Becca Lanka Does Not Need Twitter To Be Cool
My dear sister Becca moved to Franklin, TN, last year to study fashion at O’More College of Design. She has since started more of a public display of her works and the freelance projects she does styling for. This is good news for all of us, because her mind and soul are a blessing to anyone who can catch a glimpse of it. Please visit her blog at beccalanka.blogspot.com.
But please don’t expect her to twitter very often, none of us would like to become that self-absorbed.
(Photos by dear Allister Ann)
The Plastic Lens
Found these fantastic toy camera shots at theplasticlens.com. I’m excited to have found a camera that shoots without a mask, as can be seen in the photos. More expensive than a Holga, but the Blackbird Fly camera may be worth the $119. Its an replica of the old Kodak Duaflex TLR’s.
Worth Reading 2: No Wealth But Life
Bankers and profiteers and freeloaders and sturdy beggars and political graftsmen of all sorts, with alphabet soup pedigrees billowing out after their names like exhaust, have pillaged and plundered their way through our national trust—that trust of capital reserve in human character, topsoil, small towns, natural resources, family farms, sound money, freedom from foreign entanglement, and liberty, the greatest trust of all.
Front Porch Republic, “No Wealth but Life”
I would note that its a fine bit of idealism to cheer for the little man and those who honestly parallel his interests, no matter how supposedly efficient or qualified the elitist may be. That is where we turn, however, time and again.
To place fabrications and the worship of efficiency at the forefront of our endeavors is to gloss over the life that matters most first. Life is not efficiency, leisure, riches, power, the public, or any of that other trash that clutters minds. Life is intimacy. With friends, with family, with the land, with community, with freedom, with God.
Such an idealism is not only highly touted by Jesus himself but seems apparently plain the closer I look. We perhaps wrongly assume that the value a man contributes to his community is his efficiency and his production value purely for its own sake. The wealth that is usually sought, however, seems of the rather self-indulgent vein. A community embracing idealism over efficiency is a community trusting true wealth. The point is not the achievement of pure idealism but the slight shift and the transformation of minds.
Worth Reading: 1
I’ve been finding more peace lately in listening rather than talking. Reading, rather than writing. On that account, I’d like to offer up as regularly as I can, the thises and thats that I’ve found worth reading, whether I would agree with them or not. I would hope in this interval of mine of having fewer words to voice that anyone out there who regularly follows this blog will find these to be worth reading, and worth conversing.
Also, I’m tired of posting links only on facebook. Perhaps this will be less of a new thing, and more of a reorganized attempt and (vocalized) desire to share.
So here’s the first:
Empire Rebranded – by Nonviolent Jesus
The Illusion of Change – by Nonviolent Jesus
The folks at Nonviolent Jesus have posted occasionally in the past on the illusion offered up by the politics, particularly when popular preference can be wrangled. “The gushing enthusiasm over Obama has been manufactured in order to evoke the illusion of change.”
This article is a continuation of that tone and continues on into the true essence of rebranding: same thing, new appearance. The folks at Nonviolent Jesus have an angle on the political atmosphere and an ability to express the angle in ways I’ve seen unmatched. “The role of the Democratic party in the U.S. has always been to act as a lightning rod for social discontent.” Furthermore, they accurately rein in the likely true nature of the new administration, reminding me of Chomsky’s words that there are not two political parties in this country, but two factions of the same: the Business Party.
Recognizing the fog is one thing, finding a way through it is another. Nonviolent Jesus has that, I hope you enjoy the article(s).
Corporate Worship and Political Idolatry
A great article on the emotional nature of corporate worship and its possible parallels to political idolatry at Castle of Nutshells.
I didn’t choose my brokenness. And yet here I am, broken.
I didn’t choose my brokenness. And yet here I am, broken.
Brant Hansen is one of my favorite writers, and since I have had little time to write lately, I’d like to share his latest article. I admire his humility and honesty, especially in an issue that seems to demand we take sides. Read it here.
Closet Typography Enthusiast
I am a typography enthusiast, self-relegated to “closet” status by the limit of my own creativity. I don’t, however, cease from exploring the beautiful worlds I find on places like typeneu.com. Found this one here.
Three Hundred Love Letters
“I’m writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers.”
As explained on the site, she is writing because “I wanted to train my heart to really feel.”
Beautiful.
Found it at sleeptrip.com/300loveletters, and more beautiful projects at sleeptrip.com.
Anatomy Of A Lego Man
A fantastic series of illustrations by Jason Freeny. See them at likecool.com.
And here’s another good one.
(ht: Invisible Creature)
Casino Capitalism
I was reading a post today on Eugene Cho’s blog about the bailout. I appreciate the thoughts expressed both by Eugene and his commenters over there. One comment in particular stood out to me, using the term
Wall Street Casino Capitalism
It has high roller/big spender/rich getting richer written all over it.
I love Eugene’s blog, please check him out. In particular, check out the ridiculous video by a pre-madonna Bank of America exec.
Oh, one more thing, here’s a breakdown of the bailout. Leaves me speechless.
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