I’m really excited about this special event coming up at Valley Mosaic next weekend. We will be hosting Tracy and Seth Wispelwey for a weekend of conversation, music and creativity. Tracy and Seth are peace activists working toward their earnest desire for reconciliation and transformation through conversations and active engagement in issues of social justice….
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I made this happen. It’s called design.
I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: “That’s nice dear.” And then she would say, “Did you write it?” or “Did you do the drawing?” or “Did you take the pictures?” I’d always answer “no,” then I realized the problem. My answer was then, “I made…
HADEWIJCH: 13th Century Female Theologian, Visonary and Poet
My distress is great and unknown to men. They are cruel to me, for they wish to dissuade me From all that the forces of Love urge me to. They do not understand it, and I cannot explain it to them. I must then live out what I am; What Love counsels my spirit, In…
Alternative Hedonism
“…the market economy is providing the goods that we still do, I think, want to have, [e.g.] forms of exercise, forms of relating to each other, forms of leisure time in various ways. It is selling us back these goods that we have sacrificed through overwork.” This quote belongs to Kate Soper who, during an…
Design is not style.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing. —Paola Antonelli Design…
A movie about perverts, murderers and adulterers. Sounds good right?
A few nights ago my wife and I decided we wanted to stay in a watch a movie. She told me that she would borrow a movie from her parent’s house as she was walking out the door, she had to run up there that night to take care their dog. The movie she returned…
God Talks to Designers
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
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