This site has been pretty quiet for the last few months. You’d never be able to tell that Imagivation has been busier than ever before.

• Social networks
• Film screenings
• Interviews
• Commercials
• Political work
• Web-development
• Oh, and a personal blog.

Yup, busier than ever.

New year, new purpose. Change is coming.

-Paul

Paul Hastings - CEO, Imagivation

Concordia Film Festival

In May “For Honor” won 1st place in the Drama category at the International Christian Communication Arts Festival at Concordia University in Austin. “Gold Miner” also was 1 of 2 films to receive an honorable mention.

Concordia Film Festival Award

Imagivation.net

Joining the ranks of the Imagivation family is Imagivation.net.

Imagivation.net - Web Development

I’ve been designing, building, and repairing websites and having a blast while doing it.

Cocoa Loco

Alex and I got together to film our 1st action sequence with Aaron and Isaac Lerma. We were greatly assisted by Ana and Rachel Lerma. The finished product is still be edited. Stay tuned to learn more.

Rachel, Paul, Alex, Isaac, Ana and Aaron after filming "Cocoa Loco"

JibeNow – The Homeschool Social Network

JibeNow launched into delta via a “MegaLaunch” on June 21st.

JibeNow - The Homeschool Social Network

Some quick facts:

• As of June 27th, JibeNow has 210 members.
• Our goal is to provide an online platform for Christian Homeschoolers to encourage and challenge each other into becoming stronger instruments of Jesus Christ.
• Our mantra is “Debate. Discuss. But mostly just share.”
• Counting myself there are now 7 volunteer admins working on JibeNow.
  • Brian Morgan
  • Beth Maisano
  • Zachary Harris
  • Rebekah Rodgers
  • Daniel Gaskell
  • Preston Badeer

If you haven’t yet, then make sure to visit JibeNow – The Homeschool Social Network.

Public Speaking

2010 CHEACT Blogging Talk

This past Friday and Saturday I had the privilege of teaching a couple of 50-minute workshops at the CHEACT Homeschool Conference.

The 2 classes were entitled, “Blogging Like a Screaming Ninja Monkey (Beginning Blogging)” and “My Blog Needs Liposuction! (Advanced Blogging) “. Needless to say it was a total blast and I hope to do it again sometime soon.

Digital Video Camp

Alex Lerma and I were asked to return to Camp Wilderness Ridge and help with their Digital Video Camp. Only this year instead of being the assistants we’re actually the directors. We’re leaving for the camp today and will return to Austin on July 3rd.

Paul and Alex heading out to the set

Filmmakers Academy

The Filmmakers Academy

Perhaps one of the biggest highlights of our summer, Alex and I are hosting our own video camp. Set in a highly hands-on environment, students will meet once a week in Austin to learn about a new filmmaking concept and then will be given a film project assignment to finish in 6 days with their team.

The class runs from July 6th – August 10th. Our final film festival (which is free to the public) will be on August 14th.

To learn more, visit the Filmmakers Academy website.

Last thing…

Could you pray for me? I need it. Very much so.

Carry on.

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JibeNow.com

The site is primarily intended for current homeschoolers, their parents, and homeschool graduates. We like to think of it as a mixture of multiple social-networking and blogging services: the power of WordPress and Blogger, the interaction of Facebook and Twitter, and the community of Homeschoolblogger.

So take a look. Most Imagivation readers have already been invited to the site, but if I missed you or you’d like an invitation then leave a comment below and we’ll get one to you.

A friend of mine, Joshua Hammond, had the idea to make the site and designed the graphics.

Pray For Dana Rhodes

Visit his website: PrayForDanaRhodes.com

So we listen, right? A few people had noticed that to find any of the film work that we had done they had to dig through pages of blog posts. So after some thinking and work we put together a little something where people can quickly access our video projects.

Imagivation.tv

Visit imagivation.tv

So what do you think? Good, bad, or indifferent?

For a long time all I used to browse the internet was IE (Internet Explorer) because I thought that was all there was. But when I discovered FF (Firefox), maybe 3 years ago, I made the switch and never looked back.

But as good web developers, designers should keep both browsers in mind when creating online content. Today I’ll be fixing the incompatibility issues, but I thought I’d give you glimpse of the difference between browsers.

Exhibit A: viewing Internet Explorer at 1280 pixels wide

Exhibit B: viewing Firefox at 1280 pixels wide

Exhibit C: viewing Internet Explorer at 1024 pixels wide

Exhibit D: viewing Firefox at 1024 pixels wide

Every once in a while I’ll be visiting a friend’s house or at the library and I’ll have to use IE there. Every time that I do I cringe inwardly and wonder how they can stand it. Here are just a few of the reasons to prefer FF over IE:

• More secure
• Open source
• Plethora of plugins
• Better tab management
• Uses fewer computer resources
• It’s faster (in my case, my computer runs so slow that the difference is very noticeable)

31% of internet users have seen the light and use FF, 59% remain in darkness and use IE. If you haven’t made the switch to Firefox, then I would strongly encourage you to do so. Click the button on the right to download the latest version.