1. Pick your medium. Photography, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Painting, whatever…..Pick the medium that most attracts you or that you enjoy and you already exhibit some natural skill in. 2. Study the tools & purchase appropriately. Ask others in your medium about tools and resources. Learn the lingo for your particular medium. Make sure you [...]
Categories: Art,Lifestyle,Productivity,Storytelling
Seth Godin highlighted some important points about types of workers on his blog: “If you want something done, perhaps you would ask a professional to do it. Someone who costs a lot but is worth more than they charge. Someone who shows up even when she doesn’t feel like it. Someone who stands behind her [...]
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Is it ok for Christians enjoy art produced by unbelievers? The short answer is yes, but Pastor John Piper has some wise words about how exactly we approach it. …I think today we are going to have to work at not being shaped by the world because the world has made its world view so [...]
Categories: Art,Film,Lifestyle,Storytelling
What is culture making? In short it is doing work like Adam. It is doing work by the sweat of our brow. How do Christians work toward building a Christian culture? Well, we simply work obediently using the gifts, talents, and abilities that God has given us. Obedience is key. David Hegeman says: “Culture [is] [...]
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Doug Wilson has another great post of writing advice that is very applicable to all artisans. This post interacts with innate talent, practice, criticism, and humility, and excellence. Here’s a sample: If you are good with practice runs, if you are okay with not being as good as you are going to be, if you [...]
Categories: Art,Creativity
Where I’m from here in Moscow, Idaho there is a great local concert promoter called StereopathicMusic. Since I was trying out of some new stuff with Adobe Illustrator, I decided to use them as a project. Here’s a logoish thing I came up with. I got the idea for the red/blue record from stereoscopy. Afterwards [...]
Categories: Creativity,Graphic Design,Music
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein What is a good way to improve your communication? The best way to demonstrate to someone that you have mastery or understanding of a particular thing is to show that you can communicate it concisely. Next time you seek to [...]
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Tagged: brevity, communication, creativity, editing, einstein, revision, simplicity
“Why is procrastination wrong? Edwards argues that procrastination presumes upon the grace of God, assuming that he has given us future time when in fact our time may be short. We do not know whether or not we have tomorrow, so we must wisely improve upon the time God does give us.” This post convicted [...]
Categories: Blogging,Productivity,Quotes
Tagged: Jonathan Edwards, presumption, procrastination, work ethic
Writing a nice, clever, well paced movie review is not my forte. Instead, I’m going to write a blog post – a couple of reflections, notes, and reactions as a Christian on this last weekends latest flick – Christopher Nolan’s Inception. First, Christians should be aware of the stories being told by others. How do [...]
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Tagged: art, Christian art, Christopher Nolan, false forgiveness, Inception, storytelling, truth