The Heart Grows

It is amazing what is happening these days as technology and arts merge and fuel each other. How many of us geeks are also artists at heart? I think this is definitely a discussion we as artists need to have. Not only we artists but engineers and computer programmers, and all of us. It comes back to the fact that art is not created in a vacuum but by groups. Perhaps the artist creates a piece but the reality the artist is influenced by many and that includes the engineer. The cool thing is the possibilities this creates. So many more people can create music, or movies, or photos that actually get a chance to be seen by people. Technology has increased the ability to create and display and appreciate many forms of artistic expression. Those artists that are particularly steeped in technology portray hope or caution us if nothing changes. They are the prophets that actually let us see the future. Even sites like io9 consistently post articles that showcase the possibilities new technolog...

So I have been looking for a house to buy. I have even looked at some heritage homes. But man, that is a whole crazy kettle of fish. As I kept researching heritage properties in Atlantic Canada and the subsequent committees, guidelines, by-laws, and apparent etiquette of owning one of these homes, I realized that once again there was a glaring implicit statement here. Our only heritage and heritage of worth are structures that currently exist . Some may argue but I say the proof is in the pudding my friends. http://www.heritagefredericton.org/ http://www.truro.ca/truro-heritage-visitors-309.html http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/heritage.trust/ The heritage movement in Atlantic Canada apparently excludes any kind of First Nations contribution or any early european contribution that has the poor luck of not having any aboveground evidence. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying these organizations are not doing good work, they simply aren't going far enough. How do we change it? Changing...

In the next few blogs I’m going to explore a couple of theses. They are first, every group of believers that get together is “church.” Second is “missions is the mandate of every group of believers that gathers together. That is to say, that whatever group you call yourself, wether Bible Study, Youth Group, Prayer Group, or sunday School, an integral part of the vision of that gathering needs to be some type of outward mission focus. The bigger the group the bigger the project or the more groups together the greater the vision and greater the action. I understand that I tend to talk circularly. I make several points and tell stories all as I surround a main point getting ever closer until I reach that point. Straight lines are for chumps. There are a few Bible verses key in these thoughts: where two or three come together in my name, there I am with them (Matt 18:20); All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:...

Here are a few links that have helped me: OWL is a great writing resource . Split infinitves always confound me. Discipline yourself and write that novel using this daily guide . Great for fonts ! Amazing film company, those Focus Features guys. Finally for today is the IPL . Otherwise check out your local photography guild or writers' workshop. Also, look at the homepages of your fav authors. They often have lots of good advice and are willing to give people a hand.

"nothing of archaeological importance" What about the friggin' wall? or how about the bones they found ?

It has been my experience that the amateur historical buffs like old buildings, old architecture and basically anything above ground. I have no gripe against the amateur historian types. It is because of them I found a love of archaeology. There seems to simply be less passion about anything under the ground. I just don't understand that. How did we get to the point of the pretty buildings if not on the back of the first settlements? Can you truly appreciate something unconnected? The object or action or story is part of an even longer history. It should be connected linearly in that history. Its like this. I can appreciate the design of a gear but it is way cooler when it is part of an actual watch and i can see how it all works together Why does the archaeologist have to fight the developer? Have we not gotten past this? It is still going on in my hometown. What is worse is when the archaeologist gives up the integrity of the gatekeeper to become the developers' prostitute. ...