God Died

As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we have special Lenten devotions that we go through as a family. During one of these, I was struck by two simple words:

God died.

That is a mind-blowing concept! An infinite, eternal, unchangeable, omnipotent, omniscient, perfect Being "made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." (Phillipians 2:7) That alone is incomprehensible. Jesus, who had never experienced pain, fatigue, aging, or any of the effects of the Fall, came into this world and experienced all of them. Jesus, who had never had anything less than a perfect relationship with His Father, became the Object of His Father's wrath for all of the sins believers have ever committed in history. Jesus, who was with the Father before time, entered time and lived and died. And He did all of this for those He loves, those who have believed and will believe in Him!

Thank you, Jesus, for Your work of redemption on our behalf! Help us to live in light of that sacrifice, and to truly be thankful for Your precious gift of salvation!

~Mac

Working Up A Post + Blog Shout Out!

Well, I've been thinking about various things to post, but I haven't gotten any of them blog-ready yet! Fortunately, I have another blog to point you to: Leaves That Are Green, created by my friend Hattie! You can count on seeing some seriously creative creations, pictures, poetry, and artwork, as well as thoughts on serious and not-so-serious subjects ;-) In addition, she's currently running a contest for all of her followers! Go check out the blog - and maybe by the time you're done reading through all of her posts I'll have figured out something to blog on!

~Mac

23:59 Part 1 Online!

I know many of you have requested a link to "23:59", the movie that I scored recently. Well, the producers have just uploaded the first 12 minutes to YouTube! Enjoy! (the video is pretty low-resolution compared to the DVD)



If you like what you see and hear, I can see about getting you a DVD copy with the movie, a behind the scenes feature, bloopers, and interviews. They're selling for $5 at this point. I am also working on releasing the soundtrack (at this point, it'll be selling for $5 as well), so if you're interested in that please let me know!

~Mac

Siblings' Handiwork Part 1

Well, I haven't had much to blog on lately - at least anything that would make a good post. So instead of blogging about me, I've decided to start a series of posts sharing some of the things that my siblings have created!

First up is one of my brothers, who has really gotten into building plastic models. Here is his latest one, a P-51D Mustang!

^ Some of the beautiful cockpit detailing!

^ More cockpit detail.

^ Gun and magazine detail.

He really did a fantastic job on this one - and it's only his third model he's built! He did the painting, decals, and gluing all by himself too :-)

~Mac

Balancing Act

Random creative art object:

"Balancing Act"

by Mac, 2011

shoes, bar clamps, wood

Now if only I had a big enough name; it would be worth millions then!

~Mac

DIY eDrum Build: Upgrade!

So I upgraded my eDrum kit this past week:

^ I replaced my old, not-so-good kick drum pad with a vertical pad and an actual kick drum pedal!

^ That gusset supports the pad when the beater hits it.

^The pad.

^ I didn't get a beater with the pedal, so I improvised one with an old marshmallow stick and part of an old bandsaw belt. :-)

This setup looks, triggers, and feels so much better than my old setup!

Special thanks goes to my construction and power-tool loving brother who helped me out on this upgrade and provided tools and building materials :-)

~Mac

Red Carpet!

The movie that I scored - "23:59" - had its world premiere last Friday night!

^ The "23:59" cake at the premiere!

It opened to great critical and popular acclaim, and definitely lived up to the hype :-) Everyone really enjoyed the movie, and the music as well! Now we'll see how DVD sales go ;-)

~Mac