April 2009
7 posts
A SWEDE CAPTURED MY WIFE TODAY
M recently got accepted to a screenwriting program out in L.A. It’s an intensive program which will take her away from me for one month this summer (of course we’re happy for her but BOO!). When she found out she needed to send them a headshot, and after discovering she didn’t like the ones she currently had…we called our favorite Swede, Bjorn Amundsen of Herald Design....
“Creatives are not paid to be creative. They are paid to ship (execute).”
– Seth Godin
WANTED: YOUR FAVORITE SPRING MUSIC
Spring has officially sprung in Chicago - the Cubs are playing day games at Wrigley AND we just hit 80 degrees! To celebrate I’m looking for your favorite Spring music. So…let us know what you’re listening to these days now that the sun out! Old and new works are more than welcome. Comment away friends!
Art via my good friend/graphic designer,Kaleb Coleman of Figure8Designs
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BLUE LIKE JAZZ THE MOVIE NEEDS YOUR HELP
To make a long story very short, the script for Blue Like Jazz (the adapted screenplay based on Donald Miller’s NY Times Bestselling book written by Miller, Steve Taylor, and Ben Pearson) fell into my lap a few months ago. After I read the script I called the producing team to see how I could help. And for the last 5 months I’ve been helping them by securing some casting and locating...
LIVE TWITTERING @ THE 99 PERCENT
I’m live twittering all day at The 99 Percent here in NYC.
Follow all the juicy (and very pragmatic) details here:http://twitter.com/blainehogan
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THE 99 PERCENT
Tomorrow I’m headed to NYC (with my friend & colleague Jesse) for The 99 Percent Conference.
The 99 Percent Conference as it’s website boasts is not about ideas but making those ideas happen:
When ideas do happen, it is not by accident. What separates creative people who make their ideas happen from the constant dreamers? Perhaps we all have an obligation...
HOLY WEEK AT A MEGACHURCH
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what Holy Week looks like from the inside of an Evangelical Megachurch. For the last 7 months I’ve worked as a multimedia producer (cue sexy title: Experience Engineer) at Willow Creek Community Church in the burbs of Chicago. Willow has a special place in my heart since it truly was the place that led me to God, my wife, and out to seminary and...