I Go to Church at the Ithaca Vineyard
This post is for my mother… 
Alright, it’s for everyone interested in the Ithaca Vineyard.
If you are a student in the area or looking for a church in Ithaca, please come check it out.
The video is just a quick walking tour on an off day at the church.
But I was invited to the creative planning meeting today.
It was interesting to see how ideas got batted around.
I had a chance to share thoughts, but a big chance to listen and learn.
To see from a bunch of different aspects–marketing, promotion, message, vision–how the church was being put together.
And I loved it.
All of it.
It could be because I am a marketer at heart.
Or because I am becoming a creative to likes to combine mediums to share a message.
And it was definitely because of the message they are trying to share.
It’s probably just the total package.
I could do this as a job.
Oh yeah and today’s sermon was good.
It will be there soon, I promise.
Presence in the Present
The one reason I believe I am trapped in the rinse cycle with rap and hip-hop music is because of its future thinking.
I find this to be especially true with the Blueprint 3 album.
Jay Z’s line gets me, “It’s all about progression, loiterers should be arrested.”
I feel that we as a society are very past oriented.
Nowhere do we continuously look at the present but see the past more often than in our own mirrors. Rarely do we ascribe to the future what already exists in the present more than in our own self-perception.
An Unstoppable Force, Erwin McManus
How do we break out of this past and self-perception focus?
We need to remember.
Memories are intended to be fuel for future faith. They aren’t intend to become an alternative reality in which we choose to hide.
An Unstoppable Force, Erwin McManus
Music Industry
http://www.vimeo.com/7774766This industry get’s me every time.
There is something so genius about the music business.
To capture three minutes and change it into something profound.
Something that of worth that people will buy.
Something of style that people will make their own.
Something that takes people’s time and changes thought.
But very similarly it causes problems.
When we don’t recognize it as a business, it leads us on.
It may not take us down the best paths.
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
While I love music and the nearly perfect business model (a product that takes almost nothing but human ingenuity to make), I have to ask where my music is leading me.
And I can answer, sometimes, many times, where I don’t want to go.
(But I love the video, the sound is so fresh and unique.)