Jason Roberts Cooking Show

Jason Roberts Cooking Show Boise, Idaho from Brandan Fisher on Vimeo.

My brother helped me out by being my cable grip for this show and thought it was pretty funny. I really wanted to show off a new piece of equipment that I got. Its called the spider brace. its the handle bars on my camera which make it so that camera isn't that shaky. it distributes out the weight of the camera more so you can go a lot longer with out being fatigued. I love doing this style of work. who knows I might be doing television one day.

Knitting

So when I get tired of quilting, I knit. These are my latest creations. Both of my visiting teachers are pregnant, one with a boy and the other a girl so I will probably give these to them. I know it's the middle of summer but I made them a little big so hopefully they will be able to wear them this winter.

Richmond, VA

I'm in Richmond doing a Church of the Bretheren Conference. We did the sound, lights, and Video.

a project finished (finally)

This is a quilt I made 3 years ago around the 4th of July and it was mostly done but I hadn't finished the binding so every year when I pull it out I strategically hide the side that isn't finished because it's mostly just for display anyways or for the occasional cold lap that never occurs in the middle of the summer. But anyways this year when I pulled it out I decided to cross it off my list and finish the binding. So here it is, 3 years later, a finished quilt. I started another quilt about 2 years ago that I need to finish quilting. It is queen size and is going to take forever. I have about 160 blocks left to quilt by hand so I figure if I do one every day, I might have it done by Christmas.

heart murmur

so on monday night, i noticed that my heart rhythm was a little off, like skipping a beat and then beating 2 really fast and then beating 3 or 4 times normally, repeat. this isn't that unusual for me, so i didn't worry about it. it usually only happens once every couple months and then goes away after like a minute. so i went to bed but the tuesday morning, it was still there. so i was like "brandan, you gotta feel my pulse!" and he did and was like, "that's not normal." so i called ask-a-nurse (step 2 if i can't figure out what's wrong with me on webmd) and i talked to like 4 nurses and finally the last one was like "you need to go to the er." so brandan took me in to the er and they took a bunch of blood and gave me an iv and did an ekg test and finally the doctor came in and told me i have a heart murmur, which isn't uncommon in women. i've probably had it my whole life and most people who have them have nothing to worry about. regardless, he wants me to see a cardiologist just to be sure it is nothing serious. those who have serious ones usually have to have one of the valves in their hearts replaced with a pig or cow heart valve. anyways i am going to the cardiologist in july. i am kind of excited because the doctor said he will probably do an ultrasound on my heart which seems like it might be kind of interesting.

i48 Kung-Fu Movie

So this is what I was able to come up with given the Kung-Fu Genre. The line we had to use was "Just Keep Them Coming." The prop was a Coffee Cup. Character was Larry Young that we had to use. I was proud of what I did in such a short period of time.



Resolution Hero from Brandan Fisher on Vimeo.

i48 competition

Brandan participated in the i48 competition last weekend. The i48 is a film competition in which you are given a genre, prop, character, line, and 48 hours to make a short movie using all of those components. We turned in the movie last Sunday night and then all of them were shown on the big screen at the Flicks on Saturday night (of course we couldn't go--the wedding) and then Sunday night they showed the "Best of" at the Egyptian and handed out awards. We went to the Best of but Brandan's video wasn't shown that night so we missed out on seeing it on the big screen. I thought his movie was great though. If you want to see it, he posted it on my family's blog in the links on the right under drHawkleys. Of the other movies we saw last night, some were pretty good but others were just lame and didn't make much sense.
This is Brandan, his partner Andy Campbell, and their main actor Scott at the beginning of the competition.