blogging from the airport

So I've got some time to kill and I've already paid to use the wi-fi...here's how I'm spening my time:


How'd they do that?!


Rockn'roll!


I'm interested to know what makes this so viral. It's had over 8 million views on youtube, I mean...I get it, but it's not THAT witty or funny or unexpected. Maybe it's NOT viral. MAYbe it's just a fun and light-hearted commercial. But what's so tempting about putting foil and bowls from Chipotle on your wall? Do these two characters know each other? I guess I don't get the tag, "tempting" within the contecxt of the entire commercial. The music, too, make it a very distinctive feel...it's fun and quirky, but I don't feel it's quirky enough to pull it off well. What are your thoughts?


A throw-back to the 80s. As soon as you hear the song the words just come right back...now THAT'S effective advertising.


haha...this is good. Notice how simple it is...there's no music. No voice over. There's only two words and it's as plain as day. A good example of "Keep It Simple, Stupid."


hmmm...there seems to be a trend here. Again, no soundtrack and just a simple tag at the end. I thought the concept was a little predictable. I had a feeling she was going to wish something against her family...I just didn't know what. But I admit, it made me smile. Clever.

Borat makes Jackass looks like a children's movie.

I've been on the blogosphere looking for other's reviews of the film "Borat", but none of the blogs I frequent have done so. I'm assuming it's one of two reasons: 1.) they haven't seen the film, or 2.) they HAVE seen it and are too ashamed to post anything about it...Am I right?

Well as ashamed as I am to have seen it, I'm not ashamed to post about it.

We all went into the theater excited and ready for a good hearty laugh. The trailer looked pretty funny, but it only showed the innocent stuff...The premise of the movie was this: a man named Borat has been commissioned by his country of Kazakhstan to make a documentary (a movie-film) about the United States of America (the US&A). Being an experienced journalists over in Kazakhstan he's ready for the challenge and brings with him a camera crew and a rather heavy-set friend who is the films producer/assistant. By the end of the film, you've seen WAY too much of these guys.

Almost right from the beginning the vulgarity begins. He plays it off as a "cultural difference", but what comes out is just down-right wrong. He pushes the envelope at every turn and holds nothing back. No one is safe from being made fun of. The kicker is he gets other people to agree with him! There's one scene where he's at a rodeo and talks with an older man about gays and how they should be destroyed...and then there are the Jew jokes.

Only AFTER I saw the movie did I see the tiny type that read, "Rate R: Pervasive, Strong Crude & Sexual Content. Including Graphic (male) Nudity and Language." Hmmm, THAT would have been nice to know before I saw it.

So, the reason for this post: not to say you shouldn't see it...you can make your own decisions, but to make you more informed about just how crude this film was. Yes, it had its funny moments, but if it makes a group of guys blush and uncomfortable, then well...it was taken a little too far.

Where in the Country is Toby Sturgill??

So, I'm out of town...yet again, but I'm with the band this time. We've been asked to lead worship at a YWAM (Youth With A Mission) base in...MONTANA!

Yeah. Never been to Montana before. It's very cold. 29 degrees, BUT...it's a dry cold.

I haven't seen any of the scenery because I got in at mid-night and it's still dark at 7:30 mst. But I hear it's fantastic, but very cold.

There's a slight possibility that we'll be able to go skiing, but I doubt it because the slopes open AFTER Thanksgiving. But that would nice...

Welp, better get a move on. I'm starting to see the mountains outside

"Fun With Photo Booth" 4 of 4

4 of 4 in the series by Toby Sturgill titled, "Fun With Photo Booth". Medium: digital photography. Software: Photo Booth for Mac OS X, Mac Book Pro.

"Fun With Photo Booth" 3 of 4

3 of 4 in the series by Toby Sturgill titled, "Fun With Photo Booth". Medium: digital photography. Software: Photo Booth for Mac OS X, Mac Book Pro.

"Fun With Photo Booth" 2 of 4

2 of 4 in the series by Toby Sturgill titled, "Fun With Photo Booth". Medium: digital photography. Software: Photo Booth for Mac OS X, Mac Book Pro.

"Fun With Photo Booth" 1 of 4

1 of 4 in the series by Toby Sturgill titled, "Fun With Photo Booth". Medium: digital photography. Software: Photo Booth for Mac OS X, Mac Book Pro.

when your dad is a graphic designer...

now, now...this in not MY child, but I'm not above doing this...
The orginal photo:


The rest are the product of having too much time on his hands:

THIS is amazing...

Why wasn't this around when I was in school?!

stay the night in a work of art!

This hotel in Germany is AMAZING. Each room has its own theme that's completely different than the rest.

I like the upside-down room, myself. How 'bout you?

U2 in 3D

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - U2's Vertigo world tour may soon create a real sense of vertigo among moviegoers as the Irish rockers are planning to release their first 3-D concert film next year.

The untitled feature, being readied for a summer or fall release, will draw from more than 700 hours of footage shot during the trek's South American leg in February and March. In conjunction with its release, U2 might take part in the first live 3-D performance projected in theaters nationwide.

The film was directed by Mark Pellington ("Arlington Road"), who began his career by shooting U2's seminal "One" video, and Catherine Owens, a creative director on several U2 world tours.

A representative for the band called it "the first-ever 3-D multicamera live shoot." Editing is underway in New York. Discussions are under way with several major studio distributors.

3ality Digital Entertainment, the project's producer, put together of the largest assemblages of 3-D camera technology ever used for a single project.

It is expected that the film will screen nationwide using the Real D technology put in place by theaters that showing the current digital 3-D release of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas."

Real D unveiled the first theatrically projected live 3-D event last week at the ShowEast convention of movie theater owners in Orlando, Fla. It is planning a live 3-D concert presentation next fall, and sources said it might be a U2 concert.