5/30/2007
Sick of ordinary head shots!
We are excited about our artists this year on the Believe tour. I can't say just yet, perhaps another week or so; but we are going to have fun with our publicity. Instead of the normal boring glamor head shots we are going to have everyone distort their normal looks. Here's my sample. Fun stuff.
5/11/2007
You have 7 seconds . . . 6 . . . 5 . . . 4
I am 31 years old today. As my good friend Karla says, “I am celebrating another 29th birthday!” ha! It did hit me hard last night when during our Foundation Red Band Picnic one of the players prayed this for me, “Lord, be with Johnny as he has to travel in a band with guys who are all a decade younger than him.” Ha!
Today’s post is about knowing who you are and what it is you do. You would be surprised how many competent trained professionals simply miss opportunities because they can not master this simple idea.
During a meeting at work today I stated that the President of the United States only gets 7 seconds to make a point so why should we think we will get any longer. I was challenged on this statement by some around the table. Think about it. It is true. The president may speak on the White House Lawn for an hour. Unfortunately, what you will end up seeing is footage of him talking while the media gives their editorial. This is usually followed by a 7 second clip of the President speaking. Because advisor's know this they routinely practice what is called a “sound bite”. A sound bite is a concise and intentionally worded 5-7 second impression of their position on any given topic. Ultimately, this sound bite is the impression much of America has to base their perception upon.
I see this play out all of the time in Directing the Jr High Believe Tour. In any given trip I meet numerous potential artists to partner with on the Believe tour. A good friend of mine, Tim Grable, works for National Speaker’s Bureau. It is not uncommon for Tim to bring talent to talk with us about our theme and a partnership of some kind. This past fall we were looking for a Painter to come on the Believe tour. I am not talking about Rick Alonzo painting with neon colors to Carmen songs here folks! This is Believe. I wanted to kick it up a notch. We had visions of painters repelling from the ceiling and using mops, brooms, paint ball guns. Our vision for this element was highly engaging, teetering dangerous.
I must have met 5 painters at Youth Specialties last fall. I couldn’t get one of these folks to tell me in 30 minutes what they did. When Tim and I tried to let them in on our vision there was a fog over their face. I could read through it clearly, “I’ve never done that before”, their blank looks told me.
Enter Eric Timm. Eric told me in 5 seconds who he was and what his passion was. Sure he risked not being bland and covering every base. There was a great chance that our interests would not have matched up. After explaining in 30 seconds what we wanted to do on the Believe tour Eric responded enthusiastically. Eric is on our tour next year. Check out http://www.no1underground.com/ to learn about Eric!
Point: Do some soul searching to find out who you are and what you are passionate about. Learn how to communicate that to others. Stop caring if they accept it or not. If they are not interested it will save you, them and the local church we are called to serve lots of time!! Eventually you will find people you can serve with!
Today’s post is about knowing who you are and what it is you do. You would be surprised how many competent trained professionals simply miss opportunities because they can not master this simple idea.
During a meeting at work today I stated that the President of the United States only gets 7 seconds to make a point so why should we think we will get any longer. I was challenged on this statement by some around the table. Think about it. It is true. The president may speak on the White House Lawn for an hour. Unfortunately, what you will end up seeing is footage of him talking while the media gives their editorial. This is usually followed by a 7 second clip of the President speaking. Because advisor's know this they routinely practice what is called a “sound bite”. A sound bite is a concise and intentionally worded 5-7 second impression of their position on any given topic. Ultimately, this sound bite is the impression much of America has to base their perception upon.
I see this play out all of the time in Directing the Jr High Believe Tour. In any given trip I meet numerous potential artists to partner with on the Believe tour. A good friend of mine, Tim Grable, works for National Speaker’s Bureau. It is not uncommon for Tim to bring talent to talk with us about our theme and a partnership of some kind. This past fall we were looking for a Painter to come on the Believe tour. I am not talking about Rick Alonzo painting with neon colors to Carmen songs here folks! This is Believe. I wanted to kick it up a notch. We had visions of painters repelling from the ceiling and using mops, brooms, paint ball guns. Our vision for this element was highly engaging, teetering dangerous.
I must have met 5 painters at Youth Specialties last fall. I couldn’t get one of these folks to tell me in 30 minutes what they did. When Tim and I tried to let them in on our vision there was a fog over their face. I could read through it clearly, “I’ve never done that before”, their blank looks told me.
Enter Eric Timm. Eric told me in 5 seconds who he was and what his passion was. Sure he risked not being bland and covering every base. There was a great chance that our interests would not have matched up. After explaining in 30 seconds what we wanted to do on the Believe tour Eric responded enthusiastically. Eric is on our tour next year. Check out http://www.no1underground.com/ to learn about Eric!
Point: Do some soul searching to find out who you are and what you are passionate about. Learn how to communicate that to others. Stop caring if they accept it or not. If they are not interested it will save you, them and the local church we are called to serve lots of time!! Eventually you will find people you can serve with!
5/09/2007
New FR Summer Set List Chord Charts
We have been working hard all week long on new Foundation Red Worship Band material. You can follow this link to all of our new chord charts. We can't wait to see you at conference this summer! Just click the esnips link below and while you are there check out all the other cool ministry tools.
5/07/2007
Believe Backstage Video
We had this boat we traveled with for the final session, "Jesus came to call you to action". During load out this boat began to embody the difficulty of setting up and tearing down every week. At our last Believe the crew got their wish.
8 Reasons Spider Man was NOT a good movie
I am rarely overly critical about movies. There is one general rule of thumb I live by where most real critics would disagree. I never watch movies twice (Footloose being the natural exception to the rule). Spider Man 3 would be the perfect example as to why I have instituted this rule.
Reasons that Spider Man 3 sucked:
1# It was like they had 14 openings to this movie and couldn't decide which one so elected to put all of them in the film.
2# Was this a Hallmark special? I seriously thought I was watching lifetime television for women. It is supposed to be an ACTION HERO movie.
3# Peter Parker was annoyingly goofy the whole movie!!
4# When Harry dies the crying by Kirstin Dunst & Toby Mcguire was some of the worst acting since . . . Let's just say all the old Batman movies.
5# Some more plot development with the black stuff would have been nice!!
6# The ending was so freaking long I kept waiting for them to run out of options and finally do the Scooby Doo ending. (A reference to Wayne's World to make you happy)
7# The one redeeming quality was the scene with a waiter who repeatedly calls Parker 'pecker'. This scene makes the sucks list because I realized that the movie could have been good!
8# The previews before the film to Pirates of the Caribbean set my hopes to high . . . Like for a good movie.
Reasons that Spider Man 3 sucked:
1# It was like they had 14 openings to this movie and couldn't decide which one so elected to put all of them in the film.
2# Was this a Hallmark special? I seriously thought I was watching lifetime television for women. It is supposed to be an ACTION HERO movie.
3# Peter Parker was annoyingly goofy the whole movie!!
4# When Harry dies the crying by Kirstin Dunst & Toby Mcguire was some of the worst acting since . . . Let's just say all the old Batman movies.
5# Some more plot development with the black stuff would have been nice!!
6# The ending was so freaking long I kept waiting for them to run out of options and finally do the Scooby Doo ending. (A reference to Wayne's World to make you happy)
7# The one redeeming quality was the scene with a waiter who repeatedly calls Parker 'pecker'. This scene makes the sucks list because I realized that the movie could have been good!
8# The previews before the film to Pirates of the Caribbean set my hopes to high . . . Like for a good movie.
5/01/2007
The Perking Mullet
Today's post will forecast that USA worship bands will be a tipping point influencing modern American pop culture to welcome back the mullet.
One: A few weeks ago in Panama City, FL I experienced my first legit mullet sighting (East Tennessee Carnival workers do not count - see below- this is the real deal.) Christ In Youth premiered our summer high school event, ONES, and the worship band was Steve Fee. This was a great group of guys. Look for my podcast with Steve in the next few weeks. Steve's bass player, Heath, is the inspiration for the "perking mullet" blog today.
Two: an invitation to the blogging community to participate in coining the new phrase "perking a mullet". The definition I am offering up is: "haircut strategically designed for quick disguise upon imminent mullet ridicule or easily let out for mullet friendly environments."
I've been reading for some time now about the fashion of the eighties coming back into mainstream American pop culture. I have to admit this doesn't bother me seeing as how I was officially the last person in Indiana to stop tight rolling my pants! That was only because my wife made me stop before she would accept our engagement.
Now some of the popular fashion magazines are hinting about the return of the "mullet". I realize we have many alternate names for this (insert list).
We have all also heard the jokes about those regions in our country that never let go of the mullet. It is coming back! I am not talking about those goofballs who are just getting off the carnival circuit. This resurgence is already being seriously worn in the Netherlands and Australia.
Of all the fashion comebacks we have seen over the years this one haircut seemed to have no chance for another run! I do want to make the prediction that the Christian music community will be one of the major tipping points because of the influence of Australian band United right now on the songs they are pouring out. The Holy Spirit seems to be directly funneling so many songs that are touching the heart of this generation. I have a tremendous amount of respect for these guys. They also are unabashedly sporting this look. You have to be able to see this kind of fashion statement all the way through during this early adapters stage. We are on the cusp of student culture accepting this as soon as Holister puts the poster up! I only have this to see to those of you who are fence squatters. . . If you're going to ride this train do not be hesitater's! Commit!
I've followed Kirk Cameron through, fully participating the first time. I will be sitting this one out. However, I will be a frequent visitor to a new blog on mullet's I found doing research for this post! Click here.
One: A few weeks ago in Panama City, FL I experienced my first legit mullet sighting (East Tennessee Carnival workers do not count - see below- this is the real deal.) Christ In Youth premiered our summer high school event, ONES, and the worship band was Steve Fee. This was a great group of guys. Look for my podcast with Steve in the next few weeks. Steve's bass player, Heath, is the inspiration for the "perking mullet" blog today.
Two: an invitation to the blogging community to participate in coining the new phrase "perking a mullet". The definition I am offering up is: "haircut strategically designed for quick disguise upon imminent mullet ridicule or easily let out for mullet friendly environments."
I've been reading for some time now about the fashion of the eighties coming back into mainstream American pop culture. I have to admit this doesn't bother me seeing as how I was officially the last person in Indiana to stop tight rolling my pants! That was only because my wife made me stop before she would accept our engagement.
Now some of the popular fashion magazines are hinting about the return of the "mullet". I realize we have many alternate names for this (insert list).
We have all also heard the jokes about those regions in our country that never let go of the mullet. It is coming back! I am not talking about those goofballs who are just getting off the carnival circuit. This resurgence is already being seriously worn in the Netherlands and Australia.
Of all the fashion comebacks we have seen over the years this one haircut seemed to have no chance for another run! I do want to make the prediction that the Christian music community will be one of the major tipping points because of the influence of Australian band United right now on the songs they are pouring out. The Holy Spirit seems to be directly funneling so many songs that are touching the heart of this generation. I have a tremendous amount of respect for these guys. They also are unabashedly sporting this look. You have to be able to see this kind of fashion statement all the way through during this early adapters stage. We are on the cusp of student culture accepting this as soon as Holister puts the poster up! I only have this to see to those of you who are fence squatters. . . If you're going to ride this train do not be hesitater's! Commit!
I've followed Kirk Cameron through, fully participating the first time. I will be sitting this one out. However, I will be a frequent visitor to a new blog on mullet's I found doing research for this post! Click here.
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