Mason the Payne

Honey!!! I'm HOME!!!

2009-02-28T12:09:00.004-07:00

Hello,

After the many requests for me to update my blog here I go. Starting all over again after a two year long absence...

The Mission was great. I served in the Canada Montreal Mission french speaking. It is a totally awesome place. It has three seasons (though the people there would say they have four). You get a great summer which is really hot and humid, then the most beautiful fall with the leaves that change color (colour for you canooks). The hardest part of the year has to be winter. You still have the humidity of the summer but it is extremly cold. I have pictures of the temperature being below freezing.

Yes it is very cold.

Well I will add more later I just have other things I need to get done at the moment.

Stay warm everyone and be thankful for good weather.

Earlies on the sun

2006-11-15T10:16:00.000-07:00

Here are the progress picture of the design for the sun. Not too exited about what i have quite yet.

This is what I would like it to look like I just need to figure out exactly how to get that effect.

Recent Activity

2006-11-13T23:25:00.000-07:00

So I've been really busy in school and have not had a ton of time to do my blog but I hope to be doing better. I am expecting my mission call to come within the next day or so! Anyway I've felt really boxed in because I haven't done a ton of 3d or movies lately. So when I heard that I could do anything I wanted for my astronomy class project I jumped on it. Now I'm making a short tour around the inner planets of our solar system in 3d animation. Here are some screen shots.

Well there is more but I don't have time to find them all but expect more screen shots next time.

Photoshop

2006-10-02T21:05:00.000-06:00

So here is a little hobbie of mine.

Before

After

This was fun to do. It is a picture of Bryce and Carly, i have no idea where they are or anything. Bryce just had this picture and I told him I would fix it up and make it look good. I thats what I tried to do.

Bryce

2006-09-27T01:26:00.000-06:00

ok so this is my roommate. The guy who stays up late doing his homework while I try and sleep. or sometimes the guy I keep awake when he wants to be sleeping. Yeah yeah i know all the girls think he's cute.

Miss it all

2006-09-24T23:55:00.000-06:00

Ok so I really miss my camera... the really nice one I talked about earlier on this page. "I'm at college and I don't want to break it, I want to keep it nice for as long as I can." "My roommates will destroy it!" (the above is said with a robotic voice) But really, I miss the camera and all the work I have put into my tallent. I think it is all going to waste with my really lame Film class.

I also really miss baseball! BASEBALL!!!!! I want to go throw something! Basically pitching is how i get my frustrations out, and without it I go nuts. let me tell you, the lower you feel the harder you throw, the better you feel. Jees I haven't thrown in months... Can you imagine how hard I could me throwing right now!? Grr!!! Hopefully I have to do it soon, I'm gonna POP!

Hmm... Food would be a good thing if I could cook. Lately I've been getting a lot of heart burn when I eat at the cougar eat so I avoid that place as much as I can. i make my own food or I just can't remember eating. I know that I do but it all seems like a blurr when I try to remember it... ... ... what was I saying?

I really miss making movies!

"When something is important you make the time." -Scotty from "Star Trek: Generations" Well instead of hoping that someday I'll have the time I'm gonna need to make the time.

So... a lot has happened

2006-09-23T02:26:00.000-06:00

Ok so it has been way to long and there is way to much that has happened since I last said anything. Well let's start with my location. I returned home safly from San Diego, it was a long drive most of which I did not witness because i was asleep fro most of it. then I moved out to good ole BYU campus. I live in Heritage Halls room 2413 Provo Utah 84604. I must say life is pretty good. In the three weeks I have been here I have lost 6.5 pounds. not because I don't eat it's just cause the stuff I do eat isn't very fattening. Anyway I was most exited for my Intro to Film class before I came. After three weeks we still haven't gotten off of the subject of having good standards when watching films. I love reading the book but i think I won't feel bad about missing that class on tuesday.
This brings me to another good subject. I have recently had my braces removed! I gotta tell you braces are a lot less annoying that retainers, but the retainers make me look good. Now one secret that I don't usually show people is that one of my front teeth is not real, that is why I'm missing my film class in a few weeks, I'm getting stage three of my implants. that means from the time I am writing this, I have four weeks for my mouth to be totally done! what a relief!

Ok so there is much more that has happened so if I may move on. Well since I moved into this appartment I have assisted in calling the fire department. Basically there was a fire right out side of my window and so I got my resident assistant for my dorm building. He ended up calling the cops and fire department, who If I'm not mistaken Zak my sisters boyfriend was on the other end of the line. Hmm... small world. Ok well everything turned out ok. some guys threw a fire cracker in the roof and caught the dry pine needles on fire. The fire was out before the emergency response people showed up due to some totally adreniline pumps young men from my ward. they climbed the side of the building and put the fire out with their fire extinguisher. But the other day I saw some kids cleaning the top of the building, I don't know if it was the kids doing service because they got caught or if they were just being paid to do it. oh well I'll never know. Well It turns out that I am alot cleaner than what I thought m roommates would be. i make my bed every day. i've seen my roommates make their beds when they leave to go home. Hmm... oh yeah and there are always stains on the kitchen wall. the truth of the matter is even though we have a garbage can, most of our garbage ends up in the general area of the garbage can. So the kitchen always looks like a mess. I end up either cleaning a little corner of the table so I can eat and cook or I stay up late and clean everything. I mean mop the walls. Most of my roommates help to, actually I think there is only one guy that is a little messy and doesn't clean up after himself. Oh well we'll have to work on him. So the BYU bookstore had a poster sale and I ended up looking thru it because I wanted to know if there were any good pictures. Well i found one. sadly. because it is the coolest picture i have seen in a long time. And... well... it was a little more expensive than i ever would have paid for any poster. Well it fits my personality better than If i had taken the piture my self. the picture is of Wrigley Feild in Chicago, during a fantasy night game. the fans and umpires are holding flash lights on the players so they can play at night. well even though this didn't really happen it is a really cool looking picture. it also has a really good history. Anyways if you want to know the history you should search for "fans shed light of the game" or "Scott Mutter." I like it alot. And i don't feel totally guilty for spending what i did.

Some Advice

2006-08-23T23:40:00.000-06:00

Hello! I am in San Diego and loving it! I have some sweet Pictures and such but they taken on film. So when I get copies of them they will be posted no worries. Just so you know The Beetles have some good music, the sunset is best watched when your relaxed. There is such a thing as a bad movie, not just the movies with bad stuff but movies that are just plain stupid. Moving out can be a relief and a stress. Church music is good to listen to but not all the time. The black licorice flavor is addictive almost just as much as M & M's. S-Video cables do not give you any kind of high definition picture I had hoped for. When there is someone far away that you want to spend time with five minutes on the phone is not enough. And last but not least Skim boarding is one thing I think God invented to make me happy.

Sawtooth Mountains

2006-08-09T11:46:00.000-06:00

So I spent the week hiking in Idaho. This was an extremly excrutiating hike. Eight miles the first day with fourty-five pounds on your back in a place where the atmosphere is a lot less present is a bit tuff. Any way it was realy nice being able to spend one more week with Alex Larson. He is a good friend of mine who happens to be moving to London... actually he is already there. Well on our last day of the hike we had some down time in the camp before the sun went down. And you will have to understand that Alex and I share the same passion for movie making. So we got together and made two short films right on the spot with my digital camera. The mini one you can hike with because it is a lot lighter. so the movies turned out great. One was a movie of Alex stealing food from...Alex. Yes he played both parts, it was way cool. anyway. I had a ton of fun my last time being a preist. That sunday after the hike I became an Elder and haven't been back to the priest quorum since. It was a very happy day and a very mellow day, I knew it was my time to move on. But I was going to miss all the campouts and activities I got to go on. Well it was a very happy day because I now have some great resposibilities. Many of them shouldn't be posted on a blog. So I will stop there.
On another note. I have some totally awsome pictures as you undoughtably have noticed as you have read this blog. Enjoy the beautiful scenery, this place really is one of the most sacred places on Earth next to the temple.

Oh there is plenty more but the uploading is really slow and I'm not very patient.

Rocky Point

2006-07-11T12:28:00.000-06:00

Rocky Point was awesome! I was in Rocky Point Mexico with eight of my best friends! We started the trip by driving for twelve hours to Mesa Arizona where we met Abby's Grandma and Grandpa. We got to stay at their house where we swam in their neighbor's pool. Later that night we sang the Hymns as a group to Abby's grandma. Most of my friends were in the madrigal Concert Choir for high school. It was really fun. There was a special spirit in the room as we did that. The next day we went to the Mesa temple. It was a great experience.
We started on our way in the cars again and met up with Abby's Aunt, Uncles, and cousins. They had the wave runners with them. We had a great inside joke the whole time we were down there thanks to Emily and a little skip of the mouth. The said "Skidows" when she meant "skedews." It made for great entertainment. We arrived at the beach house and began unpacking. The three boys got to pick their own rooms :) which really means we didn't have a room we just picked a spot where we could put our stuff. Joey put his stuff in the entry way where everybody walks to get into the house. I put my stuff in the laundry room where everybody else walks to get into the house. Brendan put his stuff in Sister Shaha's room where sometimes I wonder how he got to his stuff late at night. The men also got their own bathroom! It was a small half bath. That was it. The girls got the master bedroom with their own full bath with a shower and a big bed. The boys go to sleep on a couch an air mattress and a cot. Well even if I didn't sleep really well it was still a very relaxing trip. We had a hammock outside. Which later caused me to buy my own hammock when we went to the swap meet. Anyways we went to a place in town where all they serve is chicken. It was way good. I had never had chicken with tortillas before. We spent most of our time out on the beach. The first day I tried the skim board I hated it and almost died trying to land on a board that would start moving fast if you touched it. Well after that I loved it! The next day I used the skim board for a grand total of three and a half hours where by the end it was dark enough that I would through the board down and hope I put it in the water. And then jump on it by feel. I was running so fast when I jumped on the board that my legs were giving out by the time it got to dark. I couldn't stand up straight and walk in a straight line. I loved it!!! Needless to say it took me a little while to get back to the beach house. Some of the time we were inside we watched some episode of "Monk" it was interesting and funny for a while. We watched movies, played games and drank Gatoraide (at least the boys drank Gatoraide.) apparently the girls weren't too exited for the boys choice of drink. I have a ton of more picture to put on this blog so stay tuned for a second installment of Rock Point...

The GL2

2006-06-29T11:08:00.000-06:00

Check this out!! This is my graduation gift! A professional video camera called the Canon GL2 it is way cool. This thing has almost everything. I can adjust the exposure or focus or any other video setting you can think of. I can't wait to start using it. For my first project I'm making my sister Tiffanie an EFY video much like the seminary videos they do for scripture mastery. Well I've got to get planning.

Saturday is a Special Day

2006-06-17T14:55:00.000-06:00

So Saturday are really nice, especially here at work. Well, I wake up earlier than normal to go and mow the lawn. Thats nice cause you get to think while you do it. You know straighten out all your thoughts get them into the right order, and just get a grip on things. All the while your mowing the lawn. But then something pulls you right out of your train of thought... Which is the sprinkler head you just copped up with your 3 in 1 mulch blade.
It is especially bad when your not mowing your own lawn... but your Bishop's lawn! Anyways I still really like Saturdays they make me fell nice and calm.

3D World

2006-06-13T23:18:00.000-06:00

So I love doing things in 3D and wish I had more time to do them. So here is something I've done just to get me back into the 3D world. It is just an "Eggplant" but it is still cool. if you want to learn how to build this eggplant there is a free program that I learned on before I got into 3D max and maya. Just search on google for "anim8or" it'll take you right to the site. It will teach you some great simple stuff that is easy to do.

ClearPlay

2006-06-12T14:55:00.001-06:00

Well this is great I just started my new job and am learning a ton of stuff about how things work here in the office. I'm totally exited to work here and am completly freaked out to answer the phone. For now I'm doing mock phone call with my superviser and I think I'm going to have night mares with his voice in my ear makinga ringing noise. How ever freaked out I am I am learning and becomeing much more confident that I can do this job and will be able to answer the phone without causeing zits to pop out all over my face. Well got to go. Bye.

Haiku for Internship

2006-06-02T13:31:00.000-06:00

Internship, at Saffire
Cellphone games in 3D color
Educational

Stream of conscience

2006-06-01T09:54:00.000-06:00

So I got this sweet looking new skin for my desktop. I like it way much you should check out stardock dot com it has a bunch of free fun stuff you can use to make your computer really cool. Ok so it sounds like an advertisement...BUT IT'S REALLY COOL!! I Mean seriously. Check out what my desktop looks like.
Ok so I'm in school still. And watching a One Act it is pretty good. It's about three people who are trying to figure out how to get the theater to work for them. It is neat to see people who are my friends using their talents.

Me

2006-05-30T17:02:00.000-06:00

See the spots on my face. That is not Acne it is mud. Just so you know

Film Noir

2006-05-30T16:49:00.000-06:00

So schoo is coming to a close and I couldn't be more exited! In my classes all we are doing is watching movies. The government ones are the best though. We're watching these old movies that nobody has ever heard about. One such movie is called Failsafe. It's about the cold war and how through a very complex and technical means these airplane pilot's get sent to drop a nice on Moscow. Which is pretty bad by it's self, but the real problem is the Failsafe system. It is the system that says to not take any further orders until the job is done. That way someone can't impersonate the president or give orders that aren't real. Well this is a very cool and intense movie. But what was really cool about it was that it was filmed as Film Noir. Film Noir is a type of movie that usually is filmed with sharp contrast and odd angles. What really makes it exiting for me to watch the old film noir movies is that for my Film technology competition for TSA Joey and I accidentally made a film noir. We didn't realize it until we learned what it was. Anyways I'll post some video clips of "Lamb to the Slaughter" (the movie for TSA) later after I get this blogger thing figured out. And for a good definition of film noir check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir