Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Today I spent the morning at a local food bank, Project Share, where I was invited to lead the opening prayer. I stayed and helped distribute the food as well. It was a very good way of spending a Saturday morning! I hope to do it again soon!
Here is the prayer I […]

Armando Ibañez, a friend, recently completed this documentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Good Work!

Not Broken, a feature documentary from Pluma Pictures, illustrates the horrific life-and-death ordeals and struggles people faced at the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, as well as their heroics.
Their beliefs—whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or agnostic—provided a reservoir of […]

Fish Eye Panorama - Note Window Treatments are DONE!

Chroma Key Wall is almost ready!
Good work!

Wow! Machinima has really grown up in 10 years! Those of you who read my June 3rd, 2007 post, know I’ve touched briefly on this production approach. But now comes this great new breakthrough for Machinima artists:

Machinima Festival Europe ‘07
12 - 14 October 2007
De Montfort University Campus Centre
Leicester, UK
Machinima (pronounced ma-shin-i-ma). Making […]

Here’s a top-notch blog site for folks interested in Christianity and Film:
Church of the Masses
It’s written by Barbara Nicolosi who is one of the key folks behind the Act One Workshops and who writes film reviews and media reporting for the National Catholic Register.
There’s always something interesting on her blog!

Flash XDR™ is the first ultra-portable HD field recorder which utilizes CompactFlash media coupled with the high-quality, reprogrammable Sony MPEG2 CODEC. These two key technologies allow Flash XDR™ to redefine HD field recorders in terms of size (similar to a USB drive), weight (2 Kg), power (8 watts), noise (no fans), and affordability (US $4995). […]

The Studio is Almost Ready!
Media Services DVD & Tape Checkout Window is DONE!
Doors are almost done!
The Doors from the Library Side
The Bathroom is done!
Good work!

I was at a gathering recently where a film historian I know casually remarked that “semiotics is pretty much dead.” Well, here I am in New Orleans at the annual Semiotic Society of America Conference, and I can say unequivocally that semiotics is not dead! However, it is very diffuse and diluted. […]

“Mangiare” in Italian means “to eat”. The imperative, meaning what you have to do, is “Mangia!,” “Eat!”. When spoken it sounds a lot like the Japanese word for comics: manga. I often feel like a person at a banquet when presented with the world of manga!

On my recent stay in San Francisco I was privileged […]

More photos of the renovation taken on Tuesday (10-02-07).
It’s almost ready to use!
The Media Services Checkout counter!
One of the doors is hung!
Mr. Lew Gladfelter demonstrates the return dropbox …
Good work!