this is indexed dot com
Some of us have fallen in love with the hipster PDA. There is little you cannot do with index cards. Well, turns out you can diagram the cosmos on them as well.
lines and colors
And this. Bookmark it, visit it every day.
Making a Mark
Another site that produces wonderful instructional content for those of us who try to eke out a few minutes a day to make art.
Roz Wound Up
There are lots of sketching blogs out there, but not many that regularly write helpful instruction. Here is one:
These people are the saints of the internet– they give of their own time and talent to put out helpful material. Thanks, Roz.
She is featured in Danny Gregory’s book: “An Illustrated Life…” , if I remember right.
See also James Gurney’s site, Gurney’s Journey — my blurb here.
Grunewald’s dead Christs
Have you discovered Daniel Mitsui’s blog “The Lion and the Cardinal” yet? He writes mostly about sacred art, mostly from a Catholic perspective.
Yet he ranges outside any strict boundary of his churchly allegiance to post fascinating studies like this one on Grunewald’s Christs.
Justifications for Grünewald’s dead Christs invariably invoke the writings of St. Bridget, St. Gertrude and other late mediaeval mystics, who described the Passion in gruesome detail. And it is true that, beginning in the 14th century, intense meditation on the physical suffering of Christ dominated spiritual writing as well as sacred art. The pious literature of the age even numbers the lashes that Our Lord received (5,475 according to Oliver Maillard). Late mediaeval art is morbid, somber and tragic; its crucified Christ is crowned with thorns, contorting under His own weight, streaming blood. His muscles and bones are visible beneath his stripped-away skin. This is the suffering Christ bearing the immeasurable sins of humanity.
But this is most emphatically NOT the Christ whom we encounter at Isenheim and at Karlsruhe. The difference is obvious; 5,475 scourges turn a body red, not green – and Grünewald’s Christ is green. It is the corruption of the tomb that turns a body green. Grünewald’s Christ does not bleed; he rots…This is not, as Joris-Karl Huysmans fatuously claimed, the Christ of Justin, Basil, Cyril, Tertullian, the Christ of the apostolic Church… the Christ of the afflicted, of the beggar, of all those on whose indigence and helplessness the greed of their brother battens ; this is not their Christ at all. This is a Christ unknown to the mystics, unknown to the fathers, unknown to the poor and suffering; a Christ unknown to any Christian.
It is a Christ who has never risen from the dead.
Cool Site: Gurney Journey
This daily weblog by James Gurney is for illustrators, comic artists, plein-air painters, sketchers, animators, art students, and writers. You’ll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. Plus, for you lateral thinkers and pop-culture trekkers, a few bizarre rabbit trails.
Gurney is a reliable blogger; if you put him om your list of daily reads he will actually show up, every day, with a delightful mini-lesson on visual art, sometimes for the active artist but at times for the interested civilian. What he does is not to be found elsewhere.
Hi, I’m Tim, and I have a paper fetish.
The ultimate in geekdom is fascination with paper. Well, embrace your inner geek and allow yourself to enjoy Doane paper. Look for the link to a free pdf or jpg.
Poetry Daily
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Despair dot com
You know those chintzy motivational posters you see hanging in offices? Here are better ones. Make sure you scroll down the page and look at all the posters. Send your spouse the “Destiny” one; send your little brother “Persistence”.
ESV Journaling Edition
Just got mine last night. Very nice! Few criticisms , but one main one: text is in double columns. If the people who make this bible would use it for 2 weeks they would quickly realize the awkwardness of writing notes for 2 columns of text in one side column.
That said, still a welcome addition.
Reviews of it:
This guy says he thought of it. Well done.
I’ve been writing my notes with a 0.5 mechanical pencil, so I can make the occasional change.
It seems to me the best thing to do with this bible is make your own reference bible, instead of putting “sermon notes” and “prayers”. Why would you fill up the space beside a chapter with notes from one sermon, anyway?
By reference bible I don’t just mean “see Col. 3.12″ but a place to store those little one sentence tidbits you pick up lots of times in your reading but then forget them because you don’t have a photographic memory. Say you’re plowing through N.T.Wright and he points out a lexical point on one word in a parable. This bible is the perfect forum for jotting that note, along with the reference “from NTW, TRSG, p. 3,012″ — from N.T.Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, page 3,012. So you have the note from your reading stored right where you need it, but you don’t try and write it all out, you just point yourself back to your library. And yes, I know there are not 3,000 pages in that book. It just seems like it!
