The Flip Off Hunger benefit tournament was a great success. The MK raised money for local food pantries and gave competitors another chance to qualify for the state championships in February. We will continue to host social events and semi-weekly “pinball nights” here and there, but the 2013 sanctioned competition season is wrapping up.
Our event was covered by the local news media as well.
Hey everybody!
This month we are hoping to bring in a few more members to our organization. We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned, but since our group is still in its formative stages, it’s very important to bring in core, dues-paying members to help support the development of our resources. If you know anybody who might be interested in joining the Mystic Krewe, and taking advantage of our many resources, from access to the South’s largest collection of vintage pinball games, to educational classes, one-on-one help and business consulting, movie nights, social events, parties, workshops and much more, please contact Mike and arrange for a meeting or tour.
The Mystic Krewe is open to people of all ages, races and gender. We are a diverse group of people who help each other, share information, and have social gatherings. We love to learn new things, explore, create and celebrate. If you are tired of being surrounded by the mundane, consider joining us!
This month we have a lot of fun things going on.
Our video editing workstation is operational with all the latest hardware and software that the high-end movie studios use. We are doing weekly get-togethers to share and learn how to professionally produce videos and are getting some promo videos shot for the club. Regardless of your skill level with a camera or editing, you can benefit from joining us and learning by doing.
Our private arcade is reaching legendary status, with games spanning eras from the 1930s to now, rare games, prototype games, popular games, “A-list” games, covering every theme you can imagine. People are re-discovering how much fun pinball is. We’ve hosted a half-dozen tournaments in the area and will be hosting the LA State Pinball Championships in February.
Our workshop is now online, with a full compliment of tools to do everything from electronics repair to paint, metal and woodworking.
Any day now, we will have our Pro Tools multi-track digital editing rig up and running, capable of doing world-class audio and video recording in our studio, as well as live broadcasting of events over the Internet.
We’ve also been hosting occasional private parties in the space. Movie nights, band rehearsals, meetings and other events. If your group needs a very unique, high-tech space for a meeting, class, cyber-conference or other event, contact us for info.
There’s a lot going on this month. Our recent Introduction to Electronics/Arcade repair class was a huge success, and we are planning an informal follow-up for club members where we follow-through on some of the repairs, and re-cap the monitors on several games we repaired during the original class.
As a result of the class, we’ve got several classic arcade games operational and available to play in the PinChurch, including Q*bert and Battle Zone!
Our next project involves setting up a state-of-the-art video and audio production workstation! Our group will begin doing video productions of classes and the resources will be made available to core members for personal projects. We’ve already got the hardware and software in place. A super-fast quad-core workstation with oodles of memory and drive space, and the latest fully-licensed version of Adobe CS6, Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, and everything needed to crank out professional work!
We will immediately begin having informal gatherings as we teach ourselves the basics of video editing with Adobe Premier. We will soon be having some formal classes but in the interim having fun with footage and practicing editing and related processes.
We are also setting up a full-blown Pro Tools rig. Stay tuned for more!
On any given day we are also engaging in a wide variety of repair/maker projects from repairing pinball and arcade machines, to fabricating parts, building out the workspaces and more. There’s always something fun and informative going on!
Also, we will be running another IFPA-sanctioned pinball tournament, this time at the public venue, Barcadia on Tchopatoulas in downtown New Orleans on July 27th.
If you’d like to participate in any of our projects, contact us or consider becoming a member.
Now that we’ve got a state-of-the-art video production workstation set up, with all the latest tools and technology (i.e. Adobe Premier Pro CS6, etc.), it’s time to get our group up to speed on how to use it.
We are now in the process of putting together a list of interested people who would like to participate in an informal study group to learn professional video editing and production. The plan is to meet at least once a week or two (starting in this month of July) and have a casual gathering where we go through various tutorials and how-to videos that teach the use of Adobe Premier and related systems. This is a prelude to holding a more structured, formal class.
Are YOU interested in learning video editing? Do you want access to the latest tools and technology? While this is primarily intended for MK core members, we will have some limited slots open for non-members who can demonstrate a commitment to regularly attend and a strong desire to learn and help everyone else with our objective of learning the technology and collaborating.
Eventually, we hope to be able to offer video editing and production services, so interested parties who are capable could be part of a team to offer services to each other and the general public and also generate income. The MK is focused on creating value for ourselves and our associates through learning new technology and skills and doing fun, interesting and profitable projects.
For non-Mystic Krewe core club members, it’s really important that if you agree to participate and if you are accepted, that you commit to attending all our meetings. It’s very important for us to have a regular, dedicated group that meets at least weekly. If you cannot do this, let us know. Non-club members who miss a regular gathering (without clearing it with us in advance) may not be invited back to future meetings.
If you would like to participate, contact us using the form below:
