Design, Story
Josh McKenna
Imagine solutions for your audience

After catering to our filmic friends for the past few weeks, we're stepping away from cinema and into the world of design. Design is the art of communication, an approach to visualizing the verbal and contextualizing the inconceivable. Do you design?

Ministry, Story
Josh McKenna
The best editing I've ever seen

I'm beside myself with excitement to share these gems with you this week! This travel short is my favorite example of video editing I've ever seen by far. Also, we're including links for thought about the power of storytelling, and also some codec considerations.

Storytelling, Editing, Ministry
Josh McKenna
Learning to tell stories powerfully

Do you understand the power of #storytelling? Anyone can benefit from learning stronger #communication skills.

Storytelling, Better, Image of God
Josh McKenna
God Tells Better Stories

All told, my personal thoughts regarding cinema concerning matters of Christian faith: the greatest story ever told, ever written, ever imagined has been written by God and God alone. Doesn't it make sense that the most compelling, cliché moments in cinematic stories would align with the story God wrote?

Better, Image of God
Josh McKenna
El HaShamayim

In the sky, mysterious phenomena abound: rainbow, aurora borealis, crepuscular rays and sun beams, mirages and phantom fires, twinkling stars, Relámpago del Catatumbo—a never-ending lightning storm, raining fish in Honduras and Idaho's fire rainbow; how often have the clouds offered beautiful shapes and stunning acrobatics, flowing formations and dynamic displays in the midst of a heavenly, evening sun?

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Howdy! I am Josh McKenna, a freshman Biology major at Texas A&M University working towards a profession in the medical field, likely in a form of general or emergency surgery, but alas—that is a discussion for another time.

Over the winter break following my first semester of college, I read Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, an interesting narrative by Atul Gawande about the flawed, furrowed human condition—and how that human condition influences our micro-roles in a macro-world.

This blog explores further into this concept of betterment, of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (not actually the film, of course); within this periodic text, we will explore the premise of perfection and all of its companions.

Daily, some strive and some stray—but this we day-to-day must ultimately decide for ourselves.

So! "Without further gilding of the lily, and with no more ado", I give to you a wondrous conundrum, both the mantra and mane for this fine feign, my blog's name: Planes and Plantains.