The Persistence of Vision

The first movie I remember seeing was "Jurassic Park," which I saw when I was three-years-old. My mom took my older brother and me to see Snow White, but it was sold out. My brother, Sam, who is two years older than me, demanded that we see Jurassic Park since it had dinosaurs and special effects. My mom never really considered this to be a good idea, but knew that we would enjoy it and it was either this or go home with two very disappointed boys.
My mom will never forget the looks she got from the other adults in the movie theater as she helped her 3 and 5 year old boys down the aisle into seats that were too big for us. Nor could she forget the immediate regret she felt when the lawyer in the middle of the movie was bit by the T-Rex and shaken like a rag doll. I will never forget hiding behind the seats as the T-Rex chased the jeep down a long road in the jungle in the famous "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" scene.
As we left the theater, my mom had all these awful visions of the nightmares my brother and I would have, while in reality he and I would argue about points of the film for days until we saw it again with no nightmares to bother us. It was seeing this film and enjoying it so much (traumatization) that began my interest in film and flip-books. I remember being very young and figuring out how stop-motion and flip-books worked by watching endless "behind-the-scenes" clips from dinosaur movies, Disney movies, or pretty much anything with special effects. I remember how awful most of them turned out because I didn't understand that, in order for there to be fluid motion I would need a certain amount of frames. My first claymation was made out of playdough. It was a green dinosaur and I would move it with my hands to make it look like it was walking. I didn't have a camera or anything, but I used my imagination to see how it would have looked on screen. Since then my knowledge of "how it's done" is more mature and I would probably be able to make something pretty coherent if given the right tools.
I've always enjoyed making flip-books and things, so I'm really looking forward to how my project turns out here. I'm glad I had such an early exposer to the persistence of vision because it engraved a deep interest for how things like claymation and flip-books work.

For up-to-date-Isaac news:
I've had the same phone since I was 16, which was my dad's old phone, which he bought in 2000-ish. I have no real need for a new one considering that this one sends and receives calls and text messages, but it's battery life lasts about half a day and turns off sometimes when it's closed. I sometimes don't realize it until it's 3 days later and I think "Gee, I haven't gotten a phone call in a while" and then I find that my phone's just been off and I have 13 new messages from my friends wondering where I am.
Anyway, I've lost it for the 12th time last night because I put it in one of my coats, which was left in someone's room and is now gone. Normally, I like when I misplace my phone for a while, or the battery dies and I can't charge it for a few days because I get this comforting disconnection from the digital world, but in this case it's not quite that great cause it's my alarm clock and without it I'll get a lot more sleep but worse grades.

Also! I'm really glad that our mail service here at UArts is very very very slow because I really don't want to receive my tax information so I can fill out my FAFSA on time and receive a good scholarship. I mean, why would I want that?