July 2011
74 posts
Against All Odds: The Florida Highwaymen →
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The Florida Highwaymen began as a group of African American artists who, against all odds, managed to prosper selling their paintings in the segregated South of the 1950s and 60s. Selling their…
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
—~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Free Sampler Download: The Month In Music, July 2011 : NPR →
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A Tribe Called Quest is in there!
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Randy Newman
Randy Newman - Return of a Playful Icon | I’d share a birthday with this guy! (Via NPR)
THE DOZENS: NASHEET WAITS SELECTS 12 CLASSIC MAX ROACH TRACKS – Jazz.com | Jazz Music– Jazz Artists– Jazz News →
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This is amazing, but how did I never hear about this record?
Duke Ellington: Fleurette AfricaineDuke Ellington - Piano, Charles Mingus - Bass, Max Roach - Drums
I’m on a mission!
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3-D And Headaches: Why 'Avatar' Made Me Sick : Shots - Health Blog : NPR →
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“Because the ability of your lens and your eye to focus diminishes very constantly with age. By the time you hit your mid-40s, you really notice it…” | Thus proving that it is not a sustainable market!
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“…when the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere… we must work everyday, whether we feel like it or not.” - Madeline L’engle”
—Walking on Water
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“When we as artists get out of the way of our work, it’s like the work makes itself and speaks much stronger and deeply than we ever could have consciously reached ourselves.” - Jessica Luttrull”
—Woven Image
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“Lord, thank you for whispering to us that we are beloved. Help us now to whisper your love to those who long to hear that there is a loving God.”
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Common Prayer
Futon Reformer - Lord, thank you for whispering to us that we are…
“The Christian artists in our creative communities who I respect the most are not creating anything with the primary goal of getting famous (you already know people like that, and you don’t respect them). The artists who we respect the most would create their art if their name was never attached to it. And for years and years, it wasn’t.”
—Collide Magazine | Blog – Great Christian Artists Have This One Thing In Common by Gary Molander
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The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
” —(Via Bruce Kirby)
“And yet we only turn to Him when He reaches us; herein lies the mystery of liturgy - liturgy that for theology is more fundamental than either language or experience, and yet is both linguistic and experiential.”
—~ Milbank (via futonreformer)
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“Michael Reynolds, the little Berean that could.”
—~Andrew
“When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings. But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse…Man ought to march somewhere. But modern man (in his sick reaction) is ready to march nowhere— so long as it is the Other End of Nowhere.”
—-G. K. Chesterton (From The New House)
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