Last post.

If you didn’t catch the last post, I’ve moved this blog to a new address:

http://blog.twoandfour.com

Goodbye Tellemedia, hello Twoandfour.  Go check it out.

Tellemedia moves.

That’s right, folks!  Time to update those feed readers — Tellemedia is now at blog.twoandfour.com!

It was high time I did a major overhaul on this tired blog theme, and so I finally pulled the trigger.  All the posts from here have been tranfered over, and new ones are on the way.  (YES!  I’m actually going to blog again.)

Pop over to the new site and comment there letting me know how you like the new flava.

Tellemedia out.  For good.

Sometimes when things don’t work, they do.

After hearing Scot Longyear deliver this sermon from last weekend, I ran across this post in one of the blogs I follow at www.ragamuffinsoul.com.  Scot’s sermon spoke about handling crisis in our lives, and how God can really do some amazing stuff during hard times.

Because I deal with the technical details for each service here at MCC (it’s my job to), I get easily frustrated when everything doesn’t go EXACTLY how I planned for it to.  This video begins with a technical failure at Buckhead Church in Atlanta, and ends with God bringing the house down.  Check it out!

Worship imagery.

Last December we put up a center screen in our sanctuary.  It is a different aspect ratio than the side screens, and so we use it independently during services.  It generally shows a welcome slide until the sermon begins, and then it displays the sermon slides so we don’t have to cut away from our live camera shots.

During worship we try to display some imagery and/or words in an attempt to help people focus on the Lord.  It is truly amazing what some visuals can do to the room.

We’ve used pictures from The Passion, simple words, and abstract art.  Below are some of my favorites we’ve made from this past year.

Animals crack me up…

…especially when you add sound effects!

Productivity 101

I have a friend/co-worker that also likes to blog.  Currently he’s in the middle of posting a series on being more productive.  Go check out what Scot’s saying at Reson8.org.

Now that you know what I’ve been reading, check this out.  This book has done more for improving my productivety than anything else (except my wife).  There is a lot of “duh” material and other common sense that someone like myself needs reminded of.

Go take a look.

My freelance journey begins.

After having a number of conversations about doing some web design for people I decided to get organized.  My business cards just arrived – nothing too fancy, just simple and clean.

Why call it TWOANDFOUR?  I listen to a lot of jazz, and in jazz the structure is based on beats two and four.  However, the real beauty of jazz is in the improvization that surrounds that structure.  I feel web design is similiar.  It’s always a challenge to creatively design in a realm with so much restriction.

Anyway, the freelance thing is just a fun side gig I’m getting going.  I’ll post on this again when I start getting design jobs.

I’m still alive.

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but I’ve had a lot of things cookin’.  Here’s a little random video I found in the archives that I downloaded to use at Camp Illiana a few years ago.  (Kudos to Josh for the fresh new website design of Camp Illiana’s site!)

Enjoy.