My website is up!!!

WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

now all of you who read this blog can jump right on over to

http://www.codyiddings.com

This is my Graphic Design Portfolio.

As a senior at PLNU doing Graphic Design, 

it is very important that I do my best to have a solid portfolio when I graduate.

Here goes nothing! 

PS. New posts coming ever so soon!!

Home.

Thanksgiving break is coming soon, and I'm not going home. 

I'm pretty stoked to stay here - I've been given the opportunity to feed the homeless in Ocean Beach and also make a vegetarian meal with my girlfriend. (Oh for any of those following this blog, if any, I am a vegetarian and I like to cook alot.) But look at this - perfect swell over the break. Bummer. 

Surf Contests

I'm doing horrible.

I've been doing these college format NSSA surf contests for my entire time at Point Loma. I've only made one final and for the most part - I've never done well.

I think it's partly because of the waves - small and junk. I always tell myself "IF ONLY THE WAVES WERE BIGGER."

But, our team is doing the best in years.

One of the surf team captains - Hunter Lysaught - recently won the last contest at Mission Beach this past weekend.

Our team got 2nd place, again (the last contest at Blacks we got 2nd). Now, overall we are 1st place against some of the biggest schools in the state.

Here is a video from last year of some of us surfing mission beach, where the contest was. I got a couple barrels on here.

Atlantic and what I've been working on.

So I'm currently in the process of making my friends' band Myspace Page. 

You can get to it here: atlanticmusic.us

I'm having trouble coding the rest of it, so if you know CSS or HTML, let me know!!

They are really good and I hope for them to take off to places I'll never go. But at least I've designed their EP!

Also, I made this website: www.fiddlerinthedarkness.com

And also at my internship i designed the DVD wrap and faceplate for the new Walking on Water movie. That was really fun and exciting. Go to the Walking on Water website to check it out.

Ok I just wanted to tell you guys some stuff i've been working on.

OH and I think comments are needed. I need to know that SOMEONE is looking at this blog.

Welcome to hanalei!

Directing my time!!

Too often I find myself busy to the last minute. Whether it is cleaning my stuff  (which seems to get all over the apartment every day), doing graphic design or some other homework (fantasy novel ---> cool class, although takes up a lot of time!!), reading my bible or listening to a sermon, surfing, or even playing videogames - I am just cracked down to the last minute. 

I need discipline. I need to realize that just stopping and listening to the wind through the trees and feeling the ocean breeze is not only a cool thing here at Point Loma, but a gift from God. 

I need discipline. I don't direct unnecessary time I spend on youtube, facebook, rottentomatoes, or some videogames site (I have, however, knocked the forum gamefaqs out of my daily websites. Ooh that was a bad habit. I despise forums.).  

I need discipline. Why am I waking up at 9 AM? I should be going to bed earlier and waking up earlier. There is no point in waking up after 8 AM, unless for some reason, you NEED to sleep. God gave us a morning to enjoy. Not to sleep.

What am I to do? Discipline myself and make my bad habits disappear. I got too much stuff to do: Art Director and Layout Editor of Yearbook, Graphic Design Portfolio (which I am currently working on a 60+ page recipe book), my portfolio website, and life. 

Hmm. With all that said, I absolutely love school. I love Point Loma. I think each year I am more and more grateful of this place.

Orchestrated Music

Lately, I've been really into Orchestrated Music... I have been into it all before. BUT now - NOW - I'm super siked on it. For example - I've been listening to a lot of Hans Zimmer (Lion King, Black Hawk Down, Batman Begins + DARK KNIGHT). You should look him up.

I'll go on the awesome music website called PANDORA and just type in Hans Zimmers name and a bunch of super rad music like him (John Williams, Howard Shore) will pop up and I'll just zone out and listen. Funny thing is the other day an whole ensemble from Pop Christian artist Michael W. Smith popped up. Here is one of his songs with his orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CpO4QHZhiM&feature=user

haha!

But listen to Hans Zimmer.

Finally Blogging

I haven't blogged in a while, especially about my own personal life. In fact, when I came to school, or went to study abroad in New Zealand, I didn't blog but just sent mass emails. My only other blog was this one: codiuscube.blogspot.com, which was less about ME and more about my missions trip with Surfing the Nations in Bali the summer. 

But is this blog really about ME? I guess. But I strive for humility - so I may be laying out some thoughts more than saying HOW SICK that wave that I caught today. Haha.

Shoots, enjoy my new blog. 

- Cody Iddings