Good Friday @park
I will blog in the near future about the set design and construction but for now, here are some pictures of the evening.
Life is the story
In thinking about the media that surrounds our new series, I wanted it to be something different. There are testimonies / stories from our body that we had chosen to go with the study. I wanted to get away from the talking head testimony that you often see. I also wanted to tell the story that investing in your community is not just a one time thing that we do…
Beautiful Things
As an artist, who is a Christian, I am rarely inspired by the offerings of the Christian/Worship music world. I often wonder why everyone sounds the same, or why the arrangements of the songs are so simple, and why you find the same songs recorded over and over again? I recently ran across a band that I had heard of about 3 or 4 years ago. They had an awesome…
Things that inspire me
For some reason I love this blue door. I drive by it every day when I drop off my daughter at school.
Inspiration
The header and background of my page are images I shot of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in down town Chicago. It was designed by Frank Gehry, I don’t feel qualified to say anything about him except for the fact that he is a huge insperation. He will go down in history as one of the forces that brought change to architecture as we knew it. Here are a collection of…
Make the most with what you have
“Make the most with what you have” has been my motto for the last 16 years. Some would argue that I have ‘a lot’. I often hear people talk about what they don’t have, and what they could do if they had more. I have found that ’a lot’ is relative. Regardless of how much you have, there is always someone who has a lot more than you do that you…
Kinetic Ice
I was driving down Lake Shore Drive the other day, on my way to drop off my daughter at school. As I approached North Ave. beach I saw something that was amazing. The lake was rolling with waves – except the surface of the water was covered in broken chunks of ice. The effect was mesmerizing. The water seemed like syrup. After I dropped my daughter off, I went back…
Warming things up a bit
After the somewhat harsh look and sound that we started the month of December with, I wanted to end the month with a warm, rich feeling in the room. I also wanted to maintain the idea of simple and nothing that spoke of traditional Christmas decor. We have often used candles in our stage design, but I wanted to take it to another level. Our candle setup had been a…
The story behind simple
When we decided to tell the story of the simplicity and humility of the event we call Christmas, our vision was for a minimalistic look on our stage. Our vision was to keep everything that spoke to the commercialized thing Christmas has became, out of our room. Basically, no materials traditionally used as Christmas decor would be used. We went through many conversations on what told that story visually. We…
A Bright Idea
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…
