I was in Language Arts flipping through a textbook when I found this poem and decided to make a video out of it. The words struck me with great familiarity. From the first sentence, I knew what the message was.

If looking good, and being popular, means being unable to express yourself freely, than I choose to be an ugly weed.

Let them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.

I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed,
clinging on cliffs, like an eagle
wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.

To have broken through the surface of stone,
to live, to feel exposed to the madness
of the vast, eternal sky.
To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,
carrying my soul, my seed,
beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre.

I’d rather be unseen, and if
then shunned by everyone,
than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valley,
where they’re praised, handled, and plucked
by greedy, human hands.

I’d rather smell of musty, green stench
than of sweet, fragrant lilac.
If I could stand alone, strong and free,
I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed.

Would you rather be someone who is faddish yet unable to change, or someone who is detested yet able to be unique and free?

I wanted to post this video because it makes obama sound really funny, but still awesome:

What do you think of this hilarious video?

So much awesome, sad, crazy stuff has been going on in my life lately. It’s almost crazy to keep track of all this. Normally my life is a standard kind, but now its unorganized, therefor the posts are included. It’s really hard to juggle homework, friends, developing, blogging, myspacing, facebooking, twittering, aiming, and resting. Also I am soon going to a meeting about the trip to Japan next year. So i am taking a step forward and am thinking it would be fantastic to go. Sometimes I feel disappointed that I can’t do more because I am just a kid. I am trying to figure out how to do better, but I like to have fun too. Basically when I can finally rest I watch stuff on hulu and text friends. But that’s about it, and it is absolutely crazy to have to juggle all this stuff.

Have you ever felt really overwhelmed? In one word how would you describe it?

I have had to do these projects, 3 to be exact and they are all due during the same week. This week. It’s really frustrating because even if i am done with my homework when i get home i still gotta work on my projects. School is getting tougher and tougher. As you can probably tell by the frequency of posts I don’t have as much time to post here. Also stats aren’t down but I am really missing the interaction with my viewers. Comments don’t come anymore, so i may still be getting views but my blog runs on what people think of the posts.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed?

So a lot of stuff has been going on in my life lately. My mom has gone to a journaling meeting in Washington and she won’t be back until Sunday. And so this week I have been going to friends so my Dad won’t have to rush to pick us up from school. It’s slightly funny because I have 3 projects for school do next week and they all include artwork. So normally I have help but this weekend I will  have to do three projects on my own. Which will be pretty hard. Also the iphone app we will be releasing is almost ready to submit.

I would like to talk about something serious though. It involves this quote below:

Your Mouth’s Spilling Words,
Armed For Slaughter

- Maya Angelou

What she means to say in this quote is that we as humans just speak without thought and our words are armed as though to kill. As i was reading this line I thought to myself, nothing explains the world better right now then this line. People not caring what they utter. People cursing, complaining, and making others feel unwelcome. Other people pushing there ruthless agendas on us, other people speaking out without restraint. I notice this wherever i go. We, as humans, don’t think about what we say we just say it. I am sure all of us have felt hurt by another because they didn’t think before they spoke. These words can leave a person damaged. I hope I never do this to a person in my life.

Have you ever been hurt my someone who didn’t think before they spoke?

One billion.

About a billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was in full swing.

About a billion hours ago, we were living in the Stone Age.

About a billion months ago, dinosaurs walked the earth.

A billion inches is 15,783 miles, more than halfway around the earth.

About a billion people are going hungry.

There are more hungry people in the world than ever before. More than one billion people, almost a sixth of humanity, are now undernourished, according to the latest estimates from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Most people reading this could easily open their pantry and take out a bag of chips and be set for the night. But one in six people struggles to survive on a meal a day, sometimes less. What can you do to help?

Donate.

Click the picture to donate. Don’t have a credit card, or are too young to get one? It’s as easy as a click to donate the Hunger Site.

Here’s how the hunger site works. Every time you click the donate button, several advertisements appear. The Hunger Site is paid money for showing these advertisements, and they donate to money to the hungry. It’s so easy, and so effective. Just yesterday, 17,356 pounds of food were given to the hungry. Just last month, 612,388 pounds of food were donated. To date, The Hunger Site has donated 657 million cups of food. Do your part and click.

There’s also Free Rice.

Free Rice is another non-profit organization that has gives educational vocabulary game. Every time you get a word right, they donate 10 grains of rice. Here’s a commercial for FreeRice.com.

So please do your part and help the world out. Whether it be large scale, or small scale, we can make a difference.

Ever notice how a color can change a person’s mood? How people are drawn to certain colors because they just have that aura? All colors transfer to us something, that is why many people enjoy using color everywhere. In their room, on their blog, everywhere. So today I am going to talk about all the colors and what they do for me.

Yellow represents calm and fully at ease
Orange represents heat, warmth and the opening of a new day
Red is bold, strong and stable
Purple is the color of beauty, and always gives me the feeling of a good smell
Blue is constantly changing, the cascading colors of water pass of my eyes
Green is the color of earth, the color green is the most diverse infront with several shades.

Many of these qualities make us happy. You will notice people combining colors they like, often. Like me who is constantly combining the cascading blue, with the bold red.

What is you color combination and what does it mean to you?

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Lately i have noticed that twitter is growing bigger and bigger. My followers get smaller and smaller. Which means i get slightly less people here. So i am slowly loosing my twitter fan base. What should i do to pick up my twitter.

What would you guy’s like to here about?

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Lockerz.com is a site where you can play games and invite people to earn points. These points can be spent on al kinds of electronic goods. It’s for anyone 13 and older. The thing is, to gain access to lockerz.com you need an invite from a lockerz user. I am currently sending out lockerz.com invites for anyone who wants to win awesome prizes just for having fun.

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Today is a day off. I am publishing this at 9:56 AM on a friday. And for some reason this post is more fun to write then normal seeing to it that I am writing this instead of math.

As some of you know I have been recently been working on programming iphone applications. So here is a video preview of an app that will be released by me in the near future:

What do you think of the iphone application?