Sometimes life hits and you need a ♥Cupcake

Tiffany's has a blue box and
The Cocoa Bean has this beauty.

If you haven't heard of the Cocoa Bean you obviously haven't talked to me in quite a while. It is my new favorite place. Snuggly located at 1774 North University Parkway in Provo, Ut it quite possibly might be my favorite place on a bad day. For all who know me well they know that I have a strange attraction to cupcakes. My Favorite has to be the coconut lime. Just thinking about it is starting to make my mouth water. If life is getting you down grab a cupcake. It will make things 10 times better. I can definitely vouch for that. So please take a moment to appreciate...the cupcake!

mmmm....right?

♥Stirring the mind

Meet one of my best friends. We like to discuss things, feel free to participate:

me: my friend in my English class is saying that porn is arguably art

3:38 PM Adam: It could be argued. Not all sex on film is porn. But not all sex is art.

3:39 PM me: So true, where do you think the line is?

3:40 PM Adam: Seeing actual intercourse for more then 1 second.

3:41 PM me: but what if that is part of the film, and it isn't meant to arouse you?

  I'm playing devil's advocate.

3:46 PM Adam: Like rape? Well it all depends on your end goal. If you wanted to show intamacy of the act and it was appropriate for the story I see no problem with it. Take, for example, the movie "The Antichrist" with william defoe. It starts with a sex(see everything) scene. But while this is happening we see their kid playing by the window unsupervised and he falls to his death. Showing how baser human actiivities destroy relationships

3:48 PM Well how they can be destructive. Its quite a visually stunning scene...they throw some slow-mow into it...quite interesting.

3:49 PM Also think about spartacus on showtime. Yes it maybe softcore porn but the sex makes sense in the roman world and its seen as a type of motivating power. Thats how it was in the roman society.

3:50 PM Its hard to play the devils advocate when I'm so liberal with the subject!

3:51 PM me: hahaha

  I would say diplomatic...

3:52 PM Well then at what point does it become porn?

 Adam: Haha!

  Umm...

3:53 PM When the only artistic value it has is to arouse and intice baser passions with no other meaning.

3:54 PM Its usually porn if the boobs are bigger then the girl's head and the scene last more then 2 min...maybe 1:30...and if she's obviously not an actress!

 me: hahaha

 Adam: Haha

3:55 PM me: anything else you want to to debate

3:56 PM Adam: Whatever you'd like! Haha

3:57 PM me: How do you feel about social media?

3:58 PM Adam: Like twitter?

 me: yea and facebook

3:59 PM Adam: I think it is a momentous technological advancement in communication. However like all tech it can destroy lives. It should suppliment our lives not rule it.

4:00 PM me: how do you think it is affecting the rising generation?

  psychologically?

  what do you think is a resolution?

  ps...you will be asked to take this survey again in 1 mth

4:02 PM oh and you're writing my paper

  hahah

4:03 PM Adam: Its all they know. So it makes immediategratification a much bigger problem psychologically. Our search for progressiveness forces us to give up traditionalism. Its hard to have both because soon people like us who have had both tradition and progressivness won't be so many and our perspective will be lost. Kids will only see it in movies.

4:04 PM Kinda like us and the old west

4:06 PM me: I've actually thought about that, but technically to me whats being lost is a sense of self and privacy, there is, psychologically, something within a person that changes. We are seeing more and more teens committing suicide because of something that has been said on a social media site, they don't realize you can't just take it back.

  Its making us emotionally stupid.

  geesh ppl can argue google is making us stupid

  haha

4:11 PM Adam: Valid point. I think the ability to cope has been affected. We no longer get drunk over what gets said and we feel we have to do something more public like suicide so that people notice us. Only problem is your dead!

4:16 PM me: Agreed, we are losing sincerity.

  and face to face interation

 Adam: Yeah

 me: I have mixed feelings about social media

 Adam: Yeah?

4:18 PM me: I think parents are really who need to be educated

 Adam: Yup!

 me: They are the ones that utimately can control whether or not kids get on facebook

 Adam: They don't understand the power internet can have on kids.

4:19 PM me: For sure, you can't just let your kid go, there needs to be guidelines

 Adam: Yup

 me: and standards set, otherwise you might as well just set your kid on the side of the road in harlem and say go!

4:20 PM Essentially...mentally that is what you are doing to them

  I feel kind of passionate about this...

  so its my new persuasive essay

 Adam: Yup! Its dangerous!

  Nice

Ryan Woodward is legit...

Okay if you have not heard of this guy, its probably because you have never heard of The Weepies, an awesome singing duo, or you have never been to Provo...just kidding. I didn't really know who he was until I went to a friends dance concert. It was enlightening and this is GORGEOUS animation. I have included first the making of because I know that helps me to understand the final product a lot more:





Thought of You - Behind the Scenes Preview - ROUGH CUT from Cambell Christensen on Vimeo.

Please admire the following♥:





Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Giving voice♥

So I have decided to journal my thoughts and discoveries in blog format. Or in other words, I'm joining the blog nation. I'm not good at writing so don't expect something spectacular. But if you're looking for a new perspective...well mainly mine, you'll enjoy.

 I recently found the site TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) by watching my new favorite show...'The Buried Life'. The site is becoming a voice for people with depression and such issues. Giving a forum and outlet. I like it. The story of how this started is beautiful I encourage you all to read it. You can find it right here. And because I like this cause and shirts...I decided to combine the two!

helps start the conversation

I would hope that I'm the type of person that if anyone ever needed to talk or was having a hard time with these issues that they would be able to speak to me. I know I have confided in some of those who are close to me and I am so grateful to those people for their support and love on the days I'm down on myself and frustrating.  Love you guys. :)