Late night daylight and my friend, Chico
It's late. Yeah, I know, blog entries are normally posted earlier, but I don't feel much like sleeping right now.
What a year. Seriously. It's been, without doubt, the most trying, beneficial, at times heart-wrenching, confusing, blessed, gracious, maturing year of my 23 year-old life. It's kinda crazy realizing how much God can expose with His infinitely bright light, and gleaning understanding of some of the many facets and conduits of His love. Mind blowing, actually.
The weirdest thing happened this weekend. My good friend Randall was over at my house on Saturday evening, and for whatever reason I began talking on and on about KOPO [the kick one pick one action dog from Nickelodeon commercials], which looks just like Randall's dog. Anyway, I used to have a dog for many years named Chico. He was an all white Maltese, 4 lbs full-grown, with the coolest beard, biggest and darkest eyes, pinkest tongue, and best personality of any dog ever. And I mean it. I haven't had him or seen him in probably over 8-9 years now; we couldn't keep him because we weren't home enough and didn't want to neglect him, so someone else took care of him this whole time for us. It's rare that I even think about Chico [probably once or twice a year since college], even though he was completely awesome. But after I talked about KOPO, I started talking to Randall about Chico, showing him pictures of dogs that looked similar and trying to describe his beard and bark.
Well, tonight I found out that Chico died. The weird part: he died Saturday night during the same time I was bragging on him to Randall and remembering how great he was to have around growing up. He died of natural causes; he had cataracts for years and was getting weak, sometimes falling over and losing some spunk over time. I didn't get to see him before he passed, but I do thank God that He let me remember and enjoy him when I did. God knows me better than anyone, myself included, and in a way I am kind of glad He spared me from actually seeing him pass, especially given my other recent situation which feels virtually like a loss as well. He won't put more on you than you can bare. That's scripture and I believe it.
I'll miss you, Chico. I know you're doing your hilarious laps around heaven, sliding around, excited to see the awesome Trinity at last.
Well, since I don't want this to seem like a sad post [it's not, God is blessing beyond measure! Read my previous post and remember my excitement!] I'm posting a video of one of Exit 31's latest finished projects.
We've recently started expanding into motion graphics on top of print and web, and this is a logo build I did for a production company called "Ebony Daylight". We didn't do the actual logo seen at the end [it would have been better if Exit 31 did it!], but everything else, from concept to completion was us. The client wanted the feel of an African sunrise among other things. Color-correction on this was a beast!
Leave a comment and let me hear your feedback!
What a year. Seriously. It's been, without doubt, the most trying, beneficial, at times heart-wrenching, confusing, blessed, gracious, maturing year of my 23 year-old life. It's kinda crazy realizing how much God can expose with His infinitely bright light, and gleaning understanding of some of the many facets and conduits of His love. Mind blowing, actually.
The weirdest thing happened this weekend. My good friend Randall was over at my house on Saturday evening, and for whatever reason I began talking on and on about KOPO [the kick one pick one action dog from Nickelodeon commercials], which looks just like Randall's dog. Anyway, I used to have a dog for many years named Chico. He was an all white Maltese, 4 lbs full-grown, with the coolest beard, biggest and darkest eyes, pinkest tongue, and best personality of any dog ever. And I mean it. I haven't had him or seen him in probably over 8-9 years now; we couldn't keep him because we weren't home enough and didn't want to neglect him, so someone else took care of him this whole time for us. It's rare that I even think about Chico [probably once or twice a year since college], even though he was completely awesome. But after I talked about KOPO, I started talking to Randall about Chico, showing him pictures of dogs that looked similar and trying to describe his beard and bark.
Well, tonight I found out that Chico died. The weird part: he died Saturday night during the same time I was bragging on him to Randall and remembering how great he was to have around growing up. He died of natural causes; he had cataracts for years and was getting weak, sometimes falling over and losing some spunk over time. I didn't get to see him before he passed, but I do thank God that He let me remember and enjoy him when I did. God knows me better than anyone, myself included, and in a way I am kind of glad He spared me from actually seeing him pass, especially given my other recent situation which feels virtually like a loss as well. He won't put more on you than you can bare. That's scripture and I believe it.
I'll miss you, Chico. I know you're doing your hilarious laps around heaven, sliding around, excited to see the awesome Trinity at last.
Well, since I don't want this to seem like a sad post [it's not, God is blessing beyond measure! Read my previous post and remember my excitement!] I'm posting a video of one of Exit 31's latest finished projects.
We've recently started expanding into motion graphics on top of print and web, and this is a logo build I did for a production company called "Ebony Daylight". We didn't do the actual logo seen at the end [it would have been better if Exit 31 did it!], but everything else, from concept to completion was us. The client wanted the feel of an African sunrise among other things. Color-correction on this was a beast!
Leave a comment and let me hear your feedback!
posted by Joshua at
1:14 AM
2 Comments:
that vid looks awesome. it transitioned really well... the work paid off :)
Dude, I love the story of Chico man. I've been learning more and more that we get messages that sometimes seem crazy to some people, but it was no accident that you started thinking about Chico when you did. Your connection to him was too strong for you not to.
And nice motion graphics, man, that is on poignant!
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