One of my all-time favorite living illustrators is Dennis Jones. His work is phenomenal. His characters are cartoony and fun, his drawing skills are solid, and he is a skilled painter who knows what he is doing with color. He balances fine-art painting techniques with appealing cartoon doodles for a stunning effect. Jones already has a website/blog (which he shares with...
Hollywood and Evangelicals go together like oil and water. Love and war. Pizza and Orange Juice. Or so you would think. It's a fair assumption. Movies and TV shows (along with the culture in general) seem to be growing more coarse and irreverent. Many evangelicals percieve this as Hollywood launching an attack on the moral foundations of the culture. Hollywood, in turn,...
Yesterday Steve Jobs announced new changes to the iPod line and a new price for the iPhone. The iPod nano is now short and wide with a bigger screen; the regular iPod (now called "iPod classic") now holds up to 160GB of media; and, in preperation for the Christmas shopping season, iPhones are now $200 cheaper coming in at $399. (UPDATE:...
Like many people, I find there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. Being busy all the time can be more than a little stressful. The pace of modern life can leave you downright frazzled. This past weekend I happened to catch a radio broadcast from Focus on the Family. A guy named Richard Swensen...
This should be good. If you are familiar at all with the work of Ken Burns, you know that he is a master of the historical documentary. His greatest and most well-known film is an award-winning series on the Civil War. You can wait for the 9-episode series to pop up on PBS, which it does from time to time,...
Yesterday in the wee hours of the morning a nasty storm ripped through our neighborhood. My neighbor on the left had a tree fall into her back yard, my neighbor kitty corner from me also had a tree knocked over, and the neighbor on my right had a giant branch take out his telephone and TV cable lines before smashing...
