Viz 3 Dive Into Your Imagination News

The fog rolled into Santa Barbara this week, yet The Viz is clearer now than ever before. I returned from a week in Las Vegas committed to the foundation of Dive Into Your Imagination and encouraging others to help create a transformation of our planet. Our youth is 40% of our population and 100% of our future. It is up to us to guide, educate, entertain, and lead our children to create our future world. I spoke to a select group of students and then Science Educators hoping to empower and encourage us to reach together and not give up as everyone is faced with budget cuts, overcrowded classrooms and a future that we are unsure of.

The UN has predicted that our next World Wars will not be about oil, they will be about water. I have been sitting on this statement for a few weeks and it has empowered me to speak my voice and share my knowledge in a way like never before. I believe in the future, yet the inconvenient truths of our planet, climate change and growing population needs to be addressed. We live our lives with pictures formed in our childhood of what life is supposed to be like and yet, this is not necessarily what unfolded.

What we manifest, dream and desire is what happens. What are you dreaming about? Something happens in many of our lives somewhere between Kindergarten and Fifth Grade and we lose our imagination and creativity. We need to bring these back for what we manifest and dream about today is what will happen in our future. Just think about James Bond and the Jetson's cartoon. James Bond had gadgets like cell phones and GPS, just like every person has today. The Jetson's had video telephones, hello SKYPE! What ideas can we dream today that will bring us back to health and balance. I see an ocean of possibilities within the more than 6 billion people living on our planet, yet we need to work together! I believe The Viz has been pretty bad for awhile, yet I can see clearly now as the sun burns the fog away. Read more in my blog.

My Mom Harriet wins top saleswoman of the year as she worked my booth at DEMA for four straight days and then danced with Neil Diamond at night! Faith, Courage and Enthusiasm! Annie

Charge! Sealions are so fun to swim with! The juveniles come out in numbers to play and swim with snorkelers and scuba divers. Like little kids, they want to play all day long. Check out our Sea Lion video!

Greg Hofmeyr studies a well-loved marine animal: the seal! These animals are known as pinnipeds and are marine mammals. His experience in field research and expeditions makes him an expert about these wonderful creatures!
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You need to ensure you get the three main shots in visual storytelling: the wide shot, medium shot and the close up. As long as you have these three shots covered you can edit a sequence together. Our camera had some great features and we could do time lapse sequences. To get good time lapse sequences, you can either put your camera on a tripod for or find a picnic table or something steady so your camera will not move during the time lapse. How would you capture the moment?

On my first day interning at Mote, my supervisor asked me what kind of animal handling experience I have, and I listed off an assortment of past jobs in animal care. She asked, "Have you ever worked with equines (horses)?" I had not. She warned me, "Because due to the size of these animals, this is going to be a lot like caring for horses." Come check out Pete!

Be innovative in your gift-giving. Be educational. Be caring and share the world with your family, friends and colleagues! These products are an EXPERIENCE! The Dive Into Your Imagination store is unique because all products listed are created by people living their dreams or wanting to touch, move and inspire you. The books and dvds contain real-world images, upbeat music and English or Spanish bilingual narration tracks. You can play the dvd's on your television, in your car or on your laptop.
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Reef Check is a foundation dedicated to protecting and rehabilitating reefs worldwide. 2008 is International Year of the Reef, which is a yearlong celebration to raise awareness of coral reefs and related ecosystems, and empower people to take simple actions that benefit coral reefs worldwide. In honor of International Year Of The Reef, Reef Check is putting on a contest as to see who can sing the best official IYOR ocean song and create the most intriguing video. Reef Check Foundation is running this contest with the goal of getting people to learn more about the marine environment and of course to have fun.

Conner is one of the coolest kids I know. He joined us for an underwater photo and film expedition off the coast of Southern California. We dived together for four days. Conner had never been on a boat overnight and LOVED the experience of waking up every morning at a dive site.
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Come see how J and Rebecca did as they take their first steps towards certification and thake their first breaths underwater!

Order anything from our store before November 31st and get a Free Curiosity Limited Edition Print! Enter the promo code IMAGINATION in the NOTE window when you confirm your order