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True North

True North

The Project This video was created to introduce a new sermon series on the topic of apologetics entitled “True North”. The project centers around a compass that loses its effectiveness as confusion and noise about what the truth really is begins to get louder. This...

Samson

Samson

Intro The goal of this project was to create a video highlighting the story of Samson in the Bible. The idea was to take elements of the story and film visual representations of each element. Before the project officially began, the first step for the team was to...

Desire

Desire

Camera: RED Scarlet W Lens: 70-200mm with 4x diopter Collaborative project with Tim Searfoss The challenge and inspiration with this project was to find a way to create a narrative story without leaning on the crutch of dialogue and without the use of a “normal”...

God Is

God Is

This week I managed to finish up a project that took the better part of a month to go through the concept, design, testing, and final delivery. This project was created for Grace Family Church to introduce a series entitled “God Is” which details the attributes of God...

Here Is The Church

Here Is The Church

For this project, Tim Searfoss, Dan Fajardo, and myself had a very cool opportunity to work with the talented Quina Aragon, on a project entitled “Here Is The Church”. The project featured a spoken word piece performed by Quina and focused on the power of the church...

Make It Yours

Make It Yours

This project was, I think, the first completely 3D animation produced as a bump for a sermon series. It was easy enough to source the assets, but the biggest challenge of this project was completing it in a week or two on mid-2010 Mac Pros. This project was more of a...

Low Poly Nature Animation

Low Poly Nature Animation

Earlier this month I was asked to create a video to compliment an Easter graphics package designed around the theme of “Hills and Valleys”. Graphically, the idea was fairly minimal, with a simple blue/purple gradient behind white text. Below are the original mockups....

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How to Generate a Ranger Config File

ranger --copy-config=all This will copy all the default config files from /usr/local/lib so you can make edits without messing anything up. Huge shout out to https://dquinton.github.io/debian-install/config/ranger.html for explaining this and so much more. Took me a...

First Open Source Contribution

Surprise! I genuinely did not plan on making my first ever open source contribution today. In fact, I didn't plan on a lot of things happening this week at all. I recently got an awesome opportunity to work on a site that is being hosted on a platform called Pantheon,...

How to Exclude Specific Posts and Pages from WP_QUERY

For the sake of having something to work with, let's suppose we've got the following query:In this query, inside the $args array, there's a special parameter that allows you to exclude specific posts and pages from the query. This parameter is called post__not_in and...

Configure SSH For Password-less Connections

Preamble I'm slightly embarrassed to admit this, but it was a long time before I figured out how amazing this little file is and how exactly to put it to good use. The file I'm talking about is the SSH config file. By default, when you first connect to a server via...

WordPress Site Stuck in Maintenance Mode

Plugin Error Code 500 During Update While I was updating a WordPress plugin locally, something happened on my local server to trigger a 500 error code as the plugin was updating. On the frontend, I refreshed the page and was greeted with "Briefly Unavailable for...

Creating a WordPress Plugin Downloader

How it Started I was recently tasked with the challenge of creating a WordPress theme generator. The idea being, instead of writing your style.css file from scratch, you'd be able to just answer a few simple questions about how you'd like your theme set up, and those...

Fix Audio on XFCE Chromebook

The Problem After moving from GalliumOS to Xubuntu, I noticed that playing YouTube videos on both Firefox and Chromium would result in decent playback for a few minutes, but suddenly the audio would turn into a solid beeping tone while the YouTube video displayed the...

Adjust Trackpad Sensitivity XFCE

xinput set-prop "Elan Touchpad" "Synaptics Finger" 1 1 1 What are the values 1 1 1? This sets the sensitivity as close to the original ChromeOS as possible. Larger numbers will decrease sensitivity of various aspects. I never looked into which individual value...

Fireworks (Short Film)

https://vimeo.com/395077249 About the film Year: 2020 Director/DP: Tim Searfoss Writers: Matt Jones, Tim Searfoss Sound Mix: Matt Jones

Hosting Multiple Sites Using LocalWP

I've done a write-up on hosting local WordPress sites before, but I definitely prefer this method over the previous one. If you've never tried hosting multiple sites using LocalWP, then I'd encourage you to check it out. I've had really bad issues with it in the past,...