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Advent Sketchbook: Steamroll

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Jean Baptiste, steamroller.

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St.Ormtrooper (I just discovered Scott Erickson)

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Scott moved from Seattle to Houston to be the artist in residence at Ecclesia.
He blogs and posts his amazing paintings at: http://transpireproject.wordpress.com/about/

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Advent Sketchbook: Ovoid

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"There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a netzer shall grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1 (NKJV)

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Doug Pagitt Radio Nov 29, Segment 5 - generate magazine

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Doug Pagitt Radio Nov 29, Segment 5 - generate magazine

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The strand | Galveston

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La King's Candy Store, Galveston TX

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Generate Magazine – A New Magazine with Many Voices

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HT our friends at TheOoze.TV :: Emerging Church Video Podcast

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Hello from Sunny Galveston Island

Slept in this morning in Nana and Tom-Tom’s turn-of-the-last-century Victorian house on Kempner St. (22nd) on Galveston Island. We all grabbed our bicycles and pedaled to Sunflower Bakery & Café (tradition!) with all the kids for brunch. Then cycled down to the Strand and back to the house. I’m really enjoying my new Trek bicycle, BTW, but need to replace the speedometer I bought for it with something higher quality. Cateye, here I come. Currently, I’m enjoying some alone time, a caramel latté, and some free WiFi at the Mod Coffeehouse, next door to the René Wiley Gallery here on historic Postoffice Street. The kids are back at Nana’s watching a movie upstairs, and Amy and Nana were quietly reading books in the sunlit living room. Feels like a perfect Friday.

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Adventus

Be comforted, be comforted my people; your deliverance will come quickly. Why are you consumed with grief, that your sorrow has been renewed? I will save you, do not be afraid; I myself am indeed the Lord your God, the holy One of Israel, your Redeemer. (Isaiah 43:1b-3a)

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I had no idea he was a 5-point Calvinist!

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Levity

"At a high school in Montana a group of high-schoolers played a prank on the school. They let three goats loose in different parts of the school. Before they let them go, however, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats - 1,2,4. Local school administrators spent most of the day looking for #3".

HT Mike Hollis

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Faith-based organizations « Fair Trade Sports | sustainable eco soccer balls and more

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Planting in the front yard - Nov 21, 2009

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Vega Tablet is real, has Android 2.0 and a Webcam | Android Atlas - CNET Blogs

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Brace yourselves for the year of the Tablet!

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Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles

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BRAVO BYU design students!

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Photo Gallery from DMN: Inside Maj. Hasan's home

Photo gallery Inside Maj. Hasan's home:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/pt/slideshows/2009/11/pho_111109
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Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Inside Maj. Hasan's home

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photos by my friend courtney. first view inside hasan's home

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The Tradesmen; prayers for Josh

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prayers are going out for my friend Josh — that's him on the previous post playing guitar alongside my buddies Jonathan and Chris. Josh took a bit of a fall: at least a 40-foot fall, and is quite banged up and slated for some surgery soon. he's an amazing carpenter by day and an amazing musician by night and a father and husband; please pray for strength and patience and recovery and faith and healing for his wrist, post-surgery.
These great photos are by another friend, Dave Terry.

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The Tradesmen - Josh Alder & Jonahan Faunce

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The Tradesmen: Chris Alvarez

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Olafur Eliasson design for a Copenhagen footbridge

Recently it was announced that Olafur Eliasson--a giant of contemporary art--was set to design a bridge in Copenhagen, and we've just received pictures of the project.

When it's completed in 2012, the 32-meter Cirkelbroen ("circle bridge") will connect Christianshavns Kanal and Applebys Plads, via a loopy, winding path. The span will also provide the final link across the many canals of Copenhagen's inner harbour. Thus, the entire route will become traversable by foot or bike.

Eliasson might be best known for his Waterfalls project in New York, which was up last summer. But that project didn't give a very clear idea of what his main obsessions are -- he's less into creating public spectacle than tweaking our perceptions in subtle ways.

For the bridge, his idea was to create a span with no straight path through--instead, it's a series of five circular platforms. Rather than speeding people along, is slows them down, and creates a meandering public space. Visually, the masts of the platforms are meant to evoke a sailing ship, an icon of the city's roots as a trading harbor. The entire project is expected to cost DKK 34 million ($6.8 million).

If you're curious, here's a couple of pieces that made Eliasson famous in the art world. The first was gigantic indoor sun and mirrored ceiling that he installed in the cavernous main hall of London's Tate Modern:

Another is the fantastically beautiful and nearly impossible-to-photograph Beauty, which consists simply of a misting mechanism, a spotlight, and a darkened room. When you're inside it, it seems like you're walking through a rainbow-colored ghost:

Related Stories: Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper

Topics: Design, Olafur Eliasson, bridge, architecture, Copenhagen, Cirkelbroen, art, Innovation, Technology, Copenhagen, Olafur Eliasson, London, Tate Modern, United States

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TransFORM - a missional community formation network

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My friend Steve has started a missional community formation network.

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ONE WEEK ONLY Sigur Ros: Heima - Free at Pitchfork.com

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Cell Size and Scale

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HT Barry Brake.

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Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Art - Julie Seltzer, Torah Scribe, Breaks Ground in Museum Project

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love this quote:
"Watching her impossibly steady hand, the deft maneuvering of the quill (each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet requires its own separate technique) and the inexorable progress of the text across a column and down a page yields a palpable sense of ancient ritual that slows your breathing, and you can’t help seeing that she is communing deeply with the text as she copies it. The writing is an act of faith."

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i'd go to this church.

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Fontshop turns 20 this year.

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Eichborn Fliegenbanner auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse.

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Talk about low-tech advertising. At the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, book Company Eichborn attached small printed banner ads to a group of flies and let them loose on the crowd. From the footage, it looks like it definitely got peoples attention.

"The banner was attached with natural wax. After a short time the banner dropped off by itself. And the flies were not harmed."

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Pictures from the Annual Gathering - Emerging Leaders Network

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photos from tim snyder's perspective at luthermergent

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LibreDigital's Bob Carlton

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Just traipsed across this on the 'net. Here's my friend Bob, speaking eloquently about his company's core business. LibreDigital is doing some very cool stuff.

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Interesting.

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Finding My School

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based on an ad from Orange TV music: Thomas Newman Assembly: originally uploaded by Bob Carlton

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