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A powerful movie asking important questions about the digitization and democratization of art.
Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on January 26, 2012 2:40 pm.
Filed under: Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Creativity, Film, Found Art, Music Tags: Andrew Keen, Bill Drummond, Moby, Nick Sansano, Ólafur Arnalds, Seth Godin
“Not a formless sublime exceeding and annihilating the beautiful, but an endless display of beauty, surpassing the beautiful as the ever more beautiful.” – David Bentley Hart
Sola Scriptura permeates the portion of protestant faith I have grown up within. It is a term which tends toward an epistemology that raises the written word above everything else, after all John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” It is powerful, the word—both the spoken word that made everything that was made and the Word through whom life and light was given to “all mankind [as] the light [that] shines in the darkness” that cannot be overcome. But within that same tradition, the word is often eviscerated.
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Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on October 20, 2011 10:59 am.
Filed under: Aesthetics, Culinary Arts, Found Art, Meditations, Music, Photography, Poetry, Theology Tags: Art as Icon, C. S. Lewis, Christ, Christian Art, Daniel Siedell, David Bentley Hart, Jacques Maritain, Makoto Fujimura, Sola Scriptura
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This is exactly the sort of thing that the Continuum was formed to encourage. -truly a fantastic idea and opportunity for artists around the globe to participate. To fully understand the concept, be sure to read the “about” page.
Written/Posted by: Kent Smith
Published on September 13, 2011 5:14 pm.
Filed under: Music, Plastic Arts, Upcoming Art
Written/Posted by: Kent Smith
Published on May 26, 2011 10:31 am.
Filed under: Found Art, Music Tags: Aradhna, hundred-fold, Mukteshwar, Sau Guna
Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on May 23, 2011 3:17 pm.
Filed under: Found Art, Music Tags: Dance, electronic, Electronica, Filipino, Kulintang, Percussion, Roberto Rodriguez, Susie Ibarra, Trance, Trip Hop
Written/Posted by: Kent Smith
Published on March 17, 2011 12:56 pm.
Filed under: Creativity, Music
David Bentley Hart is quickly becoming my favorite theologian. Read what he says about Bruckner’s 9th symphony to understand why: Continue reading “The Music of Eternity” »
Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on February 8, 2011 12:31 pm.
Filed under: Aesthetics, Music, Theology
Kent Smith’s official website is officially up and running. Feel free to visit at http://www.kentsmith.net/
Written/Posted by: Kent Smith
Published on February 3, 2011 5:59 am.
Filed under: Kent Smith, Music
Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on January 27, 2011 12:27 pm.
Filed under: Music Tags: Charlie Wight, Interpol, Music Video
John Hodges, one time conductor of the Germantown Orchestra and student of Leonard Bernstein, talks about transcendence: what it means and how one accomplishes it through the window of art and music.
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Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on August 2, 2010 3:44 pm.
Filed under: Aesthetics, Music, Plastic Arts Tags: John Hodges