30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie

Check out the new 30 seconds to mars video.

It's absolutely beautiful and it was worth the wait and the delays. Please, when you are done watching, enter http://abeautifullie.org/ and join us in saving our planet.

Some facts about the video:

The crew refused to set foot on the glacier because it was deemed too dangerous

The weather was so cold that taking your hood off for a minute could result in frostbite. Their hoods were off for the entire video.

39 hours of film were shot. 5 minutes of slow motion were used, all and all about 1:59 of footage.

It was filmed from a helicopter by amatures, because of the dangerous conditions on the actual iceburg

The black lines you see in the video are huge slits in the ice. Thousands of others are unseen. The glaciers were literally breaking under their feet.

If you look closely during part of the video you can see pools in the glaciers. These are water pools from the glacier melting.

At one point (Though edited out) Jared slips and starts to fall down the slippery hill. He saves himself about 20 feet from falling off the cliff.

It took almost a year to plan, took a week to film, and 6 months to edit.

Jared directed, (partially) paid for, and edited the video himself. He edited it on 3 different countries while filming his new movie Mr. Nobody.

The original idea was to film in Antarctica, and the crew wanted it filmed on a green screen. Jared refused to back down and Greenland was eventually chosen for the video (And no green screen was ever used)

The idea of the video was to show the world what we're losing by not caring about the environment. These beautiful glaciers are melting, and aren't only effecting those who live by.

The band had to carry all of their own equiptment on and off of the helicopter. In the scene with the flags, the helicopter caused so much wind that Shannon's drum set would go flying 30 feet away.

192 kinds of insurance were required to shoot the video.

It was so dangerous that the helicopter crew said if not returned to the chopper at a certain time, they would leave without them and the band would have to sleep on the glacier.

When Jared got the tapes to edit, the company gave him the wrong playback machine. He had to pay thousands of his own dollars to rent the correct machine.

For every pound of carbon emissions, they purchase green tags to offset the environmental damage.

100% of the proceeds from this video go to THE NRDC (natural resources defense council)

Happy Holiday's from 30 Seconds to Mars

This is for the Echelon!!! See? 30 stm really loves their fans! And we love them back and we will fight for them till the very end!! MUAHAHAHA! Thank you guys! You are amazing! And happy early birthday to Jared Leto!!

The reasons of my absence

As you can tell, I have not written anything here lately. Well, I have been very busy and one of the major reasons for this prolongued absence is this:

Yes, 3o seconds to mars is coming to Mexico and I am going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!! And since I am part of the Echelon Mexico, I have been rather occupied. And I have a surprise which I may tell you about later. No, I will definitely tell you everything about it later. Maybe even post some pictures, hehehe.

The other reasons are my french classes and that I am going to start studying Psychology next week. So, I'll probably dissapear again for the rest of the month. See ya later!!

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Jajaja, la que no tenía ganas de escribir, ¿no? La verdad es que nada más estaba buscando un lugar donde poner la imagen, jejeje. Y ahí la tienen. 30 seconds to Mars en concierto en la ciudad de México el 26 de octubre en el Vive Cuervo Salón!!!! Boletos en www.ticketmaster.com.mx

Check this out!!!!

Wow!! You have to see this version of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill". It's absolutely amazing! Sublime!!! These guys are awesome!

Back again

Wow, it's been almost a month since I last wrote here. And it wasn't a very happy entrance, btw.

But whatever, I just got back yesterday from a trip to Monterrey to visit my brothers and rest of the family: birthdays and catholic religious events which I dont agree with, but great time, a lot of laughs and love and memories (and maybe one or two dirty jokes). This trip was my last thing to do before making a big decision. My last excuse for delaying things.

Now I'm back and there are a thousand possibilities jumping at me from the future. And it's getting somewhat scary and uncomfortable. I've been in a comfortable zone for a long time. But I know that Change is now a necessity for me, something I really need and want (deep inside) to do. I still think I should have gone to Montreal this summer (it would have been a lot of fun) but things happen for a reason. I just hope he's still thinking of coming to Mexico this fall. But that's another story.

I know I messed up when I picked up my career but now I have a chance to correct that mistake. I think I'm gonna take it. I've always loved Psychology.

And Halo 3 is coming out in just a month!!! That makes me SOOOO happy!!!! ;) And Mass Effect is coming out this year, and Eternal Sonata and Assassin's creed and Metroid Prime 3 and and... but I digress.

I'm not thinking clearly. I have a storm of emotions raging inside of me right now so I'm gonna have to go.

Amazing

Wow, guys can be real jerks sometimes.

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