Shake it like an earthquake...

This entire week I have continued to listen nonstop to the 2 CD's of Family Force 5... And I must say I love listening to them and thinking about how fun the concert was! GOOD OL TIME!

Anyway, I am sorry for getting kind of getting lazy with updating this thing. Don't get me wrong I love doing this but I have so many things that distract me from this thing. Like LIFE... That can be a big distraction, Dang Life. But Hey let me give you a funny little update about me that I have realized. Recently I have become addicted to 100.3... YEAH I KNOW RIGHT?! Rush Limbaugh is a pimp and he also is very intense which is Fricken Kicken( Oh and by the way Fricken Kicken is the new way to say "Totally Awesome".. Spread the news) But yeah who would have thought that Chris would like to listen about politics and all that JAZZ.. NOT ME! Another little update is that I feel disappointed with Fable 2... but I am Still not sure yet... I will get back to you.

As you know, It is Wednesday, and Wednesdays mean usually a photoshoot and than Church! Tonight we Have small groups, and I am looking forward to talk to my guys and I actually kind of have an agenda to go through tonight! I enjoy being a leader and I love my guys! Wait one more time.. They are Fricken KICKEN! (seriously try it... it will stick) One more thing I look forward tonight is Playing some ping ping... Last week was embarrassment and I wont let that happen again...
Pic of the day?! Which one should I choose?
OH okay I got it. Drew Russell is a good lookin fellow and I did a sweet effect on this photo tell me what you think!

Its Been too long My friends!..

What a weekend!! Let me tell you it was a really good one, I do not really know how to start out on this one... But here I go I will take it stab at it

Friday night..... FRICKEN AWESOME. Dan Dyb's and I went to the Family Force 5 concert And it was NUTS!! There were a few things about the concert that bothered me tho... 1: The concert started at 5:30... what?! Why would someone have a concert at 530?! It was still light outside, it was kinda Homo. Number 2: It was a large emo crowd and I was a little out of place. I also felt stupid cause I was wearing a Hollister shirt with a big HCO across the front of my shirt. Number 3: It was an all ages show, so of course there were a whole bunch of 12 year olds moving through the crowd and I am pretty sure I saw some homeschoolers also... But seriously there were a lot of younger kids there and it made me feel stupid. Number 4: Well this didnt really bother me, it was actually pretty nice, Dan and I were the tallest people in there kinda cool!
But anyways the Show was crazy and really fun. Everyone was jumping and going nuts. I was trying to do some Pop and Lock stuff but there was really no room to dance which was sad... oh well!

Saturday: What did I do?.... Oh yeah I had a photoshoot with Tously and he brought his sweet car.. I think it might be a 1970 Cuda... it was sick. But Saturday night was the highlight...sorry Tously.. But it was. I went with a whole bunch of Churchies to Valley Scare and I decided to invite Carla Sheehan, And she was brave enough to Join in which i thought was sweet! (not sure if she had fun though haha.. I hope she reads this) I feel Kinda old cause none of the stuff phased me at all, it was pretty cool still . OH yeah and the Extreme Swing there is one of the best rides I have been on. There was a lot of people there which was the downside but whatev it was still a good time... OH YEAH Sarah Whitson gets a shout out cause she has informed me she is a faithful reader! thanks Sarah
I really feel like there could have been more details included on this post.. but I am rather tired and Just want to give you guys the Pic of the DAY!
Not sure which one i want to go with.. but I think this one..
Its a nice silhouette .. tell me what you think? I will tell you one thing.. I should have done something more with the posing

DANCE OR DIE!

Sorry its been a while.. my loyal fans... Like Lisa Tipler!! SHOUT OUT for LISA!!

I know the title of this Blog entry is pretty dang intimidating, but I felt like it was necessary cause I am listening to that song right now. The song is by Family Force 5, and I am going to their Show this Friday with the one and only Dan, Danny, Dijohn, Dybing... whatever you want to call that hot piece of man meat. The song Dance of Die isn't really that good but i thought it was a fun Title, but the Concert is gonna be FRICKEN KICKEN!
Well its Wednesday and as you all know I love Wednesdays. They are great, No school, and Youth Group. I love being a Leader in the Youth Group fricken awesome guys in there, and My small group is gonna be pretty tight this year.
But anyways I don't have much to talk about, except FABLE 2... But I don't want to bore the Non-Nerds out there. I will give you the basics, Its a video game that I have been waiting for about a year now... And its crazy, One little disappointment tho.. The Character Models so far do not look to great.. But anyways!
This is a great Psalm I stumbled across today
Psalm 91

9 If you make the Lord your refuge,
if you make the Most High your shelter,
10 no evil will conquer you;
no plague will come near your home.
11 For he will order his angels
to protect you wherever you go.
12 They will hold you up with their hands
so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.
13 You will trample upon lions and cobras;
you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!

14 The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.
15 When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.

I thought that Psalm was Ridiculously awesome, Loved it...
Anyway Pic of the Day, its from the Shoot with Ben and Jess
I wasn't sure If i wanted to do more to this.. I think I like the Simplicity of it.. tell me what you think.

Tis was a good day!

OH man what a good one!
I really don't want to tell you about the whole day cause the first half kinda sucked! Well Actually i was woken up by Casey at like 10ish cause apparently we were having accountability at there apartment at like 10, but it didn't really help that Casey didn't let me know until this morning when he called..JERK! But it was actually pretty funny we talked over speaker phone for like 5 minutes which was cool... but the rest of the day I just worked on photos and was realllllllly bored up until 2. At 2 i went over to the Sisters for a photo shoot for SLIGHTLY MUTUAL! If you didn't know Jess my sis, and Ben Tipler started a band with just them 2 called Slightly Mutual.. And let me tell you.. the photo shoot was GREAT! I really got to go all out with some creative stuff. It was a good ol time... Than after that Rodey came to my house and we went to La Luz to watch them play... And Dan Dybing opened for them, and he did really good!... well I didn't listen too much cause i was talking to people( sorry Dan!) but it was great background music haha.. And than Jess and Ben played, And I also talked to people through them too, But they sounded really good!
After that me and Rodey when back to my house and chilled, Which was really awesome cause we haven't hung out in a while so that was great! Rodey is HOT!...
but yeah that's all I got for tonight.. I want to share a pic from the photo shoot... I am havin trouble figuring out which one tho... Okay I got it.. This one will be the first.. more to come.. click on it to make it larger and you can zoom in and out by using ctrl + or - .. so yeah tell me what you think

Meh, it was a thursday

Nothing too interesting to write about today, but I do want to share a cool verse that I really like!

" Young man, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But Remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do. So banish grief and pain, but remember that youth, with a whole life before it, still faces the threat of meaningless. Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10

What are you doing with your life?

That is a good verse OH SNAP!!!

I really did pretty much nothin today except get a lot of photowork done .. but I did make this picture today... Tell me what you think!

CRUNKIN

Okay first before I say anything you must see this video!!



Haha I thought that video was absolutely hilarious.. Elmo was breakin it down with Chris Brown!
This whole day I have been a huge dancing mood. I have had a different beat going in my head like every 2 hours. ITS AWESOME! My Ritalin really made me hyper today i have no idea why.. but it made me just want to DANCE! That is actually what I plan to do after im done with some work tonight: Go down stairs and work out to Step Up 2 and learn some new dance moves... Yeah thats whats up!
Picture of the day is from the photo shoot I had today with Jayne. We used some new lights, they are some really crappy lights which we found out after setting them up, but they paid off so no big deal.. Props to Glen our model/assistant.
It was a fun photo shoot, and these 2 shots were just for fun but tell me which one you like better.
It both of these I made Glens face look dirty and old, that not what he actually looks like... especially the second one
This one is pretty cool.. Passed out Glen
Okay now Check the second.. No hope

If p than q, If not q than r. Therefore Critical thinkings quizes belong in hell

OH man that title explains partly how gay my quiz was tonight... OMG it was so gay! BTW that class average was 70%. (I dont actually use the AIM chat things like OMG, BTW and ROFL in a serious way... I think its funny) Besides the gay quiz I had tonight today was pretty fricken sweet!
This whole weekend was lacking on the whole sleeping side, and going to bed late on sunday and waking up for class did not mix well with it. I went to class and totally did not pay attention at all... Except during the critique! Okay so I have this teacher Tim, and he is a big jerk most of the time.. When he goes through the critique he pretty much just tells us on how sucky photographers we are without really telling us anything that might be of any help. And to Tim it is against the Law to say anything positive about any of our photos.... TODAY HE COMPLIMENTED MY PHOTOGRAPHY!!! I KNOW RIGHT?! I know you guys are like "big deal Chris." You should have seen my fellow students faces after he actually said i did a good job... There were many jaws broken from hitting the floor so fast. But seriously they totally understand what im talking about.
Other than that Class was boring as usual and I almost fell asleep a couple of times.

I was actually just waiting for class to get done with, you know why?! Cause I had lunch with Carla SheeHAN! It was her idea from the night before, and we went to Pei Wei... I think thats right. It is owned by PF Changs i guess, And i had this very delicious chicken thing. Anyway, the time with Carla was awesome, we talked about a lot.. well actually kind of, it took us a long time to get through talking about our weekends and what we did. We kept on getting on little tangents that lead us away from finishing our stories... The phrase of the Lunch conversation was " OKay Back to Saturday..." it was rather comical if I do say so myself. But it was a great time!
Than I called up Roetman and we talked for a bit while I was stuck in traffic on 169.. I guess a car started on fire, I saw the car and it was absolutely destroyed, I would have ROFLed about it but I was pissed i was stuck there for like 30mins.
When I got home I took a Glorious nap! Took some Ridalin, spent some time in the word(which was really good) than hit the books and started homework.. so thats the day fellas!

Picture of the day?... Well lets see here... what do I got.
Ahh yes.. well I do not really consider this good photography, but I wanted to show you something. There is some really cool graffiti right under the bridge at Nine Mile and I wanted to show you..

Not that much sleep..

My brother Nathan Knox has informed me that my writing on this Blog is sometimes is not grammatically correct .... I KNOW, I do not care... I am sorry if I lack good Grammar skills, but frankly I Do not give a crap.. sorry BOBO!!
Anyways, Last night was the best day of the fall, so far no doubt! Well it all started out with it being a very very busy day you can read about it in the previous post. I was really wondering what i was going to do with my Saturday night. It was between going to my sisters and watching Iron Man with Nate and Beth, or going to Nick Lenard's house for a bonfire. So I decided I would be going to Nick's at 7:30 and so I waited. As you know it rained last night so the Bonfire was can canceled , so the plans switched to something going on at the guys apartment later on.. so it was like 815 when I heard that people where going there. I arrived at their place around like 840 and right when I opened the door I received a text from Micah Darling. Micah informed me that there was a group of people from the Rock cross walking that night and they were down one guy and they could use me.... I thought about it for a bit, and even asked some people if i should go or not, because I would feel bad if I left if I just got there... I was very hesitant for that reason but also because I didn't really know the Rock people too well, besides Micah, and Micah wasn't even joining that night. So long story short I decided to drive down there..
For all those who don't know, Crosswalking is a thing that the Rock started and what happens is a group of people, lets say like 8 people, carry a 12 foot cross(only 2 to 3 guys actually carry the cross) down the U of M campus even going up and Down frat row with the goal to talk to people about Christ. It is a great evangelism tool, because people come up to you and ask about it without you forcing on any conversation.

So thats what we did Saturday night! It was an amazing night! We got to talk to so many people about our faith, and we had some very fruitful conversations. Its just great to see some people's reactions of us carrying the cross up and down the sidewalks. That night was very good for me personally because I myself got to talk to at least 7 people about my faith and why I put my hope in Jesus Christ, it really helped to strengthen my faith. And seriously there is nothin better than the joy/satisfaction that comes from spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ and really Standing up for your faith. And this is just a short version, if you want to hear more just ask me next time you see me.
The night was also a great night because I really got to know some of the Rock guys a lot better... They are good people let me tell you!! I
I think that is it for me tonight.
Picture of the day? what do I have for you....
Ahh yes.. I took this the other day, I really Like this photo for some reason. I didn't really know how to make this look any better... so tell me what you think.. YEAH DREW

I'm Not really sure...

Well this day was a great day, but i am feeling really down? no not down.... actually I am feeling more content right now, but Just like an hour to like 15 minutes ago, I was letting some really stupid thoughts and just little dumb worries get into my head that I really don't need.. I don't like when that happens at all! I want to put my Joy in the Lord and no one else/nothing else. I actually am feeling much better just by typing this and letting my thoughts just flow out.
Here are some verses that helped me out tonight: Psalm 26:2 "Put me on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me. Test my motives and affections." I really do love that verse. What am I replacing God with? What am I putting before him? What is the thing I am getting to emotionally attached too? It is really easy to answer these questions. You want to know how you can tell? When those things do not go the way you want them too. Its when you get depressed because it isn't going well. It could be a relationship, a work related thing, or just a certain circumstance. And that happened to me very abruptly and awkwardly tonight. It was stupid and I did not appreciate it one bit that it affected me so weirdly. (There is also some stuff I have wanted to say to person, but I do not think its the time, or my place to say the things i want, because it probably a lot from my flesh that just wants to say it... but in a way i think i might be right about it).. All this stuff was a sign that I needed to get into the Word and lean on God, and give it up to him. And I feel much much better that i did.
OH yeah, I got to play some Basketball today! Totally Balled it up! I was really rusty though... it was really ugly, but it was still really fun, Thanks Ben Peters
Well I have had some great photo shoots this past week and i am really excited to start editing some of them. But here is one I took Wednesday?... yeah Wednesday .. Tell me what you think.. oh yeah and I found out you can click on the images to enlarge them.. so do that!

Thursday turns out pretty sweet!

You know usually I do not expect too much from Thursdays cause its like that one day you just want to get over with so its friday... but this one was sweet! well actually just the night was... but still!
I dont really want to tell you all the details.... wake up, homework, class.. but Than I had a photo shoot which was awesome! Good job Jaime, good hustle. Than i Got some Jamba Juice...
Ahhh Jamba Juice.... I still feel a little Gay every time I walk in there alone... to get a smoothie, Is that wierd?! Every girl that reads this will probably be like , " OMG Chris it isnt Gay!!" But still its still unsettling. I am getting more and more used to it, but still...all the bright colors, fruity drinks... I dont know whatever.
Any way tonight was pretty dang sweet Hung out with Fricka Rica for the first time in a hhwhile ... a HhhWHILE! ... oh yeah fricka rica = Erica .. HA! sorry... But anyways it was a good ol classic hang out time, and we went to the Sister's house and chilled it was FUN!!! Oh and we also called Matt johnson on speaker phone which was sweet! I also want to give Matt a shout out because I hear he reads this thing So thanks for reading MJ! oh and one more thing... Ben tipler Is a hot, funny man.. just a little side note.
I am planning on going to the Rock tomorrow and I am really excited for that, because i havent been there in over a year... its been a while, I also get to see Micah Darling which i am very excited for. So yeah thats about it
I am feeling really ADD right now and I am in the mist of watching south park so if this is short and kind of Random I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Pic of the day anyone?!? Sorry I dont have one.. because i am working on one ... I will post it later..sorry!

Ahhhh Wednesdays!

Yesterday was pretty good cause I didn't have class so that was cool. Tuesday night was really sweet, I went running at like 10pm in the Fog! I have to admit it was kind of scary cause it was the exact kind of fog from scary movies, but it was still really cool. It was one of those really good runs when you have more energy than normal. When I got done with the Run, I went downstairs turned on the radio and tried to do a lot of new dance moves.....YEAH THATS RIGHT WHAT?! I like to dance and its a good workout got a problem? I have to say I am getting pretty good at hand stands..I know your jealous

Oh man Do I love Wednesdays.. Like I really do. You know why?! I have no classes and I can just sit down and get tons of crap done! Its funny, even though I have no classes, Wednesdays are my most productive days. I always get done with a lot of photo stuff.
The reason I love Wednesdays the most though is because it is Youth Group night! And let me just tell you, I love being a youth group leader. The guys in youth group are awesome. I am a little more excited for tonight cause it is the first night of small groups! And I am really excited for my group, the guys in my group are fricken tight! Alec, Joel, and Andy... seriously its gonna be sweet. I am really looking forward to see how God wants to use this year in the youth group I think its gonna be a great year. Anyways that's all i really got for today... OH yeah one more Thing I would like to give Ben Peters a shout out! I told me he was a faithful reader of my blog... I was honored, just don't disappoint me this Saturday Benny Ben!

Okay its time for the pic of the day... what should I use?
Well I am sorry but I think I am going to use an old picture again from B WATERS..
I want to post this one cause i just ordered a 16x24 of this so here it is...

Lazy Monday

Oh Snap, I am really tired and just kinda out of energy today, feeling really lazy! I kind of just had a burst of energy because I just edited up a sweet pic for this post...
As i said I am really Lazy so i don't want to write about what i did yesterday or today so I am not really sure what I want to write about. One thing that I have been thinking about though is my Pop's message on Sunday. If you are not aware my Father Brent Knox is a pastor so that would make me a PK! I am proud to be one. Anyways he has been doing a series called Mythbusters, bases off the TV show, and he has been breaking/Testing a lot of the spiritual "Myths" that are out there according to what the Bible says. Myths like: Christians Shouldn't Judge, God is a Republican, and God wants us to be Rich! And it has been pretty good, but this Sunday was one of those BAM!! Messages that really hits you... well for me at least.
The title of the Message was God wants us to be Rich, and the whole myth thing was that he was busting was that, God doesn't want us to be Rich or even necessarily poor He just want us to be content where we are at. Cause as people we have a lot of "If Onlys". " If only I had that Job", "If only I was better looking" " If only I had a Girl friend", " If only I could get the new Canon 5D..FOR FREE" haha You guys know where Im going. We all have those "If Onlys"
My "If Only" wasn't really too obvious to me till this sunday. "If only I had a girlfriend." Yeah It might sound desperate, but its not like I am desperate or like lonely or anything. In the Back of mind I did really think that having a girlfriend, that great girl, would clear up some things and I would be truly Content. And I really am trying to clear that out of my mind and really be content with my relationship with God and where my life is at right now. I want to be content with My relationship with God, and not try to fill that hole with something else... thats it thanks..

Well thats all i got, but I am excited for the photo of the day..
I had a photo shoot with Jayne today and Hudak was our subject, and this is one of the images I took... Whadya Think?!

Starts off rough....

Well guys I got to say.. I was very disappointed with this day, well actually just this morning. I woke up in a very giddy/excited mood today cause I was very pumped for practicing with the Bethany basketball team. I got all ready, I got my shoes,gym shorts, had quick Vegy drink, and even did a little stretching. (which was stupid cause I had to drive to get there) So i get in my car get pumped up with some and arrive at bethany.... there is only one car there... "Okay Chris its okay maybe they all had their moms drop them off" I walk up to the doors and they are locked...
"Hey Maybe it starts at 10:15 not at ten!" I get back in my car and wait it out... still no one. "OH COME ON!!...Wait maybe its at Bethany fellowship for some strange reason!" I get into the car and drive to Bethany fellowship and there are no cars at the Gym... " GAY!!! maybe there are people at the Bethany gym now!" So i drive back... still no one.."Screw it" I drove home...very disappointed
The afternoon was pretty good tho, I got a whole bunch of work done and Had lunch with the POPS...
The highlight was Matt Dyb's B day party, Cause i got to BALL IT UP!....Kind of.. We only played one game.. and I did just awful. My ADD really wanted to make itself known. I wasn't paying attention at all! My guy was open and made a whole bunch of outside shots.. OH one more thing.. I didn't score.. at all.
Although I sucked in B ball.. I did get to dance... a lot.. And little Sydney Richardson kept on trying to show me these Gymnastic hand stands, and I could do most of them, except this Back thing... it hurt fricken bad..
So moral of the story.. day= good! ROFL LOL!!

OMG BTW I have trouble choosing which picture to use for the pic of the day cause all i really have is Portraiture to show.. so I will just choose a random old one here...
I chose this one cause i am really calm and comfortable right now...
Tell me what you think..

Oh what a Day!

Good Day... Today I woke up Late and realized that I forgot about my 6am accountability group at the Bou, and kinda felt bad haha. And i really wanted to feel comfortable when i went to class so i wore the same thing i wore yesterday, and it was a really good choice.
Yeah good day, Like right now I am in such a good mood! I am excited about of a lot of things and I am really looking forward to this weekend. You want to know why?!
Well tonight I am playing bass at church, which i always love to do, but tonight I really love my set of worship songs... and also I am playing bass with a good drummer tonight, which is always good! Wednesday night I played bass for the Youth Group worship band, and I got to say those guys have come a long way CONGRATS!! Alec Weber is a solid drummer! But seriously Alec is better than some of the drummers I play with for the main services, but he is no Chris Camillo... Camillo is awesome. I hate playing with drummers that are not solid at all. It is very hard for me to do my job and makes it not fun for me..okay enough ranting
Another reason I am excited for this weekend is I plan to practice with the Bethany basketball team tomorrow. This is a big thing for me cause i have wanted to "Ball it up" for a while here and have not had the chance to since summer. I really want to see if I can dunk too. I have not tried to dunk for a while so I am kinda excited.
Also Tomorrow, I might be heading up to the U to join the Rock kids for Crosswalking.. For those who don't know what cross walking is, A group of people lets say 10 people get this Big wooden cross I think its like 12 feet long or longer, and we carry it down Frat row on the U campus.. Its very powerful and I guess they get into some great convos, and quite a few people have come to Christ while doing it.. So that's something I am really excited for. I have only done it once.

Well that's all I have, I have to go get ready for church here soon so I will leave you with the pic of the day.. I have been feeling very disappointed lately cause i haven't taken any nature or any non portraiture photographs for a while.. I need to take more. But here is another version of my first post. Her name is Laura Torgerson ( happy Sarah?).. Tell me what you think!

Feeling Funny

Oh today, What a weird mood I am in. I have not decided when I want to update this, cause i was planning on doing it at nights when the day is over so i can really give thought to the whole day. I have the time now so I will just do it now.
Anyway, I will start this post off with something comical. I woke up today and luckily it was sunny cause I finished an assignment outside today with my pops. So when we were done with the assignment I realized i was really hungry. Each day I start the day off with a bowl of cereal cause I love cereal! I love it...but today I looked at my cereal choices, and I had a feeling if I would have had any of the great selections like Honey Bunches of Oats, Special K with berries, or Wheaties I would have left my breakfast table not feeling content and very dissatisfied. I took about 2 to 3 minutes to figure out how to solve this problem of mine........................EGGS!!! I got all excited when i thought of making scrambled eggs. I got all the crap ready and than i saw cheese... CHEESY EGGS!! I got even more excited. I did everything correctly like putting milk in the bowl where i had the eggs, and stirred it really good, put the stove on high, and began the COOKAGE... Im not sure what i did wrong, but I think I flipped them too much.... they werent really juicy or like soggy, but I had to eat my eggs with a Spoon cause they were like crumbs, and they werent even that good.. So thats my egg story... Do you feel Like you have wasted minutes of your life reading this?!? GOOD!

So any way back to a serious note... Its funny how fast we as people can get so anxious/ Jealous so fast, even when you are feeling really good. Whenever I feel this way, its always a good reminder to me that I need to examine where my heart is, and where it needs to be. It is also a good sign that I need to go get into the word, or lift up somethings to God so I dont have to worry about them. I just love how talking to God and spending time with him can take that pressure on your chest or that certain burden right off of you. And you guys know what I mean by "pressure on your chest".... Mine is usually caused by jealousy/ being very anxious about things, and usually its about stupid things. Its just great we can give that stuff up too God, or just confess that we havent been trusting in him. Its such a waste of time and energy to be jealous and anxious...GEEEZE.


I plan to get some fall shots here soon, so be looking forward to those
Here is the pic of the day.. Tell me what you think

THE Beginning!

So I thought it might be fun to start up one of these again. I will be sharing my feelings, my deepest darkest secrets and maybe a few funny stories like when I pissed on my camp counselor! OMG!!
Okay i may do only a select few of those but hey!
One thing I would like to do is post some of my pictures and little artsy things i have made and things I am working on. I would really appreciate feedback and critique if you have any.
I do not really have anything to write about but I will start off with the first picture post, I made this yesterday while getting some work done, What do you think?!
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