The best job in the world

I just finished shooting a video resume for "THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!" A job as a caretaker of an Australian island off the great barrier reef. The job itself entails living on an island, in a large villa, and swimming. And that's pretty much it. The winner will be required to post weekly blog videos and posts about things they've done on the island. Things such as arranged spa samples, dining out at the island's fine restaurants, and tours around the area. I'm looking for feedback, so tell me what you think, and what you'd say if this is the only insight you had into who Greg is.

It's here on paul's website

 We'll post it on the website shortly after. Thanks!

The most awesomest Stop Motion ever. Almost.

Sit. Watch. Love. Slow jerk.

Thanks Kyle.

Jim the So - called Genius

At a very early 9:00, I was up and at the Treehouse. Paul, Chris, Brian and I were up filming a little video for the BC Hydro Film contest. We did many things, from saw off a prong of a power adapter, to go to Future shop to return Chris' Xbox live membership and complain about Paul's Raincheck, to have Quizno's to drive Nagle's truck around with a bike in the back. The video is called Jim the so-called Genius, and you can see it here.



I sped off to work, apalled by Mark's disgusting spandex. Being a Friday, it was very busy. However, I had a very welcome break when Adrienn visited me at work! Around 10:00 she shows up and joins me on a few more deliveries. There were some really funny drunk people, who wanted to tip me with beer! Of all the times I wish I was walking...

Adrienn and I just hung out, sitting looking at the view for the longest time and just talking. I had such a great time, and didn't really want to go to Ian's house for his shindig. But I went anyways.

UMOTD:
Adrienn and I are sitting on the electric box, talking, and we notice a car pull up behind us. We didn't really acknowledge it, and just knew it was there. It stuck around for a while, and eventually I turn around to look at it, after about a couple minutes. It's Darek. My boss. Just being creepy.

EDMONTON HO!

Paul came by today, to deliver a message to me. The message goes something like this.

The science world in Edmonton is flying us out there to talk about our Lego millennium falcon stop motion which they will have on loop as an exhibit!

They're paying for one ticket and our accomodations for somewhere around a week. Paul and I are going to split my ticket, and that's all we'll have to pay for our road trip we were supposed to have in September, only it'll be in November. I can't believe Paul and I are getting so much publicity for this! I'm so stoked! AND we're going to go see Christine and Nate, too! We've already made up an intro for the film to inform people more about it, because it'll be on loop! It's here on Paul's blog.

Regroup!

Well these past days have been AWESOME.

Recap, regroup!

On Friday, Paul and I did some AWESOME Location scouting. We went to Mission (Ilostthegameandthoughtofchristine) then Cultus Lake, THEN Harrison Hot springs. You can check out the awesome video blog Paul made of it.

Saturday: Filmed at Harrison in the morning after an early start, went swimming in Hatzik Lake, with Paul, Spencer, Janet, Jason Pelley, Jason Romein, Katie, Mike Wadell, Kris Schmit, Craig, and Angela, who almost froze to death. Later on, went out for lunch, and due to some forgetfullness on someone's part, we ended up just partying at Kris's house. Oh darn.

Sunday- Chilling with the guys and Playing some Star Wars, Visiting Adrian later to get some games from him.

Monday - Changed my oil... and... GOT MY PS3!!
It's so awesome! I traded in ALL my PS2 Stuff (including 17 games), which amounted to $140. I bought DiRT and Resistance: Fall of Man, in addition to another controller and a Wireless router so I could play online.

Intense Gruelling Script - time

Film meeting time! What did I do today? Let's recap!

• I went to the film meeting.

Well, that was fun!

I showed up at the Treehouse after I ate dinner with my mother and sister. My dad's Up until then I had just been lounging about. I was all over the place. Gaming, reading, going out to the park to chill, and eating. The meeting went great! It was all real professional, and I really felt like it was the start of something big! I can't wait till we're in full swing and we start actually filming! We read through the script, and it was awesome to finally get to work with this guy named Mike, who I've wanted to work with for a while. Then, we went and ate burgers at Dewys and I slept.









As an afterthought... I've noticed that PAUL is posting more pictures than I am... SO as a personal pact to both of us... I am now going to make sure I have more pictures posted than he does. I always take tons of pics, but never post all of them. Well, Paul.. we'll see how you handle all these pictures!!! MUAHAH!

UMOTD:
Mike, Kris and I discussing the de-evolution of communication.
"Dude, the carrier pigeon got shot down!"
"That's just called hacking"

I like golf

Today, I got a call from Christine and Nate! Yeah, I know! We talked for a while because they were together, and Nate was just about to leave Christine's to go home. Apparently, Christine found the place where they filmed a scene from her favourite movie, Cool Runnings! It was in her campus' lobby or something like that! I was just thinking how COOL it would be to see a place from your favourite movie!

"OH. MY. GOD! DUDE! This is TOTALLY the inside of the whale from Pinoccio! Dude I've ALWAYS wanted to be at the location of one of my favourite... wait... crap. We're inside a giant whale. Not good."
I met up with Lissa after lunch, and took her to Esquires for the same gelato I bought everyone yesterday. She LOVED the white chocolate raspberry, but she couldn't finish her's because of their giant portions. I finally let her know which pizza place I work at, and we stopped by there for a bit. But then we went to play mini golf! It was SO much fun, as mini golf often is, and she absolutely kicked my ass! We went for a short walk around Lefarge park for a little, watched a bit of a lacrosse practice, and then I drove her home, 'cause she still had homework to do, and had school the next morning.

I stopped by the Treehouse, where Paul had laid out the Scripts for Whispers for all of us. I was fully prepared to find a way to fix 94 pages of script together, but as you can see, Paul already had that taken care of! I was blown away! I started reading it, and then headed off to Chris'.

At Chris' we played stuntman ignition on his 360 until early in the morning. I went on a not-so-wild goose chase to find that game, since it's just been released, and noticed that it cost almost $10 to rent it for 5 days! I don't remember rentals being that much... but maybe that's just 'cause I haven't rented in ... oh... FOREVER. It was a real good game, and the multiplayer was solid. Chris' cousin Darcy kept walloping us with his high scores, but thats 'cause he was always last in the cycle so he got to see the setup, and what not to do, twice.

UMOTD:
The way Lissa said "This sucks" when her gum got stuck in her hair. She just said it like a total stoner!

Mr. Ben's Donair

Here's a short little ad that Paul and I made. It's a little tale about the best donairs in the world. Period.

Mr.Ben, His Donairs, and Ferraris

So I woke up today... at 4:30 in the bloody morning! I wanted to try out the time lapse function on my camera to film the sun rise, and make it all fancy-lookin.. but work it did not. I slept until my optometrist appointment at 11:00, to find out that my eyes got better over the past year! I took a ride in the mall car with Wesley and he didn't succeed in running me over.

I went to the park, to my usual spot, where I read an AWESOME book... Star wars: Heir to the empire, by Timothy Zhan. SO good. I got really into it, then found out that the grass would make a nice pillow. I don't even know how long i slept! I got up, and Christine shows up, and we proceed to go eat some Donairs with Paul! But not before Paul informs me that our Millenium Falcon stop-motion video is now on the official star wars blog!! Apparently someone from Lucasfilm watched it! They loved it! As of now, we've got 10,703 views! We've climbed massiveley in the past 3 days. I think it was like this:

Monday: 500 views.

Tuesday: 900 views, on digg site.
Wednesday: 10,703 views, on the official star wars blog.


I'm just really glad that one of our videos is doing so well! Can't wait to see how far it goes.

ANYways, back to the story. We arrive at Mr. Ben's Donair, and We each have a loaded Donair full of goodness. Driving back, Christine slept a little, and we ended up at Improv, and I just lost the game. I dropped Christine off at Improv, to save us seats, and Paul and I went to get his car, and to maybe pick up a check at Plateau Pizza... which Darek hadn't written yet. However... our trip really was made worth it. The day got SO much better, when Paul and I saw a Ferrari F430 Spider, and chased it for a bit! SO sexy, that car is. Improv was hillarious, as it always is, and the three men that WERE there, did an awesome job. Christine and I quickly hopped in my car shortly after, and, after seeing ANOTHER Ferrari(!), a 1980's Testarossa, proceeded to Mission, where she resides. An Awesome, awesome day.

UMOTD:
When Paul and I were driving side-by-side to Improv the whole way with our music synched to "Black Betty", turned REALLY loud.