Winking Circle

The Winking Circle is a bunch of crazy, not-afraid-to-be-fools bunch of folks doing some really creative work to 'redeem' (their word, not mine!) their surroundings and fight attitudes of boredom and apathy...

their statement:



from winkingcircle.com

plus making some crazy art, doing wacky stunts, and making amazing art-bikes:



All things shall be made new: All things shall be redeemed!

ffffound

(for some reason the image is not showing up... click on the image box above to view)

ps this is not a trick... i just can't figure out the bug right now.

on ffffound.com

Circuit style Labyrinth

Vancouver School of Theology Labyrinth - I really like the circuit style design...

Also! Stumbled across thisquietarmy today... beautiful ambient guitar layers - similar to a lot of other solo guitar pedal stuff but somehow transcends the usual loopy sameness... really great + two free albums to download on the site!

oblique strategies cards

a selection of my favourite cards from brian eno and peter schmidt's 'oblique strategies' card set - seen at Dale Morningstar's Gas Station Studio while mixing the Entire Cities songs for the upcoming release.




































play online here: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rf6t-tyfk/oblique.html

see info here: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/

more info on Peter Schmidt here: http://peterschmidtweb.blogspot.com/

ARS ELECTRONICA 2007 - Crucifixion Artwork

So I keep trying to post about Ars Electronica and never have time. Due to amazing circumstances, including the excuse of my upcoming birthday, I had the amazing privilege of attending the festival in Linz, Austria this year.

One of my favorite things that I saw was actually student work from the Digital Arts program of the University of Art in Berlin (Universitat der Kunste)... A simple cross atop an altar - but the shadow replays events from the biblical narrative!

this video is from my digital camera:



see a better hi-res full documentation video here:

http://www.oase.udk-berlin.de/~kison/sacral-design/crucifixion-film/crucifixion.html

and the full description here:

http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/projects/summer06/hauptstudium/sacraldesign/cruxi.html

the work was created as part of a course called Sacral Objects. The other work can be seen here:

http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/projects/summer06/hauptstudium/sacraldesign.html

Check out the Anhelus piece - A church font that fills itself by condensation, turning the atmosphere of the church and the humidity coming off the people in the room and moisture in their breath into the baptismal water... amazing idea!

prayer

found here...

scientific process

tangible science
unquestionable arbiter of truth
measurable quantifiable writedownable

opinionless disembodied unbiased truth
absolute
distillable

decontaminate information
from human influence

separate fleshiness from fact

make pure

We met Monday 5am please call

We met Monday 5am please call, originally uploaded by anything_for_sue.

Entire Cities at the Grad Club - Bootlegs

Bootlog blog bootlegged our show at the grad club and wrote nice things about the band...

Come see us again in Kingston at the Grad Club this Saturday as part of the Skeleton Park Music Festival.

simon gives 'er

IMG_9491, originally uploaded by lowBoy.

don't miss this tommorow night... see below.

Log and Paper Sculpture

Log and Paper Sculpture, originally uploaded by josh lyon.

Easter Dawn over Toronto

Easter Dawn over Toronto, originally uploaded by josh lyon.
For the third year in a row we celebrated Easter Dawn with the lovely people from the catholic worker in west Toronto...

new TO city signs

see the Toronto Star story...

Divine Randomness

Divine Randomness, originally uploaded by claireshegoes.

Bruce Peninsula

*EDIT* - GO SEE BRUCE PENINSULA AT THE MUSIC GALLERY IN TORONTO INSTEAD - THEY CAN'T COME ON TOUR WITH US... STILL, CHECK THEM OUT! PLUS - CHECK THE ENTIRE CITIES MYSPACE FOR MORE ACCURATE TOUR RELATED UPDATES! YELLING OVER!

I can't believe we (meaning Entire Cities) get to tour with these guys... one of my favourite bands ever.

Kingston Thursday June 7th - Grad Club
Ottawa - Friday June 8th - Cafe Dekcuf
Montreal - Saturday June 9th - L'Absinthe

Bruce Peninsula - Live Video

POSTFACE - event

All profits go to Freedomize trip to India...

non-stop complete bible readthrough!

so i had this idea - inspired by a high school practice of watching the original star wars trilogy back to back - that i wanted, at some point in my life, to hole up in a room somewhere and read the entire bible non-stop with a group of other crazy people.

something about doing it all at once - no breaks - is very exciting to me.

well, i mentioned it to some people at church (freedomize.com) and they ran with it. so this weekend, Wednesday March 28th to Saturday March 31st, the readthrough will be happening at St Stephens in the fields on the north end of kensington market. stop by any time. sadly, i won't be able to camp out so i'll have to set this up again sometime... new babies, older child, etc. I'll be there as much as possible. according to recordings that you can buy it should take about 73 hours or so.

but - *exciting* - the whole thing will be recorded and i hope that it will also be posted online at some point.

winter - don valley

don valley, originally uploaded by josh lyon.

i never thought leaving this city would be as hard as it is... as much as there is a lot to look forward to in kingston, the thought of leaving really is tearing at me in strange ways. the house in which both my kids were born, both of our two church communities where we have grown and loved and learned and changed, the hustle and bustle - big city excitement - never sleeping, always something happening somewhere, a ridiculous number of amazing people who i love more and more each day... you don't really realise how attached you are to people and to a place until you take seriously the idea of leaving...

man...

i (heart) music dot net - Entire Cities review

from iheartmusic.net, a review of our unreleased album possibility and one of the sweetest things anyone has said about our little band:

Pitter-Patter: Entire Cities (The Central, with The Thurstons and Andyland)

They don't even have an EP to their names yet, but the songs on their Myspace suggest Entire Cities might come up with one of the best albums of the year. Imagine a twangier version of Sufjan, and that's what you have here.

Stream Entire Cities on their Myspace