A little violent, perhaps, but I love this video!

A flamethrower has to be the coolest gadget you could carry on your back. What happens when a flamethrower and fire extinguisher meet? The band Dancing Pigeon’s (where do people come up with these band names?) decided to find out in their music video for their single “Ritalin”. Check out the video – it’s awesome:

John Dyer is so cool. He’s just launched some new javascript goodness with MediaElement.js, which replaces <video> with either Silverlight or Flash which returns a wrapper object that matches the HTML5 Media Element API. What does that mean in plain english? It means that you can use this script and feel good about yourself even [...]

@Robdobiscool (what an interesting handle) asked me this privately yesterday and I thought it would be a great question to ask the community. I’ve got an example form that North Point Community Church uses which you can find here [PDF Download]. I had to sign one of these when I participated in the White Flag [...]

I get a number of emails from the community every week asking me questions that I really am not very equipped to answer. Thankfully, we have a community here and around The 8BIT Network which means that I don’t feel the pressure at all to be the go-to source for everything. *Whew!* I received an [...]

So, you say you love 3D animation? Maybe for you it was the first time you saw something computer animated….like Toy Story.  Or perhaps all these other 3D movies coming out now? Don’t laugh, but I absolutely freaked out when I first saw a popular 3D modeling program, AutoCAD. It was like an entire world [...]

Lets be honest, this thing looks sexy. What is this thing that you are looking at? It is the the NEX-VG10 Handycam from Sony. Sony claims, the NEX-VG10 is “the world’s first consumer camcorder with interchangeable lenses.” If that is not enough, here are some more deets from Sony themselves:

It can be quite difficult for me to sit through anything without getting the itch to do something else, especially online videos and ones that attempt to be short films. Most of them are boring, under-produced, or just plain bad. I found one this morning though that is anything but those things. I sat there [...]

Check out these two videos from CrossPoint.tv and their new series: Chronicles. I’m particularly loving the composition:

If you’re in any kind of creative position within your church or ministry, chances are you have a specific workflow you like to adhere to. If you don’t, then you should. You never know when you’ll need that footage you shot last year or an image from a shoot you did six months ago. Photographer/director [...]