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the brighter CD giveaway!

// November 12th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // creative, video, worship

Everybody likes free stuff right? Well today, I’m giving away a free download of The Brighter’s (our youth worship band) new album “To The City.” Couple of things… first, this album is truly amazing. My faves are How He Loves, Completely, & Your Name High, trust me, you’re gonna wanna hear it. Secondly, the guys have 3 original songs on the album, and I think every worship leader should check them out, all 3 are great worship tunes (Brighter, To the City, & Completely).

So here’s the deal, I want to give a copy away… today! So, lets keep it simple, leave a comment if you want to be entered in the drawing. Be sure to enter your email address. At 5:00p (central) today, I will throw the names in a hat and see who gets lucky.

Also, check the vid below, its from the night of the recording and its the first track off the album. I had the privilege of editing this little bad boy and I think it turned out pretty awesome. Its also available for free download at the bands website, as well as an option to purchase the album (if you don’t win it here of course).

the balloon

// November 7th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // creative, film, video

‘The Balloon” was screened last night in the beautiful Cathedral Square at the launch of the first SoAL Film Fest (read yesterdays post for more info). I’m so pumped to let you all know that ‘The Balloon’ won the scramble, we took 1st place baby! So huge congrats are in order to the team, everyone did a great job. So here’s the film… hope you enjoy!

Let me know what you think… remember it was made from scratch in 48 hours!

a 48 hour short

// November 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // creative, film

Two weekends ago, myself and a team of others, participated in the We Love Mobile! Film Scramble. We had 48 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit, and score the film. I had the privilege of editing ours which was a lot of fun. Each team was randomly given a couple of locations that had to be included in their shoot, we drew a neighborhood and a park. Our short, which is called ‘The Balloon,’ will be played with all the others at the opening of the first SoAL Film Festival tonight at Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile. I’m pretty sure there will be a vote, so come by at 7 for  free night of film and see ‘The Balloon’ and vote it up for us. The festival runs all weekend, so if you’re a film buff you should come out and support the event!

Just in case you don’t make it over, I’ll post the film here tomorrow so everyone can see it.

mobile campus update

// October 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // church, creative, multi-site, video

We aren’t sure yet what we will call our 3rd location, but so far we’ve been simply calling it our Mobile Campus. Eventually, once we’ve locked in the area that it’ll be, we’ll give it a little more specific name. So far it sounds like its a mobile campus (especially for you out-of-towners), but I assure you its not. Its our Mobile (as in Alabama) Campus, and it will be somewhat mobile because for the first 6 months it will be a portable campus. Sounds like fun uh. We can’t wait. We are aggressively working on a location and I hope that we’ll be able to let the deets out of the bag soon.

Also, we’ve brought on (technically he comes on next week) our Campus Pastor for the Mobile Campus, I’m extremely proud to introduce Tim Gautreaux, who will be coming on staff to take the DNA of Bay across the pond to do something amazing, something different in the Mobile area. Tim’s a rad dude, we are so excited about him joining our team. Check the video below to get to know him.

Props to @benragsdale & @wharing on the video. It looks amazing!

The Brighter concert photos

// August 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // creative, photography, worship

Last Wednesday night was an incredible night of worship with our youth worship band The Brighter which we recorded for both a CD & DVD release. Our Creative Team is crack-a-lackin’ on this project hoping to get it out soon. As promised, I plan to post a few rough cuts here during the process as well as a few surprises along the way. Until then, I wanted to wet your appetites with a few killer photos that my boy Casey Lee took of the night! (Marcus Neto I’d slap yours up too if I had’em:)  Enjoy.

video goodies you should see

// August 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // creative, photography, video

I love Vimeo. Just needed to get that out. Anywho, I came across this beautiful stop motion piece that I needed to share. Olympus put this together as promotion for their camera, the PEN. They shot 60,000 stills, then developed the 9,600 pics you see, then reshot another 1,800 pictures. The crazy thing is that there was no post production. Whaaaa! Yea its pretty cool… also you can download the music free here. Enjoy.

Last night I was watching a few shows on hulu and this commercial ran before one of the shows and I thought it was brilliant. Obviously I don’t endorse the product, but the creativity of the spot is worth sharing.