Here’s a sneak peak at our new design. The redesigned site will have a new, reliable, shopping cart. It will be fully searchable. It will be much better organized. We’re really excited about it and we can hardly wait for you all to see it!
This Just In…
We’ve been hard at work on seasonal content these last few weeks. Busy producing four videos simultaneously. Our first of the four is posted on our site now. It’s called Thanksgiving Fanatic and it’s a funny little mocumentary about a guy who’s absolutely crazy about Thanksgiving. We’ll be posting a version to YouTube soon, but until then you can Click Here to check it out on our site.
The guy playing the fanatic is a fabulous actor by the name of Ryan Wickerham. Google him, he’s done some great work. He’s largely responsible for bringing the funny to this short and he also brought in all the other great actors you see in it. It was so exciting to work with such great talent and I’m looking forward to future productions with this cast and crew.
Look for two brand new Christmas illustrations and a brand new New Years illustration very soon.
A friend of ours, Travis Currin, out of North Carolina left a comment asking us about the origins of our name. People often assume, for obvious reasons, that eleven72 must be a chapter and verse out of the Bible. The problem is that not many books have 72 verses. The only one I am familiar with is Psalm 119. So… Our name isn’t out of the Bible. The name has really simple origins really. Nothing too clever. Lee and I were both born in November of 1972. 11/72. We threw around a lot of names early on, but ultimately we settled on something simple that has to do with who we are and where we come from. We had to put something on the application we sent in to start the company, right? And so, eleven72.
Really the name fits us well, because the company is just the two of us and our lives have a lot of similarities. Both born in November of 72. Both married. Both have two kids born relatively close together. Both of our firstborns are girls. And both of our youngest are boys. Both of us have a passion for filmmaking and storytelling. And on it goes.
Top Ten Most Flattering Portrayals of Christians in Film
Brett McCraken, a grad student at UCLA who writes film reviews and such for Relevant Magazine and Christianity Today has a blog up and running called The Search. It looks to be a very promising blog. On it, he’s posted a list of what he considers the Top Ten Most Flattering Portrayals of Christians in Film. My favorite film on the list is #9. But I’ve only seen two films on the list, so it looks like I’ve got some homework to do. Click here to check out the list.
Every once in a while I stumble on a projector type gadget and I am compelled to post about it. Previous posts included a projector small enough to be incorporated into a cellphone and a projector bright enough to blind people from three quarters of a mile (see those posts here).
Now this (quoted from Gizmodo).
The FogScreen is the advertising industry’s latest weapon in the fight against peace and quiet. The projector can fill spaces like subway tunnels with floating ads that you can actually walk through. It sprays a very fine mist of dry fog, created from water by an ultrasonic wave, which can then be projected on to just as if it were a hard surface.
Did I mention you can walk through it. Now that is cool. Check it out:
Or the Feedreader link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZK5Y_J-UCY
Here’s something we’re really excited about here. Worship House is spinning off a magazine called Collide. Billed as the place “where media and the church converge,” it’s the first magazine that I know of that’s geared specifically toward using media in the Church. The whole project is being headed up by Scott McClellen, who used to do advertising and what not for Worship House. He’s a really sharp, creative guy and so I have high hopes for the magazine. No pressure Scott :). Anyway, we’re getting a subscription and I’m adding the Collide Blog to our blogroll. I encourage you to check out their website. You can find it here.
Oh, yeah, and if you subscribe now, you’ll be entered to win an iPhone. So do it.
Rockin’ the NWLC
I haven’t blogged this week because I’ve been wrapped in thought about how to best sum up our amazing experience at the National Worship Leader Conference last week. Finally, with a lot of help from my trusty friend Lee, I figured the best way to sum it up was with a video. Remember, no one made you watch it :).
