Text Messaging

My friend, Greg Atkinson, recently did a post on his love affair with texting. So, I thought I'd show you this video we produced for our church. My wife and I co-wrote it, and I shot and directed it. Hope you enjoy it!

Ben and George...and a Blooper

Here's another piece that we have for sale on the reseller sites. Let me know what you think!

This piece takes the place of my Friday Funny, except, this time, the joke is on me. I'll give bonus points to the first person who can spot the BIG TIME blooper in this piece (actually, there are two). I'll be fixing it in the coming weeks, before launching it on Crossroads Creative.

Gas Prices Got You Down?

Here's the sermon intro for the current series we're in at Crossroads Church:

Pretty fun stuff. I shot it with the Xl-1s, and it was edited in Final Cut & After Effects. It's currently for sale on the reseller sites we have pieces on.

Friday Funny

Yep, it's been a while, but here's the Friday Funny for this week:

Biggest Month Ever

Crossroads Creative just completed its most successful month ever. We sell pieces on Worship House Media, Sermon Spice, The Shoutable Store, Graphics4Worsip, and the soon-to-be released Catholic Media House. Of course, if you're a reader of mine, you already know that.

Anyway, June was a stellar month, sales-wise. We sold almost as much product in June as we have all year up to that point! Although these sites take a cut, there was plenty let over for us.

It's exciting to see how a vision can become a reality, and how I got to be a part of it. I'm looking forward to the fully-upgraded Crossroads Creative website, so we can keep all of the dollars for ourselves! (Don't be hatin.' We have bills too!)

Keep looking for the changes. The fully-updated version is coming soon (I promise).

What's Wrong With Me?

OK, OK, for those of you who know me, you're already thinking, "Well, Rich, that's a loaded question!"

Seriously, I have four friends over right now at my house, and my wife is in the living room, with them, and they're playing the Wii. I, however, am at my computer, uploading Crossroads Creative videos. I'm done uploading to Catholic Media House (they're not up yet), and now I'm working on Worship House Media.  What's more, after I'm done with that, I plan to upload to The Shoutable Store, and if there's time, Graphics 4 Worship, and Sermon Spice.

Am I that much of a workaholic?

To be fair, I've been in the living room most of the time. I just came in here to check the status of the uploads, and this is something I planned to do long before my guests showed up, but shouldn't I be in there, and should I be in here blogging about it?

OK, now my wife is telling me that her team desperately needs me to help out playing Big Brain Academy. So, I guess I'll oblige and say, "Good night."

Good night.

Milestones

Well, the Relevant Church Media blog has hit a milestone: 1000 views.

Thanks to all who have visited my blog since its inception. Looking back through my archives, I'm noticing that I tend to stray a bit from he subject of "relevant church media," so future posts will undoubtedly include this subject more often.

OK, so I haven't really posted a lot lately. It's just been crazy-busy 'round here. Crossroads Creative is (still) in the process of its rebranding, and we're very close to choosing a logo design. The funny thing is, in test-marketing (thanks to all who responded), the overwhelming favorite (by a 2:1 margin over the next-highest scorer) is a design that I'm not too keen on.

This situation perplexes me, because I really want to love my new logo right out of the gate. I had convinced myself (with the help of an arm-wrangling ad agency) that our current logo would grow on me, but it hasn't. I actually find it repulsive. Maybe the aforementioned arm-wrangling had a negative effect, and I'm in secret rebellion. But that's another post...

So here's my question:  what would you do? Do you trust the opinions of those chosen at random who've given you their honest opinion, or do you just do what you want anyway, shirking their advice? If a brand resonates with consumers, do you go with them, or your own tastes?