Unshakable Kingdom!

Hello!

The Unshakable Kingdom project is running at full force! Here's a promo video that we released today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpJYMA17pUc&feature=share

If you could share the video with your friends, that would be great! We're trying to spread the word as much as possible about the Unshakable Kingdom. :) Thanks!

Here's a teaser we released last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GL-x__qNM

We also have an instagram: http://instagram.com/unshakablekingdom2014

And you can follow VGY on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorygapyear

Also, they've updated the VGY student page! http://victorygapyear.co.za/students/meet-the-students.html
Keep in mind that these pictures were taken at the very beginning of the year, and everyone has changed a lot. Especially me. My haircut in the picture is horrible.

It's been a busy journey so far, but I've enjoyed it immensely! Here's a bit of my experience so far in picture form:

I feel like a rock star! We have a jam room at our VGY campus that we've converted into a recording studio. There's a sound-proof-ish booth there that was originally designed for drums, but we use it to record voice-overs for the documentary, film, and promo-clips. One day, Dooitze and I were bored, so we recorded our own radio show!

The recording of the CD happened at a recording studio in Humans Dorp. A guy with have connections with has his own private studio in his house that he lets us use every year! We are really blessed! I had the privilege of recording both guitar tracks and background vocals. It was a really cool experience!

Lourens (on the left) is my house dad. He's in charge of making sure the CD sounds good--arranging, editing, and producing the album. It's a lot of work, but he's very good at it! He was a part of WA their first year (2005) while this studio was being built! Obi (on the right) is an insane pianist! He's really into jazz and gospel--and he's really good at it! I'm really excited to hear his tracks. There are three other pianists on the album, and each has a different flair.

There was a lot of chilling at the studio. As part of the documentary team, Herman took pictures on an expensive camera; Armand took videos on his phone because he's Armand. He has hundreds of phone-videos on his laptop that Rachel and I watched while waiting. We got in trouble for laughing so hard! My favorite one was of Frikkie trying to flip a pancake--but it lands on his face!

This is a very sound-proof room where they keep the drum kits. It's so sound-proof, I was able to jam on the drums while they were recording piano!

 

 

The drum kit is massive and there are so many things you can do with it! Unfortunately, it belongs to the owner of the studio and if we touch it we get in huge trouble. So we brought and used our own (the one on the left). We have two drummers on the album--Armand and WP. Both have been playing for over 7 years and are insane! In the promo clip, they're the two guys who are interviewed together; WP is the one who says my favorite line at the end. The other guy who's interviewed in the video (with the amazing afro) is Sebastian (or Sebass or Seabass or C-bass or Fluffy); he's our gifted rapper.

Driving to the studio took at least a half an hour each way, but it wasn't too bad, because the drive was always beautiful! But there were a lot of dirt roads, which meant a really dirty van at the end of the week.

This is our jam studio! I popped in today to watch Ludo record her Spoken Word. She's an amazing writer!



So this is my life right now! I'm on the documentary team, and it's really busy filming people working, filming people filming, editing promo clips, filming people brainstorming, interviewing, filming in general, and sifting through the footage for usable material.

In other news:

• Leadership returned safely from Zambia yesterday! We'll hear about their adventures tomorrow morning after worship. For more about how that went and pictures: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zambia-2014-Missions-Trip/1494509470780576
• The Call Conference was amazing! I wasn't able to attend the morning sessions, due to recording, but the night sessions were fantastic! Here's a short video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4I3IWn5aEk&feature=share
• I have a list that a few people made for me of 200 "must-see" movies. I'm not going to watch all of them (127 Hours, Shutter Island, World War Z), but so far I've seen 31 of them in the past 6 months including the Lion King, Forrest Gump, Hunger Games 1 and 2, Inception, Beauty and the Beast, Surf's Up, and Grease. Some of them were amazing, some of them were just meh. Needless to say, I'm taking a break from watching movies for a while...
• We have three weeks to finish this project! Please pray for unity as we work with Media to release our very best.

I hope you have a great rest of your week and a restful weekend!

Until next post,
Nad