31.12.10

27.12.10


"Happiness only real when shared."
- Chris McCandless



"On a Wanderer's Grave, The World Doth Tread"


This the latest skateboard that I've made title "A Wanderer's Grave." The phrase was taken from a poem titled "The Sailor's Lament" and adapted to something a little more person.

I bought pre-pressed wood since I don't yet have a skateboard press, but I did all the cutting, shaping, smoothing, curving, finishing and designing of this board.
Check out the video I threw together of the process.



A [joel.witwer] original.

A little more about the process of painting on the graphic.
I first coat the board in three layers of poly urethane to seal off the wood and prevent paint from seeping down into it. I design the graphic itself on my computer, then print it out and trace it onto the board. All the paints I use are simple acrylics. Once the graphic is on the deck, I apply three more layers of poly urethane to seal in the graphic and keep the deck tight.

24.12.10

I love pretty much everything about Christmas, so I'm just going to keep Christmas videos coming all day!



I want a kid like this some day.


Christmas is tomorrow. Just sayin'





"Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like are but various fruits which succeed it."
- Henry David Thoreau in Walden

"We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused."
- Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild


"Rochester is a dismal place with poor weather, I cannot imagine why anyone would willingly want to live there."
- Ansel Adams

Oh yeah, Ansel Adams? Well no one likes you much either ... oh wait ...

22.12.10


Merry Christmas!

21.12.10


You know it's bad when some of the most to-the-point speaking on Jesus and charity comes from a satire show.

Also, I check out the Bill O'Reilly references that Colbert referenced in the above clip, just to see if they were being taken out of context. Nope, it's as bad as it sound. Check it out for yourself

Keep Christ in Unemployment by Bill O'Reilly


20.12.10

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday and wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot, of our actual lives..."
- Jack Keroauc in On the Road


"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

- Goethe


Always chase your penalty kicks.



This is just an incredible try! Look at his sense of presence on the field. He chips the ball, picks it and then instantly sidesteps the defender to make the try. A superb try.

17.12.10

16.12.10

I will recreate this one day


15.12.10


I know that this is old news on the interwebs, but how cool of an idea is this!? Use a high speed camera (210fps)and film out the window of a train arriving at a station! Everyone just looks 'stuck'.

14.12.10


Well this is concerning.

Evidently, I am a emotionally upset woman who is between 66 and 100 years old.

They do a text analysis on all your text posts and figure out the results. It's all very scientific!

Uh oh.

http://urlai.com/


simply brilliant.

13.12.10

absolutely gorgeous.

9.12.10


Travel lots, film it all.


I went crazy last night.

An energy burst forth from unknown sources. I was up, bowling through my house, using my feet as sleds on the cold, hard hill of my kitchen floor.
Back and forth I went.
To and fro I shuttled.
A grin dominated my face as I chuckled, thinking about how I must look to someone else. But there was no one else, just me, alone with my momentary insanity.
Maynard Roof was playing.

The Argentines collapse in defeat
The admiralty surveys, the remnants of the fleet
The ground beneath their feet is a nautically mapped sheet
It's thin as paper while it slips away from view





8.12.10

I love most everything about this video.

7.12.10

"I am an artist from Knoxville, TN and I have been changed by the love of God. I grew up in a Christian home my whole life but in high school I began to fall away from God. I found out that drugs and alcohol taste good and began to rebel from the Christian foundations of my childhood. It was in this rebellion that I became severely depressed to the point where I wanted to actually kill myself. So, I continued on this rebellion in high school until my junior year when I actually felt the presence of God for the first time. After that taste I could not go back to the rebellion of my former life. Ever since my taste of God and the love that he has continued to show me He has showed me who I really am.

God showed me that I was made to love on Him through the arts and music. When I got saved I began to create art and as I created art I have noticed that it brings me closer to Him and it allows God to minister to other people. It wasn't until I came to know God that I was able to tap into the artistic gifts that he had placed inside of me. God has given me the ability and the creativity to create art and enjoy Him through it. It has also given me the ability to show God to people in a unique way. I believe that God will encounter people through my art on the streets and in the galleries."

6.12.10

accurate?

3.12.10

simple and beautiful.

2.12.10


I am torn on how I feel about this.

1.12.10


Now this woman has a sense of humor

27.11.10

Today, someone tried to send a media message to my phone and my phone wouldn't let me see who tried to send it let alone what it was. It is driving me crazy.

My constant connection to technology and the continual stream of information it brings has created a fear in me. A fear that someone may want to tell me something and won't be able to if I'm not always connected.

It's a stupid fear, I know.

It's also stupid that I'm sharing this fear with you through more technology.

the end.


26.11.10


Anyone want to try this with me?

25.11.10


People tell me that Thanksgiving is all about Turkey and Football. Well I've already had my Turkey and I know nothing about Football, but, if this video is any indication, it seems like a tricky lil' sport to me.

24.11.10

I want you to feel the raw, unbridled power and beauty of this place. I felt that using anything but the unedited clip would subtract from it. I wish I could do more.

'For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made. So men are without excuse.'

- Romans 1:20 (Amplified Bible)

23.11.10

Let me indulge myself for a minute and pretend that there are some of you that eagerly await my video posts each and every weekday. If this is you, I apologize for the last of posts last Friday and this past Monday. I was on a backpacking trip in the snowy adirondacks (more on this later) and then a brief trip to NYC.


In NYC, Davey and I had to go check out every photographer/videographer's mecca, B&H Photo Video where we sent money we probably shouldn't have, but definitely don't regret! I bought myself a beautiful lil' canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, which Davey calls the 'nifty fifty' while he got a sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 wide angle.


Now check out the picture below (click to see a slightly larger version):



Now the picture on the left was taken with my stock lens, take note of the the field of view. The picture on the right was taken with my camera body in the exact position, but Davey's new lens. Check out that ginormous field of view compared to regular! We played around with it a little more as the day went on and, as you would expect, we found some linear distortion in the images, but very minimal amounts. That is one rad lens!




More Set Production, Less Special Effects


17.11.10


maybe I'll be able to make films that look this beautiful one day ...

16.11.10

15.11.10


All shot on a cell phone (Nokia N8) ...

10.11.10

Sometimes, he hits the nail straight on the head.
check it out

9.11.10


I found this beat' a few years back and recently it's popped back into my life. I guess I'll share it with you.

8.11.10


How do I mix my love of traveling and new experiences with my intense desire to have deep and meaningful relationships? I am torn between two loves, neither of which is wrong, but neither is self sufficient.

2.11.10

Up until last week I have always thought that art was an act of creation while science was merely an act of discovery. I had incorrectly held art in higher esteem than science. While I have always excelled at science, I have always strived to succeed at traditional art; drawing, painting, woodwork, film, photography, music, etc. I had strived, but nothing much has resulted.

On a drive home last week I was thinking over the relationship between art and science and what the balance between them is. Some are wired to capture absolutely gorgeous images with little thought or understanding to the millions of processes going on inside their tools they use. Others can understand every little process inside the tool, but are completely incapable of composing an image that the world would fawn over. It was while on this train of thought that I came to the conclusion that art is not only creation, but also the discovery of beauty in monotony. Along the same lines, science is not merely discovery, but also the creation of order in chaos. In a world where everything has already been created, both art and science are catalysts for the discovery of new combinations which create beauty.

My science is art and my art is science.
Both are expressions of beauty.

28.10.10

Proponents of the Second Amendment often claim that they want no restrictions so that they can protect themselves. These proponents are often the ones that need this "protection" the least. They have situated themselves far away from the areas where gun crime is highest, or even present. In actuality, the majority have never used their guns in self defense and never will.

Come to the city. Live here and when a kid around the corner gets shot and dies because another kid likes his shoes, try and tell me more guns would've solved the problem.

While I do think easy accessibility to guns is a huge problem, increasing restrictions may help but definitely will not solve the problem. What we need are widespread conflict management skills. Physical force and violence should not be the first resort, but this is often the only thing kids see modeled. Parents, community leaders, role models, politicians, police and even the government need to look at how they deal with situations that arise and find non violent ways to respond.

Young eyes are watching everything. Let's find a way to influence a generation and change the future.
I awoke this morning to experience power and beauty in perfect proportions. It set a frame through which I will view this day in awe.

27.10.10

One of the best interactive video experiences you will ever see!

26.10.10


"Being raised by tv and movies, I always thought that Jesus just walked on water and told people not to have abortions, but it's so much cooler than that. He was like ET, Edward Scissorhands and Marty McFly combined."

- Abed in Community S2E5

25.10.10


I love this guy.

21.10.10

Evidently blogpost is for old people and that's why I only have 17 followers ... oops.

I love the people in my life and their ridiculous statements.

18.10.10


Sirens wailing
Bike spokes tinkling
-
The tires screech long
The bike tinkles on
-
Silence
-
A man drops his head
A child lies dead.

They say a child died on my block today. They say a cop car hit a kid on a bike, sent him flying into the air from which he came down dead.
I was half a block away when it happened.

Father, what is your plan in all of this?



from Doghouse


14.10.10

12.10.10


Gritty ..



11.10.10


"I don't want the bread. Bread makes me have to pee"
"I'm Jesus Christ"
"I was a gangster. I ran with Al Capone and all those cats"
"You're my friend"
"He hates black people! He's a racist!"
"The A-rab beat me!"



Homeless people with mental illnesses drive me crazy. I try and show love, but it just doesn't seem to get through and my efforts feel futile.

Father, give me patience and more love than I know what to do with.


The best axe commercial I've ever seen.

10.10.10

"In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won't be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively, more unexpectedly. Christ will become That Man who changes people, someone who jumps off bumper stickers and mediocre praise songs and into lives, a presence much more like Gandalf the Grey than Mr. Rogers."

- Jonalyn Fincher in UNchristian (p.240)

9.10.10

Becuase I don't know what to do,
I do nothing at all which may,
in fact,
be worse than trying and failing.



A week ago, I was in Minneapolis, MN for the Desiring God conference which was an absolutely great time. Some of the speakers were Rick Warren, R.C. Sproul, Fracis Chan and John Piper. Yeah, those are some big names in the US Christian world right there. Oddly enough, the thing that seems to be sticking with me the most from the weekend was an incident I observed last Sunday morning. I was walking into the convention center for the last session when I saw a homeless man being escorted out by convention center security. As I walked by them I thought, "Something doesn't seem right about this." A homeless man being escorted out of a CHRISTIAN conference about becoming better Christians and coming to desire a deeper and more loving relationship with God. Take a look at Matthew 25:31 - 46. I think that's pretty clear on what God desires from us ...

Now that thought gave me a weird something-isn't-quite-right-here feeling, but as I was thinking more about it later I was floored. Yeah, something wasn't right there. We're supposed to love and provide for those with less material wealth than us and I was thinking that this shouldn't be happening especially at a Christian conference, but what did I do? Nothing ... I saw it happening, I acknowledged that it wasn't right and yet I did nothing. While I was busy thinking that someone should do something, it never occurred to me that I could be that someone to do something.

Father, give me wisdom and courage in situations where I am uncomfortable and don't know what to do. Help me show even a small portion of the overwhelming love that You've shown me.


7.10.10

A Moment in Multiple Mediums










Dear Weezer,

I'm a fan, not a HUGE fan, but still a fan. Every now and again, about once an album actually, you write a song that reminds me of some glorious memory. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Joel A. Witwer

6.10.10


My children will be raised to be this awesome.

5.10.10


I wish all videos were released with a "this is how this video was made" video or explanation.

4.10.10

I am currently reading the Dietric Bonhoeffer biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy by Eric Metaxas and I just had to share a Martin Luther quote that Metaxas shared with me:

"If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian."

- Martin Luther


The range of the future of video looks dynamically high.


30.9.10



um, what?


27.9.10


All from the Russ Chimes Midnight Club EP.
Super sweet idea.



Part 1

Part 2




Part 3

22.9.10

"These young Christian leaders realize that that they must display excellence at their craft. Their credibility as Christians depends on their ability to do a great job."

-David Kinnaman in UNchristian (p.136)


21.9.10



reminds me of highschool

19.9.10


It wasn't until it was already over that I realised that the old man with only three teeth may have been the God sent answer to my repeated prayers of this last week.

16.9.10




Much of it is about perception.


Not only do I update this blog far too often, I also follow a slightly ridiculous number of blogs. One of them is Jon Acuff's "Stuff Christians Like." It's just a funny look at American Christianity. Here's a post from today that just plain made me smile a tad:

"In my head, God has a huge computer in heaven. (Probably a Mac.) And he’s continually monitoring the Internet. When he sees me about to do something foolish, he unplugs my connection. He blocks me or makes Intense Debate time out."


To read the whole thing go here.


15.9.10




"(Many of those outside of Christianity) reject Jesus because they feel rejected by Christians."


-David Kinnaman in UNchristian (p.11)



I am slowly falling in love with my neighbourhood. Everyday, it becomes a little easier to want to go home. I still have to work a lot out, but I'm getting there. May the LORD's will be done.


This came up in conversation with my flatmate last night:

"It's not us, Christians, them, sinners, and God. It's us,sinners, and God. We tend to forget that and it makes us think we're better than everyone else."

14.9.10


This is a man.

Kristian Anderson, recently diagnosed with cancer, made this for his wife Rachel and it's freakin' wonderful. That is the PM of NZ at the beginning and, yes, that is Hugh Jackman there in the middle.


13.9.10


"(With a full understanding that our identity is in Christ and not in self) much of the emotional suffering caused by our addictive desires is healed. We can begin to drop all of our manipulative games - the money game, the security game, the male-female game, the power game, the knowledge game, the expert game, and so on. We can present ourselves simply to others: 'Here I am. It's all I've got.' In humble self awareness and sovereign freedom we can truly be for others without fear of rejection or concern for their usefulness to us."
- Brennan Manning in The Importance of Being Foolish (p.131)




Possibly the best video of all time.

9.9.10


The text says:

"So today I'm trying to change a few things to rectify the situation of my past. So today I'm looking towards the future of our youth."


8.9.10




a joel.witwer original




I want a girl that can dance like this.

6.9.10

1922 Colour Videos




Colour videos from 1922! This just blows my mind and makes me feel like the people in 1922 were actually real people!

3.9.10




I love the things people think of!



A bluegrass performance shot a film.

Simply wonderful.


30.8.10




I absolutely love this movie and all of its music, but George Clooney's mustache brings me close to disliking it!




:The Irish are the Blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the Blacks of Ireland and Northside Dubliners are the Blacks of Dublin."
- Jimmy in "The Commitments"
All this to say that North Dubliners singing soul makes sense.

27.8.10




I hope I can be as chill as this when I get old.


From a Lifeway research study.

70% of young adults ages 23 to 30 stopped attending church regularly for a least a year between ages 18 and 22 for some of the following:

27%: "I simply wanted a break from church."
26%: "Church members seemed judgmental and hypocritical."
25%: "I moved to college and stopped attending church."
23%: "Work responsibilities prevented me from attending."
22%: "I moved too far away from the church to continue attending."
20%: "I didn't feel connected to the people in my church."
18%: "I disagreed with the church's stance on political or social issues."
17%: "I was only going to church to please others."

Now these numbers neither add up to 70 nor 100, so I'm guessing participants had the option to choose multiple options ...

"Some people also express an increased skepticism about why we even need some of the new technologies the church is using. Does displaying the words to a hymn on a centralized jumbo screen make the process of singing corporately that much easier or more convenient than reaching down to the pew and flipping to the correct page in the book? Sure, there are some benefits involved with trading hymnbooks for PowerPoint (for one, it's cheaper), but do the outweigh the costs (for example the loss of a collected anon of scared church music)? We are very quick to justify the change because of the pros, with scarcely little pause to consider the cons. Because its newness appeals to us, and because we live in a fast-paced, ever-changing world, we embrace the new technology with open arms, even when the old technology (hymnbooks) seemed to work fine for hundreds of years, We show words up on the screen because we can, not because the former alternatives were ineffective."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.185)

and a little further on

" Now I am not saying that these sorts of things have no merit or do not contribute to the spiritual enrichment of Christians. Certainly the church should be engaging with the creative use of technology. To abandon technology altogether would be just as foolish as leveraging it in an extreme or reckless way. Technology itself doesn't make anything cooler, and increasingly the younger generations are looking for a tech-free space wherein they can quiet themselves and focus on the transcendent truths of the gospel, apart from the media and digital overload of the rest of their lives."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.186)


Anyone getting sick of me posting text and quotes instead of just videos yet?


26.8.10




The sheer amount of time this must have taken is incredible.



25.8.10


"The consensus seems to be this: we should be deeply Christian artists. But that doesn't mean we should be something called Christian artists or that whatever we produce should be called Christian art. We should simply focus on our craft, on making the best art we can. We should understand that people will and should resonate with out work not because it is Christian but because it is good. Above all, Christians should make good art, true art; art unafraid of exploring mystery, portraying evil, and looking for truth wherever it appears. Which is exactly what the best secular artists are doing."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.167)

"In his book 'The Culturally Savvy Christian', cultural critic and arts advocate Dick Staub makes the point that discernment should be 'evaluating the nuances of art, not just evaluating it based on a superficial checklist of unacceptable elements.'

Indeed, the point that many artistic Christians are trying to make is that art has so much more to offer us when we engage with it beyond our simplistic moral rubrics. Think about the Bible, they say. It's full of offensive content: sex, beheadings, prostitutes, torture, infidelity, you name it. The Bible is R-rated; it's dangerous. But that's only because life is that way, and every story has to have conflict and resolution, darkness and light.

Something doesn't have to be safe in order to be good. Christian hipsters are desperately trying to communicate this about art. It should not be constricted by a prudish commitment to 'safe,' but rather it should be allowed to do what it is meant to do: unveil reality and expose truth in all of its messy, mysterious glory."

- Brett McCracken in Hipster Christianity (p.165)

Absolutely Gorgeous



Beautiful in so many ways.

It was also made from ~4500still images, which just makes it cooler!


24.8.10


" If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display. To do this, the church must stop thinking of everybody primarily in categories of in or out, saved or not, believer or nonbeliever."

- Rob Bell in Velvet Elvis (p.167)



I'm not even close to figuring it out, but a shadow is a lot closer than shade.

The Look of Film



HD is the big thing. People love the clarity, sharpness, etc. But I can't stop falling in love with the look of film; the grain, the colours, the sketchiness. Maybe one of these days I'll actually have enough time and money to try my own film. Until then, I'll just appreciate other people's work and work on creating film effects with my own videos.


23.8.10

County Law!




She's kind of adorable.

Jealousy



How sweet would it be to be these kids?!

18.8.10


"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ..."

- Jack Kerouac in On the Road (p.6)

A Video Poem



Yes, this is a video poem. Don't watch it as a video, watch it as a poem.
Talk through each scene in your head and you'll begin to understand.
Astounding.


" ... some of the worst villians of the Nazi regime were not necessarily evil as much as they were terrifyingly normal - simply following directions and doing right by the authorities and nation which had called them to her service."

- Brett McCraken in Hipster Christianity (p.41)

17.8.10

Punk Rock Statements



All through high school I hung out with the punk kids. I never really liked their music, but they were down to earth kids who accepted the immigrant high school me. While I never connected with their music, I fell in love with their visual art style. The rawness and the real life statements that emerged fascinated me. I didn't, and still don't, agree with everything punk rock, but I can appreciate the passion and energy they put into everything they do whether it be music, cd art, posters or videos.

I should also add, that I do actually like this song ... The video is more punk rock than the music. In my book, punk rock is pretty much defined by bands like The Casualties and The Dead Kennedys with which I don't vibe with as much.

12.8.10

Now That's a Lot of Hipster




Just A Short Post




How can you not love Brett?!




Props to you if you can sit through this whole thing ... Yes, it's that bad ...

11.8.10

Question Mark.




I honestly think they just tried to think of things that don't go together and then put them in the same frame, but, somehow, it works.


How Can You Not Love This Man?




What's your favourite Christopher Walken video?
Post a link in the comments and my favourite one will get a cookie!

10.8.10

Unofficially Official!




I guess they just got a little bored during the filming of the movie "500 Days of Summer" so they filmed this lil' tidbit for the "She and Him" song "Why Do You Let Me?"

An Oddly Fascinating Wedding Video



9.8.10

So Educational



"I like your beard"

Name the song that that lyric is from and I'll buy you a cookie.


The Newest Advancement in Green Warfare




May I present Flower Guns.

A Lil' Late



The way I work this blog is that when I find a video I like, I put it on a list that is about 20videos long. Then each day I put one or two of those links up here. So there is a wait list. This wait list ensures that I always have something to put up here, but it also makes me run the risk of finding a sweet video before everyone else and, by the time I post it, the video has already gone viral. Then I just look like I took it from everyone else ... In some cases I did take the link from someone else, BUT in this case I really did find this link before it appeared all over popular blogs! I promise!

Really, it doesn't matter whether you believe me or not. Just check out this messed up interaction!

5.8.10

4.8.10

I've Had An Itch to Go to Mongolia For Years Now




This really just made the itch worse.


This One Is For All My Grills




I think somewhere deep inside of me, I believed this was possible, but I never expected to see it done.


3.8.10

Wowee 2.




From the people who brought you below.


Wowee.




"I have this crazy fantasy in my head that we're just energy trapped inside this body."

2.8.10

Waffle Wedding




On a side note. I love Waffle House.

30.7.10

One Shot Goodness




In a world run by CGI and photoshop, this "old school" creativity plays like a breath of fresh air.

Gotta Love Some Tracey Morgan




I really don't understand Morgan Freeman beat him out for this job...


29.7.10

Gnarcade


Now I'm a fan of neither snowboarding nor video games. So it follows logic that I don't enjoy video games about snowboarding, but snowboarding in video games is something I can get behind.

.

Something a Little Creepier than Normal



24 July 2010


a joel.witwer original


28.7.10

This is my kind of music video


.

A Precious Heart


An amazing attitude in a tough situation.

Not "why is this happening to us?" but "Why should this not happen to us? What makes us so special? We're just two ordinary people just like everyone else"


27.7.10

Hand Drawn Wonderfulness


Normally, I'm not a big fan on animation, but I just love the style of this one.


and even the thoughest of you have to agree that this is at least a tad cute.

Check yes please!

26.7.10

Anvil Shooting?




Of course I want to try this.

20.7.10

I Couldn't Hold Out With This One!!!


When I find a video I like, I save the URL into a big long list of URLs I have going. That means that the videos you see here, I found about a week ago! I run the risk of it being "old news" by the time I post it here, but ah well.

Today, I found these three videos and there is no possible way that I can keep them to myself for any period of time so you're getting a second post today (on top of the double this morning, lucky you!)

So these guys are applying animal behaviours to technology. WHAT?! Yeah.
A radio that "sneezes" to clear dust from it's slots, disk drive that "jumps up" when it detects a liquid is being spilled near it and a lamp that "sways" out of the way when it detects that someone is getting too close to it and may be burned.

This is absolutely incredible! Check it out!








Ridiculous.

Another Double

Unfortuantely embedding has been disabled for this video, but it is of a song called Cover Your Eyes by Children 18:3 who are one of my new favourite bands. I accidently discovered them at Purple Door last year when Kent had convinced me to go see a band he described as the fathers of christian punk rock. He took me to the wrong stage, but I fell in love with these kids! Check it out!


Now this second video was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I got distracted and forgot ...
oh well, here it is now.

a joel.witwer original


16.7.10

A Song Written for Preschoolers Sung by Adults in a Driveway




a joel.witwer original

I went to a wonderful show last night. It was in a kid's driveway and it was small and it was passionate and it was wonderful. It opened up with this guy, Jason Anderson. He's a music teacher in NYC and this is a song he wrote for his preschoolers. So, yes, of course we sung it.


15.7.10

Naturally Wonderful.




You have to love the seeming simpleness of this all. They plant the food, they tend to the plants, the plants grow, they harvest it and sell it. All in the family and local community.

beautiful.


14.7.10

A Bunch of Crap called Gospel




John Piper on the "Prosperity" gospel
check out my wordy blog for my take on it
An Attempt at Insights: The "Prosperity" Gospel

13.7.10

One Area in Need of Change



I know that the way the world is is not the way is should be or even has to be.
This is one area that needs to be transformed.

12.7.10

iPhone 4 Music Video


A video shot entirely on the iPhone 4.

This just goes to show that, while your camera does have some influence on the final product, the majority of filmmaking is in the production (shots, supports, motion, lighting) and post production (colouring, editing, special effects, flow).


9.7.10

A Subtle Sidetrip


The world of video allows us to take subtle sidetrips from the real world which is contrary to the world of animation where a new world is created.

I love when filmmakers take advantage of this.


8.7.10

A Brief, but Lovely, Moment


This was filmed on my camera and is posted on my vimeo account, but

this is a dave.kelbe original


7.7.10

Another Diddy About Marriage




another joel.witwer original
please enjoy

6.7.10

Friends are Great




Watch out for the red heads. They're a sly bunch.
a joel.witwer original

2.7.10

Sorry abou that kiddos

I don't know if you've noticed (or if you even care), but I've been trying to upload a video each weekday for you all.

Yesterday, I failed you.

In an attempt at reconciliation, I am uploading 2 for you today!



''Thou shall not think every male over 30 playing with a child is a pedophile. Some people are just nice.''



The Dogtown and Zboy days never really ended.