You don’t understand how many times I have heard “If It Kills Me” by Jason Mraz over the past 32 hours. When you are editing a music video, you want to make sure that the lyrics line up as best as they can (which is near impossible with the Sims 3), and you also want to make sure that the plot of the video matches with the storyline of the song. Aaron Amme (the guy who might get “killed” ) keeps telling himself that he is going make his way to Julie Taylor (yes, they have real names), but because he waits too long he loses her to Ryan Applewood. I tried to make it so that way Aaron appeared regretful in not acting faster. He lost the girl he loved and it pains him to watch it all happen right before his very eyes.
I can’t help but relate to this story. I’m glad to say that I didn’t necessarily miss my chance to be with the one with whom I wanted to be. Technically, there wasn’t necessarily a “chance” at all (there’s positive thinking for you). What I mean to say is that Aaron had his chances to speak out, but he missed them. I took my chances and ended up empty handed, but at least I know that I fell trying. I think that makes it easier for me to let go and to move on. If I know I did all that I thought I could do and still failed, then all I can do is move on. If “I never said a word,” I would have to deal with the notion that things might have been different if I only did my share. I think that’s how I support my impulsiveness. I have nothing to lose except the ambiguous notion that I could succeed. I only gain knowledge from my risks. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It took longer than I had expected (almost 24 hours!), but it finally happened. My Sims 3 Music Video of Jason Mraz’s “If It Kills Me” is officially complete. I even did some more work on my theme layout for the blog. I am liking this weekend. The former “Cheaters Always Win” has changed its location on Youtube. (It switched users). You can find it here: New “Cheaters Always Win” or you can go to the Infinite Vertices Youtube Page. If you don’t feel like watching the video on this website, you can always watch it on youtube, where you can embed the videos. I didn’t realize that in the post “If It Kills [Him],” I actually said that I would make this video with the Sims 3. Well this just goes to say that I stick to my word. Here’s “If It Kills Me”.
I mentioned in my last post for tumblr that I would be changing the theme layout of this blog. I have currently settled with one but I am positive that I will change it. The title of this post takes full meaning here when I explain to you that although my blog layout has not been settled, I have taken the time to create a music video using The Sims 3. It’s going to be Jason Mraz’s “If It Kills Me.” Might I add, it is much more difficult to create videos with The Sims 3 than it is with the Sims 2, especially when you’re on a laptop. The video will be made nonetheless. Be sure to check out the video once it’s completed.
I love how the post that says that I will be taking a one-week break from excessive social technology turned out to be my 100th post!. I also love how after that post, I decided to move the blog away from tumblr. If you haven’t read the post on the tumblr page (I won’t post the link for certain reasons), I said that tumblr wasn’t the right place for The Infinite Vertices. One thing the site is based off of is “reblogging” of other people’s content. It’s a clever system, but I wanted to keep The Infinite Vertices as original as possible. So I decided to leave. Now I’m here. Tell your friends and family. Since it is the 101st post, I would also like to point out how strange it is that I have never posted on my blog in any October day. (Spooky).
Anyway, back to the Digital Cleanse talk. I must admit that this “digicle” was much more difficult than the last. I have a mac and I use the Adium instant messenger. It’s a really nice Mac-only instant messenger that combines numerous services, including facebook and texting, into one. The buddy list has the option to be “docked” on the side of the screen where it slides off when I am using another application. I turned off the messenger, but during the digicle, I constantly found myself moving the cursor towards the edge of the screen, expecting the messenger buddy list to pop up. It was a like a phantom limb. I did, nonetheless, persevere, and I also found that I was finishing my homework before midnight, instead of 2am as usual.
Overall, I would say that this digicle was strengthening and peaceful. It’s amazing how many people look at me funny when I explain the rules of the digital cleanse. I think the fact that I was doing something most people would deem impossible for themselves makes this cleansing process more rewarding for me. I definitely look forward to another digicle. I think it should be a regular thing with The Infinite Vertices, which is why I am creating my own word “digicle.”
Yes, it’s time for another digital cleanse aka Digicle (idea stolen from Digimon, Digital Monsters). I could use a break from all of this stress from technology. And then I can finally finish reading Me by Ricky Martin or play Pokemon (or would that count as a violation?)… Here are the Rules
1. Timing: Pick a specific date and time (I’m choosing 10pm tonight, December 2, 2010) to start. And then the cleanse will end exactly one week from that point (December 9, 2010 at 10pm, for me).
2. Limitations: The cleanse calls for absolutely no use of social networks, which include but is not limited to Tumblr, creating or reading blog posts, Twitter, and Facebook. Chatting services such as AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc. are restricted. And texting and emailing and web usage on the phone is prohibited. If someone texts you, you can’t respond until after the cleanse. I suggest letting your friends know about your plan for the week. Emailing on computers is allowed, and if for some strange reason you just have to break one of these rules due to extenuating circumstances, then so be it. But try to find an alternative. Think about how we got through the days 20 years ago.
3. Talk about it: When it’s all over talk about your digital cleanse, you will come back feeling different, I guarantee. It worked in January now let’s try December.
“Windows gives me the family, nature never could.”
That rubs me the wrong way. I am a Mac and dislike Windows to a great extent. I typically didn’t like Windows for it’s software and it’s interface, but the recent Windows 7 Cloud commercials aren’t helping its case. The cloud commercial shows a mother struggling to get her family to settle down for a nice family portrait. She struggles as her daughter is texting throughout the entire event and her two sons are horsing around. She resolves by taking the good bits and pieces from multiple trials of photo-taking and pieces them together into an imaginary family. I don’t like to use this word here, but this “disgusts” me.
It’s like my health teacher from high school said: There’s eastern medicine and then there’s western medicine. (Not a direct quote). In other words, in the west (America and Western Europe), we tend to cover up our problems as opposed to finding the source of our problems, as they do in the East. The mother relies on a computer software to make her family appear relaxed and well-mannered. Until she actually solves the problems with her family (which is rather easy), the family will always have to struggle to take these pictures. Here are some screenshots:
From Horrid Reality:
To Horrid Fantasy:
And then Windows Phone 7 really solves the issue of being so deeply involved with our technology. The entire video is of people using their cell phones in ridiculously inappropriate times. It sounds like such a nice commercial that mocks our excessive use of technology, but then it says “it’s time for a phone to save us from our phones.” Explain to me exactly how a phone can be “designed to get you in and out and back to life.” Yeah, Windows, maybe if I use my phone more efficiently, I will use my phone less (sarcasm). Did you ever think that maybe using your phone less, period, would cause you to… use your phone less? Efficiency isn’t the problem; the false sense of reality is.
So, that digital cleanse is on its way. I just have to review the rules and possibly expand on some of them and then it will begin.
I am very impulsive when it comes to crushes. I tell my crushes that I like them maybe a week after knowing them. Strangely, no one complains (at least not to me…). I had a crush on campus whose name shall be “Siejai” (I love how I come up with these names). I was stuck on Siejai for a while until my mind was drawn away by another lovely face, “Dième.” After a few weeks I began to switch back from Dième to Siejai. The switch seemed promising until I finally came to the conclusion that I would not be able to get anywhere with Siejai—at least not now. I don’t mean that Siejai was holding me back, I meant that Siejai wasn’t going to date me anytime soon. The funny part is that Siejai told me that months ago.
Anyway, before Thanksgiving break, I was always found walking to a particular area in order to “bump” into Siejai (that plan rarely played out). I guess coming home from school cleaned out my system because I found myself going to that particular area with no intentions of seeing Siejai. In fact, I was startled when Siejai said hi.
Perhaps you can say that my impulsive side was temporarily held back and slightly released for (hopefully) a moment. I was talking with my friend who works at the dorm’s front desk when I saw another person, whom which I have been watching closely lately (Oh god, that sounds so wrong). I can’t give this person a nickname because I do not know this person’s real name. I was talking to my friend and then this person started walking towards the elevator. I started plotting out a way to get on the elevator with this newbie (I’m trying to find other nouns that can describe this person…). It seems as though my plan to get on the elevator in a casual way was thrown out the window, as I abruptly ended the conversation (The conversation ended more casually than I’m making it seem, but still…) and jumped onto the elevator as the doors started to close.
Let me tell you that it was a nice journey up 18 stories. . No one in the elevator said anything. What I did get from this elevator ride (other than a nice view), were some minor details and the floor number on which this person lives. I’m not a stalker, but I just realized that this person lives in my dorm and not the one next door, as I have always believed. I feel more promising events in my near future. . Very, very promising…
P.S. The last two people mentioned (Dième and The Newbie) aren’t crushes of mine…
This facebook poll really scares me. Internet TV? Creations like these make me very worried about the future of our society. I have read many books about futures where it is illegal to do anything outside. I know it may seem stupid right now, but we used to send notes and knock on people’s doors. Now we text and instant message. I feel like I need to take another digital cleanse to make me feel better. Why would I tweet during a show? I barely tweet for this blog. There is absolutely no need for internet to be on a television screen. We need to be able to get away from all of this media junk and smell the natural world. We need to do this at least once in a while. I’m really scared that our daily lives will consist of 20 different URLs. If the internet were to crash for good, where would we be?
Are you feeling stressed? Upset? Or maybe you’re just feeling adventurous. Either way, one fun way to get rid of stress (at least temporarily) is to close your eyes while you are walking. The skill is making sure you don’t hurt yourself or anyone in the process, but if you see a clear path in front of you, close your eyes. Maybe you relieve your eyes from the light outside and that helps calm you down, or maybe it reminds your body of sleep. Either way I guarantee that you will feel lightened somehow. I do it all the time while I walk back to my dorm after a fun day of classes. (That’s a phrase that shouldn’t be used without the words no or canceled) Try it, and tell me how it made you feel.
If you really think about it, everything we do is a memory. For instance, jump up and down and then sit down. The very second you did that, it all became a memory. Even while you are jumping, it is all a memory. I mean you can argue that you are jumping up and down, but the truth is that you are still jumping up and down (assuming that you actually jumped up and down). You are merely adding onto your memory. At 9:38:04pm you began to jump, and you are telling me that you are jumping, but the time is now 9:38:22pm. You will never be what you were at 9:38:04pm because once that time frame changed the slightest, it became the past. I brought this statement up because of my previous post “My Dream Job,” I could not explain why I was constantly informed that “time was running out.” Well since the dream is only a memory, I can remember it anytime I want, so I feel like it was saying that, in general, time is infinite, but my time isn’t. It turns out, that I have a two-day final on Thursday and Friday and then a concert on Sunday evening. My mind never ceases to prepare me for the worse. Where would I be if I didn’t worry as much?
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) keeps telling himself that he is going make his way to Julie Taylor (yes, they have real names), but because he waits too long he loses her to Ryan Applewood. I tried to make it so that way Aaron appeared regretful in not acting faster. He lost the girl he loved and it pains him to watch it all happen right before his very eyes. 
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