Lymabean.com

Basically, Facebook—good luck. You will be trumped by a younger sibling who is:

• Smarter
  
• Faster
• Better Looking
• Not-plain
• Better smelling
• More Fun
• and will make more money than you.

 (CUT LIGHTS. FLASH IN SPOT LIGHTS ON MAN IN GREEN SUIT ON STAGE. CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC)

 Enter LYMABEAN.COM: The social networking site that is going to change the way people avoid the real world!

  

(These are old images, and a lot has changed in the process of design and production, but the overall interface and idea are similar to what is shown)

 Imagine a desktop (definitely not a PC.. Think more attractive, like... oh... say a MAC), where you can drag windows around and be in complete control. Take everything you like about Facebook, and then get rid of Facebook and its executives. Replace them with talented designers, writers, marketing directors, and people who just understand what is cool, or as could be said, "the shiznit." There you have it. LYMABEAN.COM. You can watch more videos at www.behindthebean.com and even get a free t-shirt! Go. Now.

Recent Work

Here is some of my recent work. It isn't a whole lot, but it is what I have here on this laptop whilst I am in Washington. Enjoy!

(the ad lab portfolio video... thus far. It will be expanded into a whole new video soon enough)

Let's see if I have anything else here on my computer I can show... Here is some of the recent stuff I have done for the Riverwoods (in Provo, UT):

Your Major Sucks.

Of all the nationally successful programs on the BYU campus, there is one, I submit, that quietly surpasses them all. It cranks out national work, day in and day out, without looking for fame or recognition from the Daily Universe (as a tangent, I find it ironic that BYU's newspaper uses the word "Universe" in its title... For most people here, BYU is their universe. The sign out front that reads: "The World is Our Campus" would be more accurate if it read: "The Campus is Our World." Maybe I will rearrange it someday.), the BYU website (which is an item that merits a lengthy post of its own. It's pure garbage.), or anything else of that Nature.

"But the Marriott School of Business is ranked as the Best in the Nation!" Great. I don't care. Here's why:

 BYU Advertising produces professional-grade work for national clients day in and day out. Clients like Ford, AOL, Electronic Arts, Goorin Hats, Walden Media (Charlotte's Webb, Amazing Grace, and the next movie in the Narnia series, "Prince Caspian"), Yahoo!, the Library of Congress, POW! Comic Books (working side by side with Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman and the X-Men, as well as many others), L'Oréal International, and about 4 different projects for the National Ad Council (TV Boss, Generous Nation, C-Change, and the Coalition for Healthy Children.), as well as bunch of others. We do this stuff, every day, as though it was common place on campus. The truth is... its not. We've won awards, set precedent, and up-staged some of the world's largest agencies based upon concepts as well as creative execution.

 This next week, Electronic Arts (perhaps the LARGEST video game production/distribution company), is paying for 10 of us students to come to San Francisco, play a game they are yet to announce the release of, and start working on a campaign for it. 

 Tell me that is not incredible. Tell me that, and I will slap you. 

 What an honor and a blessing it is to be able to involved in work like this! We are getting real world experience, and getting PAID to do it— as students. When we graduate, our portfolios will be stocked full of professional work, and not merely mock, concepted, and poorly executed campaigns.

 So, Marriott school of Business.. I am glad you're great. How's the right side of your brain? Painfully neglected, I'd venture...

Style Change

Being anal about design, I decided to use my web design knowledge to customize my blog a bit. It was a fun game of recoding css and messing with pixel dimensions for the header image, but I got it.

(for those of you who don't know what all of that means, it's code for, "that's why Jen still went on her mission.")

A New Entry

Well. As per the request of several people, as well as a realization of my neglectful nature, I am adding a post on here to give an update of my life, and maybe even post a little bit of my recent work. 

There are four main facets of my life that I'll give an update about: Work, School, Spirituality, and Romance.

Work

Work is called such because it kicks your butt. Work, in a scientific sense, is defined as anything that exerts energy upon something else (at least I think that is what it was defined as... I haven't used the left side of my brain in a while... If it were a child, it'd be curled up in the corner of the darkness of my skull, sucking its thumb and trembling in loneliness.). The energy exerted on me in this case is the fact that several clients bailed on me this week, much to my demise (and may I add outside of my control?). One, glorious to report, eventually came back and mended the relationship, and decided to pony up for the cost of professional work. My personal business aside, I am working as an art director now in the Ad Lab... Which means, in a nutshell, that I get paid for a fraction of my time I spend there. Honestly, I'd still be there even if I weren't getting paid, mostly because Jeff Sheets would sell his own children for airfare to get my portfolio to New York and provide for my future... So I am willing to give him the majority of my week. It is, after all, a lot of fun, and great for my future.

School

"Mike Morris? ... Mike Morris? ... Oh, he's not here?" 

"Right... He's working on something for the lab."

"okay."

Spirituality / the Gospel

The Church is true.

Romance

32 days.

There you have it. My life. Mazel tov.