Demo reel
Jan 16th
Here’s a my demo reel, featuring footage from 2009-2011 for which I captured, edited, titled, and/or added visual effects. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
The Forest’s open mic night
Dec 14th
It is getting cold outside, and nothing’s better on a cold night than a hot cup of coffee and good music. This is a mini-doc style promo video I shot/edited with Bottlecap Creative House a couple months ago about Open Mic Night at The Forest Coffee House in Travelers Rest, SC. The music was good and the coffee was amazing. I hope this video does it justice.
Fun with Siri
Dec 13th
Let’s be real for a second: Siri is a robot. And I do not trust robots as every portrayal of our realistic future ends with robots rebelling against and enslaving our species. As such, I make it a point to grab every iPhone 4S I can and put the collective conscience know as Siri in her/its place.
Micah, where have you been?
Dec 12th
The short answer: being a bad blogger.
The long answer…
My blog has had to go on a hiatus because I’ve been throwing my creativity elsewhere. Over the past three months I’ve had quite a few opportunities to shoot/edit video (and I’ve had to balance that around my other 2 jobs).
I’ve also been hard at work on finishing my first book, Normal. I’m happy to report that all I have left is to finish one-and-a-half chapters, send it to my editor, raise some funds to self publish it, beg people slightly-to-much more well known than me to do blurbs about it, send it off to print, then shamelessly promote it. I’m almost there!
I’ve also been reading a lot (James Sallis’ Drive, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, and currently, Colin Meloy’s Wildwood).
And I’m working on a new website, SuperFunHoliday.com, that will hopefully be up early next week.
But I am am now resolved to blog again, after three months of meeting strangers on the streets and in coffee shops who claim to be the greatest fans of my blog, begging me to get back in the saddle, of J. K. Rowling’s consistent and annoying stream of mail–delivered via creepy white owls–inquiring when my next post will be, of Christopher Nolan’s daily calls telling me he’s going through too many withdrawals of my blog to finish The Dark Knight Rises.
I am back.
Dear 18 Me
Sep 12th
So a friend of mine just started a sweet new site called Dear18Me.com.
The premise is that you write a letter to the person you were at 18. Pretty awesome concept huh?
Well, today is the site’s official launch and he asked me to pitch in a post for the big day.
So here’s what I have to say to 18-year-old Micah.
Check out the other posts too (which include the likes of Lanier Ward of The Jingle Twins and Lacey of SoEveryDay.com). They’re pretty stinkin sweet.
Micah… what are you doing?
Jul 7th
Thanks for asking. I’ll give you a list of things.
- neglecting this blog
- working on a little thing called the Timotheos project… and blogging for it.
- working on my new website
- learning (or attempting to learn) Greek from this guy. Buy his book.
- writing my second short film.
- scrapping that short film, writing another.
- pre-production for my web series.
- shooting A LOT of weddings.
- editing A LOT of wedding videos.
- missing Jessica. She’s in New Orleans. We date. But we don’t go on dates at the moment.
- meeting with an amazingly blessed church in my home.
- listening to a lot of DUBSTEP
- waiting on new levels of Angry Birds so I have something to do on the toilet besides read this book.
Fire Dogs trailer
May 27th
Some of you may know–and some of you may not–that for the past few months I’ve been hard at work on my first TV show. Well, here’s your first look at it. I was one of the camera operators and I edited this thing together. We’re about to start our campaign to market the show to networks, so if you enjoy this, go like it on FaceBook, that will help our cause tremendously. Thank you, and enjoy.
Retrospective thoughts…
May 8th
I like to reflect. I also like to think things through before I do them; especially when it comes to creation/art. Maybe these people should have thought some of these things through better:
- By rhyming “late” with “2008″ the Black Eyed Peas instantly set themselves up to be what they are “dissin.” I imagine this song is hard to make work live now…
- Brittany’s “Opps, I did it Again” ended up being the perfect soundtrack to her own continual cycles of crash-burn/ rehab/ return as a new form of sluttier self.
- Kubrick and Clarke dating their Space Odyssey to the year 2001.
- Myspace
>>>Can you think of any other works that aren’t so awesome in retrospect?
The day Christians failed Social Media
May 2nd
Marshall McLuhan, perhaps the leading voice in communication theory, once said, “the medium is the message.”
For people who worship a God that so meticulously and divinely weaved His communication tool with words, Christians would do well to observe this adage.
When the claim that Osama had been killed hit the news, conflict hit Facebook. It seemed many people felt it was their duty to voice their opinion (backed with appropriate scripture, called a theological dissertation) about whether we should be rejoicing in God’s justice, or mourning a soul in hell. I’m not here to address that debate, but rather, point out the evangelical community’s obvious failure in discussing such a delicate doctrinal issue over social media.
First, it is important to understand that by its very nature, social media is a mass communication tool. That means you post content with the intent of it being seen by the masses. Its not a means by which you share intimate, private information. So by posting statuses addressing theological issues (which are meant to be discussed rather than just proclaimed), we are basically communicating that these topics are light enough to be discussed in front of the masses, over a computer screen rather than face-to-face.
Second, what does our arguing communicate to the unsaved masses? And did we consider that before we hit the “post” button? Either stance you take is going to be easily misconstrued. Especially by non-believers. This was a weak witness all around.
Social Media is quickly becoming the Christian community’s largest opportunity to display its embarrassing instances of foot-in-mouth. I would consider we use this specific instance as a lesson to be careful, not only with out words, but also in the way and means by which we relay them.
When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. – Proverbs 10:19
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