life after facebook

Here at my church I have many names. With each name comes a different hat that I am expected to wear.

It’s quite entertaining to me that if you ask each person at our church who I am and what my title is, you will get several different answers. The reason I write this is that I have several friends who are in the same field and I would imagine they get some of the same titles as well. It’s always interesting to hear people’s account of who I am in relation to our church.

To the church, I am:

- the Multimedia Specialist (my actual title)
- the sound guy
- the web guy
- the video guy
- the media guy
- the tech guy
- the mac guy
- the power point operator
- the guy with the couch in his office

I don’t mind these titles. In fact, I embrace them and think they make the job more entertaining because I never know who I am going to be each day.

Despite my many titles, I love my job.

Who are you at your job? What hats (or titles) do you wear?

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I’ve got green on.

Do you?

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This week we went with a little something different for the youth announcements.

I LOVE the end result.

The Specs

We shot Kirk doing his thing in one take. I made it purdy and then put a mask around his mouth. I then feathered the edges of the mask so that his mouth and the bowling ball would mesh together better. Text was added with his momologue and it was all done in Final Cut Pro.

Love it!

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Let me share something from the soul. Not just any soul. My soul.

I am new to the work world. There are many things that I am learning about myself and the people of the professional world.

I’ve come to realize that people who are chronically late (let’s call them croncs) are rock bottom on my list of people I want to work with in my day to day dealings.

There’s something about croncs that just make me lose most, if not all, of my respect. If you can’t have enough respect for me to show up to a meeting or practice on time, how can I offer you respect?

Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t just one or two instances. I’ve tried to give these croncs the benefit of the doubt, but after two and a half months, they’ve lost it. They’ve lost my respect.

Sorry for that little rant.

Know any croncs around the office?

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I must preface by saying I LOVED Benjamin Button. I thought it was very skillfully done and a great film. One of the best aspects of this film for me was the cinematography and effects in this film.

The video below helps give an idea of how the great effects of Benjamin Button came to be. It’s a little long, but definitely worth the watch.

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