I released my first short film, (filmed it a year ago). The Common Cold: view on youtube: I hope you enjoy! your friend, -Isaac

You think after doing video for a bit I would figure out how to post a YouTube video and not make it a private video!

well sorry for the re-post but here is my interpretive dances video [while wearing an amazing shirt]:

Enjoy!

I was working on the set for a Paste Magazine TV pilot for their possible show, "Pop Goes the Culture".

I happened to be wearing my One Love Shirt, so I made sure to get a picture or two.

photo credit to: David Barrow Wiley [www.modelmayhem.com/diallosimba1963]

I hope all is well with the One Love!

I have been trying to post a bunch of pictures of me with that shirt, which makes me want another shirt design and I am sure it's making you wish I was a real celebrity doing all these pictures.

Do i smell a video cooking?

we shall see.

Oh by the way,

I have a twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IsaacDeitz

I also got a myspace: http://www.myspace.com/IsaacDeitz

and my facebook: http://profile.to/IsaacDeitz

[And I was so close to having a blog without shameless self-promotion]

your friend,

-Isaac

As I promised, this is me driving in the UK.

It's pretty self-explainitory.

All the best, your friend,

-Isaac

I guess I should have started naming these "Isaac in the UK" because here I am in Scotland after climbing a mountain [or as local people call it; a hill] but I like to call it a mountain when I phone my mom and tell her how proud she should be of her son climbing big mountains and such.

Well lucky for the OneLove.org I have very little hygiene and I wore the OneLove shirt for like three or four days, so when the opportunity for a picture of me and Scotland I happened to be wearing my awesome OneLove shirt.

So sorry I haven't been keeping up on these, the internet in the UK is about as consistent as their food. But I am editing a video of me driving on the wrong side of the road and everything!

all the best,

your friend,

-Isaac

So in certain places you have to pay about 50 American cents to use the bathroom, toilet or luu as some like to call it.

I really had to go and you think after paying money to use the bathroom it would be clean or something, but nope, I still had to go to each stall and pick the one I liked the best. But after paying money to use the luu I decided to wash my hands to get my monies worth.

So this may be a good time to explain the Ultra Violet Sound situation. I am on tour in the UK with a band called Ultra Violet Sound. I got here Saturday and they flew in on Sunday, they got rejected at the border and had to fly back home immediately after arriving for the lack of work permits. I was going to be rejected for the same thing but I was super nice to the lady before this topic of papers even came up. Neither I or the band knew that we needed these papers. So right now I am on the bus with the other bands that I haven't met before and I certainly feel like the tour's nerd friend that the tour's mom made them invite. I would say I am pretty good at connecting with people and fitting in quickly but this is a tough group, we are all polite to each other but unfortunately I don't see many friendships forming, not until UVS gets here at least. I did make a few friends though.

I moved to Atlanta about four weeks before I left for this tour, that was the very first time I have ever moved in my life and I just was starting to make friends in Atlanta then I had to leave for Europe.

So what I learned today is that if you move out of your very first and only home that you grew up in, and start feeling homesick, leaving the country to tour doesn't help the homesickness. 

your friend,

-Isaac

So I walked to my favorite store [the only store] nearby, the BP, and got to walk in this time. So I ordered the healthiest looking breakfast meals that you can buy at a gas station, which included a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, sausage roll and a blueberry muffin.

Instantly I regretted getting the sausage roll, which tasted awful, then the bacon in the other sandwich was very discomforting [because bacon is normally a very comforting {for the human, not the pig}]. After eating the burger yesterday and the sausage and bacon today, I am beginning to think bad meat is an British thing. It could be because our meat is so processed and fake that when I taste a pure un-processed meat I gag [hopefully it's not the other way around, that their meat is more processed than ours {if possible}] 

Maybe their teeth is a result of their horrible meat?

But after eating those items, I look down at my blueberry muffin and think, "you can't screw up a muffin". After the first taste I realized that is the truth. I think even the Bible says "you can't screw up a muffin" [and if it doesn't say it maybe we could add that line of truth and wisdom].

Regardless, when traveling abroad on an empty stomach, remember one thing. Get the muffin.

your friend,

-Isaac

Day One

When I first arrived to England, my first thought was, "Man I have forgotten that they really do have bad teeth". I have heard once before that the English think it's disgusting that we show our teeth when we smile. I now understand why they would think that, it's not us, it's them.

For those that don't know, I am currently in England, on tour with Ultra Violet Sound. I plan to write a lot of blogs of my journey and this is my first installment.

So I arrived at my hotel which is extremely far from any sort of food, mall or entertainment, and internet is about $15 US dollars for a day, so I am writing this and posting it later [when England gets less stingy with their internet]. So I ate a burger and chips [chips=fries], and I think any time you travel outside of your homeland and see anything different, unusual or bad you automatically assume it's a normal thing in the country you are in. For example, I had a terrible hamburger and I thought, "well I guess it's just a England thing" when it could have been just a bad burger [possibly with Mad Cow Disease]. They gave me BBQ sauce instead of ketchup for my chips and I assumed that is how their ketchup tasted, but it was just their accident. I am sure if they gave me a chicken sandwich instead I would just assume that the burgers 'taste like chicken' in England. So with this mindset, there is very little room to complain, because you are unsure of what is an honest mistake and what is normal to them.

I walked to a BP gas station to buy some food at the "24 hour shopping" section of the gas station, and turns out by 24 hour shopping they mean, 'you have to talk to a guy at the window and guide the employee throughout the store trying to explain to him what a skittle is. When he was pointing to the Hob Nobs and other English treats, I felt like I was on "The Price is Right" yelling, "higher! lower!" to direct him to the treat of my choice.

For anyone traveling to England anytime soon, remember this, the bigger the coin, the more worthless it is, the small tiny thick coins are worth most. The penny's here are the size of half dollars [or dinner plates].

your friend,

-Isaac

Does anyone actually have a best friend named Aaron? Sure we all may know a few Aarons but do we call them much?

Seriously, maybe Aarons shouldn't get the top of the list on everyone's cell phone contacts. We love you Aarons, but let's be honest you guys get more drunk calls than real calls.

I call my friend Roy more than I call Aaron.

The last time I called one of the Aaron contacts, it was a misdial. 

Spell your names differently or be more interesting to talk to on the phone.

maybe that is harsh?

your friend,

-Isaac

PS

Shameless promotion, what America is founded on.

 This is a video I did for a band called Merit 

There entire album is available for download for free with no strings attached!

gomeritgo.com 

I am pretty excited to start with my Music video career so I appreciate you tolerating my shameless plugs!

Also for anyone that saw my lip syncing happy birthday video for theonelove, I am working on another one now, this time there is more than 2 of me [just what all you ladies have been asking for, haha]!

your friend,

-isaac

Uneventful Event: Toast

you can watch this in HD too!!! 

ont-family: 'Lucida Grande'; white-space: pre;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjpbPwWB660#

This is the first of many boring videos I am making.

Basically I need to lower the bar in my filmmaking so I can experiment more and have fun again.

I guess this is also scaring off really real show fans that don't think I should exist if I don't work with Family Force 5.

but stay tuned, maybe Family Force 5 will appear in some uneventful events????

your friend,

-Isaac 

I think this is one of the funniest/most accurate pictures I have seen in a long time: Mad Magazines salute to Family Guy, the most original animated series.

genius.

One time I was talking to a guy I know, and he said, "I hate simpsons, because I don't like the charecter homer of a over-weigh stupid gu y that drinks beer, but I love family guy"

I am not sure if he heard what he said while talking.

your friend,

-Isaac

So yesterday I heard "that's what she said" in a real conversation.

When I heard it I was prepared to be offended as I tried to figure out what she said or meant.

A guy was talking about how his brother has 15 children. Somebody suggested it would probably be easier to homeschool than to get all 15 kids ready for school each day and then the sister-in-law replied, "that's what she said" referring to the mother of these children.

I was trying to figure out if it was another really unfunny joke or if she really did say it, and for the first time ever, I laughed after hearing "that is what she said" because it wasn't referring to some prostitute that says a lot of things.

your friend,

-Isaac

Even though I am a videographer professionally I just realized that I am probably the last person to figure out how to post videos on this site.

Here is the video I tried to post in my last Happy Birthday message.

But I finally worked up some more courage than that kid and made a very awkward video for the one Love! Here is it, all four minutes of it: your friend, -Isaac

I think I could make more friends.

;just look at those women pile in to watch them play!

PS the search for joy teaser is up!

www.searchforjoy.org

your friend,

-Isaac

My apologies go to any of you awesome supporters of the one love, every time I want to write something I am far from a computer and when I am near a computer I am far from idle.

For the very few that know who I am, I make the Really Real Shows for Family Force 5, and I am mostly known as 'Tub-O'. If you know that much you may have already heard that I have decided to move on from touring with bands and start doing some world touring.

I think the 'One Love' is a very appropriate site to announce this because of the sites mission and purpose. 

I left the band [and most of the music industry] to take on the film industry. 

For over two years now I have been hoping to make Comedy Documentaries on poverty, showing that you don't need money to laugh and that there certainly is, Joy in the midst of poverty.

Angelina Jolie said that she used to cut herself and wallow in depression until she saw how people lived and loved with nothing. She then saw that if you have everything but lack Joy, it's meaningless. Since then she has never intentionally hurt herself. 

I think sometimes us Americans have been lied to, we have saw nothing but commercials with children with bloated stomachs, tears in their eyes and flies around them and began to think "the only difference between them and myself is money, so money must buy happiness". 

Though there are loads of things in this world that cannot [nor should not] be ignored, like starvation, disease, famine and sex slavery to say a few, we shouldn't ignore the fact that people in other countries do not and cannot hide behind their money. They face problems head on, they are forced into community, they depend and love each other. 

These sides of poverty and dependancy are sides that I would like to show in my series, "Search for Joy". I want to show that though there are hard times, I am not denying that, they is also joy.

Another thing I would like to show is that there is joy in serving. I've grown up thinking that if I was called to be a missionary overseas it's all malaria and suffering, but loving others is where we find that joy. 

I recently returned from Kenya, Africa to film the first of hopefully many, "Search for Joy" and I am very excited to start editing because I think there are some very hilarious things from me helping them cook goat to playing soccer in a feces infested field. 

I will certainly be excited to keep you updated on everything. I hope to tour it soon as well.

thanks for all your love and support. It means a lot.

your friend,

-Isaac

Man it sure is quiet.

I am in the Family Force 5 bus and they guys had to fly to a festival so I have been hear riding to the first warped tour date in California.

Warped tour. The hardest working tour in the world.

Last year every article of clothing I wore, I either haven't wore before or haven't wore in a long time.

Hat, Sunglasses, A-Shirt [also known as wife beater, or muscle shirt, but since I neither have a wife or muscles, we will call it by it's really name {though I wouldn't beat my wife even if I did have one}], shorts, flip flops.

before then I never was known to wear any of those.

Warped drives you to a level to do things you never desired to before.

Like shower more than once a week.

So for this warped I am working-out with Chap-Stique and Crouton [guitarist and drummer] so I have muscles so I may walk around without a shirt.

Also trying to get some tan.

I am so white you can see me from space.

Tan, check.

Muscles, check.

Tolerance towards dancing in sweat suits in the sun, check [almost]

But if anyone is planning on going to warped, I think I may be sitting in a patch of grass, field, area where I can just sit and enjoy life. If anyone sees me doing so I am hoping for people to join me and we can share a laugh, story or whatever else.

Sorry this blog is so random.

purple monkey dish-washer.

your friend,

-Isaac Deitz

So I had to pick up the guys in Family Force 5 from the airport in the 15-passenger van.

one single guy driving a 15 passenger van = attractive.

I was driving this beast on easter so I passed a family of seven crammed in a caravan, and for the first time in the history of 15 passenger vans, I believe those people were envious of my ride.

That van was as tight as their easter suits.

I don't think people envy 15 passenger vans often, except those indie kids in their tight girl pants.

I heard that girl pants are now the "new thing" for guys to wear.

but nobody told me, that 'apple bottoms' weren't cool.

Does anybody want to buy a wardrobe of pants?

...stupid return policies.

But seriously, right now we are all in Atlanta, they are recording the new album and I am making all the deleted scenes and special features for the Really Real Show DVD

Also,

today I checked my email and guess who emailed me?

none other than the Sammy Stephens of Montgomery, Alabama and Really Real Show #12.

And I am not sure exactly why I love watching this, but I am trying to get this as my cell phone background, if anyone knows how let me know.

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hup7s93y02k&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hup7s93y02k&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

Since i am back with the guys I will be keeping you all updated with things.

your friend,

-Isaac

Magicians use a term called "slight of hand", in which they way their hands move they cause you to get distracted by one hand, while the other is doing something very important to the trick.

If we learned to follow the less flashy hand you can figure out a majority of tricks.

I think to many Christians set their eyes on the 'flashy' role models. We are paying attention to the people that call attention to themselves, when we should be learning from the humble servants.

To many times do I see so many kids faith fall apart when they see their favorite Christian celebrity, athlete or band member 'messing up'.

I don't know what troubles me more: Seeing such huge role models not realize their influence or seeing so many kids find their influence in someone because they are good at playing an instrument or sport.

Either way it happens to often.

You know what is sad? There is someone you know personally, as a friend, a family friend, someone that goes to your church, or someone you work with that you can learn tremendous amounts from.

You might see someone everyday that is on his way to volunteering help feed the homeless, or someone that is working two jobs so there second paycheck can free sex slaves in India.

And you fail to hear what they can teach you because you are listening to your ipod with 'semi-inspiring' lyrics.

We are watching the hand that is doing nothing for God/People only because it is calling more attention to itself while the other hand is doing the most important things we can learn.

Are your role models seeking fame, or seeking more of an opportunity to serve more people?

The Pharisees prayed publicly, gave to the poor so all could see, did everything with the intent for people to think they are great people.

Biblically look at everything the Pharisees did, and realize that there are too many people just like that today. If you look at what they did, we would also think they were amazing. Because they knew their scriptures, they went to church every time they could, they obeyed the laws of God strictly. The only reason have a problem with them is because Jesus did. 
Search really long in the Bible and ask yourself, "then what did God/Jesus want of us?"

"the greatest among you will be your servant" -Jesus (He meant it because that's what He came to the world to do.

Don't follow the hand that wants you to follow it.
Follow the hand that humbly does it's job.

your friend,

-Isaac

Eventually I hope that you realize that you can learn about God through anything, why do we think that these two don't go together.

We possibly could look at Diet Pepsi and ask ourselves if we are treating Jesus any different.

We will order 2 big macs and a super sized fry and get a diet pepsi as if it's going to make everything better.

But really it's not just accepting the diet beverege, it's ALSO living your life to match your desires to stay healthy.

We need to also engage in the action of excercise.

Sound famliar?

We sin as much as we want, and ask Jesus to forgive our sins, then still order the same thing!

Lets make our every action match the reason we drink diet soda.

Let our every action match the fact that we said 'we are sorry' for our sins!

Belief is not limited to accepting a set of statements, it's also living as if you believe those set of statements.

(I'm telling you, ask God what you can learn from ANYTHING!)

your friend,

-Isaac

We cry so much coming into this world because we were so comfotable with where we are, but eventually when it comes time for our death we don't want to leave this earth because we are so comfortable here.

How do we know that, like in the womb, we are in this world only to develope and get ourselves ready for what is to come next.

It takes nine months for our bodies to form in the womb. We grow fingers, legs, a mouth and ears not because we need them in the womb, but because we need them for what is coming after the womb.

If we had the ability to understand when we were a fetus, I wonder if we would say "why am I growing this mouth? I certainly am not using it", "why am I growing these legs? Surely they are of no use!" or "why do I have these eyes when it's so dark" we soon later would realize how we really don't know anything.

I wonder if this life is the same way, we may ask "why is it nessesary to work for perfection in my life? I will never reach it and as far as I get I will still die in the end".but what if our struggles to love our enemy, our struggles to lessen our pride actually is something that we will need all the more in what comes next.

Sure a baby in the womb does use his/her legs to kick, or does use his mouth for sucking his thumb, but he/she will soon realize a better purpose for his legs than to just kick, etc.
We may learn that sure if we are nice to everyone people will be nice back or if we lessen our pride we can learn more, but will we soon realize that there are actually more advanced benefits to our struggles in what comes next?

Just some thoughts.

your friend,

 -Isaac Deitz

I actually have a whole youtube account dedicated to just sending cell phone videos directly to my youtube account.

the cell phone account is youtube.com/isaacdeitz

but every once and a while I edit them and talk over them.

which this one is called 'Blinded by Simplicity' and the first one is called "Blinded by Business"

 you can view both on that link above or my newest here.

thanks so much for reading my blogs and supporting this site!

 your friend,

 -Isaac

I watched a movie about a year and a half ago, it's called It's a Wonderful Life, I saw it in July, which according to my friends, you're not allowed to watch that movie other than Christmas time.

It's one of the best movies in the world, we save it only for Christmas time, and almost feel required to watch it every year.

Two things that makes you do:

It makes you only think about friendship and how important everyone's life is only on Christmas and also makes you get sick of the movie or how incredible it really is.

That being said...

How much different do we treat the birth of God Himself?

We only think about the miracle of this once a year.

and we think we know so much about it that we forget how amazing it really was.

At this point I only apologize of saying this late and not early.

I think this story we should think about in July just as much (if not more) than December, because we need to start thinking about Jesus as a living person. Not a plastic figure that needs dusting.

Here are a few of the many things you can start thinking about all year round.

David, Abraham, Solomon, etc are all these people that looked forward to a certain day. Usually you can see what occupies someone's mind with reading their writings. All their writings were about getting excited to have the savior of the world in their blood line, etc.

Imagine growing up and having your parents tell you about this guy called Imanual (which I think is the coolest word in the english language). The reason it is so cool because the word means "God is with us". They all filled their minds with wonder of what God will look like when He comes as a man, what He will teach them and everything.

The creator of the world we take for granted is finally going to come.

Just really think about the wonder.

Ever hold a baby?

It's quite impossible to hold a bady and not be amazed about God's creation when you look into the babies eyes.

Imagine being the wisemen.

Holding this baby and KNOWING it IS God Himself.  Imagine the very God that holds the stars in place, is in your arms.

I think you need to read that part again.

Then imagine this.

Imagine holding Thomas Edison in your arms and you knew what he was going to accomplish. Looking in that babies eyes, knowing that he would invent every form of entertainment. Before light bulbs and times square and the matrix, you just could only grasp a very very little of what that baby is going to change.

Now imagine it's Jesus, before you hear a million times about the miracles he has done. Imagine knowing he is going to change this very world, and re-define the word savior.

Imagine holding that child and looking to his eyes and know that Abraham and King David would have done anything to see what you're seeing.

I can go on forever, which means this story is something that should be thought about more than once a year.

Jesus isn't the reason for the season, he is the reason for life itself.

think more about this because I'm ending this way early.

your friend,

-Isaac

It's taken me 21 years of mistakes to get me to where I am today.

It's really hard at this point to sum up what those years have made me.

My life consists of questioning answers, instead of answering questions and if you continue to read my blogs that's what they will mostly consist of.

I am a Christian, but it doesn't mean I agree or believe everything that I'm told to.

Though I'm less stubborn as I am making myself out to be.

But I'm trying to prepare you to expect anything.

You might know me as Tub-O from my video work with a band called Family Force 5. If you are familar with that band check out Chap Stique's blog, I happen to tour/live/work with him and his every word and every belief is backed up by how he lives. I suggest you check out his blog and everyone elses.

Because apparently the more you read, the more advertisers you support, the more money gets donated to these awesome charities.

So really your time does equal money, and we all appreciate anyone checking out our blogs.

So whether these blogs help you laugh or help you think, your reads will help someone in need you will never meet.

in conclusion, thanks for reading this far.

I leave you with a video I made with my cellular telephone: 

Blinded by Busines - Short Cell Phone Video

  your friend,

 -Isaac Deitz