“ Before I think forward 500 years I think back 500 years to the 1600s. We are in a time where every time something bad happens it is shoved in our faces. And I wonder how I can create the weight of glory in such a time.
Makoto Fujimura, Founder, IAM
blaine hogan
I am an artist, a designer, an actor, a writer, a maker of things that are odd, and a soon-to-be-husband.
I have my face on a book and I like to tweet as well.
Contact.
I have my face on a book and I like to tweet as well.
Contact.
context NOT relevance, or perhaps it's BOTH
About a month ago, Jarrod and I got the opportunity to spend some time in NYC with an organization called the International Arts Movement.
“IAM gathers artists and creative catalysts to wrestle with the deep questions of art, faith and humanity in order to inspire the creative community to engage the culture that is and create the world that ought to be.”
The purpose for the visit was to do research for our final class at MHGS - Contextual Research. The class is a contextual research project that has asked us to identify organizations that we believe have transformed well within their respective contexts and then to simply listen to their stories. Nearly 25 students have spent the summer traveling across the country and making phone calls as we gather our research. The hope for the research is that we might be able to identify some common themes of organizations that transform well and then see if there might be a way to actually teach this way of thinking and leading.
I am in the middle of finalizing our research and have found a ton of quotes I want to share. As I go through it all in the next day or so, I will post some of the quotes I find most interesting.
Ultimately what we are finding is that the idea of relevance is much more faddish than we might want to believe…especially in the Christian sub-culture.
We desperately want to be relevant. The only problem with relevance as a rule is that it is usually done without considering context. Just because the new Coldplay song is relevant does not an appropriate worship-opener make. If your context is not considered as you seek to be relevant, you may find yourself becoming so relevant to the culture that you’ve become irrelevant to your context.
Image via IAM founder, Makoto Fujimura
Here’s a sneak preview of our wedding ceremony program I’m working on.
The idea behind the program and really the ceremony for that matter, is to evoke the community of people who have shared in our lives along with the proverbial “knot” we will be tying.
That’s all you get for now…anymore previews and M might kill me.
“ I think when the technology becomes not only the focal point but the prerequisite, we’ve cheapened not only the art, but our humanity…Technology often presents us with the illusion that you need not think about these things [composition, scale, balance, rhythm, contrast, hospitality, flow]. Yet nothing could be further from the truth if you want your efforts to express something of the human experience. I’m a big fan of technology in service of humanity. It’s the reverse that cheapens us.
Daniel Kantor
THIS occurred nearly two years when M and I traveled across the country from Chicago to Seattle. M dropped me off at school and flew back. I came back to her 24 months later.
Since I have been in a reminiscing mood lately I thought I would share this video in honor of our trip two years ago.
I’m having a hard time picking my favorite part. What is yours? :-)
only 20 days + new pics
Yes…that is correct…only 20 more days until the big day!
In honor of such an auscpicious occasion, I thought I’d post a few engagement pictures that our good friends Ben and Whitney of Brighten Photography took of M and I while she was in Seattle a few months ago for my graduation.
20X200 = hotness
20x200 by Jen Beckman is easily my most favorite place to peruse and purchase great art for super cheap.
Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 2pm EST, they upload fresh works for you to buy.
20x200 works like this:
- 2 large (30”x40”) prints are sold at $2000.
- 20 medium (17”x22”) prints go for $200/per.
- 200 smaller ones (8.5”x11”) are sold at 20 bucks a pop.
So if you need some great pieces for your new place (I DO! I DO!) but can’t afford the local mall gallery and aren’t terribly interested in the latest mass-manufactured city skyline or faux-acrylic from IKEA then take a look at 20X200.
Print above for sale by Linzie Hunter.
“ To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
Simone Weil