Where does Americas wealth really come from?

(Warning: I didn't really structure this paragraph I just kinda went off an a tangent so hopefully it makes sense.)

So i was working a job all day today that didn't really require much thought from me so my mind started to wander. I was thinking about gas prices and how misleading they will be to the american people. What i was thinking about was the current situation economically. Maybe my thoughts are being heavily influenced by tocquville's "democracy in america," but i was think about what got us in to it and what will get us out. Looking back on the history of our country and why people came over here, is very different from reasons why say spain came over to the americas. It is a great comparison of what makes us great. When spain came over they only cared about one thing. Gold, or in other words power. The were one of the most powerful nations in the world. However they invested poorly. Americans new that real wealth does not come from how much gold or riches but from freedom of thought. After all that gold spain never became a super power. It was Thomas Jefferson who took John lockes original life, liberty, and pursuit of property and changed it to life liberty and pursuit of happiness. I think personally he changed property because he knew that mans happiness comes from gaining more knowledge rather than by having the most stuff. In recent years we look at the economy that grew during the 90's. One of the largest economic expansions in the u.s. since the industrial age. We had the internet boom. The internet which basically allowed a broader exchange of ideas. Now Knowledge has become more instant. Its not surprising the current economic crisis is based on property. Anyways i'm not trying to say that its bad to own property, i'm just saying that as americans we need to get away from the trend we've been in of trying to acquire wealth through getting lots of stuff and using oil to power our economy. We need to use our brains more and be a beacon to the world of free thought and technology so while china is poor from running out of oil we will still be a great nation because we Will have developed knew technologies to sell to the world. After all its our abilities to think and reason which is what has made us great.

So whenever i'm not working on some boring work video I always round up any friend that I can and say "hey let's make a movie" So when i was in school took a class on rhetoric, and in the course of the lesson the teacher who was from arkansas, and of course loved Bill Clinton, brought up a man named Dale Bumpers. Dale Bumpers was the senator who was the head of defense in the clinton impeachment trial. Now i tell you all this because when my friend and I heard his name we couldn't get over how hilarious his name was. So of course we started making movies about a guy named Dale Bumpers. In the movies everyone always calls him by his full name and over and over. It just became the running gag. Anyways here is the latest one we made.


New Dale Bumpers from Will Thomas on Vimeo.

sick again

well the days are getting shorter and im sick again with a cold. i wish i could just live in the souther hemisphere during the winter. well enjoys these new videos.


Oh no you didn't! from Will Thomas on Vimeo.

"You don't get mad, you go mad you get angry." -Dad

So here is a video I am working on for dad but somehow when i was moving files around because my hard drives are full some file got lost that i need so i am still working on it. Also Rebecca was on her mission so we still need to add a part with her in it but i thought it would be nice to watch what we have so far because its fun to watch.


Dad from Will Thomas on Vimeo.

Latest News

Ok so I am really bad at blogging and hardly update this.  Anyways i just finished making another music video.  It was fun video to make despite the limited budget and time.  There were lots of compromises but anyone who has every shot anything knows how that is but luckily I was working with someone who is not into Himself and willing to make compromises-(Run on sentence maybe).  In the end  it turned out pretty good.  "Pretty pretty pretty good" as Larry David would say.  So I have the video and plus another video that shows some of the stuff we didnt use and outtakes (the outtakes are really only funny to those who  were there i think.)

click on the HD button to watch in a higher quality.

Memorial Day from Will Thomas on Vimeo.


Memorial Day Outtakes from Will Thomas on Vimeo.

Summer Begins

well it's finally starting to turn into that vegas summer weather, which i always welcome.

Welcome to my blog!

Ok so this is my first blog and well there's a lot of things i need to tell everyone.  The first thing is that I'm starting to migrate all my email to my fingersonface@gmail.com account.  So if you have my e-mail in your account please change it to this one, my other account stinks!  A couple of weeks ago i got back from cancun working with the golf network and then last week i was filming some videos for my friend Drew Danburry who is on tour i'll post them below.