other random stuff i've been working on: direct mail postcard for the lake stevens church [10k were sent out in 2 batches], 20k quarter-page "touch cards" [about 18k were inserted into the lake stevens journal this week], and a b/w ad [also for the journal]... plus a temporary website for the church until we've got more content to play with... there's also a windoze media video there of a message series intro [ran outta time to finish "polishing" it tho' - will try to tweak it a bit before we show it again].

i've been working on some promo stuff for a children's conference coming up this spring. here's an audio-less specie of the promo video [many thanks to brad & chris of indikator for permitting us to use their track!]. over to the right is a miniature version of the "touch cards" for the event; said cards are CD-insert size, and doubled as the cover for the promo DVDs that were sent to all the churches in our district with kids' ministry stuff going on...

i've done similar stuff at overlake for the past 2 northwest youth conferences, but this time around we went a bit crazier. the big 30' screen and 2 smaller side stage screens were sent a hi-res signal via a spiffy switcher [a compass 2 from FSR]. i had also burnt truckloads of content onto DVD-Rs for sending loops to the outside screens [overlake's built-in 20-footers]; one of our youth interns ran that mixer--great joerb there, gordy!

this was my first time doing visuals down at the oregon youth conference. that was lots of fun... kutless and some other bands rocked the house, yo!

the last weekend of september, the northwest women's conference was at our church, so that was kinda time-consuming as well... other random stuff i've been working on:
40 Days of Purpose junk, promo stuff for our church's Christmas production [here], a silly video spoofing The Apprentice, video tweakiness from roadtrip photos + whatnot... i've also been trying to assemble some sort of a demo reel DVD to showcase my skillz and/or lack thereof. >:O) trying to land myself a spiffy job and all that kind of goings-on.

i also fed the 4 widescreen plasma displays that were directly behind the award presenters/MCs. i was only moderately pleased with how the plasma stuff turned out, as i ran out of content prep time and had to prioritize the cueing for the content of the comparatively huge center screen. fortunately we might be using some of the same gear for the northwest district youth conference; that should help eliminate some guesswork.

click the graphic for a short realplayer video that shows one of the "bumpers" or if you don't mind a 2-meg download, here's an indeo-codec quicktime video.