I was watching one of my favorite home-improvement shows the other night; Holmes on Homes. If you’ve not seen it, check it out. Mike Holmes is a contractor who gets called in by homeowners in trouble. Typically, they have hired a contractor to do a job and it’s either botched or abandoned. The homeowners are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lighting’
Being in Two (or More) Places at Once
The other day, I had to do a funeral. Now, I generally don’t like funerals; first because they’re typically emotionally hard, and second because they’re technically challenging. Typically, funerals are planned by people who have no idea how technology works and they are always last-minute. Last week’s funeral was all of that, and more.
Because it [...]
Follow Set
Last week we kicked off a new series at Coast Hills. The title is Follow: Jesus on Discipleship. We kicked around a lot of ideas for the set design, and here is where we landed.
We intentionally went for a simpler look because the theme of the series is about getting back to basics and simply [...]
The Good Enough Principle
Shawn Wood, Experience Pastor at Seacost Church wrote a post a few weeks ago that I found very interesting. His topic: The Good Enough Principle. Later that week I read an article in Wired about the same thing. There seems to be a movement afoot to make things good enough.
Now, if you’ve read this blog [...]
Setting Priorities
When I was in college, there was a professor who was known for shooting straight. When a student tried to excuse his unfinished assignment by claiming there were so many other things he was trying to work on, the professor simply waved his hand and said, “Priorities, son. Priorities.” That phrase has been rattling around [...]
Thinking Ahead
I was reading Tony Morgan’s blog the other day as he was reviewing Andy Stanley’s new book, The Principle of the Path. One phrase in particular caught my mind, and it’s stuck with me ever since. It’s good advice for life to be sure; and it has particular importance for those of us charged with [...]
Technology Lumping
Somewhere out there you might have noticed that sound, lighting and video are different (with apologies to The Masked Engineer). In the professional world, audio guys hold little regard for “squints.” The lighting guys don’t really care if there’s enough light for the video, and the video guys, well they don’t like anyone. A slight [...]
Sustainability
The word sustainability is all the rage now. We hear talk of sustainable forest management, sustainable building, sustainable manufacturing. It’s finally come to our collective attention that the resources on this planet are not inexhaustible, and we had better figure out how to live within our means, so to speak.
Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve [...]
Reaching Out
I’ve written about this before but this is a subject that bears repeating. Being a Tech Arts Director is a pretty lonely job sometimes. You might be the only one on your church staff who has any technical knowledge at all. Even if you work at a larger church with a tech staff, it’s hard [...]
Some Useful Tools
As a certified Mac geek, I enjoy collecting new applications. I just checked and I have well over 150 applications on my MacBook Pro. A quick scan through the Applications folder tells me I should probably clean a few out. There have been a few bright lights over the last few months, though, and I [...]
