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it’s been over a year since i changed the look of this blog. i thought now was the time.

now that i have a full-fledged photo site, i’ve decided to go clean (as clean as you can with a grunge look) with my main presence on the web. i do hope you’ll all like it. i already know my wife doesn’t, but she’ll learn to love it, i’m sure!

sorry. not much to say.

be back when that changes

i’m not sure when i’ll be able to see this movie, but i’m amazed at the complete lack of negative press it’s gotten. most reviews go a whole lot like this one on cinemablend.com:

“…it’s unlikely anyone, including Nolan himself, will ever top what’s been accomplished here. It works on every level and no matter what I’ve said about it in this review, believe me when I tell you that I’m underselling it. Movies rarely get better than this. Check your gut before you go in, The Dark Knight is going to land a punch right in the middle of it. You won’t soon forget it.”

sign me up! just got to wait for the finances to be able to see it!

back at work on a saturday, after two weeks off. it’s great to be back.

tomorrow i’ll have a post with a video that i’ve been working on all last week. i’m really happy with how it came out, and i hope you all like it!

quiet.

even though it’ll pain me to do so.

two weeks of quiet.

starting now.

lots of prayer for the next two weeks. if you would like me to spend some time praying for you, let me know in comments, i’ll check them every once in a while.

and, if it wouldn’t be too much to ask, throw a couple up heaven’s way on my behalf. i’d appreciate it right now.

god created me to be a creature of change. this simple fact has caused countless annoyances for my wife, and family i’m sure. i never seem to be comfortable for long, and usually sooner rather than later i begin saying dangerous things like “i’m ready for a shake-up” or “i want something big to change in my life.” a few times, this has led to pretty difficult times!

unfortunately for those around me, i’m starting to feel that itch again. i never know what it is, but i hate feeling stagnant and not moving forwards. right now, i feel pretty stationary, and it’s driving me crazy. i’m not really sure what to do about it, i never am. it’s pretty annoying, really.

i have a desktop wallpaper on my laptop made by the talented brad ruggles, with one of my favorite quotes of all time on it. i look at it every day, and wonder how close to death i am…

“what is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? in the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that doesn’t change. change is life. stagnation is death. if you don’t change, you die. it’s that simple. it’s that scary.” - leonard sweet, soul tsunami

two am this morning i woke up with the worst pain (literally, i am not embellishing here) i have ever felt in my life. right behind my left eye, my left side of my brain literally felt like it was going to explode at any moment. i have never had a migraine in my life, not once… and generally my headaches are annoying, but nothing worth getting upset over.

this one had me so disorientated and messed up, that as i crawled out of bed to head to the bathroom and take some advil, i nearly fell over. after taking advil, i came back to the bed and just sat on the side of the bed for about ten minutes, nearly in tears it hurt so bad. i prayed to jesus that i could just fall back asleep and sleep off the pain. finally, after about a half hour of excruciating pain, i finally fell back asleep.

I was telling ryanne about it this morning, and had i not spent four years as a medic, and if the pain would have been just a smidgen worse, we would have gone to the hospital. i know enough, and think logically enough that my eyeball wasn’t really going to explode, that i probably wasn’t suffering a stroke or a sudden tumor… even though i had never had a migraine before and it was a totally random time to have one (without warning, no less), i was pretty positive that’s all it was.

nevertheless, if that never ever happens again, i’ll be ok with it.

I’m still struggling a bit. the sharpness has gone away, but there is still this lower powered dull thumping. i think the medication is working, otherwise i’d still feel helpless.

what’s the worst pain you’ve ever felt? physical… i don’t want to hear your whiney stories about emotional hurt … just kidding. 

recently i posted a video of the crew from a slew of popular sites (including vimeo and busted tee’s) doing a large production of their entire staff lip syncing to a pop song. i quipped “wow, this looks like a fun place to work.”

it’s true, it does… but the video below looks even more fun.

this is a trailer for an upcoming series at lifechurch.tv called “at the movies.” watch the video, and then i have some comments below.

Anything Short of Sin from kevin ely on Vimeo.

• other than craig groeschel (and i’m no expert of LC.tv’s staff), i think every person in that video is on their video production staff.
• is it possible there is a church video team having anywhere near as much fun as these guys did making this?
• the creativity/planning/vision coming out of lifechurch.tv truly inspires me, and is something to be in awe of. i’d love to just go and hang out with their producers for a week and see how they do it, from conception to planning to execution, i just wonder if there is anyone out there doing it as good as they are.
• case in point, that was filmed in MARCH. the series isn’t for another THREE WEEKS. that’s incredible.
• oh, and to add to the fun, check out this outtake video (from the promo) found on the blog of bryan clark, one of the amazing producers at lifechurch.tv
• don’t get me wrong, i love my job, and i have a lot of fun at it. just wanted to be clear on that. i just appreciate what’s going on over at LC.tv

Anything Short of Sin - outtakes from Bryan Clark on Vimeo.