Like every good red blooded hipster/musician/artist I love browsing through thrift stores. As often as I can I hit up the local goodwills, salvation armies, and local thrift shops in search of a great jacket, boots, shirts, ties, records, books, etc… It’s a thrill to capture that once in a lifetime thrift store [...]
Writing Archive
We are the image makers
Scratching the Surface from [weAREtheIMAGEmakers] on Vimeo.
Trying to create genuine community is a struggle nowadays. We as a people, world-wide, are very non-committal. We have so little margin in our lives, schedules, and budgets that when something comes along that attempts to unify people (which takes a commitment of time) it’s a struggle. [...]
Destroyer Video
Every once and awhile in this era of music television with no music on it. It’s nice to see a music video that actually captivates me. It’s rare to see a video that’s not filled with the usual girlies and such no matter the genre. So when I saw this video from [...]
The Walmartization of America…
I don’t watch a lot of movies, but I watch loads of concert DVDs. I have them stacked up like firewood next to my television and am actually quite behind. I’ve seen some great ones this year and my favorites are the ones that have a theme or a story behind the experience [...]
What’s Next for Worship?
In the late 1600s Isaac Watts was bothered by the poor poeticism of the songs in his father’s church so he set out to write songs to glorify God. Some of these songs were based on the bar and pub melodies of the time. His songs were met with some resistance, but none [...]
Stained Radiance (music+art)
Stained Radiance is a project combining the amazing guitar stylings of Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers) and the visual art of Norton Wisdom. Wisdom implores a unique style of visual art for this project of paint on clear acrylic with the aid of lighting. Nels paints a live audio backdrop inspired as [...]
Jonsi’s Music Experience
It’s no secret and Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi has been exploring amazing musical landscapes for the past decade, but on his new solo album and tour he is taking it to another level. Jonsi is exploring the connection of animation and visual media with the songs from the album. While using visuals on [...]
Create Like You
Oswald Chambers said, “Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.” That statement contains a lot of truth and is hugely encouraging for those of us who are artists and those of us who lead artists.
For us as artists it’s the [...]
Electronic Music is Born
I love going back in music history to really figure out where the things that influence me have come from. Knowing your roots makes it a lot easier to not only be influenced by a certain style of music. It helps you understand how it was created and how you can learn to [...]
Song of Salmon
The web is full of blogs. So full in fact that it’s really hard to find the ones that matter. I find lots of blogs that I enjoy reading a post or two, but soon find out that the author is not very inspired and has exhausted both of his/her thoughts (I realize [...]