It came just yesterday (packed awesomely) and man is it sweet. I had no real idea as to the quality of the Redbubble printing/mounting/po…
It came just yesterday (packed awesomely) and man is it sweet. I had no real idea as to the quality of the Redbubble printing/mounting/post-production process but now I must say with great confidence that Redbubble do a friggin amazing job! I vainly ordered one of my own prints (Pride the Sin [The Red Edition]) , curious to see how my work would look published and the detail is incredible. I did upload a very high res file but was still happily surprised all the same. I now have to order a tee and see how they come out, thanks Red Bubble!
I am sure that I am a moral person – at least I think I am / / I cannot help but wonder though / / Would I steal if I was hungry, or …
I am sure that I am a moral person – at least I think I am / / I cannot help but wonder though / / Would I steal if I was hungry, or if all but I seemed rich? / / Would I have stood apart in Germany while Hitler rose to power? / / Or been an icon of virtue if advancing with the Red Army? / / Am I sure I would have protested when white Australians took this country? / / Could I have been (like Jefferson) an owner of slaves? / / Would terror come easily to me if my nation were occupied? / / Can I be truly sure of my morality? / / Is it mine at all or simply that of those around me (for which I thank them) / / And a product of my own good fortune ? / / And, perhaps this is a step too far, / / Did Christ die not only for my actual sins / / But for the ones I may have committed if born in a different time and place? / / And looking at it from a different angle / / Can I be truly sure I am as moral as I think I am? / / What sins am I committing that my cultural glasses barely let me see? / / I suspect I know them at least dimly – our duty to our earth and to truly love / each other (even Africans) / / Sounds more like an indictment than an excuse. /
_This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the sto…
This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the story of Jesus in the Gospels, that I had expected from him the same qualities I had met in the southern fundamentalist church of my childhood. There, I often felt the victim of emotional pressures. Doctrine was dished out in a “Believe, and don’t ask questions!” style. Wielding the power of miracle, mystery, and authority, the church left no place for doubt. I also learned the manipulative techniques for “soul-winning,” some of which involved misrepresenting myself to the person I was talking to. Yet now I am unable to find any of these qualities in the life of Jesus. If I read church history correctly, many other followers of Jesus have yielded to the very temptations he resisted. Dostoevsky shrewdly replayed the Temptation scene in a torture cell of the Grand Inquisition. How could a church founded by the One who withstood the Temptation carry out an Inquisition of forced belief that lasted half a millennium? Meanwhile, in a milder Protestant version in the city of Geneva, officials were making attendance at church compulsory and refusal to take the Eucharist a crime. Heretics there, too, were burned at the stake. To its shame, Christian history reveals unrelieved attempts to improve on the way of Christ. Sometimes the church joins hands with a government that offers a shortcut to power. “The worship of success is generally THE form of idol worship which the devil cultivates most assiduously,” wrote Helmut Thielicke about the German church’s early infatuation with Adolf Hitler. “We could observe in the first years after 1933 the almost suggestive compulsion that emanates from great successes and how, under the influence of these successes, men, even Christians, stopped asking in whose name and at what price…” Sometimes the church grows its own mini-Hitlers, men with names like Jim Jones and David Koresh, who understand all too well the power represented in miracle, mystery, and authority. And sometimes the church simply borrows the tools of manipulation perfected by politicians, salesmen, and advertising copyrighters. – excerpt from The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey it is for this reason that, even though I am a Christ follower, I can only be so offended when people like Bill Maher (whose show is extremely insightful, entertaining, and funny) are quick to bash Christianity. If you listen very closely, insults like Maher’s are nearly always directed at Christians, but hardly ever Jesus himself. If anything, it sheds a light on how much we need God’s grace: believer or not, nobody does a good job of walking in the same footsteps of Christ, and every time we try to pave that road into something that’s a little easier on our feet, we do such a lousy job of it that it should come as no surprise that so many people roll their eyes at Christians. Ghandi said it best: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” And Margaret Cho put it a little more bluntly: “Many of my contemporaries are atheists, and for good reason. God isn’t really the problem; some of His followers are big assholes.” That being said, I kind of feel the need to let people know that JESUS is the true face of Christianity, not other Christians, not Jerry Falwell, not the misguided believers (that’s pretty much all of us) who get the most media attention when you turn on the news. So, to my atheist friends, I won’t fault you for sniping or rolling your eyes at Christians in general – in truth, we deserve it, more often than not. But, if whatever doubt you have in your heart is really that strong, I hope it motivates you to find some answers – I hope it motivates you guys to study the Man whom I find it difficult to stop listening to/ thinking/ praising/ writing/ singing/ talking about. And if you really take a good look at Him, read about him, who He was, and what He did, from all viewpoints and perspectives, then I hope you’ll understand why I call myself a follower of Jesus Christ, why the most anyone can be is a poor reflection of Him, and why I keep trying to be a little more like Him in spite of the fact that I seem to fail at every single attempt.
I just got this business card printed for myself. :) I do these as a freelance designer so if you have any orders, let me know and I’l…
I just got this business card printed for myself. :) I do these as a freelance designer so if you have any orders, let me know and I’ll whip something up for you too! / / /
How many we believe in extraterrestrial life? .. how many denied that extraterrestrial life may exists on another planet! / there are man…
How many we believe in extraterrestrial life? .. how many denied that extraterrestrial life may exists on another planet! / there are many hidden things.. many secrets that could never open ever! we can’t deny when eye find evidence and see things connected with life existing outside the planet Earth! / / Science have just contradicted! but .. what Bible says.. / / “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”—Genesis 1:1 / / Science or God .. / God and extraterrestrial life! / it seems the two stories contradict each other! / statements and pieces of evidence can be so different from each other that one of them must be wrong. / a creature from another world.. / aliens from outer space.. / we all have the ability to think in a logical way and understand things.. / some of us are formidably intelligent but you ever see aliens from outer space? / believe it or not but Vatican says aliens could exist! / The Pope’s chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled out. / / / / Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world. The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God. The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article ‘Aliens Are My Brother’. ‘Free from sin’ Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates. Asked about the Catholic Church’s condemnation four centuries ago of the Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo, Father Funes diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the page and look towards the future. Science and religion need each other, and many astronomers believe in God, he assures readers. To strengthen its scientific credentials, the Vatican is organising a conference next year to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin. BBC News, Rome FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has also stunningly claimed aliens exist. Mitchell claims alien contact cover-up! Daylight footage: UFOs over Europe / And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions – but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’ He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head. He claimed our technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and “had they been hostile”, he warned “we would have been gone by now”. statements and pieces of evidence can be so different from each other that one of them must be wrong. but what it shows.. / a creature from another world exists? / aliens from outer space? / so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God? / And some aliens could even be free from original sin? / who knows…
So you thought that once the Seven Sins competition is over there was nothing more to expect. Recently, in celebration of winning the …
So you thought that once the Seven Sins competition is over there was nothing more to expect. Recently, in celebration of winning the Seven Sins competition, there was a dinner with Fleece , Lucky , Jess , Sheamus , Bell , Yas and myself. We ate, we talked, we drank, we talked, we took photos and drank some more. In the end we even turned it into a bad short animation of the night: / Now since that meant that we had finished out competition we decided it was high time to have another. Its open to any entrants. Now have a look…...here Something senseless this way comes
Just recently i received my copy of Rhys McDonald’s recent publication, titled *‘Last Call for Si…
Just recently i received my copy of Rhys McDonald’s recent publication, titled ‘Last Call for Sin’. I had a fair idea of what to expect from this compilation of his from viewing his stuff here on RB, but …........... when i opened it i was truly blown away with it! The binding and print quality compliments Rhys’s women perfectly. The collection features: / -60+ pages high quality, original and sassy pinup art. / -full glorious colour, perfect bound. / -contributor art from leading national, and international artists as well as art from some of the best independent artists putting pen to paper (or stylus to Wacom) including Chris Wahl, Trev Wood, Josh Howard, Jim Mahfood and more! / -introduction from Falcon Vs Monkey editor Chris Flynn. Rhys’s description of it is: “Last Call For Sin is a collection of modern pinups, 6 months of work and dozens of images in the making. Graphic novel sized it’s a hefty collection forged with blood, boobs, sweat and tears. Well, not really tears but it was a long road to get it done.” He’s been holding back a fair bit from us Bubble viewers, so get down to all your good book retailers (ASK EM FOR IT!) and grab a copy! I’m sure you’ll be as impressed and inspired as i still am! ....of course also available here @ The Plastic Age The main aspect of Rhy’s work that struck me is the detail and time puts into his backgrounds. Some of them are an artwork by themselves!!! (ie the skull Bg below!) Truly inspirational stuff. Here’s some of my fav’s (sorry Simon! couldn’t get a good shot of your contribution! It’s here though! / Rhys’s RedBubble Gallery
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/ The Temptation O mystic metamorphosis! / My senses into one sense flow— / Her voice makes perfume when she speaks, / Her breath is music faint and low!” Thank you so much
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/ The Beauty This Beauty tells her story in her eyes Thank you so much
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/ Le Maquillage This life of ours would not cause you sorrow / if you thought of it as like / the mountain cherry blossoms / which bloom and fade in a day Thank you so much
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/ The Star All that I know / Of a certain star, / Is, it can throw / (Like the angled spar) / Now a dart of red, / Now a dart of blue, / Till my friends have said / They would fain see, too Thank you so much
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The Patchwork and Inspired Art Third Feature.. / / The Beauty Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. / But you are life and you are the veil. / Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. / But you are eternity and you are the mirror. Thank you so much
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/ Illusion The mystery and light of eyes / That near to mine grow dim and cold; / They move afar in ancient skies / Mid flame and mystic darkness rolled. Thank you so much
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/ Sylvia Who is Silvia? what is she, / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair, and wise is she; / The heaven such grace did lend her, / That she might admirèd be. Thank you so much
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In Watermedia / Virtue In Fine Arts / Sylvia In Who Are You To Judge / The Wish Thank you so much to all the Group Moderators
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/ Katharine Elfin and human, airy and true, / And backed by the reflected blue. Thank you so much
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Featured Member as well / Beatrice Thank you so much
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/ The Party Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes: / Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. / Beneath each topic tunelessly discussed / The ground-bass is reciprocal mistrust. / The names in fashion shuttling to and fro / Yield, when deciphered, messages of woe. / You cannot read me like an open book. / I’m more myself than you will ever look. / Will no one listen to my little song? / Perhaps I shan’t be with you very long. / A howl for recognition, shrill with fear, / Shakes the jam-packed apartment, but each ear / Is listening to its hearing, so none hear...Auden Thank you so much
I don’t usually journal top ten wins, but I’m so proud of my portraits I had to post this one.. _She’s been featured a few times as wel…
I don’t usually journal top ten wins, but I’m so proud of my portraits I had to post this one.. She’s been featured a few times as well / The Temptation My heartfelt thanks to all who voted for my painting
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/ The Temptation Among the many lovely things / That make the magic of her face, / Among the beauties, black and rose, / That make her body’s charm and grace, / Which is most fair? Thank you so much
*I don’t usually post these, but Jim had mentioned that it would be nice if I did…..so here is a top ten winner in the Collaborative Ch…
I don’t usually post these, but Jim had mentioned that it would be nice if I did…..so here is a top ten winner in the Collaborative Challenge in Live and Let Live / Maria’s Cherry Thank you so much to all who voted for me
*The notice of this win came in later than my last journal posting, but since I’m really proud of it as one of my rare paintings of drink…
The notice of this win came in later than my last journal posting, but since I’m really proud of it as one of my rare paintings of drinks, I’m posting it on it’s own…it won 2nd place in the Artisitic Libation Challenge..”Spirits in Art / Summer Journal 09 pg 1 Thank you so much to all who voted for me…I really appreciate it
Monday / 6.30am / i awake to find / SIN CITY / !http://images-3.redbubble.n…
Monday / 6.30am / i awake to find / SIN CITY / / is featured on the homepage from Abstract Macro Urban Art group / along with some of my most favorite artists from redbubble / its a honour and a pleasure to be along side wonderful works by wonderful artists / thank you redbubble! / ill be buzzing for the whole day!
i feel exstatic with excitment and feel extreamly proud this morning as a work featured on the redbubble homepage has also been featured …
i feel exstatic with excitment and feel extreamly proud this morning as a work featured on the redbubble homepage has also been featured in Solo Magazine / SIN CITY / along side some extreamly talented artists. im delighted and i shall be wearing a ridiculous smile on my face for the rest of the day, no make that the rest of the year! / a very special thank you to Alixzandra as without her hard work i really dont think my work would have been noticed / and to the the Solo Exhibition group for chosing my work / YEEEEHAAAA / richie :))
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