8.31.2005

Creativity Thoughts #2 (Creative Reservoir)

From Creativity Thoughts -



"Over time, our heads become a reservoir of concept, information and images. When we create, most of our ideas are made up of adaptation, variations and combinations taken from this cache.

Therefore, the more we put into the "creative reservoir," the more we have to draw from when it comes time to create.

Our creative reservoir is one of our most important assets and it should be continually stocked, refreshed and maintained through art, music, books, experiences, interaction, observation, learning, curiosity and our own creative pursuits.

Fill 'er up."


AVed at 8/31/2005 01:49:00 PM | LINK |

Freelance post

Recently, I did a piece for Gary Lamb over at Ridgestone Church. They're a very relevant, creative, and growing church located in Canton, GA, and God is really doing some awesome things in their ministry. They were looking for video openers / counters / visuals to enchance their messages. This piece works well to bridge the transition between worship music and the message.

If you'd like to view the opener, watch here (Quicktime, 1.6 Mb), Series: Desperate Sex Lives.


AVed at 8/31/2005 08:53:00 AM | LINK |

8.30.2005

Creativity Thoughts

I have this great little book called Creativity Thoughts. It's a series of small thoughts, exercises, and points to ponder on the subject of creativity and inspiration. I read a few pages of it when my brain feels gridlocked. Here's an excerpt from page 210:

"Consider:

Finishing the project EARLY (seriously). Then, spend the extra time reviewing, reworking and making everything better.
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Striving to create a layout or piece of artwork so beautiful, so far ABOVE the client's expectations that it will blow their mind.
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Putting in however many hours it takes (regardless of net pay) to create a piece of utter BEAUTY.
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Making OVERACHIEVEMENT your routine."





(I'll probably post more along these lines in the next several days).


AVed at 8/30/2005 12:14:00 PM | LINK |

8.29.2005

GroupLink video roundup

This weekend at New Spring, the topic was fellowship, one of our core values. The message delivered by Perry was great. And to follow it up, David did some really great videos interviewing several folks in our church who are involved with our Home Groups. From a motion graphics standpoint, they are nothing too fancy. But, I think they set the mood well. For those of you who aren't able to come to New Spring, this will give you a taste of the other side of video we do, as well as give you a flavor of some of the ministries our church provides.

Oh, and Meg and I were featured in these videos. I'm in the GroupLink AD, and Meg got her own feature. Sweet!

Groups_Meg (Quicktime, 2.4 Mb)
Groups_Glenn (Quicktime, 2.9 Mb)
Groups_AD (Quicktime, 5.2 Mb)


AVed at 8/29/2005 03:23:00 PM | LINK |

8.27.2005

Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999.

Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999. Today, I joined Meg for some yardsaling fun. Occasionally, I like to tag along. It's good bonding time, and every so often, I grab a steal. Well, today, the winner is... a classic PlayStation 1... 1999 vintage. The AV Club may find it hard to believe, but I haven't owned a video game console since my Nintendo (which was ruthlessly stolen from me while I was co-oping in North Carolina... no... I'm not bitter... but I'll tell that story later). Anyway. So, I'm finally game-enabled again. This little gem set me back a whopping $5 (I talked her down from $7). No games, unfortunately. But today's fun activity: disinfect and clean off the grime and sickening smoke smell... how exactly did they get funk on the INSIDE of the console? So, if you want to contribute to the detriment of the AV Club, please donate all your old PS1 games. I'll be happy to take them off your hands. If you're wanting to unload your sports games, however, don't bother. I'm not interested.




AVed at 8/27/2005 10:37:00 AM | LINK |

8.26.2005

Friday roundup.

Today, Meg, Gardner, and I ventured to Greenville to pick out a new car seat for G. We decided on the model pictured below. How cool, Babies-R-Us even has a mock up auto seat in the store so you can try the seats out. That's a smart way to cater to your customers.

In other, non-family news, Google Talk is now official. Google's own IM client.

And you can view some really cool street art over at Streetsy. Oh, and from that site, I found this.




AVed at 8/26/2005 07:39:00 PM | LINK |

8.25.2005

WARNING!! Watch only if you have a strong stomach

OK, Matt showed me this last week. I've e-mailed it to a bunch of people, but it should be freely available to all. This is for your upcoming Friday... the Baby Vomit Video.


AVed at 8/25/2005 07:58:00 PM | LINK |

He IS real...

Wow, this is a first. Today, I met my first blog/internet buddy in real life. Gary Lamb (Mad Babble from a Church Planter) and Preston Porter from Ridge Stone Church made the drive to the metropolis of Anderson today. We met at eCity Java (or Jittery Joe's, as it should be known) for coffee and church talk. It was a great time of fellowship, idea smattering, iPod discussion, creative church talk. Thanks Gary for heading our direction. If you guys have never heard of him, be sure to read his blog. Very interesting. You'll feel like you already know the guy when you meet him. And at the rate his church is growing, I'm sure you'll probably meet him soon!


AVed at 8/25/2005 12:08:00 PM | LINK |

8.24.2005

Let's stretch the brain a bit

It's been another good day. Shane and I met and laid out the next month or three's worth of visuals and it's going to be a very busy, but very very fun Fall season at New Spring. On the slate right now: a special guest speaker, a very cool one-shot sermon, a relationship series, a series that just might involve a Bon Jovi song, several other smaller series, a click track involving special effects that will stretch me to my limits, and a Christmas Eve service with some things... quite honestly... you've never seen before. Yeah, we're going to have a good time.

And this Sunday will be no exception, either. I will actually make an appearance or two in some of our videos. Please, don't let this frighten you... it will be fun.

For now, we're gearing up the new version of the New Spring site. It's due out in a week or so. I am helping Mr. Gizz, designer extraordinaire, build some banners for each of the different sections of the site. My favorite is posted here, and the rest are available at my Flickr page.


Keep your eyes on the AV Club, as I promise to continue the outpouring of previews... and I just ask for your honest feedback.


AVed at 8/24/2005 07:48:00 PM | LINK |

Ever had a bad day?

I was irritated this morning, frustrated about several things. Nothing big, nothing I would consider major. But in my quiet time, I read Mark 15. You think you've had a bad day; look at what Jesus did for you. Nothing I will ever face compares to what he did for me. For that I should live life eternally faithful.

Thank you, Jesus, for seeing me worthy of your sacrifice. Never let me think for a second that my life and my trials are so imporant that they ever outshine what you have done.


AVed at 8/24/2005 08:33:00 AM | LINK |

8.23.2005

Road to Romania

I spent the afternoon pulling pictures with Todd Long, a missionary in Romaina. You should see their site.


AVed at 8/23/2005 04:27:00 PM | LINK |

8.22.2005

Desktop 12 from the AV Club

C'mon, you know you want it. Go get Desktop 12 from the AV Club. It's a bit differnet than desktops past. I'm not sure if I like it, but it seemed to be a good idea a little while ago.


AVed at 8/22/2005 09:08:00 PM | LINK |

New blog - 2506 EDGEWOOD AVE

Hmm... this is scary. On Friday night, Brian and I worked up the code for his blog. I give all visual credit to him... and it's frightening that I provided the code-assistance. Go therefore, and visit 2506edgewood.blogspot.com.


AVed at 8/22/2005 02:14:00 PM | LINK |

Good for a Monday

One of our Children's Pastors, Pudge posted today about some strategies to make the workplace much more fun and free of stress. It's a funny read.


AVed at 8/22/2005 01:06:00 PM | LINK |

It's been a good weekend


Family dinner at Chili's
Originally uploaded by avclub.
It's been a hectic and busy weekend... or the entire week for that matter. Not that I mind, I like a full schedule at times. Since last Tuesday night, Meg and I have had plans (homegroup, Lost group, friends for dinner, friends for hangout, family dinner, more friends for hangout, spent the entire Saturday with G, New Spring Baptism, family dinner... pictured on the right..., and church all day Sunday).

I'm ready for a quieter week coming up. And I thought you'd enjoy a picture of my brother-in-law behind a massive pile of Chili's chips / dip. Random fact: Rick loves to mix his salsa with ranch dressing. Hm... different strokes for different folks, I suppose.


AVed at 8/22/2005 09:27:00 AM | LINK |

8.21.2005

Heat Index of 110° + 3:45pm + 30 min. run = bad for the iPod

I just returned from a 30 min run (and an hour of cutting my forest, er, grass). It's dang hot. At the end of my run, I took the iPod off, got in the Jeep (which was discreetly parked at church, forcing me to run rescue it before tonight), and started the music back up. But nothing happened. I do believe I gave my iPod heatstroke. I suppose that's possible.

After cooling it down, crossing my fingers, and some internet study, I found this article (and this one, too) about iPod recovery. Hey, did you know you can defragment an iPod hard disk?

I thought those articles would be handy if you abuse your iPod as much as I abuse mine.


AVed at 8/21/2005 04:44:00 PM | LINK |

8.20.2005

Strummin' my 6 string

Today, Gardner and I hung out while Meg went yard saleing (I really don't know how you'd spell that) with some of the wonderful ladies from our Home Group. Little did she know that I would use this time to mold and influence my son. We had our first guitar lesson, and a I sequenced a dance track for him, too. You can view the details of our lesson here. His newest recording should be out early next month.




AVed at 8/20/2005 11:34:00 AM | LINK |

8.19.2005

New Spring "special visitor" video - UPDATED

For those that had trouble watching the "Special visitor" video earlier this week, I've reencoded it. Please, enjoy.

Watch video (Quicktime, 15 Mb)


AVed at 8/19/2005 08:00:00 AM | LINK |

8.18.2005

uh-uh

I just gotta say, oh heck no. I mean, it's gotta be BAD for me to resort to this.


AVed at 8/18/2005 09:26:00 PM | LINK |

purevolume | AV Club Inc.

If you weren't aware, I have a purevolume page for the AV Club where you can download some bad electronica. (but you don't get better unless you put yourself out there).


AVed at 8/18/2005 12:03:00 AM | LINK |

8.17.2005

I love my job

Right now, I'm building a composite shot of a dog peeing. This is either the high point of my Visual Director career... or the absolute lowest point. I'm undecided.

Of course, I'll post photos later.


AVed at 8/17/2005 02:11:00 PM | LINK |

Psyop... good motion graphics

I am lovin' the new Sheryl Crow video by Psyop. Watch it here. Link via tween.


AVed at 8/17/2005 11:53:00 AM | LINK |

8.16.2005

The moment of truth... (UPDATED)

(UPDATED: I reencoded the video so it should work on PCs more reliably).

Thank you all for waiting so patiently. The video clip from this Sunday's message is finally online. Please, share with your friends. If you'd like to hear the entire sermon, you can download it here (mp3, 10Mb).

New Spring Punk'd (Quicktime, 15.5 Mb, ~5:00)


AVed at 8/16/2005 04:51:00 PM | LINK |

8.15.2005

The video's coming, promise

I noticed a few of you are really looking forward to the "newspring punk'd" video I'll be putting online soon. Be patient... I know you will be. I'm having some "learning curve" issues with the new system. I'll be able to capture audio soon, and I'll get it up. In the meantime, if you'd like to hear the sermon (and the ensuing mayhem), visit the New Spring | Audio page.

Or if you're really lazy, here's the direct link to the mp3.


AVed at 8/15/2005 06:18:00 PM | LINK |

To my 87 daily friends

Felllow AV Club readers, if you're unaware, there are now 87 of you (on average) per day reading this blog. I feel honored that you would grace your computer screens with my 80s chique aqua motif. Another number for you, 530. That's the number of posts on this blog... begun in November of 2003. Say, should we have a 2nd birthday party for the AV Club soon?

This weekend at church was AMAZING. Never before has our pastor, Perry, Punk'd 4,000 people. But this weekend, he did. Check back later today... I captured it all of video. I'll have it up before I leave the office today. Only then will I recount the full tale....


AVed at 8/15/2005 08:48:00 AM | LINK |

8.14.2005

Quality vs. Quantity

I've realized that I'm a quality over quantity kind of guy. I was reminded of this as I got dressed this morning and was looking for my sandals. I've always preferred to have one of a great thing rather than several of a good thing. Case in point, I love Rainbow sandals. I was introduced to them by Lee and Shua. This past March, I got a pair for my birthday. Sure, they're a $40 pair of sandals. But I put them on in March, and, aside for a two weddings and when I go running, they haven't left my feet. These are the best shoes ever. I'll take you a step further, I even wear them on the cardio machines at the gym (elliptical trainer... where you don't have to pick your feet up off the machine).

Yes, for me, I'd rather save and buy quality. Then wear it every day. The exact same thing. Perhaps I have a bit of an addictive personality, or is it that I just like the comfortable (both physcial comfort and emotional comfort of the familiar). I'd wear the same grey T-shirt I bought in Columbia 3 years ago if Meg didn't gracefully suggest that maybe I need to (1) branch out and (2) wash that shirt every so often.

Anyway...

What are you, quality or quantity?


AVed at 8/14/2005 06:15:00 AM | LINK |

8.13.2005

Ken Wilson, artist, coder, action hero

There's a new blog in the air, faithful AV Club readers. I have a back log of blogs I've promise to build for my friends. It's fun, it expands my skill set, and I get to make pretty things that I can pull up on the internet. This week's victim... Ms. Lanna Coates over at Resplendent Fancy.

Lanna's been blogging since May of 2004 (or so her archives say), and she's been a friend of mine for much longer than that. I can't remember exactly when we met, but I do remember hanging out with her and her family at New Spring back in the old, old days (when there were 100 people, we met in the Sullivan building, and we baptized people in hot tubs). Since then, we've grown to be good buddies. Lanna comes to our house every week or so (with more regularity during new episodes of Lost) to watch, uh, Lost and to prepare wonderfully collaborative meals with our friends.

She's a phenominal photographer, and you should treat yourself to a visit of your Flickr page. She even did this nice set of Gardner for us. Awesome.

So, Lanna, enjoy your new blog. And AV Club, be sure to check it out. It's a worthy read and fun to boot.


AVed at 8/13/2005 02:40:00 PM | LINK |

8.12.2005

Date night / model shoot

Meg and I went out on a much-needed date night tonight. It was a lot of fun. We walked downtown Greenville, ate at Olive Garden, and just enjoyed each other's company. Meg played "model" and I practiced my photographer skills. The full results can be seen on Flickr under "disproportionally hot wife." Yes, boys, wit and sense of humor CAN land you the supermodel, as is definitely true in my case. View here.

I am truly blessed to have a wife who's more beautiful now than the day I married her, both inside and out. After 5 1/2 years of marriage, we still find so much to talk about and enjoy about each other.

I fully believe in the Proverbs...

Proverbs 5:18, "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth..."
Proverbs 12:4, " A wife of noble character is her husband's crown..."
Proverbs 18:22, " He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD."




AVed at 8/12/2005 12:39:00 AM | LINK |

8.11.2005

Completion

The project's done. It's a click track, however, so I won't be posting it online. I could, but all you'd hear is the "donk, donk, donk" of the cowbell that the band hears. Not very interesting. However, if you're in the upstate of SC, you should come to New Spring to see it live. The band's going to do a great U2 cover.

I'm going home, now. It's been a great day.
Final Cut - check
ProCoder - check
Motion 2 - check
rockin' music video - check


AVed at 8/11/2005 05:10:00 PM | LINK |

Firefox 1.5 Beta coming next month

I read today that Firefox 1.5 is releasing next month. This is a pretty big step. And while I'm thinking about it, if you're browsing this site with anything other than Firefox (download here), shame on you (unless, of course, you're browsing from work where they force you to use IE... I got you deaf.sig.).

And for those following my Final Cut saga, I just rendered out the video sequence portion of the click track I'm working on. Now into the world of After Effects to make it pretty.


AVed at 8/11/2005 01:01:00 PM | LINK |

Final Cut update

I'm starting to get the hang of Final Cut. It's fairly easy to get your hang of if you've edited before.

There are some very intuitive things I've come across. You know, you just "guess" at what will work and it does. One I just found... I clipped a segment of video. I wanted to drag it down a layer on the timeline, but I didn't want to change its positoin in time. Hmm... what if I hold SHIFT down when I drag? You know, it worked... it locked the clip in time and allowed me to drag and drop to another layer. Why is this important to you, AV Club reader? Simple. Because in Photoshop, if you hold SHIFT while dragging an object, it locks it to either the X or Y axis. The same thing for Power Point. STANDARDIZATION. And Apple's done a great job of it. Way to go, Mr. Jobs.

Back to the edit.


AVed at 8/11/2005 11:49:00 AM | LINK |

Editing, Editing...

Today, I'm editing the final sequences for a click track to U2's "Pride (in the name of love)" for this Sunday's services. Normally, I would have been complete a day or two ago on this, but I've decided that the best way to learn my new editing package, Final Cut Pro 5, is to dive headfirst.

I've spent some time over the last few weeks beginning to learn Apple's Motion 2 package. It's great, especially for small-scale projects. It is well suited for DVD menus, titles / lower 3rds for video projects, and the occasional small animation. You don't have nearly the flexibility as After Effects gives you, but it's also much quicker.

I'm sure this isn't all terribly exciting, but I'm using my Blog-widget while Final Cut renders a scene. I'm sure you'll be getting other random posts from me during the day as the computer works for me in the background.

So, what are you doing today?


AVed at 8/11/2005 09:34:00 AM | LINK |

8.10.2005

Lost

Lost, I'm a fan.


AVed at 8/10/2005 12:08:00 PM | LINK |

Sketches from the Life opener / visual identity

I'm going to start uploading my sketches / ideas for series ideas. Could be fun.



AVed at 8/10/2005 11:38:00 AM | LINK |

8.09.2005

Star Wars - Chinese translation (and Money Origami)

A few links for you...

First, if you are a Star Wars fan, do read this.

Then, spare bills? Try some Money Origami.


AVed at 8/09/2005 06:23:00 PM | LINK |

WARNING: *** The following post contains Potty humor. Read at your own risk. ***

Hello there AV Club readers. On occasion, someone sends along an e-mail that is SO FUNNY that I am compelled to pass it along for your enjoyment.

Today is one of those days.

This was sent to me by a UNNAMED FRIEND (his name will be omitted to protect his reputation). In case you are wondering, I did get his permission before posting this. I assured him that I would not reveal his identity (but of course, if you use the comments section to beg, perhaps I will reveal).

(Scroll down to read on.)


























Ken,

Here's a cooking lesson I learned today.

ALWAYS Wash Your Hands Thoroughly after handling jalapeno peppers. I
diced one today for tacos, and made a quick "pit stop" while
everything was simmering.

Suddenly there was Fire Down Below.

I was thinking seriously about dialling 911, but then remembered these
calls are always recorded (and might be humiliating later). Water
only seemed to spread and actually intensify the effect, which lasted
about 20 painful minutes.

Won't make that mistake again, I promise. And neither will my kids
(not sure now I can have any).

- (NAME REMOVED)


AVed at 8/09/2005 11:41:00 AM | LINK |

8.08.2005

AV Club desktop #11

New for your consumption (and based off of the security tags), desktop #11 from the AV Club is released to the public.

desktop #11 (1280x1024px, JPEG)


AVed at 8/08/2005 12:11:00 PM | LINK |

8.07.2005

Good weekend, no, great weekend

It's been a good and restful weekend. Lots going on. Friday night, Jason, Kelly, Meg, and I ventured to Clinton, SC for a wedding rehersal for our cousin, RT. As far as wedding rehersal dinners go, we were all good. Of course, Meg and I just decided to play around with the camera and make interesting photos. I think people were staring. You can view them all here. (Be sure to appreciate Meg's "speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil" series of photos).

That night was a big step for Gardner. He stayed away from home for the first night, enjoying an evening with his Grandparents. All went extremely well, thanks for asking.

Saturday, I picked up G and watched him for the morning while Meg went to yardsales. She, Suzanne, and Becky cleaned house. (on the yardsales, I mean, not on the house. That would be just silly to blog about). The rest of the day was loosely dedicated to chores (making the security tags, attempting to change spark plugs, replacing my pocket knife, etc.).

That night, we spent time with Brian and Becky, made "crack corn" (actually called kettle corn, but it's so addictive, you are simply compelled to eat at least 3 lbs. of it). We wasted 2 hours on the movie "Birth."

Sunday, church x3. Birthday party for a 2 year old. Church once more.

I'm now installing an old PC game I found this weekend at Ingle's for $6.99. It's called XIII. Mostly, it's interesting because it's animated in a "cell shaded" graphic style. I've heard the game is marginal, but the graphics are great. We'll see.


AVed at 8/07/2005 10:43:00 PM | LINK |

8.06.2005

Production Team badge


Production Team access badge
Originally uploaded by avclub.
I just completed the Production Team badges. I'm happy with the way they turned out. Now, I'm sure everyone will want to print out their own copy so they can gain full access to our 1980s-era rickety old Betacams, but you'd be striving to do it in vain. I'm only showing the low-res version on the web AND you won't be wearing the official Production Team T-shirt. Now if you want to join my team at New Spring, let's talk.


AVed at 8/06/2005 12:57:00 PM | LINK |

8.04.2005

Motion Theory - Beck "Girl"

Shane was telling me about this one, and it's worth watching for yourself. Motion Theory dreams up a phenominal video for Beck's"Girl". If you loved the old Mad magazine, you deserve to watch this.

I'm determined to find a way to use this idea in a video for our church.

UPDATE: This article explains the effect.


AVed at 8/04/2005 10:29:00 PM | LINK |

STACKOPOLIS : "The most addictive game since Tetris!"

I must admit, this is fun for at least a full five minutes. Play STACKOPOLIS for a nice diversion. Hint: you can type in the level you made it to to return there later. I made it to "DWELLING"


AVed at 8/04/2005 05:12:00 PM | LINK |

Remember this when you get there

The guys at 37 Signals posted an interesting article about the "Geominder." It's a location-based reminder system for your cell phone. Instead of "remember to call Bob" at 8:00am (time based) you get "remember to call Bob" as your arrive at your office (location based).

The service uses your position in relation to a cell tower (rather than GPS) to alert you to certain To-Do lists. It's an interesting concept, but somehow it makes me just a little nervous. Thoughts?

Me, I'll just stick with my beloved Hipster PDA. It's paper. It works. It doesn't crash. OK, so it won't survive being dunked in the water, but neither will my laptop.


AVed at 8/04/2005 12:35:00 PM | LINK |

8.03.2005

where does Ken work

Due to popular demand (and by popular, I mean one of my friends mentioned it one day in passing), I've posted a photoset of Ken's office. You can view it here. Please lustfully enjoy pictures of the new Mac, now running at about 90% (there's still a learning curve I'm overcoming), and the various asundry "getting things done" systems I've set up to make sure everything's done on time. And I've included a photo of my Hipster PDA upgrade. Yes, now it's Mac-compatible.


AVed at 8/03/2005 05:45:00 PM | LINK |

Parodies and pop culture

A week or so ago, I posted an article from Church Marketing Sucks about churches who do not innovate and instead repeat cliches from modern / pop culture. At first, I read the article and whole-heartedly agreed with it. Over the past week, I've pondered it deeper; and I'm not sure I'm 100% on board with everything it said.

Gary Lamb has some good points in his response to the article (be sure to read my comments there). In the end, I feel that churches should keep "the main thing the main thing." The purpose of our church is to see people reach their full potential in Jesus Christ.

As much as I love creative design, my goal with my work is to see lives changed. Yes, sometimes that means I can innovate and create something never seen before, something that's incredible by the world's standards. Excellence is prized at my church (we're speaking on that soon, you should come). BUT, ultimately, if there's a hook that we can employ that will attract people, we're going to use it. If they come, they'll hear the gospel preached unashamedly. If they hear that, they just may accept Jesus Christ and their lives will change.

But, if we pull off a parody or pop culture reference poorly, then it may do just the opposite. Can you hear it? "Oh, is that just another one of THOSE churches doing something cheesy." We have a responsibility to give our 110% in everything we do. If it will be done, it must be done well.

One successful series we did in the Spring of 2005 is an example of a parody that went over really well. Visit www.ihatemymarriage.com to see it. The result: marriages changed, interest in church stirred (relationship series tend to do that), Godly advice on Christian living was preached and truth was revealed. Can THAT be bad?

I contend that it cannot.


AVed at 8/03/2005 11:47:00 AM | LINK |

8.02.2005

Elevator Hacking...

If I didn't live in Anderosn, SC, where the nearest elevator over two stories is 20 miles away, I would use this tip made available by the wonderful gents' over at Makezine.

OK, so there IS an 8 story elevator at the hospital, but somehow, it just seems wrong to try that out there. Perhaps the next time I'm in a city of any size....


AVed at 8/02/2005 04:12:00 PM | LINK |

Movie reviews from Brian

Last night, the Price family joined us for a movie-and-ebay-and-fix-the-grill-and-kettle-corn (homemade by yours truly)-and-did-I-mention-the-really-bad-movie-fest. We attempted to enjoy Cellular. I saw a preview a few months ago and thought "huh, that may be passably entertaining on the lowest-common-denominator sort of way, maybe I should watch it when it airs on Cinemax or Starz or something."

We watched. It was horrible. It was horrible in that "look away from the auto accident but you can't" sort of way.

Brian has a full review here.


AVed at 8/02/2005 01:42:00 PM | LINK |

Little G (he's a bit camera-squinty)

This is Gardner. Everyone, meet Gardner. He's developed this new "camera squinty" thing that makes Meg and I wonder... "hmm... how are we going to take his 1st year portrait?"


AVed at 8/02/2005 10:52:00 AM | LINK |

8.01.2005

Sammy gets punk'd

Today, our youth minister, Sammy Clary, got a taste of his own medicine. He was royally punk'd, and you can view the entire photoset here. I like a good prank as much as the next guy, but I only prefer them from a distance (please don't make me participate in your prank war, I may scream and start punching). Anyway, thought this would make you smile on a Monday.




AVed at 8/01/2005 01:11:00 PM | LINK |

more thoughts on Sunday's Life sermon

My wife, Meg, is so well versed. She truly knows how to capture feeling and mood in the written word. There was an aspect of spiritual warfare during yesterday's service that I cannot capture correctly, so I'll let Meg say it for me.


AVed at 8/01/2005 09:36:00 AM | LINK |