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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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 [...]
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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
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
I happened upon this blog post today by Randy Elrod. I liked a number of the things he had to say including… Regular exercise, the liturgy, holidays, periodic vacations, festivals, harvest, the Sabbath, a shower in the morning, a cup of coffee on the porch before work, all provide seasonal rhythm in the chaos of [...]
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Tagged: art, creativity, liturgy, Sabbath, seasons