Archive for May, 2009

so i purchased the Wilco (band) movie: Ashes of American Flags (concert film) and we were thinking about watching it on monday night around 6 pm.

leave me a note in the comments section with your e-mail address and i’ll get back to you…

should be fun, it’s a great film!

Something struck me as a great opportunity while meeting with the Reedley Creative group the other day on the Mayday Mayday get together at the Fresh Start Cafe, I was struck by the company that surrounded us all and wondered if there was something more that we were all not willing to outright acknowledge. We met to talk about our art and share something with the other artists, it amazed me how much of the shared art was religious in it’s portrayal or interpretation to the receiver and I wanted to acknowledge that before it was too late.

As artists of many sorts we are all called to our craft for one reason or another, and my thinking is that as a group we are also are called together to challenge each other in ways that can benefit our artistic abilities. Additionally with so many different views on the world we can build each other up in Christ. Artists are often drawn to allow ourselves to partake in the spirit of victimization and negativity to help us in the creation of our art, and while our own oppression as artists may help us create art that speaks to the oppression of others I would like to lay out this challenge. Lets find ways to honor Christ and express our Salvation through our art, not to say that we can’t face challenges or express them just that I would like to see those things not be the sole object of our creations.

Each time we get together is an opportunity to minister to each other in a multitude of ways, maybe through a time of prayer, or maybe through opportunities of affirmation. Lets commit ourselves to look beyond our oppression and allow the spirit of God to come through our works, not necessarily in the “oh how wonderful God is” sorts of ways unless that is the way that you truely feel through the creation of the piece. Through allowing Christ into our work and into our time together we allow ourselves to be a witness to others for Christs sake.

While the above mentioned idea is something that I feel could come through the group I look forward to other people’s feedback, interpretation and affirmation.

Thanks for the opportunites to share and discuss.

This is one of those posts that is merely passing on something that originated elsewhere.

I was shown this excerpt from a video interview with Ira Glass, host of National Public Radio’s This American Life, and found it tremendously helpful and encouraging as a creative person. Nick McIntyre also found it helpful, and Andrew Shinn apparently liked it enough to show it to both of us in the first place. So here’s the secret video, shared for the benefit of all of Reedley Creative…

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On Good Taste

so, i don’t know where you are but you are really missing out! we are in the middle of the “MAY DAY, MAY DAY DINNER WITH REEDLEY CREATIVE!” event with a dirty dozen of the valley’s creative greats.

Apparently, Mr. Shinn’s last name is Old English and means; “small wooded glen,” and Mr. Boriack’s last name is Czech and used to be Borjack but was changed when is family came through Ellis Island.

Oh, Hi Andrew’s grandma!

Nick McIntyre has enough peddles for all of us…

i think this is going to run for a while, but it looks like we’re gonna lose Mr. Oberg because he has to go back to work.

some things happened to night that were not only awesome but super spiritually edifying, like the super random song lyrics that were given to a Mrs. Garza that happened to be the lyrics to the song that was sung at her sister’s funeral, that the giver could not have ever known about, or the “One Good Day” gift certificate that was exactly what the recipient needed.

Hey, you should have been here, but whatevs. Come to the next one, you owe it to yourself!