easter report - the house famous perspective

for more info/background on the easter weekend and how it all went down, hop on over to my good friends at the house famous blog.

ps. these guys are doing some really great stuff around communal living/hospitality/general creativity and sharing of their lives... inspired/inspiring stuff!

good friday in the park - labyrinth

good friday in the park - labyrinth, originally uploaded by josh lyon.

as part of a good friday installation/service in the park, we made this flagging tape labyrinth... took about 1.5 hrs to setup, and we left it in the park till easter sunday... ended up looking like laser lights in the darkness... see more pics from the event on my flickr site at flickr.com/photos/joshlyon

easter dawn

easter dawn, originally uploaded by josh lyon.

he is risen...!

so, we didn't want to miss the easter dawn service put on by the catholic worker in toronto.... so we had our own down by lake ontario, at 6:15am.

people from next came out, along with an accidental double-booking from the folks at central baptist, who graciously joined in. I'm wiped, but it was worth it! Happy Easter!

apology

Hi Jay,

I'm really sorry about the misuse of your photographs. I will not post the images on my blog or anywhere else... I did assume too much about a use that I thought you would approve, partially based on your posting of 2 Peter 3:10... (see Acts 4:32)

I would never assume use of anyone's artwork for commercial purposes and did not see the "all rights reserved" tag... I'll make sure to be more careful in the future and again apologize for any offense caused.

much appreciation for your work,

Josh

Good Friday and Easter Dawn

It's been a real joy planning the following events with the support of the next church and the good folks around the corner at the house famous... please come!


next invites you to a family friendly service 10am at neXt church, 89 colborne street





9:00pm Good Friday Meet for a time of exploration into and reflection on the Cross of Christ. Opportunity for interactive spiritual contemplation on the meaning of Good Friday and the responses of the disciples to the Easter events. - McBurney Park (a.k.a. Skeleton Park), Kingston

Labyrinth walk, stations, communion... in a park, in the dark... dress warmly!

rain plan: lovenasium at 89 colborne street



Sunday, March 23rd - 6:15am
(sunrise projected for 7am)
Meet at Murney Tower Parking Lot - Corner of
Barrie and King St, near KGH, on the waterfront.
A celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus! Come together
with the Body of Christ to rejoice in the gift of new life . . .





Everyone is welcome to join us at neXt (89 colborne st)
for breakfast after the service between 8am and 10:30am
SUNDAY SERVICE WILL START (at neXt) AROUND 11am.

entire cities "waiting" live

I got to play a set in Ottawa and in Kingston last week with my TO band - Entire Cities. Man I miss those kids... t'was a blast as always. There's nothing quite like rockin our with si and brendan while banwatt smashes stuff and tamara makes it for prettier...

Also, the new album "Deep River" is out finally! Or at least a pre-release version of it... available at shows for now. Check out the myspace for new tracks (myspace.com/entirecities)

and check out the great reviews on iheartmusic.net and herohill.com. it's not my fault they're both gushing... i'd post a bad one too if i knew about it.

attitude of gratitude - Thankscards blog

My friend has setup a blog with a similar theme to the now well known Postsecret blog except that this one focuses on thanksgiving! So send her a postcard at:

Thanks Cards
P.O. Box 339
Station A
Ottawa ON
CANADA
K1N 8V3

and make sure to check out the lovely works of gratitude already in place: Thankscards Blog

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...