nevermind the bricolage

Anti-Calm

Share Some Candy is a site for cool images, much like ffffound. It's less cluttered and the images seem to be more of a piece, but each has it's place. The 'Keep Calm' poster has become popular here in LA, but this image on SSC offers the 'dark side' of such sentiments!

Grammar Fight

Someone directed me to these images, they are a gift that was given to the author of a remarkable site, full of really interesting bits and pieces. It is a 're-telling' of Moby Dick, the amount of work that went into the piece is stunning, I can't imagine the number of hours it must have taken. You'll have to scroll through a few pages to find the post (around April 08), and the story behind the piece. I've put some other images of the piece in the extended section. 

Creative Scrapes

Creativescrape bills itself as an inspiration utility--they put some interesting RSS and Flickr links up and let the viewer go down the various rabbit holes. So far they don't disappoint-good resource for cool sites.

If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger...

Aah, memories of youth! Tom Sutpen and his friends post an eclectic series of images everyday on the site, If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger There'd Be A Whole Of Dead Copycats! (tsutpen.blogspot.com). Where he and his friends gather all these images from is anybody's guess, but there are always interesting and diverse things to look at. Kudos for the blog name as well--up there with my favourite, the now sadly defunct, Blogging A Dead Horse!

Simply Breakfast...

One of the ongoing assignments my Art Center students have is to chronicle all the food they eat and drink over the term and present the data in some kind of visual format. The project was inspired by a number of things. Designer Paul Smith's inventory of all his belongings in his book, You Can Find Inspiration in Everything, a book chronicling a years worth of food intake called, Everything I Ate, and the general consumptive nature of 21st century life. One of my recent crop of students sent me a link to the site this header came from--simplybreakfast.blogspot.com--lovely, daily shots of breakfast food, makes one peckish.

God Went Surfing

Two guys decide to go surfing in the Middle East and they take some great photos and tell some stories to those of us who stayed home...God went surfing with the Devil.

Soul Jerky

Hmmm....soul jerky!

Relics of Temperance

I love a good graphic design blog and The Nonist is one of the most interesting I have come across lately. Very cool graphics and thoughtful commentary are key characteristics. You can download a few things, including an Old Testament Activity Book which features games and colouring outlines based on key OT scenarios--funny and reflective. Why is it called The Nonist? You'll have to check it out for yourself in order to get an answer to that one.

Agence Eureka!

One of my daily visits is here.

Death Is The Road To Awe

I am a big fan of film music, and have even dabbled a bit here and there doing music for film in a few different capacities. In fact, I have a chapter on film music in Rob Johnston's book, Reframing Theology and Film, which draws together a number of thinkers doing stuff around various aspects of film. Music in film is a bit like the Holy Spirit, often the overlooked member of the trinity. Meaning in film doesn't simply come from dialog or narrative but from a trinity of meaning makers: story, visuals, music, each of which contribute to the overall meaning-making process. I would argue that music plays an incredibly important role in film and always has, even in the 'silent' film era, it was only the film itself that was devoid of sound, most, if not all movies, were accompanied by music, organs, pianos, chamber orchestras, all supported the celluloid tales and gave life to what was happening on screen. All that to say I came across a great blog called The Playlist, which is dedicated to music in film. It's a cool site with great posts and views. The first post I came across was a bit of a rant about the tendency to use music created for other movies in new film trailers, you've probably seen a few yourself. Hence the title of my post, which is the name of a piece of music by Clint Mansell which was created for The Fountain but which now shows up in the new Will Smith movie trailer for I Am Legend. This tactic is something I personally find a bit irritating, even though I think I understand the rationale behind it--economics, ease, proven emotional arc etc. anyway, if film music interest you this site will be a frequent place to visit.