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 [...]
Categories: Art,Creativity,Lifestyle,Productivity
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] [...]
Categories: Creativity,Lifestyle,Productivity,Quotes
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 [...]
Categories: Art,Creativity,Film,Lifestyle,Storytelling
Tagged: art, Christian art, Christopher Nolan, false forgiveness, Inception, storytelling, truth
This Old House, originally uploaded by davidchoos. We camped next to this cool old house on July 4th weekend.
Categories: Lifestyle
“The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox [...]
Categories: Art,Books,Lifestyle,Quotes
Tagged: art, Books, N.T. Wright, paradox
anthro4, originally uploaded by poppytalk. Here’s a cool photo I ran across on Flickr. I think I’ll post other cool photos I find from time to time. Let me know what you think of them.
Categories: Lifestyle
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 [...]
Categories: Blogging,Creativity,Lifestyle,Quotes
Tagged: art, creativity, liturgy, Sabbath, seasons
Two great things have converged for me. Tomorrow I receive the iPhone 4 in the mail (my first iPhone) and tonight I came across news that NPR Music has just released an iPhone app. Looks and ‘sounds’ to be a match made in heaven. From the NPR website: Engage, explore and discover new music of [...]
Categories: Lifestyle,Music,Technology
Tagged: All Songs Considered, Exclusive First Listen, iPhone, NPR Music, Tiny Desk Concerts