Creatively Advancing into Novelty
As a child, Wallace was forceful and imaginative. He frequently made his younger sister play audience to long, ad lib dramas populated by characters like Captain Phlegm and his sidekick Goat Bile. During adolescence, Wallace moved into the basement of the family’s Philo, Illinois home. He painted the walls black and hung cork tiles on…
[T]able fellowship [is] a map of economic discrimination, social hierarchy, and political differentiation…What [Jesus] advocates, therefore, is an open commensality, an eating together without using table as a miniature map of society’s vertical discriminations and lateral separations…Since Jesus lived out his own parable, the most predictable counteraccusation to such open commensality would be immediate: Jesus…
At the end of the day, I think we must always try to expand our spectrum. The more people we try to communicate with, the more generic our messages have to become. And as our messages become more generic, it’s less likely that people will have access to anything that’s different. I know this is…
Q: When did you realize you had design talent? A: I feel that talent is the implemented desire to excel at something. I had a strong desire to be good at design… Q: How would you define the term “graphic design”? A: Surely you must be joking. Smarter people have shot their little toe off…
The dread of criticism is the death of genius. –William Gilmore Simms I have been thinking a great deal about criticism, specifically, how a certain understanding of criticism, such as that found to be held by various people in the field of visual arts, could potentially carry over to other areas of life. Being a…
Yup, I’ve been taking bridge lessons. Wanna make somethin’ of it!?!
Consider a man who loves beautiful things, who makes a point of being present at new tragedies, seeing new pictures, and hearing new music. Such a man is not a philosopher, because he loves only beautiful things, whereas the philosopher loves beauty in itself. The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the…
As Klaus Wengst writes: “That Pilate had Jesus executed on the cross shows that the death of Jesus is indissolubly bound up with the political peace that there was at that time, the Pax Romana, produced and guaranteed by Roman power. In the view of the procurator this execution, like many others, was virtually an…
I got to see a band last night that I’ve been wanting to see for a long time–Psalters. They played on a small Mennonite farm in Central Pennsylvania. I’m So glad I attended.