A Rabbit?

You may be wondering, "Why would someone blog about such a random topic such as rabbits?" Well to be honest, I saw a rabbit on my way home from CCD last night, so i had my mom stop the car so I could chase him/her for a while. I've always wanted to catch a rabbit. I don't necessarily know why though. I would never be able to keep it on account of my parents and my hyper-friendly dog. I would have to let it go after taking a few pictures showing my accomplishment. That is probably why, the accomplishment in doing so that i have tried to do for so long. If I ever caught a rabbit my long quest would be complete and my life would be a little better. But this doesn't only apply to rabbits, you know. Everyone has this mindset that they should do something seemingly impossible or at least highly improbable, but they keep trying anyways just to say that they did it in the end. For example, there's this carnival game at the fair. Like the one where you get a machine gun and have to shoot out the star. It's relatively difficult and the prizes are not that great. Most of them in fact are just inflatables that would flatten in a week. But you see everyone trying this game. Many times it isn't because they can't shoot a machine gun anywhere else, because lets face it, almost everyone has an airsoft gun these days and could set the same thing up in their backyard. Or if they don't, they'd get a videogame, as most kids also do now a days. People play the game so that they can say they did it. They'd be the coolest kids at the carnival if they walked around with that inflatable for an hour or so and told everyone they won it at the machine gun game. This gives the kid utmost authority over the other kids playing the game, and it brings the game great business because now all the kids want to try to show the kid up and then be cooler. Really, this is a business tactic from the carnival, but it shows my point. Do something improbable, and you will be highly looked upon. Its a simple fact of life. If you shoot a full court basketball shot with your eyes clothes and backwards and make it on the first try, you will always be remembered as the person who did that. So, if I caught a rabbit bare handed, I would be remembered as the guy who caught a rabbit and would have such a cool cover photo on facebook.

Childhood In Motion

Childhood is really something that happens quite fast. Everyone around you sees it except those of your same age or younger. My parents always tell me as they open up the scrapbook of when I was 5, "Oh those years went by too fast." Really to me they didn't seem so fast, but when your an adult with a full time job, doing the same thing day in and day out, everything that happens seems so much faster. A year may seem like a week or two, a decade may be a year, a childhood might be gone in an instant. When you do the same thing over and over again, things tend to slip by and you forget to stop and take a glance at life daily. As a parent of toddler, this would result in seeing them as two one day, and then not acknowledging their 8th birthday until the day of. This might be overexagerating but the point is there. Childhood is quite quick, and it is a short period of everyone's lives. If you live to be 100, your childhood (childhood being up until you are 18 and move out) would only be 20% of your life! After that there isn't much else happening. Eventually you settle down and your life flatlines into boring. That's just how it works. Then one day you have kids and basically live your old childhood through them, but this time it's even quicker. Childhood is far too fast, but it is made to be that way so you can always have something new to enjoy.

Robot

This was an amazing song and an amazingly choreographed dance for the video. If the lyrics were in english i have feeling the song would be better still and would really express the view of the video openly without having to look at metaphors and such. It seems, however, that by the style of the music and dance routines they used this song had significant metaphorical value. The music was something like a techno-pop. Techno-pop mainly uses machines to make the different sounds, like over and over they used a mid-80s piano sound that was played a bit faster. Also the piano riffs were not played out as individual notes, a phazer was used, meaning the pianists only had to play one note and the machine would figure the rest of the notes to play in the scale. The dance was quite obviously robotic. The first thing many people would think of seeing that for the first time is "they are machines, all synced together and working together." I think this all shows how machine-needy the people of today have gotten. Almost everyone has a smartphone and uses computers daily. Everyone uses a car. Everyone uses at least one machine daily. This could even be taken a step further to say that all people are really turning into machines. This video was shot in New York, the place where the person next to you is the equivalent of a paint stain on your new jeans. No one really cares for another there. Everyone also just does almost the same exact thing day in and day out. They really become machines then when they don't do anything new and their emotions are nonexistant. It is a brilliant way to convey this point. And a good song