A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. — Leo Frankowski Poster by ISTVÁN SZUGYICZKY ISTVÁN SZUGYICZKY
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The Church is Irrational, Contradictory, Hypocritical and Perfect
I can always tell an idea is good if it sticks in my head for more than three days. A passage from the book my book study group just finished has been rolling around in my head for almost three weeks now! The book is Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps, and drawing on the language…
DESIGN: Trading Hard Edges for Subjective Decisions.
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit. —Scott Stevenson Design by Lester…
You can’t invent a design.
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.” –David Herbert Lawrence LOENOGRAPH by J.J. Cromer
The Beginning of Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom –Psalm 111:10 Last night at Valley Mosaic we enjoyed a great discussion about fear. The discussion centered on the above quoted verse from Psalm 111. The conversation ranged from defining what fear means to each of us, to speculating on what the Bible means when…
The two things you can’t talk about at dinner.
I have often wondered why it is that people get so heated when discussing certain issues—you know, the ones you can’t talk about at the dinner table. The ones we can’t really control but yet we all like to pretend that we can. The ones that make daughters hate their Dad’s and cause brothers to…
Sacred Mistakes
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” –Salvador Dali Painting: Salvador Dali, The Average Bureaucrat, 1930
Dictator of A Small Island
“It is every artist’s fantasy to run things. I know personally, I’d be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.” –Brad Holland Illustration by Brad Holland
Your Best Is Still Your Worst
Here is a cover of the song St. Augustine that my wife and I did this evening. The recording is kinda rough, hence the title of this post, but it was fun nonetheless. The song was written by Band of Horses and is one of my favorite tunes off their first recording. Enjoy! St. Augustine…
Inner Freedom
When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom whether you know it or not…A free man or a free woman creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations that we often wonder what is expected of us. But when…