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No Pants - Day 10 of 365

Improv Everywhere, a group that performs improv in public, had an event where everyone took off their pants on the Trax train.

Improv Everywhere No Pants 2010 from Jesse Michael Nix on Vimeo.

2009 in Photos

2009 was a great and interesting year for me.  Here's what it looked like through a camera.

Decorating the Tree

I've been busy with finals and some photography projects, but that hasn't stopped me from making this video of us decorating our tree

Decorating the Tree from Jesse Michael Nix on Vimeo.

Cleaning Leaves

This past Saturday, we prepared our backyard for winter.  By "prepared" I mean Brian cleaned up leaves while I setup the camera to take a photo of us.  And then I shot a video of Brian cleaning up the leaves.

Senator Chris Buttars Anti-Gay Remix

State Senator Chris Buttars recently made comments to a documentary filmmaker about "the gays."  He said some really inflammatory things like:

• "[Gays are] probably the greatest threat to America"
• "Their number one goal is just to proselyte youth. That's why I threw them out of the schools, I said it's not a friendship club, that's a recruiting station."
• "What is the morals of a gay person? You can't answer that. Because anything goes!"

It makes me so angry and sad to hear him say things like this.  You can read more about his comments at the Salt Lake Tribune.

When I found an audio copy of his statements, I decided to do something that would let off steam: I made a remix.  I hope you enjoy it.

Save the Date Barrister's Ball

I'm in charge of our annual law school ball called the "Barrister's Ball."  Last year, I made a four videos advertising the ball and people enjoyed them.  I'm going to make some again this year, but before I did, I put out this "save the date" video.

Traveling with Brian & Jesse: Mumbai, India (Part 4)

Traveling with Brian & Jesse: Teaching in India (Part 3)

Here's the third part in our India series.  I've also included a second video that I made for our law school.

To watch this in HD, click on this link to go directly to Youtube and click on "Watch in HD" below the video.

Traveling with Brian & Jesse: Pune, India (Part 2)

To watch this in HD, click on this link to go directly to Youtube and click on "Watch in HD" below the video.

Traveling with Brian & Jesse: Arriving in India (Part 1)

As you probably know, Brian and I went to India during the summer.  I took lots of pictures, which I posted on Flickr.   But I also shot lots of video which almost no one has seen.  During Christmas break from school, I've been making videos from the hours of footage that I took.  It's been a little difficult editing everything down to a watchable length, but I've been enjoying the memories.  I'm still making them, but here's the first installment. 

(To watch the HD version, and I recommend that you do, click here).

Dogsitting

Our friends Liz and Ryan went on vacation during fall break, so Brian and I got to dogsit their dogs.  We had a great time with three dogs in the house.  We let all three sleep in the bed with us and after a week, it got to be too much--especially since Bean liked to sleep in the worst places.

I wanted to surprise Liz and Ryan when they got back with a video, so I spent the week filming the dogs.  Here's the video I made for them:

Dogsitting from Jesse Michael Nix on Vimeo.

Democratic National Convention Video

My Trip to Denver for Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention from Jesse Michael Nix on Vimeo.

Democratic National Convention

I promised a post about my trip to the Democratic National Convention, so here it is.

About two weeks before convention started, Megan texted messaged me asking if I'd be willing to go if she could get tickets to hear Obama speak on Thursday night at Invesco stadium.  Not one to pass up historic moments, I said yes.  Later, she said she got them and I booked our flights.

Megan also got tickets for Chris W., and Sheryl, so the four of us went together.

Originally, Megan said that someone promised us a free hotel room.  When we landed in Denver, we found out that was not true.  Because we were in Denver to hear Obama(!), nothing could change our happy moods.  We immediately found accommodations at the lovely EconoLodge.  It had been recently renovated so it was actually quite nice.

The first night, we walked around downtown which was really busy and energetic.  We listened to Biden's speech outside of an MSNBC news.  Later, we went dancing at a gay club that was literally next to the EconoLodge.  We could not have planned it better!

The next day, we went to breakfast with the Utah delegation to the convention.  It was there that we got our tickets--the four of us weren't all sitting together.  We waited outside the room where they were handing out tickets and Craig Axford was nice enough to exchange our tickets so we could all be together.

We headed over to the stadium to be early since we didn't have assigned seating.  I'm so glad we did because we waited in line for about seven minutes and later learned that some people waited in line for hours!  To make the time pass, we went shopping at the multiple stands selling Obama stuff.  Even though I thought all the stores sold the same stuff, Chris W. was convinced that each sold different stuff so we stopped at almost every single one... It was the only time on the trip when I got really annoyed.

But I quickly got over it when Jennifer Hudson walked right by me!  I was so star struck that I didn't get a picture.  This picture is the next best thing:

We also make phone calls to people for Obama reminding them to watch Obama's speech.  The list that I used only had old people on it, so naturally, I stopped saying "you can receive text updates from the campaign" on every call. 

Speaking of old people, I was interviewed by KSL radio and when I was talking about why I'm supporting Obama, I basically said I'm not voting for McCain because he's old.  Oops!  I told him not to air that part. ;)

We went back to our seats and started listening to all the speeches.  When Obama spoke, he electrified the entire stadium.  It was very, very awesome.

After the convention, we had tickets to a very exclusive party whose star guest was then man himself: Barack Obama!  Michelle Obama and Joe Biden were also there.  They spoke a little and then left, but it was cool to be that close to them.  The entire day was great!

The next day, Sheryl flew home, so Megan, Chris and I made a road trip back to Salt Lake City.  We had a lot of fun talking, singing, dancing, and looking at Wyoming.

All the pictures from our trip are here and I'll post a video from the trip on another post.

Day in the Life of a Law Student

This blog will receive more attention once summer comes.  I'm envisioning a long essay on my law school experiences. Plus, I will change the banner!

In the meantime, here is a video I made.  I set my computer to take a picture every thirty seconds to document my day.

Barrister's Ball Advertisement #1

Our law school is having a Barrister's Ball at the end of March and I volunteered to make four commercials advertising the event. I had a lot of fun making them with my friend Chris. As I filmed and edited the videos, I realized that I LOVE doing this stuff and wondered why I was in law school. ;)

Here's the first ad:

 

Renovation

Watch This!

Go here and be inspired: http://www.yeswecansong.com.

First Semester Recap

Ode to the Law Library

The law library and I have a love/hate relationship, though recently it has been an "i hate you" relationship.

Jesse's Two Sides

The End of our Financial Fast

A Good Sale during our Financial Fast

Addiction

It was found!

Remember that video that I said I lost that chronicled my first day of law school orientation? I found it! I do love my Mac! You may have read the stories already, but watching it might be more fun!

Our Cow

Brian and I bought a cow. The first video is me video blogging and the second is, well, intended for educational purposes only.