January 2011
34 posts
Favorite TV Shows...
It should come as no surprise by now to anyone that I’ve been watching through The West Wing again. This is my fifth time through it, and I am currently on season five. For the first time I’ve noticed the significant drop-off in quality from season four to season five. What happened to create the difference? The shows creator, chief writer, and producer Aaron Sorkin left the show...
Honored, Humbled...
On Thursday I am heading out to Chicago for the day to photograph and take part in a STORY 2011 creative brainstorm and planning meeting along with 40 other hyper-creatives. I received an email this morning listing some details… the normal “when and where” stuff, but what really made me perk up a little was the invite list. As I was reading this intimidating (in a good way)...
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iCampus Updates
In all honesty, other than researching gear, pricing said gear, researching different tools online to keep us organized, big picture planning, and things like that… not a whole lot going on just yet. It took us longer to order gear than I would have liked, but we ended up coming in a good deal under budget because of our tenacity in price checking. Brent, another staffer and the guy in...
Gut Reactions Aren't Always Right
“In what seems to be the worst idea in the history of television, West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has his sight set on Facebook, claiming he’s interested in making a movie about the popular social networking site. He doesn’t understand Facebook, he says to BBC, but he’s ready to learn, thus creating his own Facebook account. It’s not entirely clear whether he wants to create a movie about...
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A Favorite Moment from The Social Network
Mark: It's raining...
Lawyer: I'm sorry?
Mark: It just started raining.
Lawyer: Mr. Zuckerburg, do I have your full attention?
Mark: No.
Lawyer: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark: What?
Lawyer: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark: I had to swear an oath before I began this deposition and I don't want to perjure myself so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Lawyer: Okay, no. You don't think I deserve your full attention?
Mark: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall they have a right to give it a try, but there is no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie...
Mark: You have part of my attention. You have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of facebook where my colleagues and I doing things that no one in this room including and especially your clients are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
Dear Christina
jhnmyr:
Dear Christina,
What a sad, sad thing that you can’t be here to see it, but you did something with your life that no politician in yours ever did or could: you unified the United States of America. Today you’re making people think more than speak. And maybe when they’re done thinking, they’ll speak differently. And then maybe after they speak differently others will want to think...
FREE PRINT CONTEST...
Alright folks… here’s the deal. My boss, mentor, and Internet Campus of CedarCreek.tv has just joined twitter. You can find him at @kyleJRgray. On his own, he is totally worth a follow, but I wanted to do something to help show the power of twitter when it’s working on all cylinders. So I’m going to give something away. If we can get him to 500 followers by midnight...
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Behind the Scenes: iCampus Social Media Strategy
This has taken a lot of time, and a lot of advil to figure out. When we started fleshing this out early last week this mind map looked a lot more confusing. We are only two weeks into the iCampus and we’re already constantly re-evaluating how we do things, making sure we’re not over-complicated and keeping our processes streamlined. This makes me happy. The above image is where we are...
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iCampus Gear List: Studio Equipment
Panasonic AW-HS50N Video Switcher
BlackMagic CONVMAAS Scaler x2
Dell P2411H 24” Monitor
Apple iMac 24”
Smith-Victor 2500-watt 3 Softbox Light Kit
Audio Mixer (used, already have)
Canon GL2 Camera (used, already have)
“Good enough” tripod (used, we already have)
DPA Mic (used, already have)
This list isn’t nearly as interesting, because we don’t need a...
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iCampus Gear List: On-Location Video
Today I’m talking about our on-location video set up. There were a lot of different options for this, and it was only after a lot of research I landed on these specific items. I’ll go over a few items briefly below the list.
Video Nikon D7000
Nikon 35mm f/1.4G
Lexar 16gb Full-HD SDHC Memory x4
Nikon EL-EL15 Battery x2
Nikon Battery Charger
Shape Cameleon II Pro Camera Support...
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“Anonymity may allow people to reveal their true selves, but maybe our true...”
– TIME Magazine, 2010 Person of the Year story on Mark Zuckerburg WELL worth the purchase of the magazine. The story is fascinating.
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iCampus Mobile Gear List
Our gear list is pretty long, so I’ve decided to break it down into smaller, individual posts so I can talk a little bit about the “why” behind certain items. I’m going to start with what is probably the smallest list, but maybe what needs the most explanation. This is our mobile connectivity list. This is the hardware that allows us to communicate with each other,...
Internet Campus - Collaboration Tools
Kyle and I will seldom be in the same place outside of shooting videos together, live broadcasts during weekend services, and meetings. Sure, we’ll get together for some big picture things and to go over anything that demands a face to face, but otherwise we are embracing the “internet” in Internet Campus. To do so, we must not only seek out the very best tools for online...
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What's an Internet Campus?
A lot of people in the Church world are seemingly familiar by now with church’s broadcasting their services live on the internet. To be a mega-church these days it’s almost impossible not to find one already broadcasting on the internet, or at least making a move to get there. What’s the difference between just broadcasting services live on the internet, and an actual internet...
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Becca's All Grown Up
Becca’s first day at day care was today. This is the first time I’ve been away from her for an entire work day. In all honesty, it didn’t really affect me much, at least not today. I was too busy with all the hubbub of being back at CedarCreek, and really, I kind of enjoyed the break. I’m looking forward to this new phase in Becca’s life. I’m excited for her to...
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Behind The Scenes, Something New
Today was my first day as CedarCreek.tv’s Internet Campus Video-Techy Guy… (Kyle, we really need to figure out a title). Spent most of the day in meetings, working on budget proposals, gear lists, slashing said gear lists to fit in lower budgets, researching cheaper gear, digging through garage sale items… etc. =) In the midst of all that though, Kyle and I talked about how there...
“This guy is walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so...”
– The West Wing