About
I'm a hard rockin, Christian, artsy-fartsy type of guy who loves Nerds, Powerade and a good bowl of cereal (not at the same time). I am married to Tess.
Check out my online stompin' grounds at DavidHemphill.com
Movies
Music
Acceptance, Anberlin, As Cities Burn, Blindside, Brand New, Cartel, Dakona, Finch, Further Seems Forever, Green Day, He Is Legend, Letterkills, Neve, Norma Jean, Rise Against, Terminal, Thrice, Underoath, Relient K, The Showdown, Hillsong, Chris Tomlin
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♫ we are rescued - Lee McDerment
AprilApr 15 Wednesday Wed 09
Time Machine Permissions Error Fix
Time Machine Permissions Error Fix: Ever get an annoying error from Time Machine saying “You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file .xxxxxxxxxxxx” in folder “Time Machine Backups”? Hope this helps. It did for me.
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AprilApr 14 Tuesday Tue 09
How Much Is Enough?
How Much Is Enough?: Joshua hits something I’ve been thinking about lately. Sure, I would love to make more, but how much pie can you eat?
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Recording
I’ve been recording a lot of music lately. It makes me excited because music has been one of my biggest loves — it’s one of the most satisfying things in my life. To be able to put to music words that have been in my heart or create an atmosphere with sound is an awesome gift to me.
Here’s a description of my main recording rig. I’m tracking guitars with a Les Paul and Gretsch Pro Jet into a variety of amps. My friend Aaron is the proud owner of some very nice gear and I’ve been able to use that. We’ve recorded with his Orange AD30, Mesa Boogie Stiletto and my Peavey ValveKing 100 head into a pair of Avatar 2x12 cabs loaded with a G12H Vintage 30 70th Anniversary Edition and G12 (Vintage 30) speakers. All the amps are on Hot Plates to get good saturation at a decent level and recorded with a Shure SM57. Aaron’s main axe is a Les Paul Custom. We’re tracking bass with an old Samick bass I have lying around.
All that sweet tone is captured at 24bit/96k into an M-Audio ProFire 2626 that runs into a pair of Tannoy Reveal monitors. We’re using Apple’s Logic Studio package for recording, mixing and editing and it’s good. I’ll be posting a little video describing the setup in a few days (when I get around to it). What are you guys recording with?
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AprilApr 13 Monday Mon 09
Digg Dialogg with Trent Reznor
Digg Dialogg with Trent Reznor: He’s one of the most interesting people to listen to.
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AprilApr 10 Friday Fri 09
Reader's Version of the Greek & Hebrew Reader's Bible
Reader's Version of the Greek & Hebrew Reader's Bible: Interesting. Saved for future reference.
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MarchMar 20 Friday Fri 09
Cleanliness is next to godliness
Cleanliness is next to godliness:
I understand that most church musicians are volunteers with real lives, kids, mortgages, etc… but I don’t think it’s too much to learn the music and rid the stage of clutter.
As I see it, when we have the songs embedded into our hearts and minds we can be more effective as worshippers. Time spent fumbling around with music stands and sheets of paper, staring at the pages, along with the dependency most church musicians that do this have on their music, adds a unnatural distraction to what should be a very natural act.
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MarchMar 9 Monday Mon 09
Imagination Is Not Creation
We’ve all met people who shy away from the hard work of action steps because they “don’t do the details”. They’re “more into the creative side of things”. But as far as I can tell, the Chief Creator didn’t just think about light, stars, and human life…the proof of His creativity is the tangible detailed expression of His vision.
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FebruaryFeb 28 Saturday Sat 09
Pondering the Future of My Facebook Account
I think I'm done with Facebook. It's reached the point of over-saturation. I can spend endless amounts of time on there, but I find I want to spend less and less there. Everyone and their mother (literally) is on there and I'm constantly bombarded with an endless stream of information I could care less about. I've got better ways to spend my time. The question is, when do I want to shut down my account?
NovemberNov 11 Sunday Sun 07
This Came In An Email I Received Today
"You have creative freedom on this... at least until I dont like it."
OctoberOct 27 Saturday Sat 07
Download: The names of Christ
I've been in the designing mood, and I feel like spreading the joy around. I designed a poster depicting some of the names of Jesus and I just thought I would shoot a quick post offering a PDF version of it for free. Maybe one day I'll get these printed properly, but for now I hope you'll enjoy this.
Download the poster here.
OctoberOct 23 Tuesday Tue 07
Screen Printing
I've been having the insatiable urge to design, produce, (and maybe) sell something tangible. I've found a new fascination in screen printing, which is ironic because I worked in the screen printing department of a company before web design and didn't pay much attention to it. But now, I've been admiring the great work available for sale at Feed The Creature, Wire & Twine, and I want to try and get some screen-printed posters and shirts made.
OctoberOct 17 Wednesday Wed 07
A Note to My Facebook Friends
Dear Facebook friends, I tend to ignore anything that requires me to add an application. I mean seriously, how many different "Wall" applications do I need?
AugustAug 29 Wednesday Wed 07
EE tidbit: "Edit This Entry" links in ExpressionEngine
I was once asked if I could make a link in a list of entries that, when clicked, would take you straight to the edit form for that entry. Wondering if it could be done myself, I dove into ExpressionEngine and found that it could be done, quite easily in fact.
AugustAug 2 Thursday Thu 07
JuneJun 30 Saturday Sat 07
Blues
I haven't posted my thoughts in a while on here, and I'm starting to feel guilty about it. It just seems like there are so many other people out there covering the web haps, and writing awesome stuff that I feel less motivated to do it myself. However, as this is my personal blog, I should be posting more.
JuneJun 2 Saturday Sat 07
MayMay 23 Wednesday Wed 07
One Little Video Camera, One Big World To Capture
I love me some gadgets. At my house we have two iPods, two Macs, a BlackBerry (which sucks btw), two digital cameras, a crap-ton of audio recording equipment and a plethora of other items that may or may not get regular use. Needless to say, when I saw the opportunity to pick up a brand-new Canon HV10 video camera on Craigslist for super-cheap, I practically jumped out of my seat.
MayMay 11 Friday Fri 07
MayMay 10 Thursday Thu 07
Sad Realization
I present to you a haiku, for all you freelancing web developers.
From pixels to code,
I can do it all so well.
I still eat ramen.