mean but watch out!

The Inspirer

ENFP children are "into everything." Their natural curiosity results in children for whom questions were invented. ENFP children make sand piles into castles, sticks into military outposts, and pillows into the seven continents. They often spend long periods of time devising new and original, but not necessarily practical, languages, plays, and scenarios. Many ENFPs enjoy drawing, writing, playacting, and dreaming. They are often chosen as leaders because of their persuasive enthusiasm and their energy for new and different ways of developing things (or getting others into trouble!).

ENFP teenagers are agreeable, sociable, outgoing people who like to imagine themselves in the future. They spend many hours wondering and discussing with friends whom they will marry, where they will live, what their children will be like, and what work they will do. They leave no option or possibility unexplored, and find it difficult to see themselves in any single job or career. In one breath, they may announce that they want to go to college in India to learn about its people and culture; in the next breath saying how much they want to attend the local college so they can be close to home. While this pattern is sometimes found among young people, it is particularly common to ENFPs, who see opportunities and apply the energy to make those opportunities happen.

Because they see endless possibilities, to select one possibility appears to the ENFP to be too narrow a focus. They hate to be boxed into a career for life and, therefore, hesitate and resist making decisions. It is unwise for ENFPs to settle down too early, and they make the soundest choices when they delay career and marriage decisions until their middle to late twenties. Often when a decision is made, ENFPs will still leave a number of options open or change their minds as they encounter new information.

Even in their everyday activities, ENFPs often search for the new and the novel. If there is a logical route to work and the ENFP has been driving that way continually, he or she will likely tire of it and look for other routes.

ENFPs are more likely than other types to change from one career to another, demonstrating their versatility in doing so. It is not uncommon to hear stories of ENFPs who have established themselves in a career and who, when faced with the daily routine of maintaining it, leave it to start another.

Adult ENFPs maintain characteristics that might be considered youthful, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and a zestful outlook on life. As a result, people often enjoy being with them. Many times they are young in spirit as they age, perhaps because of their temperament.

ENFPs look forward to retirement as a time that can bring freedom from the restrictions of the work world and ample opportunity to pursue their varied interests. However, if ENFPs become disabled or experience a lack of resources, such as money, they may become despondent because this restricts their ability to quest after new experiences. A worst-case scenario for ENFPs is to live alone and be incapacitated, with few resources and little contact with the outside world. In retirement, it is particularly important for ENFPs to live with or near others who share their enthusiasm for life, variety, and new things to do. Because they focus on possibilities, rather than realities, retired ENFPs often do interesting things that may not be thought possible by other, more "realistic," types.

ENFPs are warm, enthusiastic people, typically very bright and full of potential. They live in the world of possibilities, and can become very passionate and excited about things. Their enthusiasm lends them the ability to inspire and motivate others, more so than we see in other types. They can talk their way in or out of anything. They love life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of it.

ENFPs have an unusually broad range of skills and talents. They are good at most things which interest them. Project-oriented, they may go through several different careers during their lifetime. To onlookers, the ENFP may seem directionless and without purpose, but ENFPs are actually quite consistent, in that they have a strong sense of values which they live with throughout their lives. Everything that they do must be in line with their values. An ENFP needs to feel that they are living their lives as their true Self, walking in step with what they believe is right. They see meaning in everything, and are on a continuous quest to adapt their lives and values to achieve inner peace. They're constantly aware and somewhat fearful of losing touch with themselves. Since emotional excitement is usually an important part of the ENFP's life, and because they are focused on keeping "centered", the ENFP is usually an intense individual, with highly evolved values.

An ENFP needs to focus on following through with their projects. This can be a problem area for some of these individuals. Unlike other Extraverted types, ENFPs need time alone to center themselves, and make sure they are moving in a direction which is in sync with their values. ENFPs who remain centered will usually be quite successful at their endeavors. Others may fall into the habit of dropping a project when they become excited about a new possibility, and thus they never achieve the great accomplishments which they are capable of achieving.

Most ENFPs have great people skills. They are genuinely warm and interested in people, and place great importance on their inter-personal relationships. ENFPs almost always have a strong need to be liked. Sometimes, especially at a younger age, an ENFP will tend to be "gushy" and insincere, and generally "overdo" in an effort to win acceptance. However, once an ENFP has learned to balance their need to be true to themselves with their need for acceptance, they excel at bringing out the best in others, and are typically well-liked. They have an exceptional ability to intuitively understand a person after a very short period of time, and use their intuition and flexibility to relate to others on their own level.

Because ENFPs live in the world of exciting possibilities, the details of everyday life are seen as trivial drudgery. They place no importance on detailed, maintenance-type tasks, and will frequently remain oblivous to these types of concerns. When they do have to perform these tasks, they do not enjoy themselves. This is a challenging area of life for most ENFPs, and can be frustrating for ENFP's family members.

An ENFP who has "gone wrong" may be quite manipulative - and very good it. The gift of gab which they are blessed with makes it naturally easy for them to get what they want. Most ENFPs will not abuse their abilities, because that would not jive with their value systems.

ENFPs sometimes make serious errors in judgment. They have an amazing ability to intuitively perceive the truth about a person or situation, but when they apply judgment to their perception, they may jump to the wrong conclusions.

ENFPs who have not learned to follow through may have a difficult time remaining happy in marital relationships. Always seeing the possibilities of what could be, they may become bored with what actually is. The strong sense of values will keep many ENFPs dedicated to their relationships. However, ENFPs like a little excitement in their lives, and are best matched with individuals who are comfortable with change and new experiences.

Having an ENFP parent can be a fun-filled experience, but may be stressful at times for children with strong Sensing or Judging tendancies. Such children may see the ENFP parent as inconsistent and difficult to understand, as the children are pulled along in the whirlwind life of the ENFP. Sometimes the ENFP will want to be their child's best friend, and at other times they will play the parental authoritarian. But ENFPs are always consistent in their value systems, which they will impress on their children above all else, along with a basic joy of living.

ENFPs are basically happy people. They may become unhappy when they are confined to strict schedules or mundane tasks. Consequently, ENFPs work best in situations where they have a lot of flexibility, and where they can work with people and ideas. Many go into business for themselves. They have the ability to be quite productive with little supervision, as long as they are excited about what they're doing.

Because they are so alert and sensitive, constantly scanning their environments, ENFPs often suffer from muscle tension. They have a strong need to be independent, and resist being controlled or labelled. They need to maintain control over themselves, but they do not believe in controlling others. Their dislike of dependence and suppression extends to others as well as to themselves.

ENFPs are charming, ingenuous, risk-taking, sensitive, people-oriented individuals with capabilities ranging across a broad spectrum. They have many gifts which they will use to fulfill themselves and those near them, if they are able to remain centered and master the ability of following through.

Jungian functional preference ordering for ENFP:

Girly Mood Time!!!

YEah....I'm in A giRly Mood.....And I haVe tHe daY Off TodAY!!!! So i ThOuGht...Hey PlaN YoUr FuTure WedDiNg! So heRE iT is.... Now i JuSt neED a DaTE. I'm nOt PlaNNing On ThIs fOr a GooD FiVe To TeN yeArs sO Don'T gEt eXciTed!

Isn't this the cutest idea!!!!!  just don't blow your nose into it please...

Here's the ring. It's nothing much really..... how much do you think it costs..hmmm?

Well the dress will be super flowy soft and light. 

NO SHOES!!! It's on the beach so wear sandals! I will most likely be barefoot. 

The tent will have grilled seafood and lanterns maybe a firepitt!! yes it will be at night time..

The tables will be coved like these i love it!!

Steel Drums = Awesome!!

So I hope by the time i turn 26-30 i will be worth a good two or three million dollars to accomplish this wedding. 

wow this guy deserves the nobel peace prize.

African Dynamo

• Posted by: Mark Frauenfelder 
• on September 29, 2009 at 8:06 am

How a Malawian teenager harnessed the power of the wind.

William Kamkwamba’s parents couldn’t afford the $80 yearly tuition for their son’s school. The boy sneaked into the classroom anyway, dodging administrators for a few weeks until they caught him. Still emaciated from the recent deadly famine that had killed friends and neighbors, he went back to work on his family’s corn and tobacco farm in rural Malawi, Africa.

With no hope of getting the funds to go back to school, William continued his education by teaching himself, borrowing books from the small library at the elementary school in his village. One day, when William was 14, he went to the library searching for an English-Chichewa dictionary to find out what the English word “grapes” meant, and came across a fifth-grade science book calledUsing Energy. Describing this moment in his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (co-written with Bryan Mealer), William wrote, “The book has since changed my life.”

Using Energy described how windmills could be used to generate electricity. Only two percent of Malawians have electricity, and the service is notoriously unreliable. William decided an electric windmill was something he wanted to make. Illuminating his house and the other houses in his village would mean that people could read at night after work. A windmill to pump water would mean that they could grow two crops a year rather than one, grow vegetable gardens, and not have to spend two hours a day hauling water. “A windmill meant more than just power,” he wrote, “it was freedom.”

For an educated adult living in a developed nation, designing and building a wind turbine that generates electricity is something to be proud of. For a half-starved, uneducated boy living in a country plagued with drought, famine, poverty, disease, a cruelly corrupt government, crippling superstitions, and low expectations, it’s another thing altogether. It’s nothing short of monumental.

William scoured trash bins and junkyards for materials he could use to build his windmill. With only a couple of wrenches at his disposal, and unable to afford even nuts and bolts, he collected things that most people would consider garbage—slime-clogged plastic pipes, a broken bicycle, a discarded tractor fan—and assembled them into a wind-powered dynamo. For a soldering iron, he used a stiff piece of wire heated in a fire. A bent bicycle spoke served as a size adapter for his wrenches.

Months later, in front of a crowd of disbelievers who had scoffed at him for behaving strangely, William lashed his machine to the top of a 16-foot tower made from blue gum tree branches. As the blades began turning in the breeze, a car light bulb in William’s hand started to glow. In the weeks that followed, William went on to wire his house with four light bulbs and two radios, installing switches made from rubber sandals, and scratch-building a circuit breaker to keep the thatch roof of his house from catching fire.

He begged his parents to send him to school—he had big dreams for modernizing his village and needed to learn more math, physics, and electricity to realize them—but they barely had enough money to feed him and his five sisters.

William and his windmill remained a local curiosity for a number of months, until the head of a national teacher’s organization saw the windmill and recognized the boy’s accomplishment as something extraordinary. A media firestorm ensued, with newspaper articles, blog posts, radio stories, and a presentation at TED Africa in Tanzania (TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design), where William, who didn’t  know about laptop computers and had never heard of Google, discovered airplanes, mattresses, hotels, air conditioning, and the mind-boggling concept of having as much food as you wanted whenever you wanted it. Befriended by Tom Rielly, TED’s irrepressible and well-connected partnership director, William was taken on a tour of the United States, where he met many high-tech millionaires who were charmed by the instantly likable underdog who never complained about the lousy cards he got dealt in the game of life. They happily contributed to William’s plans to electrify, irrigate, and educate his village, as well as pay his tuition at the prestigious African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg.

With so many tales of bloody hopelessness coming out of Africa, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind reads like a novel with a happy ending, even though it’s just the beginning for this remarkable young man, now 21 years old. I have no doubt that William—who is rapidly becoming a symbol of promise and possibility for the people of Africa—will be leading the way.

I gotta get me the secret!!!

Here is the latest amazon review found by my mother that i nearly pee peed in my pants while reading it. The title is "How the secret saved my life" by Ari Brouillette.

Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, and had actually engaged in reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life and wellbeing. 
At age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. I obviously had an alcohol problem and a deep and intense disrespect for the postal system, but even more importantly I was ignoring the very fabric of our metaphysical reality and inviting destructive influences into my life. 
My fourth day in prison was the first day that I was allowed in general population and while in the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes and 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be raped by him on a daily basis and that I had pretty eyes. 
Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I've never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic and dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell and sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life and distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy of "The Secret". Normally I wouldn't have turned to a self help book to resolve such a severe and immediate threat but I literally didn't have any other available alternatives. I immediately opened the book and began to read. 
The first few chapters deal with the essence of something called the "Law of Attraction" in which a primal universal force is available to us and can be harnessed for the betterment of our lives. The theoretical nature of the first few chapters wasn't exactly putting me at peace. In fact, I had never meditated and had great difficulty with closing out the chaotic noises of the prison and visualizing the positive changes that I so dearly needed. It was when I reached Chapter 6 "The Secret to Relationships" that I realized how this book could help me distance myself from Marcus and his negative intentions. Starting with chapter six there was a cavity carved into the book and in that cavity was a prison shiv. This particular shiv was a toothbrush with a handle that had been repeatedly melted and ground into a razor sharp point.
The next day in the exercise yard I carried "The Secret" with me and when Marcus approached me I opened the book and stabbed him in the neck. The next eight weeks in solitary confinement provided ample time to practice positive visualization and the 16 hours per day of absolute darkness made visualization about the only thing that I actually could do. I'm not sure that everybody's life will be changed in such a dramatic way by this book but I'm very thankful to have found it and will continue to recommend it heartily.

come on jesus you know the deal.....

I'd like to thank amazon for this amazing shirt review....

This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. 

 After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him. 

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted y courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt. 

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women 
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.

In response id like to say girl with 3 unicorn shirt seeks boy with three wolf shirt.