Various banners I made for a few youtube channels. Let me know if you’d like any banners made for your youtube channels.

I just recently came across some graphics I did for an outdoor concert series I ran for a summer here in Escondido, CA. The Community Reformed Church of Escondido’s courtyard was setup like a mini amphitheater and it was a great setting to bring in some local artists to play shows on Saturday night.

The story behind how I became involved with this short-lived music venue is that of a tragic one.

Being a musician, I used to communicate with a lot of local musicians on myspace, and one day I was messaged by the “backyard” venue letting me know there was a new outdoor music venue and sending an invitation to check it out.

The first Saturday night I attended, I had gotten the wrong time and had arrived an hour early. The guy who was running the sound board asked me if I would help him set some stuff up, not even knowing that I knew what I was doing. So I agreed and found out he was the one running the show.

It was the first time I met David Mathieu, and would be the last. I received a message on myspace 4 days later that David had fallen from the top of a slope which was ironically in his backyard. A member of the church recognized my picture when she was browsing the friends list on the backyard’s myspace page, and remembered me helping with setting up the sound. Since they had a show that Saturday night they were hoping I would be able to help out again.

So I did, and from that moment on, not only was I running sound, I was put in charge of the whole thing, and ran with it for the next 4 months.

Here are some graphical ads I created for the myspace page. I decided to add them to this posts as a reminder of all the great acts we had at the backyard the summer of 2007.