Top Ten by Bryce Langford
We love a lot of things at here at ThreeLeaf. We love design and development. We love making fun of hipsters. We love our Keurig. But more than anything else, we love to argue. This morning, due to a poor use of a Back to the Future II quote, we had a lively discussion about the top ten movies of the 80s. It all started with the statement, "The Man from Snowy River is the greatest movie of the 80s." After much arguing and Googling, we've put together our list of the top 10 movies from the 80s. And yes, they are in order.
1.RAD- This biking classic made you believe your 9 year old hobby could just land you a career and the girl.
2. The Karate Kid- Seriously, if you don't quote this movie at least once a week, you were probably home-schooled.
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off- Teen Angst at its greatest. Plus it might also be the greatest use of a Beatles song in history.
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade- Listen, they were all 3 good in their own way. But this one introduced the importance of the Holiness of Communion to a new generation.
5. Top Gun- Airplanes,Men's Volleyball, Val Kilmer, and Meg Ryan. All of these were only cool in the 80s.
6. Airplane- Explained the complexity of the "Auto-Pilot."
7. Spaceballs- "I'm a Mog. Half-man, half-dog. I'm my own best friend." Simply Brilliant.
8. Hoosiers- Gene Hackman got the job, the team, the girl, and the championship. While Dennis Hopper just got drunk.
9. Breakfast Club- Besides the Mighty Ducks franchise, arguably Emilio Estevez' strongest performance.
10. Pee Wee's Big Adventure- Creepy. Even before the sexual allegations and jail time.
So this is our Top Ten. There are a lot of "Greats" that didn't make the list. Staff favs that didn't make the cut:
Patrick- Goonies
Tony- The Empire Strikes Back
Bryce- The Man from Snowy River
Intern Sandman by Bryce Langford
So today we had our first meeting with the ThreeLeaf Summer Interns. They range from age 16 to age 30...something...anyway, its going to be a rodeo! We can't wait to see what they can do. We know that they will learn a lot and so will we.
One thing I've learned is that creativity spawns creativity. And it will be awesome to have 6 fresh minds to help with what we are doing. The future is bright...almost as bright as Colton's smile.
It's an Addy, not a Baddy by Bryce Langford
Over the last few years we have participated in the Addy Awards. We have been very blessed and thankful to have had good success in these competitions. This year though, we were more involved than ever.
There are three levels of any Addy competition. The first level is local. We were blessed to win 9 Addy Awards at the local level, plus a couple special judges award. The second level is the District, and the Third Level is National.
This year, we got the opportunity to host the District Awards. We are a part of District 10, and District 10 covers Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The 10th district is considered one of the most competitive advertising environments in the country. This years judging included work for BMW, Nike, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, 7- Eleven, Southwest Airlines, State Farm, Samsung, Starbucks, Proctor & Gamble, just to name a few.
Judging of the awards took place in March, and the award presentation took place April 16. The party was at the River Breaks Ranch, and man was it a party. Representatives from all four states were there to hang out and receive the recognition they deserved for all their hard work.
We were privileged to win a Silver Award, a Gold Award, and a Special Judges Award for "Poison is Bad." If you haven't seen Poison is Bad, do so right now!
It was great to win, but even better to be a part of such a talented and respected group of people. We loved hosting the District Awards (even though it took us 2 weeks to catch up on sleep).
We can't wait to see how the "Poison is Bad" video does at Nationals. Stay tuned.
The LA of the South by Bryce Langford
So apparently there are two great LA's. The first is about 17 hours West of my front door (depending of course on my adherence to the speed limit). The second is about 7 hours East of here (depending on the DFW traffic).
I've never been to Louisiana, in fact I sometimes forget that its there. Its kind of like the 51st state, right after New Orleans.
We hit the Louisiana border about 10pm last Monday night. We had Rusty (Rusty is our aptly-named 4x8 trailer), enough Redline energy drinks to land us in jail, some heartburn, and 6 hours to go before we hit Baton Rouge.
We were heading to the All Access 2010 Conference, hosting by the Association of Related Churches, better known as ARC. All Access was a conference with around 2000 pastors and church planters, and was hosted by Dino Rizzo. Dino Rizzo joined a long list of speakers and worship leaders that are some of the best out there.
We set up our booth that morning and landed next to a sassy conference veteran named Kendra. We set up our booth, which pretty much looks like a cool version of my Grannie's living room.
One of the benefits of church conferences is that you get to really enjoy the speakers and worship. But by far the best part was meeting the courageous church planters and potential church planters. There's something amazing and almost "electric" about a room full faithful pastors who are setting off into the unknown realm of church planting. We met suburban church planters, urban church planters, and small town church planters. We met church planters from South Boston and South Dakota.
I hope we're able to team up with many of them in the future to help them carry out the mission that God has called them too.
Even though we were surrounded by pastors, we had no fear of throwing ourselves into the outstretched arms of "Gluttony" and enjoyed Biblical proportions of crawfish on the Wednesday night of the conference. Dino Rizzo threw a Ragin' Cajun' Party featuring over 400lbs of crawfish, a live band, and even a firework show. We had a great time as a church planter from Austin gave us lessons in the messy art form of peel-and-eat crawfish.
I had never thought much about Louisiana, much less Baton Rouge before last week. Besides producing Shaq and Jacob Hester, I never thought about the greatness of the place. But it was incredible. I loved the city. I loved the people. I loved the conference. I can't wait to go back!
GreyBack is coming.... by Tony McCallie
For the past 2 years, I've been hiding in dark corners, consorting with fellow geeks across the galaxy and bribing as many shady people as possible to build GreyBack. The result is this: We are in the last beta phases of GreyBack and getting ready to unleash it on the world as you know it!
What is GreyBack, you ask? Well my friend, that is a question worthy of answering. GreyBack is software to manage your web content, but also so much more! No more do you need to consult with IT specialists and geeks to let your congregation know that youth won't be meeting next week for spring break! No longer are you restricted to weeks of waiting for a simple announcement for an event that's already over! GreyBack is here to free you from the chains of web geekery and put the control in your hands. More importantly, it'll be so easy, even the Senior Pastor can do it!