I’ve had my T1i for a little over a month now. I’ve just now come to try to use it (hell, I couldn’t even figure it out till like two weeks ago… I didn’t really try either). So, tonight while shooting a few photos I decided to give it a shot. This was the first clip I happened to get also. My buddy Wyatt took one for the team here, and I definitely appreciated it. More soon… and yes, the video needs to be de-interlaced I’m just having issues with Final Cut freezing up for some reason when I do that.

So your sitting at a party, a ton of people you don’t know, and a few people you do know.
What do you do to make yourself stand out and get to know people?
Or are you the type of person who doesn’t want to be noticed and just kind of stick to the people you already know?
….
Well that just isn’t me, I am an attention whore and I am always standing out, well at least I try to.
So tonight I am at a party at this house I have been to a few times, so I kind of expected to know a few people. I did know a few people but about 85-90% of the people I had never met or seen in my life so I immediately got a few awkward stares from people who did not know me. I break ice like celebrities break the law, it is innevitable and it will be pretty unorthodox or embarassing.

I am 90% sure I just spelled two out of the 3 big words I just used in that last sentence.

So my first option, since I have been there before and know these dudes have like 100000 channels on their tv, is do something I have done before to get reactions. What is this you might say? well, porn, yes porn. What is the reaction you get when you have a bunch of people drinking and porn turns on? Well, I will tell you the guys get all wild and start yelling and high fiving asking who turned it on, and guess what, girls laugh and don’t actually get offended like you would imagine. So of course I raise my hand and go “It was me, I am sorry it just had to be done.” I get high fives all around and it keeps people entertained for a while.

Option two, which I also did, is introduce myself to random people, talk about awkward. When and how often do you find yourself walking up to a random person and just pop into a random conversation? I have realized not many people are gifted with this… well gift that I have. I have this thing where, I realized if you are ever going to be remembered you have to do one thing and one thing only, stand out. For some people this is easy because they are good looking or something amazing as that, well that just isn’t me.
So I do random stuff, and it usually ends up being kind of funny. For example, my first week of college, didn’t know a whole lot of people, and this one girl who was just gorgeous I kept seeing, it was a little weird since she was on crutches (which I later found out was from ACL surgery). So one day my friend and I were just sitting around between classes and I point this girl out and he goes oh I know the guy shes talking to, so immediately I don’t think, I say yell down to your friend and I will do the rest. He yells the guys name, they both look, and without missing a step I yell “Hey crutches! I think your pretty cute!” and that was it, a lot of people gave me a weird stare but seriously, she ended up coming and talking to me, and were kind of friends? haha well sure it didn’t go completely to plan, but when were talking and a person comes up the story of how we met ALWAYS comes up. Think about it… weird, and wacky sometimes is a good option, it just cannot be what the term I like to use is “super creeper”.

So, now I get to go on all day about what a “super creeper” is. Well everybody in their life has experienced one of these charactors I classify as a super creeper. These are the dudes or even possibly girls that are awkward and tend to make things super uncomfortable, for example, a guy who comes into my work and always is looking for this girl I work for, so they talk from time to time because she feels bad for him, and then the guy thinks they are dating, she says no, and he gets weirder, two days later he says “this relationship isn’t working out for me I am going to have to end it” would be a form of super creeper, also just the dudes who tend to stalk and do a little too much in general to be that guy. Kapish? (I am 99.563% sure I spelled that one wrong also).

Goodnight