pictures

well, here are some pictures of Kaleb and i trying to learn tricks on a bmx bike... we arent very good yet.  but we are trying to learn.

Biking Movie.

well here it is, our very short biking video. enjoy.

It Almost Turned Out...

 well, time has passed quickly. i told you in the last post we were making a movie. well several things happened to make our movie less then expected.  first being that rich, the guy in yellow shirt had some bad luck. his chain broke the day after my last post. so we did not get the shots done that we had wanted, and spent our time walking home.  the day after that in a practice run i fell off a cliff like thing onto my tail bone, and was unable to ride after that. in fact, i spent till today recovering. i could not sit for the first several days, and even laying hurt for the first while. thankfully i am ok now, and back to my normal self, except a cold. which will soon pass.  but because of the incidents, we had a ton of clips, for random parts of our story line. so we ended up just combining the cool riding parts into a short 5 minute movie, with no story line. a little disappointing, but that is life i guess.

this is rich with his broken chain

me the camera man, just waiting.

doing some deep talking on the strategies of filming. 

 and this was just before Luke's chain broke.  the day before my last  post. 

 and a cool shot of where we ride. or just a tree were we ride.

have a good day all!

Having a Good Time

 the past few days my friends and i were out in the mountains shooting video for a short  mountain biking movie we are making. i got a few good pictures before the rain came.

a few days ago i woke up at 5 am to find that our dog had fallen into our garbage pit. so i climbed into the reeking pit and pushed her out with  the help of my father. it was not a nice experience.  and i have decided that i will not make a career of climbing into garbage. i was leaving the options open, but i have just narrowed my list down a little.

Perhaps We Skip the Title This Time?

well, it seems that my blog keeps getting forgotten, and even when i do post, it is of petty things, and of little interest. i hate to disappoint, but so it will be again. someday, in the near future i hope, i shall do a long post on things of some consequence. but time is once again limited, so this will be but a few pictures.


as you can see, unless you have slow internet and the pictures did not load, that we had a good time making and eating s'mores.  i am sorry i cant spell it. but you can probably guess, the things with gram cracker, cooked marshmallows and chocolate.

My Books

i have written two novellas, and am in the process of writing a novel. if you would like to read one, or all of them, please comment, and i will consider sending it to you. thanks

here are the synopsis's.

To The Rising Sun

(114 pages)

Genre: fiction

After his mother dies, Dustin suddenly finds himself with no home and no job. In desperation he agrees to work for a cruel man in the hopes of getting to Carnam and finding his father. Nothing goes as planned and he gets captured by outlaws and catapulted into a treasure hunt that could change history.

But will the outlaws stop him from finding his father? Can he learn to control his own anger in impossible situations? Will the price he pays to find his father prove be too high?

To Relight the World 

(60 pages)

Genre: fantasy

 When the sun suddenly disappear Bob goes on a search that will change his life.  A search for the switch for the sun, and for truth.

Will he find what he searches for? Or will he be deceived by the lies of the ones before him?

and the novel i am currently writing.  For What Was Lost

Estimated page length: 250 -300

Genre: Fantasy 

With the last of the acient swords in his possesion Fitar is is thrust into an impossible war to free a dying people, and regain the lost art. 

But will his hatred destroy him? or will the Andivins finally succeed and kill all the Nahya?


Copyright 2011 Kevin Barkman

the passing by of time.

well time continues to pass bye, too quickly for some, and not near fast enough for others. but it seems that no matter how hard we try to build time machines, we can't change the speed time goes by.  and so, before i  knew it, time passed, and i had not posted. well, forgive me, time goes by for me too.

many things have happened. i fixed my bike up. wrote chapters two and three on my newest novel, and latest, won a mini tournament.


yesterday i started reading 'Orthodoxy' by G.K. Chesterton. it is really really good so far. 

it rained all of this year. Yes, all three days of it.

 As the title says, it has rained every day this year. and has for once been cold. we were all wearing sweatshirts this morning. maybe it was a little over kill. but all the same, we were wearing them.
also, we had family pictures taken. and this is what we came up with.
i had a bunch i was going to say, but i completely forgot what it was. i guess i will have to do another post tomorrow. 

the seat cover coming off is on purpose. my dad and i recovered it, and put more foam on. and i just road it in between.

Going On...

well, Christmas is over. another year has almost come to an end.  the world is still going backwards, and the sun still rises every morning. so really, what have we done? scientists have been able to look at things a little closer, but they are so biased it helps but little. and astronomers have seen farther away. but they are too busy arguing to learn.   the artists perhaps have touched someones life, but only for  a second, and the feeling was false. so what have we done? what have we learned? anything?
simplicity is lost in search for cash.  and toys are the highest goal. vacation is the only heaven.  the unknown is said to not exist.

But maybe life is not so bad after all, for though the music gets harder, rock replaces classical, and  tv the story book, still, God is there, he has not changed.  and maybe  a few lives have been changed. maybe a few have seen a light.  and though they are still outnumbered by the blind, the sight is worth all the more.
and perhaps, though the night is long, we will see the light of day.

have a good day, and remember that though some deny God, it does not change His existence. 

well, yeah, i am posting. :)

looking back at past posts, i have noticed, to my astonishment, that i said very little. many perhaps thought i was tired, angry, sad, or just busy. most  of these are to a small extent true, i have been angry at time, and tired often, and almost always busy, the sad part...i dont think i have been sad for a long time.  well noticing this odd habbit i have picket up latly, i decided to try and reverse it, and bore all readers with an over abundance of words. this, maybe was not a good idea, so i will, maybe cut this short too.


i was thinking, not many people who are shorter know what it is like for someone like me. i mean they never have to worry about hitting their head on door ways. nor tables being too small, or cars that they just cant fit into. or just how it is looking from such a tall place at all times. seeing this, i took a picture of how it feels to be as tall as i, and i being shorter than a great many people. 

now please forgive my humor, i am in a rare mood this morning. one of those mornings you just wanna do something, and you are stuck blogging.

have a good day.

badminton...again:)

i have not played badminton in a long while due to some injuries. i have continued training. lifting wieghts, and the such. i tried training again today. but i wore a bandage on my wrist.  and i did not train as long as i often do. here are a few pictures. the first one is of me smashing today. i could not really smash because of my wrist. but i did a lot of other things, drops, and half smashes, sticks, ect. 

Kevin

Having Fun on Bikes.

 Kaleb and i took the camera out the other day, and had fun jumping our bikes on hills, and other things. we did do one real jump, but the rest are just hills. and things. here are a few of the pictures we got.

Little Bro's Animation.

Kaleb made this cool little animation today. it thought it was really cool.

Odd Fruit

My dad brought home this interesting looking fruit the other day. it looks almost like a pine cone, but it is soft on the inside. the outer part is hard shell like. and the inside is brown. i have never seen anything like it before, but apparently you can eat them. anybody know what they are?

My Birthday

my birthday was yesterday. it was great. Kaleb did an awesome puppet show.  my mom made a awesome cake and supper.  here are a few pictures.

Kaleb with his cool puppets.

you may notice the couple peices missing on the cake... you have to taste it, how was i supposed to wait try some?

have a good day.