Day eight! It’s like the end of Hanukah, except there’s one more day.
Today was my day to experiment with B roll. If you don’t know what b roll is, watch this video that BrantC showed me.
Today I dug into strategy, spirituality, living in the moment, and planning. In other words… is strategy spiritual [...]

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Did it! Finished day seven of my two week video challenge. (If you’re curious what this is, and to see the other days, check out day one.)
I must admit that there’s only one thing I like about this video: I filmed it in the rain. I enjoyed the heck out of that. Everything else… eh. [...]

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In a hotel lobby in Vancouver, B.C., Charlie Gilkey sat me down, stared me in the eye, and said, with that strange combination of compassion and icey-seriousness that was no doubt effective when he was a military commander, “Mark, you have to do video.”
You know that kind of gross habit some buggy people like to [...]

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Hey folks,
This was the most challenging day yet of my two week video challenge (to get the big picture, and for a list of all the videos, check out day one). Today I had to prep for and teach a class, and I had to keep my word to myself about this video challenge. The [...]

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It’s Monday, and Day Five of my two week video challenge. (If you want to read about it and see the first one, as well as a list of all the days, read/watch day one here.)
Today the whole family slept late. The boys and my wife Holly didn’t wake up until almost 9am, and even [...]

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Wow, I did it! Four days in a row, one video each day. I’m amazed. (If you’re wondering what this is about, check Day One.)
Today I had a hankering to work the whiteboard in, and had to figure out how to light it without creating a monstrous glare. I did it moderately well, although it’s [...]

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Third day is happening just under the wire! A late night last night because the kiddoos didn’t really want to sleep so much, and so a late morning, and things got crammed… So I filmed in the afternoon instead of the morning, and even as I write this iMovie is processing and uploading.
Then, the video [...]

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