This a video for KidsCOR’s Lent/Easter series Choose the Cross.
read moreI actually finished this informational brochure for Young Adults at church right before Spring Break, but I am now finally getting around to posting it. This design is actually one I had on hand from a previous first run at making the same brochure for last summer, but at the time I wasn’t really feeling…
read moreThis is a postcard for rezlife’s upcoming Divin’ Deep retreat. Helvetica gets the nod for typeface of choice because, well, it’s awesome like that. As always, enjoy.
read moreI am still working my way through Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Pope Benedict XVI, (half-way through it, I can say I highly recommend it) and was captivated by another thought. In this passage he is considering the idea of the two-natures-in-one-person in Jesus, and specifically…
read moreThis beautiful piece by Tomás Luis de Victoria is a responsory for Tenebrae. Caligaverunt oculi mei is intended for Good Friday and is #12 of de Victoria’s responsories. Perhaps the most striking feature of this work is the piercing soprano solo during the words si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus. (see if there is…
read moreThere is probably no more enigmatic author in church history than Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This anonymous author’s works exerted a profound influence on theology and philosophy within the early church, St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Thomas Aquinas notably among those within their purview. From the earliest days of this work its authorship was open…
read moreI have been reading Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth- Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, and found a very illuminating passage in regards to the washing of the disciples’ feet. Actually, there is a wealth of insight in this chapter, which will probably spawn some further posts, but for the time…
read moreIn my last post I gave a few tips for creating HDR food photography. However, in this one I am going to go step-by-step through the process of creating this HDR image of some chocolate chip cookies.
read moreMy wife Megan is, as many of you know, a rather prolific food blogger. One of the advantages of being married to a food blogger is that I have the opportunity to try out all kinds of delicious food. I consider it one of the highest sacrifices of my love to so give of myself…
read morerezlife is starting a new series after spring break entitled ‘Grosser than Gross.’ My first stab at art direction for this series was a little too dark, so I decided to go with a cute and cuddly, albeit deadly scorpion named Serenity. Character videos are always fun, and it seemed to be well-received. And anytime…
read moreI finished up a new video today for KidsCOR’s series Families that begins this weekend. It actually came together fairly quickly, from script to final export, which is always nice.
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