life of andyman

Hiya everybody!

Before I get bloggin’, I’ve got some important news!  Victory Brothers, INC. is now on YOUTUBE!  Visit http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=VictoryBrothersInc  to see for yourself! To get them by youtube search, you have to type “victorybrothersinc”.  I don’t have every video up, but I have got 17 of them.  There’s a few I still need to do, and also a few that are more than 10 minutes long (which is YouTube’s maximum, so I’ll have to edit them down to ten minutes).

Please go to YouTube, make an account for yourself, and then send a request to the VictoryBrothersInc YouTube page to be their “friend” and also to “subscribe” to our page so it doesn’t look so empty and unpopular!  Word!

Now I’ll try to tell some good stories from recently.

–Morgan got back from Ireland last week, and I went to pick her up from the airport and spend the weekend with her. It was fun, and her parents are excellent cooks and when they’re not cooking excellently for me, they’re taking me to excellent restaurants, so one way or another they see to it that my food is excellent.

–I’ve learned Customized DVD Authoring. I can make my own menus in photoshop with ANY graphics I want, and use Adobe Encore to make the buttons go wherever I please, I can make motion backgrounds and video buttons and secret hidden buttons that you have to press a button combination to get to and video transitions between menus and submenus. Today I just finished building a DVD for our company that has 18 videos, 6 video motion menus, maybe 30 buttons, and completely custom-made graphics and button highlighting. Saweet!

–At the big church I go to, I have been on the “Production Team” for almost two years now. Recently I moved away from video camera and into “Video Directing”…which is Live video switching and technical directing. So, two video directors are up in a booth with radios. We say, “Camera 1, go here, and camera two go there” and then we video switch between them, as well as switching between computer graphics, DVDs, and whatnot. But I had only done very little switching myself until last weekend, when I did two of the services, and the other guy did the other two. It was fun! I don’t think I made any blatant errors, to my knowledge, but the other guy (who’s more experienced) helped me out a LOT and reminded me of things when I forgot to switch to ‘em. Totally fun though. In fact, I have come to really, really LOVE that church–not just the production team, but the services are just really, really awesome and enjoyable, and I feel closer to God than I think I’ve ever felt before!

–Ok…I have to go, meeting parents for dinner. They’re taking me out to dinner to congratulate admission to part-time law school, which I’ll start this fall at IUPUI. I’m pretty excited–I’ll tell more about it later. I could just save this as a draft and write more, but since I haven’t had anything in so long, I’ll put this on before I allow myself to prcrastinate any further.

Peace out!