It’s A Hard Knock Life…
Los

I would be amiss if I did not state that the hour is upon us when Ragamuffinsoul.com hits 1000 in Technorati ranking.
This does a few things.
1. Makes this place be able to ball with some other high ranking blogs out there. None of which talk about what we do on here.
2. Puts me a step or 2 closer to becoming almost as cool as some of the mom blogs out there.
3. Lets me raise my ad prices. Just Kidding. Sort of.

4. Allows YOUR VOICE to be heard much louder than you EVER imagined. Trust me. There is some stuff going on behind the scenes here that will make most of your jaws hang open and I can’t wait to let you in on it. Because the noise that will come out of the space above your hanging jaws will be heard by more people than you ever imagined.
So if you want to be the 1000th link linking here.
Go ahead. Link to www.ragamuffinsoul.com and put us over the 1000 mark in Technorati.

Thanks for making this fun and me addicted.
Los

This is Carole. She is a ragamuffin regular.
She called me out that I have not acknowledged her.
She is now acknowledged.
And I love her “I don’t understand” idea.
I’m stealing it for a late night post this evening.
Go tell her hello.
Los

Another reason I quickly fell in love with my church/orginazation is because they kick major tail.
I am constantly amazed as to the talent of the teammates around me.
I think it all came together for me during the DRIVE Conference. Spending 5 days with teammates from all 3 campuses putting together a world class event.
It solidified for me that I work with true rock stars.
What you have below is the video of the opener from Session 3.
All sorts of people were involved in making this thing pop.
And yes that is a 60 some odd foot screen stretching the width of the proscenium.
And yes that is me getting all gangsta jiggy on that screen.
Props to everyone who made this opener work.
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Here is the link to see just the center screen res.

Enjoy!!!
Los
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Hello. I’m Carlos.
I ride the bus home.
Well actually I ride the train and then the bus home.
Some people look at me funny when I tell them this.
I think it is a stigma that “bus people” have here in the ATL.
But I love putting my headphones on, taking a right out of the Buckhead Church building and walking to the MARTA train station.
I love the homeless guy who tries to sell me a bottle of Crown Royal every Wednesday and Thursday.
I love the group of workers from Foot Locker at Lenox Mall who argue about who the woman liked the most that came in around 3 that afternoon.
I love the business man who reads his paper while secretly listening to Snoop on his iPod.

I love the group that waits at the Dunwoody Marta station for our Cobb County Transit bus.
I am starting to make friends with them.
It is the same crew.
I have not had the nerve to ask them their names yet but we are starting to smile cordially at each other and we always let the lady with the Walmart bag on first.

I love the smell of the bus as I sit in the back and hope someone interesting sits next to me so I can ask them what they are reading.
I love pulling the little cord which prompts the lady that lives in the speaker system of the bus to so elequatly “Stop Requested” in an accent that no one on the bus has.

I love the bus.
I love that my family only has one car and that is forces us to spend more time together.
And I love my wife’s new camera which took these pictures on my bus ride home yesterday.

Oh. And I love you too.
Los

See more here.

I’m doing this tomorrow.
You’re Welcome
Los

I’ll be showing off some of the new banners over the next few weeks that I got fro YOU GUYS!!! AMAZING!!! Make sure you use these on your blog entries!!!
This one is from (I can’t remember!!! LEt me know if you designed this!!!)

Go HERE and HERE.for the rules and explanation on how to be involved in this post.
Every Thursday YOU write a post on your blog as to what creative element, secret, process, whatever took place in your life the past week or month, or year, or decade.
Music, Art, Video, Production, Scripts, Sermon Illustrations, Design, ect. You get the vibe.
This weeks entry from me is a song we did last Sunday.
Here is what Josh wrote…

This song was originally recorded by Twista and Faith Evans. A local artist named Kenny Yasuda rewrote the lyrics to the song to really tie it into the series. Kenny is also the artist that you see performing.

Kaye Woods(video assistant to the stars) created the video that plays the lyrics during the song. I liked the look . I want to try more stuff like this. I loved the fact that we did something a little different with this song. It turned out great.

Also, this was Todd Widdon’s first time going solo as a video director. Great job Todd.

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I am so proud of my team for putting that together.
Your turn.
Creative Chaos ELEVEN!!!!

Discuss,
Los

You can walk into Mulligan’s Bar & Tavern 5 miles from my house and buy this shirt.
Um…
I think I’ll take the long way around that place.
Los
[disclaimer: I have only experienced something this blatant twice since I’ve moved. This is EXTREMELY rare in my world. But it sucks none the less]

It was supposed to be an easy night.
Heather took off to B’ham for the night to hang with a friend and I had my 3 kiddos who were supposed to be asleep by 7:30.
I don’t know what happened.
Losiah hurt his right arm somehow and won’t move it. He is not in pain unless he moves it but has begun to move it a little more throughout the night.
Luckily we have a RN living with us and she calmed my fears.
Whatever you do, don’t google “Toddler with limp arm”.
About 3 minutes into my research he had some Arabian fungal disease.
I think he just sprained it somehow.
I laid down with him until he was fast asleep all the while ignoring my other 2 princesses.
I told them they could sleep with me and, well, they are.

It has been a pretty rough night without my bride but I think I have it covered.

Man their heads are heavy.
Los

Hey guys and gals. Down in the bottom right of my sidebar you will see a new Compassion International widget.
I am the slow blogger who just got that on there.
If you have ever thought of sponsoring a child.
Stop thinking and do it!!!
Go click the widget and change a life. Quite seriously.
Your sacrifice of 5 Starbucks a month changes a families life FOREVER!!!
Let me know if and when you do!!!
Carlos

Yesterday I was in meetings from 715 am until 430 pm. NO time in between.
Although many of those meetings were creative in nature, I ended up curling up in a fetal position and sucking my thumb for 30 minutes.
That is just how I handle that kind of stuff.
So.
Today.
I am really looking forward to today.
We have a BRILLIANT speaker for our Buckhead staff this morning. Tyler is even driving from the country down to the city to sit in on our staff meeting.
This guy supposedly gets paid millions of dollars by companies to come in and THINK for them.
So yea. It should be good.
Alas I am going to make sure that I get at least 2 hours at Starbucks this afternoon. Tower Place and Piedmont.
If you walk in and I have my headphones in and don’t look at you, it is not because I don’t love you.
It is because I don’t want to crawl into the corner and suck my thumb in a fetal position again.
This is the most random “twitteresque” type post I have had in a while.
But sometimes there does not need to be a point.
Tell me the boring details of your day.
Los

I know I know.
That song is so 2006.
Los

OK. I’m excited to do this. I think sometimes words can cover your true identity.
And novel blog posts do that for me.
I don’t read them.
So let’s do this.
Your life…
Six Words…
I think that we will learn more about each others lives in six words than we would in a documentary about each other.
Here is me…

Laughed, lied, hid, now exploding life

There you have it.
Carlos’ life is 6 words.
Your turn.
Type.
Los