Week on April 3rd

   These past few weeks we I have been trying to meet up with my group, X productions. We have a screenplay and storyboard done. We attempted to film, but got very little out of it. It has been very hard to film the scenes with people all over the place. Our main actor is lazy and does not like to run even ten meters. He quit on the first day of filming. We are on a look out for a new actor, which is most likely going to be one of us. In the meantime while that is being settled, I am currently working on my solo project on Marathon running. I have downloaded many videos for footage. This weekend, I will be filming and interviewing people. i have made many open ended questions that have to do with the subject.

Week of March 27th

    This whole time I had been working on my own on a project about marathon running. It is a little tricky, but I have gotten a few clips from a marathon. My idea was a compilation documentary about Marathon running and how runners feel about it. As of right now this project has gone on hold.
     Another project that I recently started to work on with my company "X Productions" is a mockumentary on a non runner's life. It is supposed to be humorous and we have been getting things done well so far. Jesus Quiroz, Jose Garcia, David Escareno, Dana Garcia, and Andres Rosales are in this production company. So far, we have got most of our Screenplay and storyboards done. We plan on starting to film this Sunday. I really am not sure how we're going to check out cameras this weekend, but we'll see what we get done! I am excited to see the final cut of this production soon!

What Music Means to Me...

    Music has been influencing all of us the past years for a very long time! Many people have different meanings to music, some may use it to for fun, others may use it as an escape from this world. I myself do not use music as an escape from my problems, but I like to see it as a form of art. The sound of instruments compiled together is just extremely amazing art! Many people like to listen to music for hours on their headphones four hours, but I can not. I usually like to play my music out loud in my room's home made home theater system. I usually like to limit myself because I love to explore it on a basis and want to have more time every day.
     I usually listen to music for a about an hour or so. As a kid, I used to carry a discman with me all the time!  Again, I find music as an art form from many artist. Each album produced by a band or artist is just an amazing form of expressing themselves (music of my taste, of course). When I listen to music, it's usually upon release of a band's new album. I listen to an album all the way through a few times.
    I am also a CD and Vinyl collector. I mostly collect CD's from the modern music and I attempt to find all sorts of vintage Vinyls. One of the Many original Vinyls I have is Pink Floyd's 1979 "The Wall" and Creedence Clearwater Revival Vinyls. I also have about over 70 CDs that both my sister and I have collected throughout the years since we mostly both have the same music taste. One of my many favorite modern Metal bands is Avenged Sevenfold. I also have CD collector's items from The Police, Queen, and Nirvana. I find collecting CDs and music like this as a beautiful form of art. I do plan expanding my collection in the future!

Problems and Struggles in the 21st Century!

       Throughout our lifetime, we will experience many conflicts and struggles. Many students and kids all around the world sometimes fear and cannot process these problems. Eventually, they become much bigger than what they were before. Serious consequences come out of these kids that nobody gives a chance to listen to.
    As a kid, I very skinny, but then somehow after the second grade I put up some weight. Then more, and more. I loved to eat! That wasn't the problem. The main problem was that I would be bullied a lot when I was going to school. Because I was a "fat nerd". I was indeed pretty chunky and ahead of other classmates in subjects, but the way these kids taunted me was horrible. I always knew that my parents were there for me whenever, but I would never say anything because I was afraid things would get worse with these kids.
    We can all overcome these problems if we just had to talk to someone about it . I did the opposite, but somehow kept a positive mentality about it. I knew I had much better people that loved me at home and much better people to talk to about my day and stuff like that. I would most of the time just keep my head up and keep doing what I loved, school. I went along with their jokes about myself and eventually it faded away and they started to talk to me a lot nicer. Anyways, I don't talk to these kids anymore so I'm all good!
     Overcoming these problems are very easy. We have to look for the right people to talk to. My number ones are my family, then friends. We can find things to do get things out of our system. Talk to your parents, kids. Be around good influences and friends. I now ALWAYS talk to my family about my day and problems and it always turns out to make me feel a lot better!

The Most Interesting Person in the World!

      There are many people out there that are interesting... well sort of. There are not many people that we can all find interesting. There are some that we can keep listening to for hours, and others that we want to shut up at the moment they begin to speak. Well I know someone who I find rather oddly interesting, and that would be my father. Although our relationship as a father - son is not very strong, he can sometimes tell some very interesting stories about his past.
     He has told me stories from horror to hilarious and so fourth. One of his stories was about how he used to play the Ouija board back in his college years in Mexico. From times where he would hear banging in his room, to times where he and his friends would leave one of his fat room mates locked outside his room's door naked for everyone to see. He would also have me listen to music that he would listen to back when he was young. I can pretty much tell that that music has influenced my music taste as of right now.
   He's also taught me so many things in technology. I have my own home made surround sound in my room because of what I learned from him in the past. Our relationship as father to son is not so strong as of now, but when we get a chance to have a conversation, we get to talk about these amazing and funny stories. I indeed think that my father is one of the most interesting people in the world.

My Anti-Drug

     There are many things people do to keep themselves off of drugs and bad influences of the world. I don't necessarily do any drugs, but there is one thing that actually helps me keep sane. This is the wonderful sport of running, any type of running, really. I like to spend a lot of my free time just running to places or a destination for a workout. Running is just an amazing hobby i learned about two years ago or so.
     This sport or whatever you would like to call it helps me keep sane. It is such an amazing stress reliever. I like different types of running such as speed, distance, or both at the same time. My all time favorite is distance. I love to just go out at a nice comfortable sort of fast pace and keep running for miles. I especially love doing half marathons because they are usually quick and easy. Running more than 13 miles is a really big mental challenge for me, which i also LOVE to do!
    I started running back in 2013 in the 9th grade during PE. I ran because I thought I was fat. Eventually, it became a stress reliever and I would run to get away from all of my problems that i had. It was sort of like my drug... but in a good, productive way. As of now, it irritates me a little that I can't run as much because I am injured. Yup, it sucks major butt. I am in Track & Field and Cross Country, but I am only training for mileage right now because of the upcoming LA Marathon! I want to conquer it and take a few weeks off after that and make a full recovery.

What I learned from "An Inconvenient Truth".

        The world is filled with so many wonders as well as flaws. One of the many current flaws is global warming. Everyone should know what this is by now, the warming of the earth and how it affects it. Al Gore does an amazing job explaining the situation and showing many of the things that we can do with his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth".
     Before watching this film, I did not know how important it is to keep the earth safe from pollution and such. I found out that everything that we do on the earth will have a major consequence. The more we pollute the planet, the hotter it is going to get. Al Gore depicts the consequences of global warming in the future. The results do not look very satisfying to the eyes of the audiences.
       One of the things that really hit me was the fact that the earth is heating up awfully fast. Every year we break records on temperatures. As the years are going by, the earth is not seeming to cool down, it is just getting hotter and hotter. If we continue with this, it is bound to end up tragically. Many regions of at different parts of the world will end up being flooded and population will have to give up once owned lands. This is because of the melting glaciers at the North and South pole (E.G Green Land, Antarctic). I believe that this is tragic and we should change the way we do things here on our mother planet. We have to support Mr. Gore on his journey to save the planet. It is our planet, we cannot afford to lose her and our lives.