What you Don't See in Movies

     Romance movies are great. The protagonist has a self realization that he or she is madly in love and drops everything to be with that person, they make out passionately forever and the screen fades, the end. Everyone leaves the theater a little happier. But there is something that I recently learned about Romance movies and that is that they are full of it.

     In the real world, there is no fade to black. There is a story after all the kissing and it isn't always good. Lets say our protagonist had a girlfriend of 2 years, meets a different girl and his self realization is that he is in love with the other girl. Sure for the guy and the new girl its perfect at the time but after words, There is nothing in it but hurt feelings. Movies like to coat the fact that there is still that girlfriend in the picture, and he is still going to have to break her heart. He is going to loose a lot of friends, and there will be a lot of tears. The sad truth is, it takes longer than a long passionate kiss for things to start to get better. The breakup process is brutal, for all parties, and no matter who you are it will always hurt.

Don't believe what the movies are telling you

- Kyle

Silly Monkey

One of the biggest struggles that I've found in Digital Media Arts is finding your own identity. What do you want to do when you finish school? What do you like to do? How do you want to represent yourself in the industry? Questions that it seems I need to answer as soon as I can. How can I possibly finish a career preparation class, when I don't even know who I am? With a little help I've started to figure it out. All it takes is one thing to get you started, one thing for everything else to start to fall into place. My one this is a monkey.

This is my identity. I'm a pretty goofy person, I have a very silly personality. I like that silliness to show it most of the things I do, either my work or just my everyday life. An animal that I always thought matched my personality was a monkey. So this is my start, my identity. The "Silly Monkey"

- Kyle 

First Poem in Years

     I used to write poems all the time. At one point it was almost every day I would think of one. I really like rhyming words together and making it make sense. I wouldn't say I'm a genius with a pen, but I'm alright.

     Lately however, I've been struck with some inspiration. So much in fact that the words basically fell on paper. So here it is:


When I looking into my heart,
What is it I see?
Its your beautful face
Smiling back at me.


Who would have thought, 
I could be so in love.
I went mywhole life thinking
That less was enough.


Then I met you,
And my world flipped upside down.
You changed my world baby,
I feel like my feet never touch the ground.


Because you make feel like I can fly,
Like there's nothing I can't do.
You remind me I can dream,
My worlds a better place because of you.


With every day that passes, 
I only love you more.
There isn't one thing about you
That I do not adore. 


Your my sweetheart
That will always be true
As long as there is life left in me,
I will always love you.

Kisses forever baby!

     It seems to me that life is very unpredictable and confusing. I struggle to make sense of it all. I've learned that you can't really predict what is going to happen next. One day things could be going great, the next day anything could happen. I used to live a unfulfilled life. I thought it was the best I could have, the happiest I could be, the best person I could be, and so on. Then everything changed. Now I'm starting a new life, a whole new world with new rules and a whole new playing field. So this is it.

     There are still some of the same problems looming over me like a storm cloud. I still have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do once I'm finished college. It's nerve wracking really. I feel that I don't have even half the skills other students do, let alone the people in the industry. It terrifies me to think about trying to make it, then failing miserably. So much uncertainty it makes my head spin. Who am I?

     So now I need to go on an epic quest to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life, career wise.

     Not all is lost however. There are some things that I am absolutely sure about. I'm completely and utterly in love with the most amazing girl I've ever met. I'm so happy when I'm with her I'm terrified of loosing it, loosing her. I want to make her the happiest girl in the world. Buy her everything she wants, make her sparkle with the most beautiful jewelery, just to match how beautiful I think she is. She's the start of a new and amazing life. Just being with her I know that things are going to be amazing. It's just the journey that I'm scared about.
     This is the first post of the new me. Let's all hope for the best shall we?

- Kyle