Archive for the ‘PHILOSOPHY & THEORY’ Category

Sally Morgenthaler

Posted on December 3, 2009 by proctor

Image of Sally Morgenthaler

Sally Morgenthaler is one of my heroes. She’s been challenging the status quo and dreaming about the future of worship for as long as I’ve known her. I met her in my early years of VJ-ing and got to reconnect with her at a few recent events. I wanted to get on iChat to…

read more
What is “Visual Worship”?

Posted on November 15, 2009 by proctor

Image of What is “Visual Worship”?

As I’ve been on the road having conversations with pastors, worship leaders & techies who are all trying to figure out how creativity works in worship, I have had a growing burden to gain a clearer understanding of what true, biblical worship is. i have much to learn and more scripture to dig into…

read more
Why Use Simple-Colored Backgrounds?

Posted on November 10, 2009 by proctor

— Why use simple colored generic loops (ex Digital Juice Jumpbacks) to lead visual worship? It doesn’t “mean” anything, so why? —

this seems to be the train of thought amongst a few of us in this “visual worship conversation”. However, could simple loops with nothing but textures, colors and particles ever have a…

read more
Excerpt from ‘The VJ Book’

Posted on October 29, 2009 by proctor

Bill Cottman interview (p. 84)

“Most VJ content doesn’t interest me– the flashing lights and swirling and pulsating images. What interests me is technology that enables me to recollect and rearrange images, transitions and timing in response to the moods in the room…. I could do more, like mix in some live camera. And that’s…

read more

Share your voice .

Some will choose, some will abstain…

Posted on October 27, 2009 by proctor

Today, an interesting conversation sparked over Camron Ware’s tweet update: “Why do we (Church) feel like we HAVE to ALWAYS see the lyrics?! Learn the songs! And don’t say it’s cuz the newcomers. #frustrated”

I encourage you to go read his latest post: an expanded explanation of his Lyric-Tweet.

Between

read more

Share your voice .

the most influential layer

Posted on by proctor

Image of the most influential layer

no matter what media i have in my playlist… no matter what software & technique i’m using… no matter what the message is…

…the most influential layer in VJ-ing is the music. It’s the one element that completely dictates the emotion of the moment.

i’ve curated and sequenced an iMix…

read more
Questions from Gurus Breakout

Posted on July 15, 2009 by proctor

As promised; here is our response to the questions that we didn’t have time to get around to during the Visual Worship breakout lab at Gurus of Tech. You can watch our class online, as well as download the notes that go along with our content.

Does the Environmental

read more