MUSIC SCORES I MADE: a tiger, kids & a hippo

I realized I've never shared movie music I've created!

The Tiger's Gift is a wonderful animated short film for which I had the honor of composing and recording the score. Josh Addessi and Jimi Bonogofsky, Digital Media Arts grads from Huntington University, created and animated it. They've since entered it into several shows and it seems to charm children's audiences! In fact, it won the Animated category in the 2012 Sundial Film Festival

(Quick story: I was under a deadline to complete The Tiger's Gift score. Deadlines and me hate each other. Nonetheless, my enemy Deadline always wins, and as it was approaching I ended up staying up literally all night on the final day. A 3-hour detour from composing came in the very unexpected visit of a nervous friend of ours named Joel who knocked on our door after midnight with a bleeding finger. He said he was trying to open a can. Upon inspection, I found that it was DEEP and I tried to stop the blood flow with peroxide, gauze, Neosporin, bandages, etc. to no avail. So I took him to the emergency room [he doesn't drive and was probably too frantic to do so, anyway] where I watched him hilariously and repetitively drill the staff about how this was going to affect his work with cleaning a fish pond the following day for a shut-in woman. Joel is an inquisitive man. They told him, 'Don't stick your hand in a pond.' He also asked the triage guy if he'd ever seen a cut like this, to which he replied, 'Only about three thousand times.' Joel turned out fine and I finished the score in the wee hours, and the two events shall always be linked in my memory.)

Two more films I provided music for are I Think I Might Be that Jimi worked on with my sister Colleen and Birds of a Feather, a stop motion short film that Colleen and her husband Cevin made (I particularly enjoy the way the theme turned out for the titles). Enjoy!

MINISTRY UPDATE | APR 2012

The Spring 2012 semester at WVU has come to a close. What a year it's been! So many glorious, passionate, beautiful, life-changing, mind-blowing, eternity-touching moments. I have stood in awe. Here is a little (grossly inadequate) UDPATE for those that pray for our Young Life College ministry, those who support with generous giving, and anyone interested in the goings-on of a gospel-centered mission in the heart of higher learning in the Appalachians of West Virginia.

(Click each picture to view it!)

EURO UPDATE Day 1: Edinburgh

We're off!

We are here settled at our first destination, The Hedges B&B in Edinburgh, Scotland! We didn't get much sleep at all on the plane Wed night, and then we spent an hour accidentally wandering around the Edinburgh University looking for The Hedges!

But a nice student pointed us in the right direction and after a bunch more walking, ascending 'Jacob's Ladder' (this ancient stair/path that led up to the New Parliament building--of which we accidentally walked through the open gates and heard a recording on loudspeakers saying, 'THIS...IS...SECURITY. YOUR PRESENCE HAS BEEN DETECTED AND SECURITY PERSONNEL ARE ON THEIR WAY TO YOUR LOCATION.' Haha!) and walking through the picturesque Calton Hill, we finally got to our place.

And the lovely hostess Heather had our room ready early! We HAD to catch up on sleep so we did that for about 3.5 hours midday Thu, then we got ready and walked about 15 minutes to the intersection of Princes Street and North Bridge at the apex of Old Town and New Town. We chose a charming little gastro-pub called The Mitre Bar (named for a 17th century ghost of a 'fugitive bishop' said to haunt there) in which to eat some fish, came back and slept, and now are about to eat our first full Scottish breakfast via Heather!

At the top of Jacob's Ladder! The Royal Mile behind us, leading to the Edinburgh Castle on the right.

An impressive structure at the entrance of Old Town from the North Bridge.

Looking down the Royal Mile to the east as it descends.

The Mitre Bar! I had fish and chips, Sarah had sea bass and a DELICIOUS apple pie with custard.

Where in the world is Cameron King?

Orlando!

If you wanna keep up with some of what's going on with me this week, here are some social media avenues at your disposal:

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See you on Sunday, wintry West Virginia!