Archive for the 'Art' Category
- On The Horizon: Benjamin Button
The trailer for this movie was seen by some in front of Indiana Jones. A few days later we saw one pop up online in Spanish. It is basically the same one that we have here except the dialog is in Spanish. So I’ve been waiting a few weeks for the official English trailer to [...]
- Cool Stuff: Scrap Metal Sci-fi Sculptures
The folks over at robot-models.com have some pretty cool stuff. They are professional sculptors who use used car and motorcycle parts as well as bolts, nuts and sheet metal to craft some pretty amazing sci-fi replicas. Most of the largest are over 7 feet tall. My favorites were Optimus Prime and Alien.
They have a [...]
- Lots of New Pictures
I updated the gallery to include our recent pictures from the trip to the zoo, but I also found a bunch of other pictures I never uploaded. Check them out by clicking on the gallery link in the navigational bar at the top of the page. If you just want to randomly browse the new [...]
- Princeton Theological Review FREE
Issue 36 is all about Theology and the Arts. Drool.
- Abstract Art
I’m so excited about the growth of Imago Dei. We had nearly 50 people at our meeting on Friday to talk about the nature and value of abstract art. We all crammed into a room that was too small for us and too warm to be comfortable (we even had folks sitting on the floor) [...]
- Kenetic Typography
This is such an entertaining presentation. I love the medium and could watch it all day. It’s not just for credits anymore.
- Imago Dei
I am very excited about a new Southern Seminary Student Arts Organization that I have begun called Imago Dei. We get our name from our belief that as people created in the image of a creative God our creativity is not something that should be suppressed by our faith, but just the opposite, should be [...]
- Christ… The Resurrection
An expressionist representation of Christ as resurrection by Cornelis Monsma.
Jesus is our hope for resurrection. He gave comfort to Martha with the words, “I am the resurrection and the life.” Without the resurrection, we would be fools, worshiping a dead man. But Jesus is alive! He is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Easter, celebrate [...]
- Parodied Last Supper
Culture Popped has a fine collection of pop culture Last Supper parodies. Like this one.
- Contemporary Art and the Incarnation
ByFaith Magazine has a good article on Contemporary Art and the Incarnation.
The doctrine of the Incarnation both frees and compels us in our interaction with contemporary art. We are free from fear because we see history as the outworking of God’s perfect will, driven onward by the reality of the eschaton. If we submit [...]
- Future Effects of Harry Potter
This weekend an entire subset of the adult nation spent six hours or so reading a teen-fiction book about a boy wizard. With 8.5 million copies being sold on the day of its release, it makes you wonder: What if that many people cared about something truly important that they would spend the same amount [...]
- Random Updates
My day-late dollar-short movie quote challenge for this week is up, I think it’s a tough one. And don’t forget to answer Finucane’s too.
If you’re wondering, everything went well with UPS. I should start orientation sometime next week.
I’m leading worship tonight and on Sunday for Parkwood, pray for me and for the church as they [...]
- Ratatouille (2007)
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A rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt), living in Paris, longs for the food from the kitchens and tables instead of the garbage like the rest of his family, so he befriends a chef with little talent, Linguini (Lou Romano), and [...]
- Apocalypto (2006)
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At the heart of heart of Mel Gibson’s tale of the downfall and collapse of the Ancient Mayan culture is the story of Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young warrior living in a peaceful village where hunting and making babies [...]
- The Fountain (2006)
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An odyssey of one man and his eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. The primary focus is on modern-day scientist Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman), who is desperate to find a cure for the cancer killing his beloved wife, [...]
- Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
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Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is your run-of-the-mill IRS agent, good at his job, but bored with a life filled with more numbers than people. However, one day while preparing for work in his usual fashion, all of that changes. He [...]
- Candy (2006)
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It’s a story of love and addiction: addiction to another person, and addiction to that most insidious of drugs, heroin. Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish star as Dan and Candy, a would-be poet and a would-be artist respectively, whose romantic [...]
- Lost and Found
Unlike some Lost fans, I missed the first season. I thought it looked stupid to begin with, and we were pretty involved at church on Wednesday nights, but my wife and I began watching during the second season (oddly enough while I was holding a church position and working on Wednesday nights). We’d finish up [...]
- Church: The Lost Art
The following is an excerpt of a commentary on the modern church written by an unbeliever.
It would be wonderful to imagine these places as sites where people gather to appreciate great art, music and poetry, and experience the best of religious history. Think again. A typical church service is a few hymns, a harangue from [...]
- The Source and Importance of Beauty
tells us to “logizesthe” on beautiful things, among others. The word “logizesthe” means to dwell on deeply, to meditate. It does not mean to skim over. It would be silly to imagine that Paul would urge his readers to “logizesthe” on things that were not worthy of it. So, what things are worthy of [...]
Movie Reviews
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
2008-05-19 18:16
Jason Segal was funny, I could have lived my life without seeing his junk though. Russell Brand took the show though, he was hilarious, great timing. But overall the movie was a disappointment. I'd been expecting Knocked Up 2 but it just didn't live up to the hype for me.
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2008-05-19 17:12
I'm not a huge fan of the Bond movies. I like the Sean Connery era, But Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan were too clean cut and high brow for me. Daniel Craig plays a more sadistic and heartless Bond. And the Poker game is fantastic, riveting.
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2008-05-19 16:58
McClane is back! I liked Justin Long as the sidekick. Not the best of the series, but at least it's better than #2.
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2008-05-19 16:50
I love Iron Man. It's intelligent, exciting, and funny. Plus fanboys (like me) love it for all the Marvel world references.
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