Freeze Fest

FreezeFest IX from carpeybiggs on Vimeo.

My buddy Tyler posted this video on Facebook. There was some question as to whether or not its been doctored, but I think its real. Regardless, its awesome, and makes me miss the West.

The Proposal

My buddy Derek recommended this video, which I'm passing on. This dude made a video to propose to his girlfriend, and its amazing. He made muppets which resemble the two of them, and made a video about them. This link tells the story of how it was made, etc.



It uses the music from the Heartless video I shared some time ago.

Umm...

So I have a kinda funny dating story from this past weekend... I asked out this girl last week, nothing fancy, just hey, lets go get dinner on Saturday night. She said she couldn't, she already had plans and couldn't go. Then she clarified and said, "not a date, but other plans." I said OK, no worries, and then got invited to a party Saturday night.

She was at the party. Yeah... So on the one hand, maybe her plans fell through and she decided to go to the party last second. Or maybe she would rather go to a party than spend time with me. Ouch.

And girls wonder why guys don't always want to Cowboy up and ask them out.

NASA video

I've thought a lot about how the lack of a frontier has caused a paradigm shift in America, and how we push for advancement and how we treat one another as a society. Does it make us lose our edge? Become a nation of wussies? Lead to supermarket shootouts? I think the 'talking heads' on TV (and the internet) can cause us to forget about TRUTH, and how opinions matter zilch in comparison.

I've wanted a new frontier, and after watching this video I thought "The frontier is whatever you are pressing forward for in your life." Maybe its a degree, a job, a family, losing 20 pds, or joy and laughter. But there has to be a push to go beyond ones boundaries.

I guess one way I thought of it was this: In 1800, people in London didn't have any real idea of what/where the frontier was. They didn't care, they were worried about putting bread on the table. In 1492, most Europeans didn't care about the frontier, they were worried about putting bread on the table. In 2011, do most of us care about the frontier, or possibly our personal frontiers, or are we worried about putting bread on the table?