Archive for the 'Art' Category

Mural and Portrait Artist: Pete Siemens

If you are looking to have a large mural painted or a portrait sketched, I must recommend the work of artist Pete Siemens.
Below are some samples of his work. You can see more of his work at his site found here.
Contact Pete at psiemensart@yahoo.com or call (519) 691-6814.
This is one of my favorites – a [...]

Douglas Wilson – Leveling the Monks of High Art

I will quote here (at length) from Doug Wilson’s recent piece called “Humbling the Arts”, but you really should read the entire thing for yourself here.
Money quotes:
We have come to the point of high circularity where our culture defines art as anything done by an artist, and an artist as one who has the right [...]

Rob Bell interviews Shane Hipps

I will be reviewing Shane Hipps book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith soon. Here’s an idea of what the book is about.

Rob Bell Interviews Shane Hipps About Technology from Deadly Viper on Vimeo.

Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators. [...]

The Peasant Princess

Tim Challies:
The Peasant Princess Here is a micro-site for Mark Driscoll’s new sermon series on Song of Solomon. Love it or hate it, you can’t argue with the skill and creativity of Mars Hill’s creative department.
I agree.  Mark Driscoll talking about sex… I’m sure the series will be interesting to say the least.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is [...]

The Catcher in the Rye

I like reading “classic” books, and by that I mean books like The Catcher in the Rye and more recent books like Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. One reason for this is that many people have read them and so there is a great amount cultural currency about them. Great works of art [...]

M. C. Escher – in Lego!

If you’re not familiar with 20th century part-surrealist, part math-geek artist M. C. Escher, you owe it to yourself to at least read his Wikipedia entry or go to his official site here.  You may be familiar with his most famous drawing called “Drawing Hands” (seen at left).
Many other of his drawing are worth looking [...]