New fuel cell cars!

On Wednesday, the military debuted their new fuel cell cars in an effort to help Hawaii. They have enough power to power up to five houses in an emergency situation!

Calling all smart phone users & social networkers!

I recently read an article in the Huffington Post with the headline "Cellphone Study Finds Link Between Selfishness and Mobile Phone Use." The article reported the findings of two studies conducted at the University of Maryland. In the study they had college students use Facebook, or a cellphone without Facebook access, for three minutes then asked them how likely they were to volunteer at a charity organization. Phone users were less likely to say they would volunteer than those who went on Facebook.
Before being tested participants said they felt more connected to others when they were using their cellphones than when they were on Facebook. This led researchers to conclude that "the more connected to others people feel, the less likely they are to volunteer." "The cellphone directly evokes feelings of connectivity to others, thereby fulfilling the basic human need to belong," the studies' authors writ in a working paper titled "The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Prosocial Behavior."
Although the findings are interesting, they will not be published until more research is done. Researchers want to know more about how cell phone use affects people's actions in social situations. Specifically they'd like to see if a socially fulfilling activity would make people even less likely to behave in a prosocial manner.
Read the full article here.
I'm always on my phone checking Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Google+ and my email but I never really thought it was making me selfish. I do feel more "social" while on these social networks but I know social activity in real life is more important than on a network. Though this study definitely needs more research and experimentation, I think it's interesting to what researchers are trying to find out these days, especially with everyone having a smartphone and some sort of social network.
What do you guys think?

Hi friends.

I'm excited to start blogging again. I haven't blogged in a while, as you can probably see. This semester I'm taking Motion Picture Production with Trusty and our first video project was due today. I made a silent, short video about a child's imagination. The kid in the video is my favorite little best friend who I teach in children's church. I was inspired by his and the other kids' imaginations. They can pretty much have fun anywhere, though they do prefer to have their Nintendo DS with them. Just watching kids play reminded me of when I was a kid and how I would pretend anything was a playground. In the video he sort of finds his own adventure in this place he's never been before. His imagination grows from a rock that he notices on the ground, to a stick he finds in the weeds and finally to a tree. Even though he gets stuck and needs a hand to get down, his imagination isn't limited.

In case you were wondering, they didn't plan to have matching Chucks, they both just kind of showed up that way. How cute are their matching pumped up kicks?!

I'm still a little new to my camera and to doing video rather than just still photos so bear with the few scenes just a little out of focus and under exposed. The sun was going down as well so I'll admit that I did rush to get this finished. Besides that though I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. I hope you guys like it too! :)





Also, because we have to respond to each other's posts I think I'll do a question of the week so that you don't have to read about my sometimes boring, uneventful day and comment, "Oh, cool. Your day was interesting. Blah, blah, blah." Instead this makes it fun!

Question of the week: What is your favorite Pandora station?

Mine changes with my mood, but right now it's Foster the People and Justin Bieber. I saw him in concert btw, SO SO SO good. And I was really bummed I didn't get to see Foster the People when they came. Anyways, you go!