Media Bias?

News Anchor Dan Rather, NPR Reporter Cokie Roberts and a U.S. Marine were hiking through the desert one day when they were captured by Iraqis. They were tied up, led to the village and brought before the leader. The leader said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a last wish. Before we kill and dismember you, do you have any last requests?" Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowl full of hot, spicy chili." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content." Cokie Roberts said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end." The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Roberts dictated some comments. She then said, "Now I can die happy." The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?" "Kick me," said the Marine." "What?" asked the leader. "Will you mock us in your last hour?" "No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me," insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him. The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol from inside his cammies, and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the Iraqis with gunfire. In a flash, the Iraqis were dead or fleeing for their lives. As the Marine was untying Rather and Roberts, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you?" "What!?" said the Marine, "And have you call ME the aggressor?

Cool U.S.M.C. pic

Another cool U.S.M.C Pic I found online.

Thank a Marine

A very cool pic and saying I found on line.

Muddin

As you can tell I got the truck muddy after a couple of big rains we had in Stillwater. We went down Cottonwood and Copperhead. If you haven't ever been muddin, find a 4x4 and go the next big rain you have.

Great picture

Saw this online and just thought I should share

Not Much happening

There isn't much to report, still running to get down to weight and that's about it, and school, I still need a job.

125lbs. to Boot Intro Version 1.1

125lbs. to Boot Opening Sequence Version 1.1 from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

The second mock up of an opening sequence to 125lbs to Boot. An episode based documentary about my journey to get down to weight so I can join the US Marines. The full first episode is coming, so be on the lookout for that.
Filmed on the JVC GZ-HD7. Music is by Casey Crowdis of Quiet Sight Productions. Shot by Casey Crowdis of Quiet Sight Productions.

Be sure to head over to vimeo to check out the channel and the video in HD.
www.vimeo.com/lbstoboot

125lbs. to Boot

This is a little screen splash that I put together for a possible new documentary called 125lbs. to Boot

Let me know what you think.

U.S.M.C.

Some of you might not yet know but I am planning on joining the US Marines. I hope to ship off to MCRD San Diego in March or April, but we'll see how that all ends up going.

The trick is that I have to lose allot of weight to ship so be praying for that.

Also as a side note Casey Crowdis and I are planning on making a documentary on my experience getting ready for the Marines, so be sure to check back soon for more info.

Trip to Brayman, Wakita, Nash and beyond.

A couple of weeks ago I went with a buddy of mine to his parents house in Brayman, OK to pick up his dune buggy then head over to Wenoka for sand fest out at Little Sahara, but it got rained out. So instead we headed up to Wakita, OK for there Settlers Day festival and to see Whiskey Moon play. After that we headed over to Nash, OK then back down to Stillwater.

Top picture is Wakita main street, the one below it is of Wakita off in the distance. And then at the bottom is Russel trying to get the buggy going.

OK State.

As I am writing this OSU is 4-0 and is ranked 21 in the nation, which is incredible. The pictures are from the first home game of the year in the new "Boon Pickens Stadium."

I hope the best to the team the rest of the year.

Sorry. I'm finaly back.

Well it has been a while and I am finaly going to make a few posts here and give yall an update on my life and what I got planed.

CNC at OSU

OSU just got tow new HASS CNC machines, and unfortunatly they are not the one to the left, those are some random pic I pulled of the web.

I went to my first class in the Machine shop today and probably will be going back to work on my first part tomorrow after class. The manual side is alright just small and the CNC side is small also but the guy who is incharge is a cool guy and offered me a job next semester of year, so we will see how that goes. Hopefully I will be in Florida at a film school but if not it could be a fun job to have so we'll see.

On a fun little side note I turn 18 in 3 days and the first OSU home football game is in 2.5 days so that should be fun.

Just a quick lettle update.

S

September is Here

As August is written into the history books, as the first time I attended a class at OSU, and a fiew more cool thinks. I cant help but look ahead to whats instore for me in the future, as my 18th birthday is in 4.5 days and the start of OSU football at home comes in only 4.25 days I cant help but wonder whats to come in the near future.

College SUCKS!!!!!

It is 6am as I wright this and I have a 9am class so if I go to sleep now I might as well not even consider going.
You might be asking, why did you not go to sleep earlier? Well the truth is that I finished all my math homework and am currently writing a 2-3 page paper on an article I had to read for my comp1 class.
Just to give all of you an update on whats going on I turn 18 in less than 10 days, and I am freekin excited.
Also if you know where I can get my hands on a brush guard for a 98 Dodge Ram 1/2 ton let me know.
skylarsch@gmail.com

But I digress. The picture is one that I made about 2 minutes ago and I think that at this moment it sums up my life really well.
Last night was Lights on Stillwater and it wasn't as good as it was in years past, but hey you cant win em all ya know so keep it real.

The Second Week

I started the second week of school today and so far it's going good. My Pre-Calculus class sucks as well as my history but my polli-si is okay, I like the teacher and that is a good thing. I'm getting ready for a mandatory house meeting tonight so we'll se how that goes.
Yesterday I got plugged into a life group with lifechurch.tv that meets about a block from the houseso that should be good.
Just thought I would give ya'll a quick update.

The picture is of Old Central on campus.

Less Than Two Weeks.

Football season starts at home in less than two weeks, and this year I have season tickets. Also I turn 18 in less than two weeks on Sep 7. In fact I go to a football game tat 6pm on sep 6 so what could be a better birthday present.

First Day Gone

Well the first day of classes is in the books. Just thought I would give you all a little run down.
I have Algebra and Trig at 11:30am with 300+ students in the class, which is allot of people.

At 2:30pm I have Comprehensive American History, that is an overbooked class so we'll see how that turns out.

All in all it was a good day, and I'll see whats goin on in tomorrows classes and if the internet keeps working then maybe I'll have another post tomorrow. So be looking for that.

Rain

Sitting out on the porch of the house it began to rain and at first it was a nice little sprinkle. As of right now it's absolutely poring down and I can here it on the roof of the house, and if you think that I am on the second floor well then your wrong. I can here it on the first floor.
Rain to me is a relaxing time, grass and plants get replenished, and refreshed by it so why can't we.

Well I went and picked up my season football tickets today and almost wanted to kill the people behind me. The girl behind me was with her brother and boyfriend. After getting over the hilarity in the way she talked (Upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that came out of her mouth so that it sounds like a question.) I also found out that she has two other sisters and one is at Harvard Med and the other is at MIT so I kind of chuckled at that and though "wow"

So that's my day and I am outty.

And Here We GO!!!!

Well school now starts in 4 1/2 days and hopefully I am going to be ready. As I start this new school year I cant help but wonder if it is actually what I am supposed to do. My mind is a M.E. student at OSU and my heart says I need to be someplace like the Full Sail Film School. The only problem about doing what my heart wants to do is the money factor. So I don't yet know what is going to all happen.

I couldn't find any cool little pictures to add to his post so I decided to just add this cool little animation from vimeo, that I found


World War - 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2008 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.

Growing Elements experament

Growing Elements from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

The Usual Go to vimeo to check it out in HD and read my description.

The Computer is Back!!

Well I finally have the computer back in my hands and plan on burning my first dvd in forever tonight and I am excited so we'll se how it goes.

The first picture is of the Apple store at Penn Square and the oter two are the LifeChurch.tv NW OKC campus that I atended tonight in the hopes that I would get to see Adam Ivey (my old youth pastor) but i found out that it was his first week working up at Central youth so he was nolonger at NW which is kindof a bummer, but I did get to see Damien Aranda play. In case any of you dont know who he is go check out http://www.myspace.com/aranda Damien is one of the best guitar players I have seen in a very long time.

Thats all I have time fore now because the guys are screaming at me to come watch "21" which by the way is a great film.

What Love Can Do

Watch What Love Can do from Marshall Burgtorf on Vimeo.

this is a video that a friend of mine threw up to vimeo and al I can say is that it is incredible be sure to head over to vimeo to comment and like.

Also be sure to check out his site @ downpourmedia.com

S

Jesus House

Well so now that Im back in stillwater I have been bey busy and haven't had time to update the blog so sorry about that. Also I'm doing this off my iPhone so I hope it works and that the post actually shows up. Why are you doing all I that typing off your iPhone you might be asking, well because my computer is still in the city getting it's DVD drive replaced before school starts back up. Also coming up I'll be posting picks of the house I'm living in and my room I'm staying in

Back To Stillwater

This Saturday after Adam's wedding I will be heading back to Stillwater to get ready for the start of the school year. I have had fun in Ada, OK and will miss it allot but I also need to further my education.

This is not the end of the blog by no means, it still will be updated on a somewhat regular basis so check back from time to time and I'll continue to post videos to vimeo so be sure to check that out.

At The Movies 2009 Trailer

At The Movies 2009 Trailer from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

This is the other ATM 09 promo I made.

At The Movies 2009

At The Movies 2009 from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

Here is one of the promos for At the Movies 2009. Be sure to head over to Vimeo to see it in HD.

New H2O Loop

New Loop For H2OChurch.tv Ada from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

I Made this look in Apple Motion, please go to vimeo to see it in HD.
Also be on the lookout for two upcoming ATM 09 Trailers.

iPhone Apps

The apps currntly on my iPhone include Bible, BoxOffice, Facebook, Flashlight, NearPics, PhoneSaber, Remote, Shazam, and SnapMyLife.

Some of these are completly worthless like SnapMyLife and PhoneSaber, but some I love like Shazam and Bible. Bible is the iPhone Apps verson of Lifechurch.tv's You Version and Shazam is a music identifier and music tagger.

Others like Remote is a WiFi remote for iTunes and Apple TV.

I'm going to try and keep you up to date on others and apps upcoming so check back soon.

The Dark Knight

Last night I went on the spur of the moment to the Carmike 10 in Stillwater and watched The Dark Knight. Now for those of you who don't know it is the new batman movie that came out this month, staring Heath Ledger as the Joker and Christian Bale as Batman. I had some doubts about the movie going in, one being it seemed a little dark for Batman, but after geting into the movie you dont even notice.
My usuall movie experience is I go into the theater and dont even watch the movie for the story, I try and see how that scene was cut and how that effect was done. The Dark Knight was not his way at all, as I walked into the theater I was excited to try and figure out how stuff was done, but after about just a few minutes I found myself just watching a movie for a movie.
All around it is probably the best movie I have seen since either Oceans 13 or The Bourne Ultimatum, which is saying allot.

Some Big Plans

I have been in Stillwater this week working on a new project, driving all over the country side and filming all kinds of people.

Also I have some cool projects that are coming around and to give you a taste of whats to come I have a little title screen I'm currently working on to give you a sneak peek of whats to come.


ATM 09 version 1 from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

There is much more to come and hopefully some screen shots also on the way, but for right now I'm on my way to the 3p or Aspen if the 3p isn't open.

The Render

I'm currently siting in front of my computer at H2OChurch.tv home offices waiting on a video to render so I can throw it into Motion, but here is a video I made a while back, but go to vimeo to see it in HD.


The "Old Film" Look Test from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.

New Web Site

http://web.mac.com/skylarschipper/

Yes this is my web site but I will still be blogging here, simply because I like dont like the way iWeb has it set up and I dont want to spend the time changing it.

The Downpour Media Shoot

Last weekend was crazy. And when I say crazy I mean it. Friday I got to Del City at about 4pm and we shot baseball for about four hours. After finally going to sleep at around midnight thirty (12:30am) we woke up at 7am Saturday morning, and at 9 we left to go and film the soccer games at 1pm we got food and headed back to baseball and finished up at about 6pm.

That night I went to the apple store in Penn Square and got personally walked into the store by an employee that I knew, and granted I wasn't purchasing an iPhone 3g but I did get some great looks form the people in line.
Sunday we got back to work, with basketball at 9:30am till about noon, then it was back over to baseball. We ended the weekend exhausted and tired and I can thank Marshal Burgtorff for a fun and tiring weekend.

On a side note Grant Downy uploaded an amazing video to vimeo that I thought should be shared with you all.

Be Creative from Grant Downing on Vimeo.

There Back

Yes this is an Official IMDb.com page and it can be found at...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/
Yes its coming and I'm freaking excited

Trip to Norman and the JVC HD110

Today I made a trip up to Norman, OK. The purpose of that visit was to view and play with a Panasonic HVX200b, to the uniformed this is a Panasonic HD P2 video camera. When I got to the store I saw one then the guy started telling me all about the JVC shoulder mounted HD cameras. I'm not a huge fan of shoulder mounts bout I thought I'd give it a look. When he brought it out it was a lot lighter and more stream lined than I had pictured it. After talking for almost 2 hours he had me totally convinced on the JVC over the Panasonic, and I know you might be saying that he just wanted to make a larger commission, but the catch is that the JVC actual costs less, by almost $1,000.00 and it has greater functionality, including still recording to the same tapes I currently use.











On the Way back it pored down rain, and I snaped what I thought was a cool little pic. (Top)

The 4th Pictures

Some of my favorite pictures that my cousin Andy took on the 4th of July 08.
Be sure to click on them to see them at full scale and download them as desk top backgrounds, cause they make amazing ones.

Catch Yall Up

I decided to update everybody on whats going on as I'm sitting watching my footage get processed through Color.
The picture off to the left is my set up at Main Office H2OChurch.tv and currently what I have been looking at for the last about 10 hours getting this video done.
As a side note I created a Flickr account, but I don't have any pics up yet. You can follow the link off to the right titled "My Flickr." I'll let everyone know when I get some pictures up. Also I'm going to upload the second At the Movies promo I did to Vimeo either tonight or tommorow so b shure to be on the lookout for that.
Only 4 more days untill iPhone 2.0 firmware update and I'm extreemly excided to see what kinds of cool litle programs they are going to have for the consumer ie. me to friter there money away on.
Another little side note is that I only have 41 more days untill I have to start colledge at OSU back in Stillwater. I have some mixed feeling on this and am still not shure if I want to go with griffic desighn or Mechanical Engeneering. And to all of you asking yes I have declared ME but that can allways change.

Ardmore Campus

Well our trip down to Ardmore OK, went very well and we got some great footage. But I took some pictures of the campus and it's development. Sorry about the quality I took them with my iPhone so the resolution isn't the greatest,

2008 Reel

My Very First Reel from Skylar Schipper on Vimeo.
This is the first reel I have made of my work so there isn't allot but its a start. Just let me know what you think.

Vimeo And the Reel

Some of you may not know but there is an incredible site out there called Vimeo. Vimeo is a video website that is for professionals and people who create there own stuff. Mine is http://www.vimeo.com/skylarsch so go check it out. Vimeo is an incredible site, because it doesn't limit you on the quality of your video, the only set back to this is that it won't allow you to upload more than 500mb a week.
Also as a side note I will have a Show Reel coming out soon that you can check out at my Vimeo and I'll also embed it into a blog post coming up, so be on the look out for that.

My Life Update

I'm headed back to Ada tomorrow after I get my tire on the truck looked at and I also need to get a spare tire and rim.
Well the first picture is the sunrise on the way up Abaline KS. The second is of the LifeChurch.tv Bling building where the magic of LC productions happens. I took the picture after we stoped for Saturday night experience at the Edmond OK campus for the final week of One Prayer at LifeChurch.tv. Also to come, i will post some cscreen shots of The ATM 08 series at H2OChurch.tv. Due to copy wright laws we will not be able to post the whole series. In closing keep it real and remember to allways look for scooterists before changing lanes to keep all of those people safe.

S

Quiet Sight

Yesterday I traveled to Oklahoma city to assist Quiet Sight Productions (Casey) shoot a session with Quinn Schipper for Oikos. The shoot went well and from the camera I was on I thought we got some great footage for Casey to put togeter. The session we shot was an inner healing ministry session that Quinn facilitated. The session was the first ever that was done infront of a crowed and I thought it went very well, but what do I know.
Afterwards I went with Casey and Marshal over to Caseys mother in laws house and went over some stuff. Well thats about it on that I've got another post that im gonna wright now just about random stuff so we'll see where that takes us.