Ignite 2010 Tech

This past Thursday (before you ask, yes I am out of school) I had a great opportunity to really go out on my tech ministries. I helped with the Tech Booth for Ignite 2010 Round table. This was held by Allison Park Church and the MCM Network and we had atleast 100 different pastors and leaders from all over the country and in Pittsburgh. I saw some great friends like Rich Jones, Greg Krowits, Brian Bolt, and so many more. It was a fun day and there was extremely good Chinese Food :). Okay, so now that I talked about that, here's the latest Worship Videos for Crosstown I've been working on.

Another Crosstown Worship Song---Take it All

Today, I began again to start the Crosstown Worship Songs. By re-editing them and such in Sony Vegas. Take at look at Take it All by Hillsong Kids

Take it All from Mike Fowler on Vimeo.

This Guy is a Beast

Today as I was sitting in Brian Lippert's office, and he was showing me this website of a guy who does insane After Effects. His name is Barton Damer, and he is awesome at this. You can see one of his works here below.

Working on Tech Sheet for Kidz Kaboom

Normally for our Kidz Kaboom outreach (which you can register for by clicking here), the tech sheet we use is a little confusing to follow. Simple, but confusing. That's why this year I am going to see if we can try something new. For our normal APC Services, we use a site called Planning Center
To make our tech sheet. That's one way I'm going to try and do it this year, or we'll try and doing it the 2Twenty Style way in Microsoft Word. So I'm looking for opinions. If you know about planning center and Microsoft word, which would you choose? Looking for feed back. Thanks!!

Great TIme at Upward Awards

Last night was a blast at Upward Awards Night. I got the chance to once again work with Inteligent Lights with the Elation Operator 192 board once again. Not only that, I had to do video switch, and I got to take home a 2-litter thing of Coca-Cola (I seriously needed it after this past week starting day lights saving time.) But I got the chance to work with 4 other amazing people who without them, the night would not have happen. So special thanks to Gregg Jacobs, Brian Russel, Nick Karis, and Andy Eble. Joe Schafer did an awesome job also making the night happen.

ProPresenter finally for Windows!

Hey I wrote a song "Oh Happy Day, happy day, THEY FINALLY HAVE PROPRESENTER FOR WINDOWS!!" The long time Worship Software only for MAC Operating Systems is now being made for Windows, although it isn't coming till This upcoming summer. Still we might get rid of Easy Worship when this update comes avalible. To read the post that ProPresenter made available, Click the Link Below.

http://www.renewedvision.com/propresenter_pc.php.

Photo Editing

Part of some of the stuff that I do at APC and at 2Twenty is Picture Editing. I do serious projects like below....

Then there are the moments that either I'm bored or when I to something, I want to edit a picture like so...

Either way, most people would think that was done in Photoshop. But none of them were...(okay the last one was, but that one needed to look the best.)

A program I use called http://www.paint.net/ is excellent for stuff like that. It's basically the spoof or basic version of Photoshop. If your looking to do simple picture editing, I highly recommend that program.

Upwards Award Night

I will continue to post about this for the next week or so, but my next big production is Upward Awards night.

For those of you who don't know what Upward is, it's a Christian basketball league that Allison Park Church holds that involves APC and other surrounding church's like Orchard Hill Church, North Hills Christian Community and more. I got placed in helping with the tech production with that which includes Projectors, Lights, Live Cam, and output switching. I'll be working with Gregg Jacobs and hopefully 1 other person. This should be one of those easy productions that APC has.

Worship Band for Winter Retreat

This Past weekend as well during the Winter Retreat, I got to hear and work with one of the best college worship teams I've ever worked with. (Okay the only one I've Worked with). That band is the Valley Forge Christian College Worship Team. They had such a positive attitude, great hearts for God, and made some awesome music. You can check out their Friday Night Fast set by Clicking HERE.

This is What I do when Family Sends Snow Pictures

When you combine my Family and Sony Vegas, and my laptop, here's what you get.