From Creativity Thoughts -
AVed at 8/31/2005 01:49:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/31/2005 08:53:00 AM | LINK |
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:
AVed at 8/30/2005 12:14:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/29/2005 03:23:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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.
AVed at 8/26/2005 07:39:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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 |
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.
AVed at 8/24/2005 07:48:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/24/2005 08:33:00 AM | LINK |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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).
AVed at 8/22/2005 09:27:00 AM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/21/2005 04:44:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
For those that had trouble watching the "Special visitor" video earlier this week, I've reencoded it. Please, enjoy.
AVed at 8/19/2005 08:00:00 AM | LINK |
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 |
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 |
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.
AVed at 8/17/2005 02:11:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
(UPDATED: I reencoded the video so it should work on PCs more reliably).
AVed at 8/16/2005 04:51:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/15/2005 06:18:00 PM | LINK |
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?
AVed at 8/15/2005 08:48:00 AM | LINK |
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).
AVed at 8/14/2005 06:15:00 AM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/13/2005 02:40:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/12/2005 12:39:00 AM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/11/2005 05:10:00 PM | LINK |
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.).
AVed at 8/11/2005 01:01:00 PM | LINK |
I'm starting to get the hang of Final Cut. It's fairly easy to get your hang of if you've edited before.
AVed at 8/11/2005 11:49:00 AM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/11/2005 09:34:00 AM | LINK |
Lost, I'm a fan.
AVed at 8/10/2005 12:08:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
A few links for you...
AVed at 8/09/2005 06:23:00 PM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/09/2005 11:41:00 AM | LINK |
New for your consumption (and based off of the security tags), desktop #11 from the AV Club is released to the public.
AVed at 8/08/2005 12:11:00 PM | LINK |
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).
AVed at 8/07/2005 10:43:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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.
AVed at 8/04/2005 10:29:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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).
AVed at 8/04/2005 12:35:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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.
AVed at 8/03/2005 11:47:00 AM | LINK |
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.
AVed at 8/02/2005 04:12:00 PM | LINK |
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."
AVed at 8/02/2005 01:42:00 PM | LINK |
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 |
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 |
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 |