We started a study of First John and decided to call it ‘Life in Community.’ To lead into a future project we used brackets to frame the “in”. The text design was very straight forward. My first thoughts for the graphical element for the art was a circle of circles. The colors would be different to represent diversity in the community. The circles would have also had a tie in…
I spent a day at the ETC headquarters in Middleton, WI. They have an awesome facility and work environment.
The assembly floor / warehouse is one very large open space. All ETC products are made in this space. All elements of ETC gear are manufactured in this facility except for the lenses and the metal castings for the fixtures.
This picture shows the lens housing for Source Fours going through the paint…
I usually only blog about art and technology. Often times you look at an artist and think their life revolves around the creation of their art – you forget they have lives as well. Part of my challenge of working in the Church technology world, is finding the balance of work, community, and family. Often times in the Church world these lines get blurred to the determent of many people….
I am always scribbling concepts for set designs on pads around me. Here are a couple of conceptual drawing and the sets they led to.
Anthony Barlich of Barlich Photography photographed our Lessons & Carols service. Here are a couple of his shots from the evening. We spent the first part of the Christmas season in a purposefully cold stark setting. We were focusing on the simplicity of the event of Christmas. The theme was designed to contrast what the rest of the world does for Christmas. The last half of the month I wanted to create…
In the midst of building the Christmas set with all the candles, an artist friend of mine called and told me I needed one red candle on stage. This candle would represent the death of christ and the blood that was shed for all of humanity.
I ran by Michael’s and grabbed the candle. We had the stand in storage. I placed six white candles around the red candle and took…
We did a service this year called Lessons & Carols an adaption of Nine Lessons & Carols an historic service format. We ended up with 800+ candles on stage. Here are some shots from Twitter of the night. I will post more soon with pictures of how we constructed the set.
Christmas was always simple.
An inn with no room, a manger with a baby, a teenage girl in an unknown town, and some shepherds that celebrated the arrival of God on earth. Christmas was never intended to come along with the all of the flash and stress that now surrounds this holiday. It was intended to celebrate the incarnation and now has become more about consumerism and our western culture. …
Annual reports at a church are usually presented before an evening service or for 15 min during a service. The report is primarily centered around a Powerpoint presentation with graphs and lots of numbers. It is often presented by the administrative pastor who has very little, if any stage presence.
We wanted to take a different approach to educating our people on the financials of the church. Our goal was to…
This week we launched our Global Impact Week, our version of your typical missions Sunday. Tim Schraeder, our communication director, blogged about it here so I’ll just let you read about it there.
As far as the set I turned the towers square for the first time so the projections were not distorted. I had designed these prayer stations that represented each of our 5 global initiatives. It was a great…
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