"How Great Thou Art"

How Great Thou Art is a videoart piece currently on exhibition at invisiblevenue.com. The piece is by Melissa Day who is the sister of a girl in my "Art, Faith and Postmodern Culture" class at ICS. The class is amazing and has been slowly undoing all that OCAD has taught me (!) over the last four-and-a-bit years. The artwork in question is also quite stunning and worth a watch. To see the other work in the current show, click this.

updated icons

inspired by jonny baker's post about banksy's madonna with ipod...
some illustrations for a lecture series my dad (David Lyon) is doing called "Devices and Desires: living with everyday technologies." He's talking this week in toronto at Tyndale college & seminary on: Messianic Microwaves, Cellphones and Sabbaths, Spirit of the SUV, and Laptop Love... tuesday, wednesday and thurday at 11:45am and wednesday night. if you're in toronto, check it out!

SPAM

i didn't know there was such thing as blog spam... now i do. i'm getting overrun by moles! in celebration of all the new spam on my blog, let's all sing together...

rusty, i know...

i never wanted to become this to become another blogsolete obs. so i'm going to keep trying... thanks for the continued comments even in my silence! no internet at home means rare blogging. but i love this picture so i couldn't help myself. thanks to freewayblogger.com

A is for Apple

A is for Apple... haven't got a chance to explore the whole site yet... all concepts connect back to the concept of 'apple'... nice art...

my goodness...

well, our internet computer is down at home so hence, no blogging for me. it's too silly doing this remotely so it'll be a while (sadly) till i'm back on top of the blog thing. strangely, i just got a job at the AGO working in a room full of computers but have no internet connection there either... so i'm at OCAD writing this and i'd rather not be at school in the summer! anyway, it's really nice being in the sunshine and less time online so it's probably good and timely that i have an enforced digi-fast. hope everyone's summers are going well and happily... peace...

wedding pics... for family and friends

the cake decorations corky and i made for chris and my sister's wedding...
see also: Photos of my sister's wedding - by Tim Forbes.

sue-per fast throwing

just for fun, i thought i'd do a little elapsed time video of the wheel process - one 6 minutes shot reduced to 15 seconds. Click here for Sue-per fast pottery!

both videos (this one and the one below) are also posted on ZeD...

new pottery video

my mum and dad are doing a series of performances of dad's song "watch the wheel spin" which is about mum (the potter) making pots on the wheel but also about God's creativity and continual shaping of us... for the performances of the song, they wanted to project a video of mum throwing at the wheel... well, with the trip to kingston, i quickly recorded a few angles of mum and whipped this vid off for them... see it now online, or at regent college later in the summer with the song!

kingston

well, i'm away from the bigsmoke (tdot) for the week - in kingston for my sister's wedding on the weekend. very much looking forward to another great party in the woods and square dance (!) to celebrate with her... my gran's here from the UK and my mum's dad is on his way over. it's weird how little time i've got to spend with my grandparents in the last bunch of years. i really wish they were closer so i could hang out with them more often. just as the baby changes me in her littlechildlike way, hanging out with granny has been a real eye opener - seeing the world in a whole different way.

with school crap out of the way (they gave me an award for my audio work!!!) i've been spending a whole lot more time out of doors - especially while we're in kingston. it's just so nice to be outside - sunshine or otherwise... how i miss it in the midst of the grey of the city. my eyes feel like they're tingling with the sensation of colours i've never seen before, or at least haven't seen for a long time... creation - so fantastic - thank God.

pentecost flash fix

i can't seem to get the flash file to work from ZeD and jonny had troubles too... not sure what the issue is.

so i posted it here as a backup option. i have a limited monthly bandwidth on that site (it's free!) so it may expire and you'll have to come back next month... silly? yes. it's all i can afford: free.

sorry to anyone who tried and waited for it NOT to load... i've never had this trouble with the ZeD site before... it's probably my fault. o well.

CLICK ON THE OPENING SCREEN TO RUN THE FILE... WHY AM I YELLING? I DON'T KNOW.

Love Will Remain

for some reason this really struck me today...

Hope and faith will both come to an end when we die. But love will remain. Love is eternal. Love comes from God and returns to God. When we die, we will lose everything that life gave us except love. The love with which we lived our lives is the life of God within us. It is the divine, indestructible core of our being. This love not only will remain but will also bear fruit from generation to generation. - Henri Nouwen

(I receive these daily Henri Nouwen meditations in my email inbox - just another attempt to poke myself in the eye daily with Godstuff...)

join the rebellion

best star wars spoof i've seen yet - and for a good cause:

(organic) Store Wars!

cultural creative

found this quiz link on mike todd's blog, although these are my results:

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational. Cultural Creative 88% Fundamentalist 75% Idealist 75% Postmodernist 50% Romanticist 44% Modernist 19% Materialist 19% Existentialist 13% What is Your World View? (corrected...hopefully) created with QuizFarm.com

plus, i may have posted this before but if you haven't yet, check out the Belief-O-Matic quiz to find out what religion you are!

pentecost :: grid blog, part III

i just posted a flash animation of pentecost to ZeD under my page. we used it as the invocation tonight at church. check it out...

=> under Content click on Pentecost Flash.
and then click on the opening image to start once it loads...

*edit: I just tried connecting directly to the content page but the link wouldn't work... does that mean any media i've ever posted a link to here hasn't come up? someone let me know! anyway, if you follow the instructions now, you should get to the file. or search ZeD for squish or pentecost

pentecost :: grid blog part II

"line of fire" - Kristen Ankiewicz

what is: "pentecost :: grid blog"?

check out the details here and see who else is on board.

pentecost :: grid blog (early bird!)

a little digital pentecostal flame... one day early in case anyone wants to borrow the image for their blog/site.

pentecost/babel

so one day i thought i was a genius when i made the connection between pentecost and babel... apparently though, it's already been discovered. not sure why/how i thought no one else had come up with this, but it continues to fascinate me nonetheless.

see an interesting take/debate on the idea here at theognome.blogspot.com.

hummingbird chick

i think this speaks for itself - 54cr3d 5p4c3 indeed!