trey taylor

the balloon

trey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:23:21 +0000

‘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

trey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:57 +0000

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

trey — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:54:10 +0000

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

trey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:07:27 +0000

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

trey — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:55 +0000

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.

the prodigy

trey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:03:43 +0000

She gets these mad skillz from me. What can I say. She had an opportunity with both an audience and Mark’s beautiful “peenano,” how could she not jump all over that. She rocked an original or two and she even threw a bit of Yancy’s Praise Party in there. But by the end of her performance, I think she may have let it all go to her head.

the Brighter live recording

trey — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:00:53 +0000

Check it out… next Wednesday, we will be recording our first live album for both a CD & DVD release of our youth worship band, The Brighter. These guys are incredible, I can’t wait for you worship pastors/leaders to get your hands on some of their songs. Trust me, its really great stuff!

We’ve been prepping this concert for a couple of weeks now getting everything ready and of course we aren’t there yet, but we are close. Next week I’ll post some stills of the show as well as rough cuts throughout the post process. If you’re local or even semi-local you need to be here, next Wednesday at 7p! Also, you can follow The Brighter on Twitter.

Here’s the spot Will put together for the concert:

flickermood

trey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:16:47 +0000

This has to be about the smoothest animated typography ever. Mostly done in AE by Sebastian Lange. Check it, then pick your jaw up off the floor.

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

the creative republic

trey — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:22:03 +0000

As any other creative, I’m always looking for inspiration. And you know as well as I do, sometimes it comes in the strangest forms. But one thing is for sure, we are always looking for it, something that will inspire us to dream and create. Tonight I came across a goody that I wanted to pass along. It’s a site called Creattica (crazy awesome title), it’s an amazing gallery of “great design and inspirational imagery.” They also have a Creattica Daily that features tons of news and links for creatives and designers just waiting to inspire. Check it, hopefully you’ll be inspired as well.

A few of my other faves:

thanks for that Mr. Lewis

trey — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:10:37 +0000

“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free: which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people; except Christians, ever imagine they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which we are more unconcious of in ourselves. And the more we have it in ourselves, the more we dislike it in others. The vice I am talking about is pride or self conceit and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals is Humility. According to Christian Teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkedness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison; it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice it is the complete anti-God state of mind. If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, “How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show-off? The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with every one else’s pride.” - C.S. Lewis