35mm Challange

I heart challenges, and I found a really fun little test for every movie buff out there. Felix Meyer recently posted up a student project he created called 35mm and it is tons of fun.

Here’s the game…

Watch Felix’s 2min short ; and try to guess the 35 different movies he references.

I’m up to about 15. Post your guesses here if you figure them out.

Joe Makes Pictures

If you were to ask me what my passions were, I would immediately tell you two things.

1. Silly pictures of cats

2. Raising the quality of art in the church

So I get real tickled when there are other artists out there who are doing that. It’s tough being an artist and working for the church, but Joe Cavazos is doing it with style.

Joe is a graphic designer at Palm Valley Church in Mission, Tx. These guys have a series going on called Faith & Luck going on that Joe did some killer work on. He hand built most of the elements in this piece. I know that because he also put up a fun of his design process. Thanks for that Joe.

Here is the cool part. The guys at Palm Valley didn’t just leave the design there, they transposed it to the stage with gusto! Check out Joe’s blog post about it. These guys did a great job at choosing the right elements to move from the design to the stage. I think I would have been a bit too much to move the ducks, and apparently these guys did too. They chose excellent fabrics to compliment the design and round out the feel. As the guy who runs the video at a church, it’s always great to have some interesting colors and textures behind the people on stage.

To Joe and the guys who put this together, especially the volunteers who do it just because they love the Church, I’m giving you a digital fist bump. Keep up the great work.

Headbangers: An Opener Game

Two People…. Head to Head…. giving honor to the great metal bands of our forefathers! Two go in, but….. well, no one dies. Don’t be so morbid people!

This was a practice for an opening game we played at First Hattiesburg. We borrowed it from the game show Minuet to Win It.

We do things like this for two purposes. First off, we just like to have fun. I’m not sure when we learned that it was not ok to have a good time a church. Like God needs us to be solemn 24/7. There is a time for reverence and a time to bust loose. If you go to a church that never has any fun (aka “joy”, if you want to put it into churchy terms), then you might be at the wrong place.

Second thing, we do it for the people on the fringes. If someone comes to our church and the first thing we do is sing a song that they don’t know the lyrics to or one that sounds a century out of date, we have just alienated them and it will be harder for us to share the gospel. Instead, is it not better to put them in an open state of
mind? Start of with something that they can grab on to; make them feel apart of whats going on.

Headbangers – Interns

Headbangers – Students

Headbangers – Ladies

P.S. Devon Lair, my intern, lost. DEVON!!!!!!!