waft

waft, originally uploaded by william.n.

new photo? Why, yes. There is.

lost innocence, trying to get back to where I used to be

lost innocence, trying to get back to where I used to be, originally uploaded by helena+.

This is a photo from my flickr favorites. I’ve been quite busy and inactive the last few weeks (month?). I chose to post this image because I find it aesthetically pleasing. It tells a story.

Acting like the Church.

What presumption that we desire to act as if we even are the church!

There are a lot of assumptions to work through with the phrase “acting like the church.” This is a topic I do not currently have time to explore in depth. (To clarify: for this post alone.)

First and foremost what comes to mind is how I have even began framing the consideration.
Acting like the Church. The Church is not an act. It is not to be upon a stage. The church is to be the very demonstration of reality not a muse with which to toy and pretend to be. The Church ought to be the thing in itself. When she is no longer a mere phraseological phenomenon and a series of events but rather becomes life itself; then the body of Christ is the Church. (Saying that is misleading. Christ is life itself. If you are living in Christ and He in you, then you ought to be the Church.)

Printmaking Sketchbook Notes

I guess to give myself something to update this post with I’m going to be posting notes that I’ve made in my sketchbook(s). I probably wouldn’t/won’t be doing that if the topic at hand does not pertain, but perhaps this will cause a greater discussion for me that can be seen as relevant. That’s the meta-background for this and future posts. Now on to the background more specifically for this one.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop regarding man
in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?

So I read Matthew Henry’s Commentary on this section. I haven’t let it (the passage itself) ruminate too much but I wanted some sound explanation from someone else. Just to see what he might exposit from it. It is solid. It was refreshing.

This passage is summing up a lot of everything. I do not wish to take the light off of the MOST HIGH, but I do want to point out that I am striving to stop regarding man and if that is the case, what other alternative is there? It must be to place all my bets on the Lamb that was slain, but yet that rose to conquer not only the grave, but to unseat the authority that had set itself up. [I pray that I may not fall into lofty speech that is beyond understanding.]

to be continued. Have to run again. [Now where was I..]

[Re:entry] I don’t wish to comment…

or even to …well I don’t have anything to write. I want to be as natural as I can be.

As naturalness, if you will, is a way into the truth. May the Lord God Almighty grace my thoughts with his eternal presence both through the very Word and breath of the MOST HIGH and..I’m all over the place and can’t accurately put stuff down in words.

I just want the Lord. I want everything that he has for me and my wife. I want his vision. His specific vision for his glory and how I may take part in that reality.

May the Lord God Almighty be praised.

As a side note. I wish I would start carrying my camera around more. I probably need a new bag to do that though. I love my messenger, but it just doesn’t have the support necessary to carry heavy things all day. It’s really made for “short” transport rather than lugging the same weight around all day on one shoulder.

What is it to not merely report on what the reporters are saying? Why not look around you and call upon the local news that actually effects you. Which is to say news in regards to the personal experiences and conversations that you have directly engaged in.

As I read through many blogs it is merely a summary or interpretation or commentary on what is being reported by the media already. I want to read something real. I want to read reality. I want to stop reading all this “commentary” as interesting as it can be and I want to stop being apathetic, but that’s enough about me.

helena takes some of the best dreamlike images I have come across yet I think. Be sure to peruse her photo stream.

semper eadem

semper eadem, originally uploaded by helena+.

Foggy Morning

Foggy Morning, originally uploaded by william.n.

It’s 2:11 right now and foggy and I can’t quite decide if I should sleep or if I need to go out and take pictures in the fog. !!

So I guess I chose sleep. I never know what to do in these situations.

Here’s how the professionals do it by hand.

Freedom of Speech Bubble t-shirts being printed on a manual screen printing machine, originally uploaded by The Ironic T-Shirt Corporation.

I found this on flickr, (obviously) as I seem to have screen printing on my mind. Luckily I’m very nearly done with my final screen printing project for the semester. (I merely have to frame one, including making the frame.)
I had quite a bit of trouble finishing up the printing. There’s something about trying to do a four color separation (CMYK) screen print by hand even at 100 dpi half-tone (frequency 53) and getting everything lined up just right that is just a pain. It finally came out okay, but not after discarding about 12 of the original 24 prints after the first layer, and at least it was then and not later.
I realized there’s a screen printing table like the one seen in the picture here in the studio I’m working in (only ours only has four sides), but I didn’t think about using it until it was too late. I’m not sure if it would have make things go faster or not, but If I take an intermediate printmaking class I may have to look into using it.

I’ll be sure to post a photo of my final, as well as a few other works I’ve done over the semester. I’ll talk more about my piece once I post it.

mount rainer.

mount rainer., [sic] originally uploaded by kaarins.

Quite an amazing shot from my friend Kaarin. Check out some of her other photography as well. Quite lovely if you ask me.