A Painter
3 Comments Published by Camron Ware - Visual Worshiper December 7th, 2008 in MiscellaneousRemember in elementary school when your teacher would give you those little personality worksheets, and most of the time they had a question asking “What do you want to do when you grow up?”
At the time, my dad was a paint contractor. So, I always put “painter.” I loved painting; I would paint model planes, cars, ships; you name it. Sometimes while painting those models I would paint the surface I was building it on. (The parents loved that; they encouraged the creativity.)
But, as I grew up and got into tech; I began to forget that “painter” side of me. I began to think I wanted to be a moving light tech, or an A/V installer, which I still love doing, but I remember realizing that that wasn’t supposed to be the main focus of my life, but rather a support to the main thing.
I look back on the journey God has taken me on so far, and I love seeing how all those little personality worksheet answers stating “painter” were true all along. I just use a different medium than dad.
The cool thing is when I began to realize how much of a balance I have in me of tech and art. Each supports the other in everything I do. I love being able to see both sides of a production or worship element. The Why and the How.
If you listen to someone’s passions and hobbies when they were a kid, you can usually find many parallels between then and what they are doing now.
At least; that’s what I hope for them.
I guess when you are a kid you don’t have any mental or imaginative limits, so you dream what you want. As you grow up, you start to feel the reality of life creep in and put limits on what you think you can do.
What did you want to be when you were young and answering that question? How does that play into what you are doing now?
when i was little, i wanted to be a lawyer and a judge, just like my father and my father’s father.
then one day, i noticed all the books in his law library. i put 2 and 2 together.
so it was about that time that i picked up the family home video camera and started making really cheesy reenactments of my favorite movies. i would even take the camera out into the woods and film adventures.
i just got back from Indonesia last week from making another film.
i also loved to gather people together to show them the videos i had made. but i have no idea how that relates to what i do now. haha
Well I use to paint all kinds of things when I was a kid. I once found this round shaped rock and painted an eye on it . . . my mom though it looked a little evil but she let me keep it.
I painted on the walls of our root cellar, I painted most of my toys, I painted just about everything I could get my hands on . . . except paper or canvas. I didn’t like to take a blank page and make a picture, I liked to take what was there and accentuate it.
I use to do stop motion animations with legos all the time too.
I would freak out my neighbors kids by hooking my grandfathers old shoulder mounted video camera to the co-ax cable tv outside their house. Then their parents would make sure the TV was on ch. 3 (they would also make sure that they kids were down stairs to see the strange ‘live news story’ on TV) and I would hide the camera across the yard in a tree pointing to the outside of their house. We did this twice before the kids rounded up enough courage to go outside and look to see what was going on. Remember, this was like 1990 or so . . . so video cameras weren’t all the common yet.
I use to collect strangely shaped bottles (of different colors) and with different colored liquids in them and put them in my windows. I loved the colored light coming through.
I use to program adventures and self destruct programs in BASIC on my dad’s Atari ST computer.
I also learned to spell by playing Space Quest 1 and Kings Quest 1.
I’ve always loved light. I started messing with sound because the sound guy at my old church needed some help in the sound booth (and I needed something to keep my mind occupied so I could focus during service lol).
In college I was majoring in Lighting and Sound design for Theatre. I took several senic design and senic painting classes too.
Now I’m incharge of the lighting, sound, video, and IT at my church. So that kind of has to do with the stuff I did as a kid.
@proctor: I judge huh?! Wow…that would be interesting. “I hereby sentence you to only use 320×480 clips on HD screens for the rest of your life…”
@Ian: Awesome bro! It’s great to read you did all that, and how that ties into what you’re doing now. It’s funny; I learned to type so fast by playing computer games as a kid and having to use cheat codes sometimes just in the nick of time before I lost…
And I have now revealed my full nerd.