Living Open Source

Which is the best video sharing site? No contest – it is vimeo. And now there is a vimeo channel dedicated to videos that inspire living the Jesus way.

I‘m not preaching the lectionary this week, as I’m preaching away from home. I thought I’d use the story of Jonah for which there seem to be endless animated versions of the story, like this one.

Sifting through the meaningless and profound fog that is called YouTube, you’ll find some very cool animated short films. Do Penguins Fly? has been around a while, but having dug it out to show our youth group, I thought I’d share it here. We are thinking about how we know God exists this evening…

A bit late for last week’s lectionary, but I put together this little visual meditation on Isaiah 55:1-2 for last Sunday.

To use excerpts from videos in church usually requires you to buy a license, which in my humble opinion is ridiculous. Then there is the whole problem with queuing up the DVD to play and finding you’ve got it in the wrong place and instead of showing the desired clip, you show something highly unsuitable [...]

Celtx aims to be a fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. If you have an idea for a story, movie or play then Celtx is designed to help you develop ideas of plot, scene and characters. You can use it to storyboard a project and collaborate with others too. It can help you [...]

Grab a few images, put them together with artistic, professional looking video effects, a touch of subtle background music and publish in a video format. All in under 5 minutes? No this is not a tutorial, in fact you don’t need to know anything about video, music or such things. If you have a bunch [...]