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That's right. Someone actually wanted to talk to us about what it is exactly we do around here. Just yesterday, via Skype, we sat down and talked with the fine fellows over at ChurchyMedia. ChurchyMedia is a great church tech type resource. They have a great podcast, a regular video series called Short Takes where they do quick reviews of everything from software to social media tools to books, and they're running a really funny cartoon series on their blog right now. Anyway, we enjoyed talking with them and you can check out the interview as well as subscribe the podcast, etc, by visiting their site: churchymedia.com
I was thinking and praying about the whole comments issue (see my previous post) and was gently reminded by the Holy Spirit that I'm not doing this whole videos for churches thing for Gary (or the commenting public in general), I'm doing it for God. And as long as I can keep that perspective then the things that people have to say about our videos don't hurt so bad. Of course, I also have to remember to lean on and trust God in everything so that I don't go from being hurt by the comments to worrying about how they're going to effect our sales and thus our ability to keep the lights on, not just at eleven72 World Headquarters but at our homes as well. So, today at least, say what you will, I'm serving and trusting God :).
Kyte TV is a new platform (in beta) that allows anyone to have in essence a TV channel that can be embedded anywhere and can carry anything and everything from live broadcasts, to audio files, to slide shows to high end produced videos. You create a channel on Kyte and that channel can go anywhere and when you update it with new content, it updates everywhere simultaneously. It's very very cool.
I talked a little about Come and See TV when I posted a video a few days ago for a band called Rumor of Glory. Intrigued by the Kyte TV platform, I signed up and posted the Rumor of Glory video on a new channel I created called Come and See TV. Now, I'm going to embed that channel here on the blog. Say you became a fan of Come and See TV, but don't want to go to Kyte or to our site or to our Facebook page or whatever but you still want to be able to see Come and See TV. You can take the embed code and Come and See TV can live wherever you want it to. And whenever we update it, it will update on your site. That's what they say anyway. Without further adieu, here it is... Introducing Come and See TV:
Friday I got to break out our shiny new Steadicam Merlin and use it in an actual real life shoot. The video features our good friend Josh Riebock. We'll post the whole video when it's done. In the meantime, Lee did a little (very low res) side by side comparison of the Steadicam shot we pulled off and a handheld shot of us pulling off the Steadicam shot. The Steadicam shot is on the left and that's me operating the Steadicam, backing away from Josh, on the right. Notice how smooth the Steadicam shot is compared to a walking handheld shot. Pretty cool.
