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5,000 Tweets
I have officially posted 5,000 tweets. Some were amazing, some were worthless, but overall I’d like to think they’ve been beneficial to somebody’s life on some level.
In honor of my 5,000th tweet I slapped together a little music video. Is it professional quality? Definitely not. Is it supposed to be? Most definitely not. Do I take myself seriously? Sometimes, yes, but not this time.
Except for the base music track and some stolen graphics, I produced the entirety of what you’re about to see and hear (I apologize for that in advance). Check out the inspiration below after watching my treat for you all.
For the iPhone users head over to YouTube to see it.
I’m gonna be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers
Social Playlist
Last week I asked Twitter and Facebook peeps to contribute to a new playlist I’m creating. The theme was/is:
“Cover songs that are better than the original”
Obviously “better” falls into the category of opinion so this is all relative, but regardless I’ve compiled the list for your review. Feel free to discuss the list and give me more suggestions if your song didn’t make the list.
(List sorted alphabetically by song title)
Across the Universe – Jim Sturgess
Against All Odds – The Postal Service
All Along the Watchtower – Hendrix
Amie – Counting Crows
Baker Street – Foo Fighters
Beat It – Fall Out Boy
Billie Jean – David Cook
Borderline – The Flaming Lips
Boys of Summer – The Ataris
Bullet the Blue Sky – POD
Carless Whisper – Ben Folds
Carless Whisper – Seether
Come Together – Aerosmith
Dear Prudence – Dana Fuchs
Elenor Rigby – Thrice
Faith – Limp Bizkit
Feeling Good – Muse
Get the Party Started – Stretch Armstrong
Give Love a Bad Name – Blake Lewis
God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash
Guantanamera – Wyclef Jean
Heartless – Kris Allen
Hello – David Cook
How To Save A Life – Brandon Frasier
I am the Walrus – Boingo
I am the Walrus – Bono
In The Air Tonight – Nonpoint
Jolene – Whitestripes
Lollipop – Framing Hanley
Love Lock Down – Ryan Edgar
Love, Reign O’er Me – Pearl Jam
Moody’s Mood for Love – Elliott Yamin
My Humps – Alanis Morrisette
No One Like You – Sweet Lixx
One More Cup of Coffee – the Whitestripes
Place on Earth – Student Rick
Send Me an Angel – Thrice
Smooth Criminal – Alien Ant Farm
Stayin Alive – Wyclef Jean
Stone Cold Crazy – Metallica
Tainted Love – Manson
Tears of a Clown – English Beat
Time After Time – Spoken
Time of the Season – Blake Lewis
We Are the Champions – Gavin Degraw
Womanizer – All-American Rejects
Duncan Jones & Sam Rockwell on “Moon”
I am looking forward to this moving very very much. Check it out at www.moon-movie.com and watch the trailer. Hits theaters June 12th. Follow Duncan Jones on Twitter.
Click here to check out the interview.
SXSW – Day 0
It’s finally here… THE South by Southwest (SXSW) road trip.
Shawn McEntyre (@tehshawn) is joining me for the trip to Austin, TX for 5 days of Film and Interactive Media goodness. We’ll be throwing updates on Twitter and hoping they stick like cooked spaghetti on a refrigerator. Twitter was featured at SXSW a couple of years ago. Last year it had trouble keeping up with SXSW attendees. According to all the reports I’ve seen, SXSW is expecting a larger crowd than last year. Combine that with Twitter’s ever increasing userbase and it spells mondo trouble for getting updates out in a timely manner. If I can’t get Tweets up, I’ll be blogging from WordPress mobile and updating with pics and video later.
A few interesting events taking place:
Saturday, March 14th: Diggnation Live Show at Stubbs. Part of the Bigg Digg Shindigg. Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) and Alex Albrecht (@alexalbrecht) are taking the thunder to Austin for a night of loud, rauccous entertainment.
Tuesday, March 17th: Total Rad Show (TRS) Live Show. I don’t have the exact location and time just yet. It’s more of Alex Albrecht (@alexalbrecht), with Dan Trachtenberg (@DannyTRS) and Jeff Cannatta (@JeffCannata).
With the live shows, multiple screenings and film and Interactive Media panels I have on the intinerary, I will be exhausted when I get back Wednesday morning.
If you’re going to be there, hit me up. I’d love to meet you.
See you in Austin
Star Trek/A-Team Mashup
Kudos to @mediapeople for sending this to me.
Back to the WordPress
I rolled my site to Drupal a couple of months ago. I didn’t even update the site a single time after that. I have nothing against Drupal at all. It’s robust and solid CMS. It’s not the correct fit for my purposes though.
So here it is. The new chrisMARTIN.tv back on WordPress.
Catalyst 2008 – Together – Day 2 – Dave Ramsey
Going to drop some nuggets of wisdom on the Internet courtesy of the amazing Dave Ramsey who just spoke at Catalyst.
First his leadership message:
- Few churches or organizations experience real unity.
There are 5 main enemies of unity:
- Poor communication
- Gossip
- Unresolved disagreements
- Lack of shared purpose
- Sanctioned incompetence
- Poor communication can take many forms, but when the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, strife sets in.
- Gossip is degrading and will destroy a church or organization.
- a successful leader develop-s and maintains a culture in which negatives are handed up and positives are handed down.
- by definition, gossip is when a negative is discussed with anyone who can’t help solve the problem.
- Unresolved disagreements happen when a leader doesn’t know they exist or when that leader avoids confrontation.
- A little confrontation cleanses the wound and allows the parities to go forward in a spirit of unity.
- When you are aware there are hurt feelings and/or disagreements, act quickly and decisively.
- Lack of shared purpose is caused when a a leader doesn’t restate the goal, the vision and mission early and often.
- It has been said that sanctioned incompetence demoralizes.
- Team members will eventually become demotivated when someone else on the team can’t or won’t do their job and a leader will not take action.
- For the sake of unity in the entire group, the leader must go to battles early and often with any of these enemies of unity.
- When unity is valued in the culture, the team will also at to keep these enemies from the gate.
- The only way to penetrate the market place for Christ is extreme excellence
As for his financial advice in these turbulent times:
- Knowledge and perception removes fear.
- Gold hasn’t been used as an on-the-street currency since Roman times.
- Over the history of the last ten 10 year stock market cycles, the market has delivered a 33% increase over pre-crash value.
Catalyst 2008 – Together – Day 1
Today ….I don’t have a word that adequately expresses today. Unfortunately, if you weren’t there, it will be impossible for me to fully represent the awesomeness of the day.
Today’s speakers included Andy Stanley, William P. Young (author of the New York Times Bestseller “The Shack”), Jim Collins (author of “Good to Great” and “Built to Last”), Steven Furtick (Lead Pastor of Elevation Church), Rev. Dr. Brenda Saltier McNeil (author of “A Credible Witness”), marketing guru and best-selling author Seth Godin and Senior Pastor of LifeChurch.tv, Craig Groeschel.
A few highlights from the day:
Andy Stanley:
- Moral authority is the alignment between creed and deed.
- Are you doing what you say you’re going to do? If not, you have no moral authority.
Jim Collins:
- Greatness is not a function of the cards we’re dealt. It is a function of choices and discipline.
- The great fall by over reach and exercising an undisciplined pursuit of more.
- The signature characteristic of GREAT leaders is humility.
- Every generation needs to develop its own practices to passionately deliver the values shared across all generations
- Greatness is a function of choices nobody sees.
- For every “to do” there must be a “stop doing”.
Steven Furtick:
- Between promise and payoff is the process.
- God is preparing you for what He’s preparing for you.
Seth Godin:
- Tribes are crowds of people that have a common interest, passion or purpose.
- Tribes are difficult to make both large and tight knit.
Craig Groeschel:
- Most people have lost “it” and need to get “it” back.
- God makes “it” happen.
- We cannot create “it”.
- “It” is not a model.
- “It” has an upside – healing, changed lives
- “It” has a downside – critical response
- Ministry can quench “it” if allowed. Very similar to a tire with a slow air leak.
- You MUST do something drastic to get “it” back.
- God must stretch you, heal you and ruin you.
- You must allow the things that break God’s heart to break your heart.
It is going to be very difficult to top today’s content. I feel so drained from trying to keep up all day and ingest every nugget of wisdom and knowledge that seem so to be common sense and absolute genius at the same time.
Catalyst 2008 – Together – Preshow
Here we (Scott Morris of MoCreative.tv and myself) are the night before Catalyst kicks off. Not a lot going down today. I am trying to figure out what all the Twitter peeps and other bloggers are doing over the next two days. I’ll be updating as often as possible this week. You can also catch my updates via Twitter and the occasional live broadcast. Check out what other Twitter users are saying about Catalyst.
Hit us up if you’re going to be around Catalyst. We’d love to meet you.
Gold Mettle Moments
Opener for the August series at NORTHchurch entitled “Gold Mettle Moments”.
Dictionary.com defines mettle as:
1. courage and fortitude: a man of mettle.
2. disposition or temperament: a man of fine mettle.
Authentic
This is the Intro video for the current series playing at NORTHchurch called “Authentic”.
Rob, Tasha, Jessi and I took over a building that was under rennovation for the better part of a Saturday morning to film this. It’s a multicam shot (2 Panasonic DVX100s and a Canon GL1 (Icky)). I’m not a big fan of cameras that don’t have adjustable frame rates. The DVX has spoiled me.
iPhone 2.0 is pretty awesome
It’s so awesome because it now has a native WordPress app available on the App Store for FREE! How freaking awesome is that? I’m using it to make this entry.
I will probably update the blog more now but not with long diatribes since typing on the iPhone is just not as practical as a regular keyboard.
You may now continue to stalk me.
Seasons
It’s appropriate that today marks the start of a new season (summer solstice) that I bring this post to you. Next week is my last week at my current occupational environment. I’m moving on to greener pastures; a new season. I’ve learned a lot here in the last two and a half years.
On a separate topic…My short comedic piece is scheduled to film sometime next week. I hope to finish my preexisting video projects so I get to work on editing the short and hopefully have it done by the time school kicks back in.
If I play my cards correctly, my host will crash and I’ll have to look at more stable hosting options. We shall see.
More later.
Carlsbad Road Trip 2008 – Part III
We’re heading home. I’m writing this in the car courtesy of my trusty EVDO card which works surprisingly well in West Texas….even if I’m not actually getting EVDO speeds. This trip has been a very good getaway from life, but stress seems to follow me regardless of where I go. Whether it was making a decision about where to eat or what to do, nobody could seem to agree on what to do in a stress free manner. I ended up sitting back and just staying out of it for the most part.
On a separate note…New Mexico and West Texas are flat….very flat. I’ve seen more elevation changes in a sheet of notebook paper. Somehow people find a way to live out here, but I don’t think I could handle it. Lack of decent high speed, enjoyable activities, and an Apple Store within decent distance would be an instant no go for me.
We’re heading to Lubbock right now, then to Amarillo and finally home. I hope to get some rest for tomorrow. Easter Sundays are always busy busy. Granted NORTHchurch.tv isn’t anywhere near as busy at LifeChurch.tv, but we definitely have a huge influx. We’re not expecting the normal size of an influx this year due to Spring Break coinciding with Easter.
That’s it for now. I’ll fire up another entry before I get home tonight probably. If not, check back for the pics and vids.
Carlsbad Road Trip 2008 – Part II
Today was very exhausting. I’m out of shape severely. Dropped 750 feet to the Caverns of Carlsbad…twice. Once in an elevator and once on foot. It’s truly amazing such a place exists on this earth, preserved enough from the destruction of man, that you can imagine what it looked like thousands and millions of years ago. Granted, mankind has been destructive enough to these caverns, but the majority of the beauty remains intact.
I’ll have the pics up on Flickr along with some video of our tour on this site after I get home. Traveling with family that doesn’t truly understand the whole Social Networking/Internet/Media thing makes things a little difficult to do run and gun editing.
Carlsbad Road Trip 2008
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Carlsbad, NM. I’ve been away from home for 24 hours. I wish I was lifecasting but the lack of a decent civilized 3G or even 2.5G network along the way has made that impossible. So I’m taking pictures which you can see (here and here).
I’m so glad to be out of the car. I hope the bed is more comfortable than last night and that tomorrow is more interesting than today. We’re scheduled to hit the caverns at 10 AM. I don’t know what the day has for me after that. I find myself lacking energy to move. It’s vacation. I want to rest, but the break from life at home is definitely appreciated. I’ve been videoing as well but probably won’t have anything up until I get back or maybe tomorrow night. I’m too tired to capture and then edit…especially with a comfortable looking bed so close.
Keep checking Flickr and Facebook if you have it. I’ll get the podcast and the YouTube going in the next couple of days hopefully.
Catch you tomorrow.
This is getting ridiculous
Every time I sit down and start planning increased blog activity and video projects I get distracted or slammed with non-optional work that keeps me from really getting to work and building the empire that will some day be chrisMARTIN.tv. I’ve been piecing together a short film screen play that will hopefully be a huge success. It’s a play on an old joke. I just hope my interpretation is both funny and well received. Hopefully I can shoot it soon.
One way or the other I have to find a way to update this puppy daily if not weekly. I’ll never get it off the ground if I don’t do something soon.
GLife – Intro
Well I’ve been slaving away on this one for the last week or so. Had to get some help on it due to my lack of Motion knowledge (Thanks Jody Wickersham). Everything you see here was created in Motion except the gradient wave in the very back. Enjoy.
New Year Resolution
The goal for 2008 is to blog more. Podcasts should be coming in force. At least one a month is the goal. I have to stay focused. I want to have some sort of name recognition on the net separate from that guy that sings for Coldplay (Chris, if you happen to read this, I love your band).
That’s it for the time being. More later.
Road Trip – Christmas 2007
T-Minus 2 days 20 hours 19 minutes and counting.
Heading to the Windy City for Christmas. Logic would dictate that I’m an idiot for heading to north to a windy city during winter….if so, I have 3 other idiots joining me on this excursion. I’ll be filming and lifecasting too. God bless EVDO.
I haven’t finished Christmas shopping yet. I’m so behind. There never seems to be enough time and even though Christmas shopping seasons starts Nov 1 now. Oh well. It’s not about the stuff, even though buying things for myself has been a vice and very tempting this year, it’s about Jesus, it’s about joy, it’s about family and togetherness and fellowship.
whoisLAUNCH.com – Episode 4 – LAUNCH Goes to the Mayor
Here it is folks….potentially the last LAUNCH episode ever. By far the best and best put together. Oklahoma City, OK Mayor Mick Cornett joins us for this installment. Thanks Mayor Cornett
Episode 4 – LAUNCH Goes to the Mayor
Thanksgiving
Yearly get together. Using the EVDO to post this. Nice to have that luxury when you’re at a house that doesn’t have WiFi, let alone an Internet connection. I’ll have some more updates for you all (all 2 of you) shortly. Uploading and shooting some new vids over the next week. Enjoy the tryptophan with your fam. It’s turkeylicious.