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http://roar.tlmcreate.net/2023/11/20/engines-of-creation-localizing-an-astronomy-infographic-into-french/ | 2023-12-03T06:50:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100489.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203062445-20231203092445-00317.warc.gz | 0.942775 | 732 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__230376251 | en | Written by: Sarah Tesfasion
I had the opportunity to exercise my desktop publishing skills by localizing an astronomy infographic about how massive stars produce elements. I chose to localize this infographic because it comes from the website for the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope represents an important scientific advancement achieved through the collaboration of NASA and the ESA, so I thought this infographic should exist in multiple languages. I also felt that it might present some interesting flat-image localization challenges, particularly in recreating the text treatment of the title, replacing the text while preserving the background, and managing text expansion from English to French.
Creating Editable Text Layers
Since the source image is a .png file, the first step of the localization process was to create editable text layers in Adobe Photoshop. I used Adobe Fonts to find the correct font, Futura PT, and recreated all of the text which appears in the graphic. Luckily, the chemical element symbols are universal and did not need to be localized.
I spent a great deal of time trying to recreate the text treatment for “Massive Stars:” and “Multi-Shell Core” before learning that Photoshop does not support sharp corners on the stroke of a text layer. I needed to convert this text to a shape and then add the stroke, so I left this to be completed after the text was translated.
I also needed to create an overlay which hides the text from the original infographic. The background image looked complex in some areas, such as on the supernova, so I thought this might prove challenging. However, I was able to use the Magic Wand tool to select all of the text that will be replaced, and the Content-Aware Fill feature to cover it up.
Once the graphic had editable text layers, it was ready to be translated. I used a script from blogger Bramus Van Damme to export all of the text strings from the Photoshop file into a text file. This useful tool saved me from having to copy and paste each text layer into a text document for translation. I used Phrase TMS to create a project and translate the text. Then I used another script from Bramus to import the text back into the Photoshop file.
The Bramus import script took care of replacing the text in the Photoshop file with their translations, so all that was left to do was to clean up the infographic. Some text boxes needed to be adjusted to accommodate English-to-French text expansion, and I needed to recreate the gradient stroke on “Étoiles massives :” and “Noyau multi sphérique.” The result was a fully localized infographic, shown below.
Having completed projects similar to this one in the past allowed me to accurately envision the steps necessary to localize this infographic. Therefore the general steps in my process closely resemble the workflow I put forth in my proposal. I still had the opportunity to experiment with the methods I used to actually complete these steps, particularly when it came to the visual elements of the project. It took considerable effort to figure out how to recreate the gradient stroke on two of the titles. Due to a limitation of Photoshop, I had to undo this effort and repeat it again later in the workflow. Having to complete this text treatment after translation would be time-consuming for multiple languages, so I’d be curious to know if there is an easier way. Overall, this project was an exciting opportunity to apply my Photoshop skills and to witness potential challenges in flat-image localization. The infographic below summarizes the steps I took during the localization process. | artistic |
http://jacquelinerappaport.com/what's%20new....html | 2021-09-25T16:42:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057687.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925142524-20210925172524-00539.warc.gz | 0.940224 | 345 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__257956848 | en | Easter 2018- very excited to announce that Canons Ashby, a tranquil Tudor manor house run by the national Trust, will be selling a new and exclusive collection of Hagstone pottery - "The Cocktail Set" and "The Coffee Set". Glazed in white, green and lilac, the colours of the Women's Sufferage Movement, thse pots have been especially designed to help celebrate 100 years of Wonderful Women! The sets will be on sale from easter, along with a brand new collection of white and black pottery.
In February 2018 Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts house near the shores of Lake Windermere in Cumbria, invited me to include a collection of ceramics in their award winning contemporary craft shop. Taking inspiration from the sublime pottery made by William De Morgan in the early part of the last century , I hope my collection of contemporary lusterware sits in harmony with the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement which Blackwell promotes and preserves in this absolutely gorgeous house.
Read all about Tews Farm in the January 2018 issue of Country Living magazine, which carries an interiors feature about Tews Farm, and also features Hagstone Pottery in its 'Emporium' pages.
The Hagstone Christmas Studio Sale was a great success this year with money being raised for Katharine House Hospice, mulled cider and mince pies aplenty, and lots of pottery sold at half the regular gallery prices.
Watch this space for future studio sales, but if you would like to look around the studio shop while you are in the area, just give me a call on 07903 717247 for opening times. | artistic |
http://www.meredithklappblog.com/2017-newborn-gallery/ | 2018-02-21T00:57:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813187.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180221004620-20180221024620-00292.warc.gz | 0.95098 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__28762389 | en | Newborn sessions have my heart! I have experience with nearly 400 newborns and offer a professional, safe, and comfortable environment. I am also the first in our area to become a certified newborn photographer through APNPI (Accredited Professional Newborn Photographers International.) Newborn sessions include everything you need, such as the use of high end props, delicate wraps, unique hair accessories and more. I want my clients to show up at my studio feeling at home with everything they need at their fingertips. All Newborn sessions take place in my studio located in Valdosta, GA Monday-Thursday. I take a limited amount of newborns each month, so please book your session as early as possible (ideally in your second trimester) to ensure a spot. If your baby is already born, please contact me because I may still be able to fit you in! | artistic |
http://www.americanbakers.org/2014/01/celebrate-national-pie-day-by-teaching-someone-to-make-a-pie/ | 2017-06-29T02:11:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323842.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629015021-20170629035021-00145.warc.gz | 0.934576 | 323 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__106743420 | en | Today is National Pie Day! To celebrate, the American Pie Council (APC) would like to encourage all members of the baking industry and pie lovers everywhere to teach someone to make a pie in honor of this special day. Passing on the tradition of pie making is an important part of our culture and a mission of The American Pie Council.
This year APC has partnered with Paramount Pictures and its new film, “Labor Day.” “Labor Day,” starring Kate Winslet in a Golden Globe-nominated performance, Josh Brolin and Gattlin Griffith and directed by Jason Reitman, features a pie-making scene that becomes an important theme in the story and shares the APC’s message of passing down skills from generation to generation. The movie will be released nationally on January 31, 2014, a week after National Pie Day, offering a unique way for pie lovers to celebrate their favorite holiday. So, on National Pie Day, make a date for January 31st to see Paramount Picture’s new film, “Labor Day.” Watch a clip from the movie!
APC would love for you to share photos of your pie teaching experiences. You can post photos on our Facebook Page or send them directly to APC President Linda Hoskins (a.k.a. “Pie Queen). In addition, look for ticket giveaways for “Labor Day” on our Facebook page starting soon!
Please feel free to use the National Pie Day poster, featuring “Labor Day” on your own Facebook page or promotions. | artistic |
http://archive.holistix.co.za/dying-easter-eggs.html | 2021-08-05T01:35:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155268.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805000836-20210805030836-00139.warc.gz | 0.921571 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__227684579 | en | Dying Easter Eggs
Kids love to decorate and paint their own easter eggs. It is really easy for them to do. Here are some ideas on how to get them started.
To start, cover a table with layers of old newspaper to soak up any spills. You can also use empty egg cartons as drying racks. Paper towels are really handy to blot off any dye that collects underneath the eggs. It is easier to use food coloring for your colored eggs than homemade dyes. For colorfast egg dyes, mix 7-8 drops of food coloring into 1 cup of hot water. Stir in 1/4
cup vinegar. For more intense colors, use small amounts of professional-quality food coloring gels or pastes, available at craft, cake decorating and kitchen supply stores.
To make your own natural dyes, boil ingredients in water with a tablespoon of vinegar until the desired shade is reached. Strain to remove solids.
Yellow: Yellow onion skins, ground turmeric
Orange: Same as yellow, with added beet juice
Pink: Cranberry juice concentrate
Red: Beets, paprika
Blue: Canned blueberries, red cabbage, grape juice concentrate
Green: Spinach and/or kale
Brown: Strong brewed coffee or tea
For spattered eggs, dip egg in a base color and let dry completely. Dip a clean toothbrush in a contrasting liquid color and carefully flick bristles with your fingers to make paint splatter onto egg. You can also dip eggs with a base color on one end and then dip with another base color on the other end and let dry. Hand decorating is also great. Start off with a base color for the whole egg and once it is dry take some kids paint and create your own picture. | artistic |
https://www.botangle.net/product-page/umble-earrings | 2021-10-16T23:13:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585045.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016231019-20211017021019-00652.warc.gz | 0.918805 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__145864042 | en | Named for the Zentangle® pattern, “Umble,” this cutout design of interwoven bands comes in two colors, a rich red or sand color. They are laser cut on locally sourced fine hardwood. The circular earrings measure 1.5 inches in diameter and are 1/16 inch thick.
Each piece is finished with nickel-free quality jewelry fittings and a coat of shellac. All jewelry comes mounted on a hand-crafted genuine leather tag that is made of our remnants. Because our products are hand-made, each one is unique with slight variations. | artistic |
https://www10.mcadcafe.com/nbc/articles/1/722247/Post-Logic-Studios-Audio-Director-Terrence-Dwyer-Receives-Emmy-Nomination | 2018-07-21T19:48:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592654.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721184238-20180721204238-00142.warc.gz | 0.936716 | 493 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__145274430 | en | Post Logic Studios Director of Audio Terrence Dwyer has been nominated for a 2009 Creative Arts Emmy® Award in the category of Outstanding Sound Mixing For Non-fiction Programming for his contributions to reality show “Survivor.” The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) will announce the winner at the 61st Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 12 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.
As Director of Audio/Supervising Re-recording Mixer at Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, industry veteran Dwyer boasts an extensive background in reality television and over three decades experience as an audio mixer and sound designer. For the last 12 years Dwyer has worked on top reality television shows including “Survivor,” “Fear Factor, “Kid Nation,” “American Gladiators,” “Wipeout” and “Dating in the Dark.”
In 2001, Dwyer received his first Emmy Award for outstanding sound mixing on “Survivor,” and went on to garner three additional nominations. In 2008, Dwyer received his second Emmy in the news and documentary category for “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience.”
“I am extremely pleased to be recognized once again with a nomination from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,” commented Dwyer. “I have enjoyed working on high profile programs throughout my career and will continue to strive for excellence on ‘Survivor’ here at Post Logic.”
About Post Logic Studios
A leader in digital intermediate and feature film restoration, Post Logic Studios is a part of the Prime Focus Group family, an integrated global network of visual effects and post-production companies servicing clientele around the world with technologically advanced facilities in Hollywood, New York, London and India. With access to hundreds of talented visual effects and 3D artists from within Prime Focus Group, Post Logic has continued to expand into new and emerging arenas within the post-production realm, providing unmatched digital intermediate, digital mastering, editorial assembly, restoration, visual effects and audio post production services to feature film and television clients from its flagship Hollywood facility and Manhattan-based satellite, Post Logic Studios N.Y. For more information, please visit www.postlogic.com or call 323-461-7887. | artistic |
http://meitartewel.deviantart.com/ | 2017-06-26T22:21:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00214.warc.gz | 0.956412 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__182704424 | en | "You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dalí spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn’t know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!"
Current Residence: Israel
Favourite genre of music: Rock & Alternative
Favourite photographer: Felix Lupa, Alex Webb
Personal Quote: You too, Bluetooth, my son? | artistic |
https://brockenhurstchurch.com/2023/sunday-december-10th-the-gift-of-rest/ | 2024-03-05T04:16:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948217723.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305024700-20240305054700-00696.warc.gz | 0.913195 | 112 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__125586043 | en | Psalm 23 1-2 NLT
The Lord is my shepherd;
I have all that I need.
He lets me rest in green meadows;
he leads me beside peaceful streams.
He renews my strength.
Matthew 11:28-29 NLT
Come to me, you who are weary and carry a heavy burden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you.
Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart,
and you will find rest for your soul. | artistic |
http://www.newarksymphonyhall.org/events.php?id=20170422A | 2017-04-25T12:24:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120349.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00255-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.915529 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__186629097 | en | Saturday, April 22, 2017
As part of the Newark Symphony Hall 'Arts on Stage' Series The Newark Greek Council presents
The New Jersey Step Show Classic
Doors Open at 6pm / Begins at 7pm
Advance Tickets $15
$20 at the Door
Over $3,000 in cash and prizes!
NOW ACCEPTING STEP TEAMS!
To sign up and for more information please e-mail the Newark Greek Council at [email protected].
As part of Newark Symphony Hall's 'Arts on Stage' series Thee Newark Greek Council in association with Greek Shenanigans presents The New Jersey Step Show Classic & Stroll Competition hosted by Travque with music by DJ MPURE. The evening will feature sororities and fraternities from universities throughout the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Step Show Classic & Stroll Competition is sponsored by Greater Newark Convention Center.
'Arts on Stage' is a monthly event series that takes place in Newark Stage, that showcases original productions by thriving local artists. The 'Arts on Stage' series is sponsored by Newark Celebration 350. Tickets for the Arts on Stage series events can be purchased at the Newark Symphony Hall Box Office or by calling 973-643-8014 during regular hours of operation. | artistic |
https://www.yana-online.com/collections/floor-standing/products/pl500-ii | 2020-09-25T19:32:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228707.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925182046-20200925212046-00789.warc.gz | 0.884236 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__128468278 | en | Measured against its peers, there is no finer audio ambassador than the majestic PL500 II. Here you’ll discover the essence of Platinum II engineering: silken layers of the finest high frequency definition suspended on an explicit midrange, seamlessly underpinned by a deep, clean and responsive bass foundation. More than ever the sound has a physical authority, conveying the ‘live’ character of instruments, voices and atmospheres as if they had materialised three-dimensionally in the air around you. This is fidelity in the raw, magnificent in stature, seductive for its rhythmic subtlety and utterly captivating in the sheer magnitude of its dynamic impact. Our most sophisticated system of no fewer than four 8” RDT®II bass drivers, twin 4” RDT II midrange transducers and MPD tweeter will render the entire harmonic sweep of every work with pin sharp timing and accuracy. Your music and film sound alive, immersive and uncompromised.
- 4 x 8" RDT®II long throw bass drivers
- 2 x 4" RDT II mid-range drivers
- MPD (Micro Pleated Diaphragm) high frequency transducer designed specifically for Platinum II
- 4 x HiVe®II ports
- New patented 'DCF' (Dynamic Coupling Filter) mechanism for more natural sound
- Bespoke speaker terminals and footings
- Underhung, edge-wound voice coils: greater driver efficiency and lifelike dynamics, less distortion
- Bolt through drivers: clearer sound and cleaner aesthetics
- Anti-Resonance Composite (ARC) mid-range housings and baffle components: reduced cabinet vibration, purer sound quality
- TLE (Tapered Line Enclosure) sealed internal enclosure for mid-range drivers: greater sound accuracy and reduced cabinet vibration
- Hand-upholstered front baffle: the very highest quality Inglestone leather supplied by Andrew Muirhead
- Individual driver grilles
- Finish options: Santos Rosewood or Ebony natural wood veneers with clear gloss piano lacquer, or Piano black gloss lacquer
- Flagship 3-way, 7 driver floor-standing loudspeaker featuring four 8” RDT®II long-throw bass drivers, dual 4” RDT®II TLE-loaded midrange drivers in an M-T-M configuration with an MPD high frequency air motion ribbon transducer. 4 x HiVe®II High Velocity reflex ports, ARC® mid-range driver housings and baffle components, ‘DCF’ mechanism for more natural sound. Rhodium plated, solid copper bespoke terminals. Hand-upholstered front baffle with Inglestone leather and individual driver grilles.
- Dimensions (including plinth & feet): 72 3/4” x 19 13/16” x 24 5/8” (H x W x D) | artistic |
https://www.wapcar.my/news/mercedesamg-responds-to-audis-four-rings-challenge-1851 | 2021-04-20T04:38:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039375537.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420025739-20210420055739-00590.warc.gz | 0.967697 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__267645176 | en | In this challenging time due the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturers have helped in several ways like producing medical equipment, spreading precaution messages, and now they are also trying to help lighten the mood.
Car manufacturers have always been rather cheeky in their social media posts, be it rivalry or just having fun. This time, it began with Audi posting the “Four Rings Challenge” and as its name suggests, it is creative ways to basically create the Audi logo with 4 four rings.
As shown in the video, it can be as simple as drawing four circles with a crayon or aligning four hats together. By the end of the video, followers were asked to join the challenge.
Mercedes-AMG obliged and posted a video of a C63 Cabriolet making donuts, creating circle skid marks and ultimately creating the iconic four rings Audi logo.
The video was captioned, “As we're all united in the same passion, here we go with our creative contribution. Audi, we hope you like the result and show us how your handwriting looks like.”
We, too, would like to see how Audi responds. Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humour? | artistic |
https://goodnessofgodministries.international/2021/09/03/the-power-of-music-for-good-or-evil/ | 2023-09-23T16:46:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00618.warc.gz | 0.963129 | 18,999 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__41733921 | en | Music is an amazingly powerful medium to capture and transform the heart, and to push it toward good or evil. It can move the heart more quickly than any other form of art or communication on earth. Music can instantly create an emotion, a memory, a mood, or a passion. It can change the heart’s direction, focus, and purpose. It can alter behavior. It can heal or destroy the human heart. Music has the power to change an entire culture or even a nation.
In its purest form, music is a precious blessing from God, designed to uplift the thoughts to noble and godly themes, inspiring and elevating the heart. Music is also one of the major tools the Devil uses in spiritual warfare. It can turn us away from God, move us to sin, and emotionally sabotage us.
Cary Schmidt, in Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music, writes:
Music is not only an idol in today’s culture, it is an addiction, and is the primary tool that Satan uses to indoctrinate, control and manipulate the hearts and minds of the masses … No tool in his arsenal is so powerful, so seductive and so subtle as music … I submit to you that music is the most prominent, powerful and pervasive form of communication that satanic spirits are using to control and shape our mass culture. Everywhere you turn, the world is hearing. Everywhere you listen, the voices are speaking. And everywhere you look, music is shaping the emotions, the spirit, and the hearts of people.[i]
Music is Never Morally Neutral
As Christians, we cannot be ignorant of the effects of music on the heart. We must be aware of the music we are allowing to saturate our hearts. Music is never morally neutral. It always carries a message to the heart that is either good or evil.
What is the soundtrack of your life? What music is being played on the chords of your heart? What music is at the top of the charts when it comes to your heart? There is a direct connection between the music we listen to and the spiritual health of our hearts. Music always produces and influences a lifestyle. Life, thought, mood, emotion and desire flow out of the music we listen to.
Listen to what philosophers, scientists, doctors, professors, and musicians have said about the moral and spiritual power of music.
Plato: “In order to take the spiritual temperature of an individual or a society, one must mark the music … Musical innovation is full of danger to the State for when modes of music change, the laws of the State change with them. Music is a moral law … Let me control the music for one generation and I will control Rome … Show me who writes a nation’s songs and I care not who writes its laws … Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”
Aristotle: “Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young … From what has been said it is evident what an influence music has over the disposition of the mind and how variously it can fascinate it.”
Albert Einstein: “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music … I get most joy in life out of music.”
Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer: “Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.”
An inscription at the Alte Opera Haus in Frankfurt, Germany: “Bach gave us God’s Word. Mozart gave us God’s laughter. Beethoven gave us God’s fire. God gave us music that we might pray without words.”
Dr. Howard Hanson: “Music is a curiously subtle art with innumerable, varying emotional connotations. It is made up of many ingredients and according to the proportions of those components, it be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has the powers for evil as well as good.”[ii]
Alan P. Merriam: “There is probably no other human cultural activity which is so all-pervasive and reaches into, and shapes—and often controls—so much of human behavior.”[iii]
Dr. Adam Knieste: “Music is a two-edged sword. It’s really a powerful drug. Music can poison you, lift your spirits, or make you sick without knowing why.”[iv]
Jay Grout: “Music directly affects the passions or states of the soul—gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites … When one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion. If over a long time he habitually listens to the kind of music that arouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to that ignoble form. In short, if one listens to the wrong kind of music—he will become the wrong kind of person.”[v]
Songwriter E. Y. Harburg: “Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
Frank Zappa: “The loud sounds and bright lights are tremendous indoctrination tools; it is possible to modify the human chemical structure with the right combination of frequencies. If the right kind of beat makes you tap your foot, what kind of beat makes you curl your fist and strike?”
The Beatles: “Our music is capable of causing emotional instability, disorganized behavior, rebellion and even revolution.”
Drs. Daniel and Bernadette Skubik: “A driving drum rhythm in excess of three to four beats per second will put the brain into a state of stress, regardless if the listener likes or dislikes the music. And when the brain is in this stressful state, it will release opioids—a group of natural hormones that function like morphine—to help return itself to normal equilibrium and sense of well-being. These natural opioids, if experienced often enough, can be addicting, creating in the listener the continual desire for that ‘high’ somewhat like the high runners experience.”[vi]
The Power of Music to Alter Physical and Emotional States
Music is powerful enough to produce mental and physical effects in our bodies and our brains. Music can modify brain waves, slowing them down and creating a more relaxed, content, and peaceful feeling, or speeding them up, causing more agitation, anxiety, and nervousness. Norman M. Weinberger, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine: “Music can rapidly and powerfully set moods and do so in a way not as easily attained by other means.”[vii] Music not only creates positive or negative emotions, moods, or behaviors, but also can change them in an instant. Music can even affect the rhythm of respiration causing calmness and control of emotions or superficial and scattered thinking, emotional disturbance, and impulsive behavior.
Richard Wagner’s music was thought to be instrumental in the establishment of the Third Reich in Germany. Nietzsche once said, “My objections to Wagner’s music are physiological. I breathe with difficulty as soon as Wagner’s music begins to act upon me.[viii]” Wagner’s music had a strong psychological effect not only on Nietzsche, but also on Adolf Hitler. The power of music had a part in molding one of the most brutal, ruthless, and destructive dictators of all time. Never underestimate the power of music to influence, indoctrinate, and control the human heart.
Don Campbell, in The Mozart Effect, says:
The heart rate responds to musical variables such as frequency, tempo and volume and tends to speed up or slow down to match the rhythm of a sound. The faster the music, the faster the heart will beat; the slower the music, the slower the heart beats … As with breathing rates, a lower heartbeat creates less physical stress, calms the mind and helps the body to heal itself. Music is a natural pacemaker … Music can also change blood pressure … Excessive noise may raise blood pressure … Such noise may trigger the body’s fight or flight mechanism which causes adrenaline and norepinephrine, two strong hormones, to be released, speeding up the heart and straining the blood vessels.[ix]
Music also can change the body temperature, influence blood circulation, increase endorphin levels, and affect the body’s release of hormones. Music has a pulse, a life, and a flow of energy through its beat, tempo, tone, and rhythm that dramatically affects our spiritual hearts. Music is a spiritual medium where philosophies, emotions, ideas, and agendas are conveyed directly to the heart. All music has a message in both its words and its pitch, tone, and beat, and we must be wise as to who the messenger is in the music we are listening to.
The Involuntary Response to Music: Emotion by Design
One of the most amazing things about music is its ability to affect us subliminally. Rather than intruding on our conscious thought, it enters directly into our hearts. The human response to music is involuntary. One of the greatest examples involves the company Muzak, which began in the 1940s, and provides background music for all types of businesses. Cary Schmidt, in Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music, writes:
No group on the planet has studied the power of music more than the researchers at Muzak. An article from The New Yorker magazine in April 2006 quotes, “Today, [Muzak] estimates that its daily audience is roughly a hundred million people, in more than a dozen countries, and that it supplies 60% of the commercial background music in the United States.” Muzak offers a service known as “audio architecture” to more than 350 corporations around the globe. Audio architecture is essentially the power of public influence and control—through music … Chances are, if you have been anywhere in public in recent days, you’ve been subject to Muzak’s influence without even knowing it. This is a company that owes its success to the manipulative power of music in mass culture. Muzak simply could not exist if music did not affect the attitudes and behavior of people. The New Yorkerarticle says in this story, “In the forties, Muzak introduced a trademarked concept, called Stimulus Progression, which held that most workers would be more productive if they were exposed to music gradually increasing intensity, in fifteen minute cycles. The process was said to be subliminal: Music affected you the way hypnosis did, whether you wanted it to or not. Only sanitized instrumental arrangements were used, because the absence of lyrics made the music less likely to intrude upon conscious thought … Audio architecture is a compelling concept because the human response to musical accompaniment is powerful and involuntary. “Our biggest competitor,” a member of Muzak’s marketing department told me, “is silence.” Did you catch that? “The human response to musical accompaniment is powerful and involuntary.” Are you getting the message? Are you understanding how powerful and dominant music is in our culture? Look at Muzak’s own promotional words, “Audio Architecture is emotionby design … It is the integration of music, voice and sound to create experiences that link customers with companies.” Its power lies in its subtlety. It bypasses the resistance of the mind and targets the receptiveness of the heart … These soundtracks bypass our intellectual resistance and create involuntary, heart-level emotions and responses.[x]
That is powerful! Consider this. If Muzak can do this with music, what can Satan do with music? More important, what is Satan doing with music, and what is the music of the culture doing to our hearts? If music is important for mass marketing, how much more powerful is it in the spiritual realm and in our relationship with Christ?
Can you imagine something so powerful that it can generate an emotional and behavioral response in your heart that you have no control over? Depression, anger, lust, and hatred can ride into your heart by the music you listen to as well as joy, peace, love, and inspiration. For the Devil to establish a stronghold in your mind and heart, it takes time to build ways of thinking and acting according to his subtle influences. But music can give him a free ride into your mind and your heart within a matter of seconds. Music is that powerful, and it can quickly change the composition, direction, and boundaries of the heart.
Music is emotion, music is passion, music is behavior by design, and it can subtly change our hearts without us even knowing it. It can be like a toxic vaccine that is injected into the bloodstream. We don’t see its dangerous effect on the heart until it begins to circulate throughout the entire body. Music can be a dangerous weapon to our hearts, and wisdom mandates that we are wise as to its powerful effects to influence our emotions, behavior, and lifestyle.
Music in the Spiritual Battle for the Heart
Music is intimately related to the spiritual battle that rages for the heart, because the music you listen to, the soundtrack of your life, can change you and dictate your emotions, your behavior, and your heart’s responses to circumstances in life. Music can create an emotion. Music can create an attitude. Music can create a desire. The music you listen to will affect your heart and your basic personal and spiritual mind-set, either drawing you closer to God or driving you further away. Every song is a sermon for either good or evil.
Cary Schmidt, in Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music, writes:
The choices you make when you turn on a CD or an iPod are intricately related to your inner life. You will either be led by the flesh or by the Spirit of God. Your music is changing you. It is dictating emotions and heart responses that are either godly or ungodly … Ultimately your spiritual and emotional condition, as influenced by your music, will come out in your lifestyle. Your words, your deeds, your decisions, and your actions—the issues of your life—will be a product of your heart and what you’ve placed into it. Your music directly affects your heart. Both God and Muzak agree on this … The soundtrack of your life is closely related to the spiritual condition of your heart. You cannot separate the two. God’s Word is clear. Basic reasoning is clear. Medical and social statistics are clear. Our music always affects us personally and spiritually. God desires to grow you through music and Satan desires to destroy you through it.[xi]
Music in the Bible
In 1 Samuel 16, we see a vivid example of the effect of music on the heart. King Saul was having significant issues with envy, pride, anger, and bitterness. The Spirit of God departed from him and an evil spirit started tormenting him. When David played his harp, the music refreshed Saul’s heart and the evil spirit departed from him. The music of David facilitated the departure of evil from the heart of Saul. The right music is powerful enough to drive away demons and negative spiritual influences from the heart.
In 2 Kings 3, the prophet Elisha commanded the kings of Israel and Judah to bring him a harpist. While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha and he received a word from the Lord. Music can calm the heart and make it more receptive to hearing the voice of the Lord. Music can bring our thoughts, emotions, and desires into the presence of the Lord, where the life and words of God can flow into our hearts.
In Exodus 32, music caused an increase in evil in the hearts of the children of Israel, plunging them into idolatry. Moses and Joshua went to Mount Sinai to commune with God and receive His instructions and laws. Aaron remained at the camp with the children of Israel. When they grew tired of waiting for Moses, they pressured Aaron into making an idol in the form of a golden calf. They had a wild revelry of pagan worship as they sacrificed and bowed down to this idol. They sang and danced in this celebration, and the music sounded like the “noise of war” (Exodus 32:17).
In this instance, music caused them to forget the awesome things God had just done for them in their deliverance from Egypt. It opened the door of their hearts to the Enemy, driving their emotions, passions, and behavior. The words of the children’s song ring true to the health of the heart: “O be careful, little ears, what you hear.”
Music is a vital part of heaven and the throne of God. It has been part of the worship and praise of God since the beginning. Lucifer was created as a beautiful and wise archangel, an anointed cherub, and music was an integral part of his being.
Thou [Lucifer] hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: Thou wast on the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:13–14, KJV)
Cherubim are the highest-ranking angels in God’s kingdom and are the most powerful, beautiful, and wise spirit beings God has ever created. Cherubim only do what God beckons, and they are to never turn away from it (Ezekiel 1:9,12; Ezekiel 10:11). The voice of the Almighty is always right above their heads, and they move swiftly, like lightening, to obey His commands (Ezekiel 1:14, 24-26). The fire of God burns brightly in the center of their beings, like coals of fire, and the glory of God rests upon them (Ezekiel 1:4, 13, 27-28; Ezekiel 11:22-23).
These spirit beings were the guardians and ministers of God’s throne, as Psalm 99:1 declares that God is “enthroned above the cherubim.” Revelation 4:6 also says these cherubim have special access to God’s heavenly throne. Revelation 7:11 says the cherubim fall down in humility on their faces before the throne of God and worship Him daily, saying, “Blessing and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power be unto our God for ever and ever.” Cherubim praised and worshipped God constantly, giving great honor to the holiness and majesty of God Almighty.
The cherubim are fiercely devoted to God, and their entire purpose is to serve God with undivided loyalty. C. H. Spurgeon called them “the flaming ones who gaze upon His glory.[xii]” The dazzling light of the Lord’s presence rose from within the cherubim as they lived and ministered in the very glory and presence of God. These living spirit beings never ceased to cry out, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8). Words fail miserably in describing the magnificence of these cherubim that ministered daily before the throne of God.
The tabernacle and the temple were full of images of cherubim, the most significant being on the mercy seat that was the covering for the Ark of the Covenant, where the presence and glory of God was revealed. The cherubim images had their wings spread over the Ark, symbolically guarding its holy contents and the glory of God that surrounded it.
Lucifer: The Divine Musician
Lucifer, the highest ranking of the cherubim, was the guardian of the throne of God and His glory and holiness. In Ezekiel 28:14, God called him the “anointed cherub that covers,” illustrating the supreme responsibility Lucifer held in the kingdom of God. This is the only time the word translated anointed is used in the entire Bible, and in the Hebrew it carries the meaning of expansion. It could be translated as “the expanded anointing or the anointing of expansion.” This super-anointing on Lucifer enabled him to carry out his holy duties and assignments before God.
Patrick Fairbairn, in his exposition on Ezekiel, translates the name Lucifer as “the cherub consecrated to the Lord by the anointing oil.[xiii]” How special he must have been to the heart of God to give him such an extraordinary anointing. Lucifer was the mightiest supernatural being that He had ever created, and music was an essential part of this super-anointing of God.
The Hebrew word translated covers in Ezekiel 28:14 means to cover so as to secure and protect, to defend, to weave together, and to build a hedge. Lucifer was the great protector, and guardian of the throne of God. His music, praise, and worship were to surround the heavenly throne like a hedge. He was so close to the throne and to God’s presence as to be considered intertwined as one in purpose with God’s authority, power, and glory.
God created Lucifer with supernatural abilities and talents in music, to be used daily for the glory of God. Ezekiel 28:14 says that God set him in this position, which means he consecrated, ordained, and entrusted Lucifer as the super-anointed minister of music, praise, and worship.
We must examine some of the Hebrew words in this verse from Ezekiel to get a real sense of the Devil’s relationship with music. The Hebrew word translated workmanship means occupation, business, service, and ministry. It means the service or ministry that one is employed or sent to do in life. It describes the work of the artisan, the architect, the public servant, and the ordinary laborer. It is even used in Genesis to describe God’s work of divine creation (Genesis 2:2–3).
The Hebrew word translated prepared means to be firmly established, to be ordained, and to be fitted. The primary action of this verb is to cause to stand in an upright position. The word is used in Proverbs 3:19 of God “establishing” the heavens.
God created Lucifer with an occupation, a ministry, and a service in the kingdom of God, and it involved the skillful use of tabrets and pipes to make music that glorified God in the worship of Him at His throne. God firmly established Lucifer as a chief musician and ordained Him in this ministry of music. Music was the focal part of his occupation.
Tabrets and pipes are musical instruments that were created in the very being of Lucifer. Ezekiel says the tabrets and pipes were prepared, established, and ordained in him from the very day Lucifer was created. These percussion and wind instruments were a part of him just as our arms, legs, or fingers are a part of us. He was a living musical instrument. Lucifer was fitted and framed by God to have music as an essential part of who he was and what he was appointed by God to do. Music was his domain, and this was to be his ministry forever before the throne of the Almighty.
Ezekiel says Lucifer was perfect in all his ways before he sinned. The word translated as “perfect” means whole, complete, healthful, wholesome, sound, perfect, free from blemish and undefiled. It means to be perfectly in harmony and accord with the truth, and it could be summed up in the words “to speak and sound out the truth.” Lucifer’s music was absolutely perfect and complete, without any spot or blemish of imperfection. It was a literal sounding out of the truth of God’s awesome characteristics and glory, and it promoted wholeness and peace and righteousness. His music was like a healing balm throughout the halls of heaven. His music was the living Word put to sound that was glorious perfection in every note, arrangement, pitch, and beat. He was the heavenly composer, whose music elevated the heart toward God and filled it with praise, joy, and thankfulness in a great crescendo of exuberance and awe before the throne of God. All the perfection of musical composition and performance was created in Lucifer. He was the maestro of music in the entire heavenly realm.
In the biblical culture, a tabret was a thin wooden rim in the shape of a circle, covered with a membrane, usually with brass bells or rattles attached. It was basically a tambourine, and it was used in dance. The Hebrew word for “tabret” emphasizes beating or striking to produce a sound. The seventeen usages of this word in the Bible show that it was meant to be an instrument of joy and celebration.
The tabret was used in the praise and worship of God. It was also used to celebrate the joy of victory in battle against Israel’s enemies. The prophets and prophetesses also played the tabret, such as Miriam did after the children of Israel passed through the Red Sea (Exodus 15:21-22).
The following verses in Psalms show the tabret being used in the praise of God.
Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel [same Hebrew word for tabret] and harp. (Psalm 149:1–3, KJV)
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 150:1–6, KJV)
The tabret accompanied songs of rejoicing, praising God for His mighty acts and breathtaking greatness. God’s intention for a musical instrument like a tabret is that it would be an extension of the heart, and its music was to reflect a heart that totally belonged to God and was overflowing with praise, adoration, and love for Him. The music and song that flowed from the musical instrument was an outward expression of the inward reality of a heart completely devoted to God. Music was to be an expression of the spiritual temperature of the heart that is on fire for God. Music was to convey the beautiful joy of knowing Him and the gratitude of being the object of His affection. Our hearts were made to sing His song.
The Hebrew word translated pipes refers to the grooves or holes of the instruments. It comes from a root word meaning to bore through. This Hebrew word for pipes in Ezekiel 28:13 only appears once in the Bible, which emphasizes the uniqueness of this wind instrument that was created in the very being of Lucifer. His musical abilities were in such perfection that they were far above human comprehension.
Like the tabrets, pipes were used to express great joy and celebration. In the Bible, pipes were played in celebration of the crowning of a new king. They were also played by the prophets before they prophesied and celebrated a word from the Lord. They accompanied a celebration by dance. They were played at marriage feasts and in mourning at funerals, as we see in Matthew 9. Pipes were used in the worship and praise of God as people rejoiced with songs of gladness about the Lord and His salvation.
Flutes were played in the temple on twelve special festivities, including Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. The pipe, as with all other musical instruments, was intended to be used as an expression of a heart full of love and gratitude for its Creator.
Psalm 5 has the title “For the director of music: For flutes. A Psalm of David.” This psalm was meant to be a song of praise with a flute accompaniment. According to E. W. Bullinger in The Chief Musician, or Studies in the Psalms and their Titles, this subscription belongs at the end of Psalm 4 rather than at the beginning of Psalm 5.[xiv] Psalm 4 speaks strongly against turning God’s glory into shame and following false gods. It instructs us to not sin out of anger, but to search our hearts and be silent and offer right sacrifices to God, trusting only in Him.
Lucifer turned God’s glory into shame when he rebelled against God in heaven. In intense anger and hatred toward God, he sinned and failed to offer right sacrifices to Him. Lucifer did not search his heart to find the pride that turned his trust toward himself rather than God.
God used a wind instrument—which, like the tabret, was created in Lucifer—to accompany a psalm about the futility of worshipping any god other than the Lord. He used the flute to touch this psalm with music that encourages His children not to make the same mistake Lucifer made, which led to his tragic downfall.
Read this beautiful psalm and imagine a flute accompaniment that brings these words to life.
Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.
How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? Selah[xv]
In your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Selah
Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord will hear when I call to him. Offer right sacrifices and trust in the Lord.
Many are asking, “Who can show us any good?” Let the light of your face shine upon us, O Lord.
You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound.
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. (Psalm 4:1–8, NIV)
This psalm is an ode of joy from David to the Lord for being his righteous, merciful, and loving God. It beautifully declares that true joy, peace, and goodness come only from the Lord. The flute helps to drive these words home to the heart.
Isaiah links one other musical instrument to Lucifer:
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you. How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14:11–12, NKJV)
Isaiah says “the sound of your string instruments” when referring to Lucifer. This phrase illustrates an extraordinary mastery of stringed instruments by Lucifer and the use of them to accomplish his wicked purposes. They must have been quite valuable to Lucifer for him to declare them as his own.
The Word of God does not say whether these stringed instruments were created in Lucifer, but it does say that he used them with “pomp.” The Hebrew word translated pomp means pride, arrogance, splendor, majesty and ornament. Music is the Devil’s original domain, and he uses music as an ornament for all to admire in order to bring glory to himself.
The Hebrew words for “stringed instruments” are translated as psaltery, lyre, and harp in various places in the Bible. The phrase refers to musical instruments in the harp family.
A portable harp was a popular instrument in the Hebrew culture. It had wonderful capacities in pitch and tone, and was believed to have ten to twelve strings. The strings were drawn over a sounding board, so this harp was like a primitive guitar. The strings were stretched over a skin soundboard, giving the lyre or harp an exotic timbre and considerable volume.
As this musical instrument advanced, its strings were stretched in high tension over woods like fir and algum. It was capable of producing loud music, as indicated in 1 Chronicles 15:26, where it was heard even among the rams’ horns, trumpets, and cymbals. It was also capable of producing musical solos.
Psalm 119:54 says, “Thy statutes have been my zemirot [songs accompanied by plucked stringed instruments],” illustrating that all Hebrew Scripture could be accompanied by this wonderful instrument. It was designed to beautifully set the Word of God to sound.
In Revelation 5:8, we read that every cherubim and every one of the twenty-four elders had a harp that they used in singing a song about the great redemption accomplished by Jesus Christ.
Corruption of Music
The Devil did not lose any of his musical abilities and talents when he rebelled against God. They just became corrupted. And now he uses his musical abilities for his own wicked purposes.
Satan fully understands musical composition, as he was originally a living musical instrument, and he still carries music as an integral part of his spiritual being. He knows how to compose and inspire music that will seduce the human heart away from God. He inspires the writing of music and lyrics that disturb, agitate, or drive the heart with passions, emotions, and thoughts that lead it into his captive snare. The Devil uses a variety of instruments to construct a sound that can fundamentally change the direction and content of the heart. The Enemy understands music better than any human who ever lived on the earth, and he hates God. That is a dangerous combination.
In Isaiah 14, the Word of God declares that Lucifer weakened the nations, caused the earth to tremble, made the world a wilderness, shook kingdoms, and turned the world into a prison house. Although the Devil has many wicked schemes and methods in accomplishing these things, music is one of the ways he has weakened nations and made the world a prison house of captivity. Music is a supernatural weapon of mass destruction in the hands of Satan.
The Hebrew word translated weaken in Isaiah 14:12 means to waste away, to overthrow, to decay, or to disable. The Devil has used music to bring nations to their knees, causing their moral and spiritual foundations to decay and waste away. Music can change the moral and cultural climate of a nation, overthrowing its stability in the hearts and minds of its people, and weakening its strength as a nation. Music can crumble the pillars of a civilization and arouse in its citizens the worst passions of its fleshly sin nature.
The Hebrew word translated tremble in Isaiah 14:16 means to quiver with violent emotion, especially anger or fear. The Devil uses music to disquiet, agitate, and enrage the heart, causing it to quiver with violent emotions, like anger and fear. Music moves the heart like no other sound on earth, and Lucifer knows exactly how to use it to move the heart away from God. It is amazing how one song can move the heart to depression, discord, and agitation. Music can truly make the inhabitants of the earth tremble in great disturbance of heart.
The Hebrew word translated shake in Isaiah 14:16 describes a confused noise, a rattling, an uproar, or a crashing. One form of this word means “noisemaker.” The Devil uses the vibration of music, turning it into a confused noise that shakes the very core of the heart. Music can cause an uproar, shaking the hearts of a nation’s people with confusion and disorientation, causing them to disconnect from God and wander away from Him. The Devil distorts the beauty of music, which God intended to fill the heart with joy, into something that rattles it with disorder.
The Devil would “not let his captives go home,” according to Isaiah 14:17. Satan does everything he can to stop a person from going home to God, where He awaits with open arms.
Christians can experience wonderful deliverance at the cross of Christ, and then allow a careless choice of music to draw them back into their old ways and lifestyles, becoming enslaved again. Music can cause the heart to become a prisoner of war in Satan’s kingdom.
Lyrics: Conveying the Message
Lyrics are a powerful medium to convey a message. Yet many people don’t pay much attention to them. The message in a song is rarely checked at the entrance to the heart. Instead, we allow the words and sounds to flow in freely. Many song lyrics promote the works of the flesh and encourage self-mutilation, suicide, lust, greed, sexual perversion, and rebellion.
Some musicians are blatant about the source of their inspiration and the purpose of their songs. They consider music to be a form of advertising, a clarion call to entice the heart and mind into ways of thinking, speaking, and acting that are not from God Almighty.
Take a moment to reflect on the lyrics in the music you listen to. Does it promote the fruit of the Spirit of God or the fruit of the flesh? A spirit of holiness or of corruption? Does it encourage obedience to God and His Word or rebellion? When you listen to it, do you feel peace or anxiety, agitation, and fear? Does your favorite music build the love of God in your heart, or the love of the world?
Music as Idolatry
Music can establish a law, creed, or lifestyle in your heart that you follow with passion, not even realizing that the prince of the power of the air is the composer of the song that is molding your heart. Music can build a nest in your mind that allows Satan to take up residence there as he gradually deadens your conscience to righteousness and holiness.
Music can be a powerful idol builder. It can drive the heart to worship love, sex, money, self, and power while leaving God out of the picture. The Devil was the first idolater, and he uses music to get people to worship anything but the one true God.
The book of Revelation states that music is an important part of the world system of evil referred to as “Babylon the great.” In the coming judgments, God will stop this music.
Then I saw another angel descending from heaven, possessing great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his radiance and splendor. And he shouted with a mighty voice, She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become a resort and dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every loathsome spirit, an abode for every filthy and detestable bird.
For all nations have drunk the wine of her passionate unchastity, and the rulers and leaders of the earth have joined with her in committing fornication [idolatry], and the businessmen of the earth have become rich with the wealth of her excessive luxury and wantonness.
I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues.
Then a single powerful angel took up a boulder like a great millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, With such violence shall Babylon the great city be hurled down to destruction and shall never again be found. And the sound of harpists and minstrels and flute players and trumpeters shall never again be heard in you, and no skilled artisan of any craft shall ever again be found in you, for your businessmen were the great and prominent men of the earth, and by your magic spells and poisonous charm all nations were led astray [seduced and deluded]. (Revelation 18:1–4, 21–23, AMP)
This great world system is infested with every type of demon spirit and loathsome angel of darkness that fed on all strata of society, including music. People from all nations had drunk of its wine, driving them into idolatry and rebellion against God. Many businesspeople, companies, and musicians have become rich off this music system fueled by the spirit of Babylon. These powerful icons have led the hearts of countless people astray with the poisonous and addictive charms of their music, which is pumped into every radio station and music store around the world.
One day God will say, “I have had enough,” and silence the music borne in the heart of the great rebel. This music will never be heard or played again for all eternity. The judgment of God will come to pass, as described in the book of Revelation 18:21-23, even on the music that has been an essential part of the world system of evil that God calls Babylon.
David Wilkerson, a wonderful preacher and man of God, pulled no punches on the dangers of becoming addicted to the music of this world. In a fiery sermon from the pulpit of the Times Square Church in New York City, he said:
I have been among young people so addicted to their rock and roll, so addicted to their heavy metal, and their punk music. I tell you as I stand here that an angel from God’s heaven could come down, in fact, Jesus Christ himself could come in the flesh and they would know he was Jesus and he could preach to them and they still would not let go of their music. I have had them stand up against me and say “I don’t care what you say, God told me it was alright.”[xvi]
David Wilkerson also described a disturbing vision that God gave him at a Christian rock concert:
At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on stage. I said out loud, “This can’t be happening at a Christian festival-they can’t do this to my Jesus! These people can’t be this blind-the leaders of this youth ministry can be so undiscerning! Oh God-what has happened to your church that its leaders, its people, can’t see the evil …? I sat up and took another look at the stage. I was horrified by what I saw in the Spirit. I saw demonic images rising from the stage! I heard Satan laughing! Laughing at all the blind parents-the blind shepherds-the blind youth-the backslidden church! It was an overt manifestation of Satan-worse than anything I’ve ever seen on the streets of New York.[xvii]
Don’t be ignorant of this tool of the Devil in spiritual warfare, as music, inspired from the heart of Satan, can start a revolution in your heart against God.
What is the Soundtrack of Your Life?
If Jesus Christ came down from heaven and told you that your music was harming your heart and turning it away from Him, would you change your choices? Would the soundtrack of your life be any different under Jesus’ guidance?
Music is hugely addicting and through the wonders of technology, music is more readily available now than at any time in human history. In seconds, many musical choices can be downloaded and instantly start pulsating into the heart. The church must awaken to what is pouring into their hearts through habitual listening to the music of the god of this age.
Don’t be deceived into thinking this is just a harmless song on the radio or your iPod. Music is powerful, and it can influence the spiritual temperature of your heart for God. It can either promote or destroy the awesome plans that God has envisioned for your life.
Many Christians idolize the music of this world, and their hearts have become so addicted to it that they need to have it pulsating in their ears, like a heroin junkie who needs his fix. The Bible takes a backseat to their iPod tunes, and the Devil gets to proclaim his message into their hearts through the music ringing in their ears.
Music will change the composition of your heart if you are not careful. Once we become Christians, our listening habits should not be the same as they were before we were born again. Walk by the Spirit of God when it comes to the music you listen to and practice some spiritual discernment.
Ask God if the music you are listening to is bringing your heart closer to Him or driving it further away from Him. When you bring up a tune on your iPod, ask yourself, Will this song brings the joy, love, and celebration of God into my heart, or the fleshly desires of this world? We must guard our hearts when it comes to music, just as we would guard it from anything that contaminates and pollutes.
The Beautiful Design of Music for the Heart
Music originated from God, and it has a beautiful purpose: to minister healing, peace, and inspiration to His children. The human heart needs music to function in its optimal healthy condition. We are designed to crave music that inspires us to praise and worship God with an attitude of thankfulness. We were created to have a song in our hearts for God. Psalm 144:9 says, “I will sing a new song unto thee, O God.” Spurgeon said, “When the heart is in its right state, it must praise God, it cannot be restrained; its utterances leap forth as waters forcing their way from a living spring.”[xviii]
This is where music was born: in a heart that is overflowing with praise, joy, and awe of our magnificent God. Music is meant to stir the heart into action for God. Music is the refreshing drink of water that rejuvenates our passion for God to fight the good fight of faith and finish the course that God has set for our lives. Music plays a vital role in preparing the heart to worship God in spirit and in truth. Music fills the courts of heaven with praises of the Lord God Almighty. Music was created to be an expression of celebration and reverence of the wondrous works and nature of our God.
David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets. (1 Chronicles 13:8, NIV)
Hear this you kings! Listen you rulers! I will sing to the Lord, I will sing; I will make music to the Lord, God of Israel. (Judges 5:3, NIV)
Praise the Lord with the harp. Make music to him on the lyre that has ten strings. Sing a new song to him. Play with skill, and shout with joy.
What the Lord says is right and true. He is faithful in everything he does.
The Lord loves what is right and fair. The earth is full of his faithful love. The heavens were made when the Lord commanded it to happen. All of the stars were created by the breath of his mouth.
He gathers the waters of the sea together. He puts the oceans in their places. Let the whole earth have respect for the Lord. Let all of the people in the world honor him. (Psalm 33:2-8, NIRV)
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. (Psalm 95:1–3, NIV)
God is so awesome and magnificent that the heart yearns for a way to express and proclaim His glory. Music is meant to be an outward expression of the awe-inspiring magnificence of our God. Music that blesses, inspires, and heals comes from hearts bubbling over with joy, love, and passion for their Creator. Music was intended to draw people closer to God and to place their hearts on the same pitch as God. True music is the song of a heart in love with God. Music is meant to ignite the heart with the presence of God and infuse it with the joys of His kingdom.
Revelation 4:11 says that God created all things for His pleasure, and this includes music. The beauty and splendor of music were birthed from the heart of God. God also made the human voice to praise Him. He created the musical scale, with its potential for amazing harmonies and melodies, to express the wonders of His artistic heart.
Dennis McCorkle, in The David Cipher: Unlocking the Hidden Music of the Psalms, says:
From the early chapters of Genesis through the pages of the entire Bible, music has played an integral role in the history of the Hebrew people. Not only defining and solidifying their own culture, religious beliefs, and practices; the music of the Hebrew people and the Bible have shaped the music of our day in the works that have been passed on from generation to generation since the time they were written.[xix]
The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary says:
Expression of the full range of human emotions vocally or instrumentally through music was as much a part of the lives of biblical people as it is in modern times … Indeed all of life could be touched by song. The celebrations of a community, ritual practices of worship, even the act of warfare gave rise to song.[xx]
Some of the great men of the Bible were musicians and composers.
Moses the Songwriter
Moses was a wonderful songwriter in the Bible and we see his first song in Exodus 15 after the miraculous deliverance of the children of Israel from the Egyptian army. In Deuteronomy 32 we see another song of Moses written shortly before his death. In Revelation 15, the song of Moses is sung in heaven.
Dennis McCorkle, in The David Cipher: Unlocking the Hidden Music of the Psalms, writes:
Moses and the people eventually arrive at the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) in advance of the pursuing army and are miraculously provided an escape route through the waters. Safely reaching the far side, they witness the destruction of Pharaoh and his troops in the water. It is now we get our first glimpse of Moses, the songwriter. Now most people do not generally associate Moses with the field of music, but he was evidently well-versed in this art. We know from the biblical texts that Moses, raised apart from the general population of Israel in the house of Pharaoh during his youth, had learned to not only read and write, but as demonstrated in his later years, to read and write music.[xxi]
Yahweh is My Melody
McCorkle says that this first song of Moses has a fundamental statement of truth in its first lines that becomes the foundation of the music compositions of Israel and is echoed in the musical system of the Levites, the psalms, and the prophet Isaiah. This beautiful lyric is, “Yah [abbreviation for Yahweh-God] is my melody!” What an awesome truth that God is our melody, and that God is our song! This is the true heart of music. When music has “God is my melody” at its center, it will have a profound spiritual impact upon the heart.
God fills our hearts with melody and makes them overflow with joy. This is the love song of all love songs, as Psalms 89:1 declares, “I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever.” When our love for God is the motive for the song of our hearts, music will be an incredible healing balm to our souls because it is birthed in love and praise.
Colossians 3:16 says that our hearts should be “singing with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in our hearts for God.” Our hearts should not be singing the latest “top 40” songs on the charts, but rather a love song of thankfulness to our God. When the word of Christ dwells richly in our hearts, we cannot help but sing this song of love, for God is our melody.
Make Music in Your Heart for the Ears of God
Ephesians, one of the greatest revelations to the church, states that music and song is an important part of fellowship with God, with one another, and in the church of Jesus Christ.
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:19, NASB)
Express your joy in singing among yourselves psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making music in your hearts for the ears of God. (Ephesians 5:19, PHILLIPS)
Christians who walk by the Spirit of God will express their joy in song and melody to the Lord. We are to make music in our hearts for the ears of God. This music comes from a Spirit-filled heart that overflows in love, adoration, and devotion to God.
We are also to sing along with others in the church, in concert with our joy and love for God. A symphony of praise with our brothers and sisters in Christ should be present wherever Christians fellowship together.
The Greek word translated psalm means a sacred song sung to the accompaniment of instrumental music. The Greek word translated hymn means a sacred poetical composition whose main purpose was to praise. A spiritual song is the natural outburst of a joyous heart prompted by the indwelling Spirit of God.
God loves it when a heart is full of music for Him and sings His praises. This type of music brings us back to the light of God’s presence and focuses our attention on the wonders of God. Exuberant joy and thankfulness overflow from music dedicated to God.
All Music Originates in the Heart
All music originates in the heart, and the content of the heart determines the content of the music. The musician’s music is a reflection of his or her heart. What is in the heart will come out in the music. When the heart is devoted to God and full of love and praise for Him, the music composed will be a melody pleasing to God and a song that glorifies Him. When the heart is not devoted to God, but full of selfishness, lust, greed, and other forms of darkness, the music composed will be a song that pulls the heart away from God to idolatry.
In Exodus 15 we see the heart of Moses, the musician, in his song for God. As you read this passage, imagine Moses and all of Israel lifting up their voices and singing this magnificent song of victory. It has been estimated that as many as three million Israelites came out of Egypt in this Exodus. How awe-inspiring it must have sounded to hear the melody of God sung by millions of people!
David the Musician and Songwriter
David was a wonderfully skilled musician and songwriter. He was also an inventor of musical instruments (1 Chronicles 23:5, 2 Chronicles 7:6, Amos 6:5). He helped to reestablish the functions of the Levites in regards to music in the tabernacle and also selected singers and musicians from the non-priest Levites to participate in worship services of song and music to God. At the heart of their music was the wonderful book of Psalms.
Psalms is the hymn book of the Bible. These compositions were played and sung by the Levites in conjunction with the formal rituals of the tabernacle and later the temple. The Psalms are a compilation of 150 songs written by composers who were moved by the Holy Spirit over a period of about five hundred years. The Hebrew word translated psalm means “praises,” and it comes from the root word meaning “to make a jubilant sound.” This word included all that is worthy of praise and celebration, especially the works and ways of Yahweh. Most of the psalms were composed for public worship in Israel and praised the ways and works of God. These were songs of God, breathed into the heart of a musician to give the listener inspiration, comfort, and guidance. The book of Psalms contains some of the most beautiful passages in the Bible. The lyrics express joy, grief, wonder, faith, love, and suffering in poetic song to our amazing God.
David is believed to have written as many as forty-seven of the psalms, and they set forth the heart of this man who loved God passionately. They describe the trials and joys of walking in intimacy with his Creator. The Bible calls David a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22), so his music must have been especially important to God.
Here is one of the magnificent psalms written by David:
My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered. (Psalm 108:1–6, NIV)
David’s heart was established and steadfast in God, and from this firm foundation he sang, composed music, and played instruments with every ounce of his soul. He played musical instruments, praising God for His love and faithfulness. His music exalted God.
David’s music taught people to trust God for help and deliverance. It elevated the listener’s heart to worship God. His sacred songs filled hearts with the glory and majesty of God Almighty. David had a heart full of music that filled the earth and the heavens with awesome lyrics. As with Moses, God was David’s melody and his song.
Music Igniting the Flame of God in the Heart
This is the beauty of music at its highest level and for its most noble purpose. The Spirit of God moved mightily in David’s music to lift, inspire, and ignite the flame of God in the hearts of His people. This is truly music as it was supposed to be—a divine healing balm, a divine joyous celebration, a divine song of thankfulness that rockets the heart into the presence of God and establishes it in His love. The energy, power, and glory of God flows like a rushing river into the hearts of those whose ears are tuned to the music of the musician who walks with God and is moved by the Spirit of God.
Playing the Name of God with Music
In the psalms, musicians not only sang about the name of God, some actually played the name of God.
I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will play your Name, Most High. (Psalm 9:2, KJV)
I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High. (Psalm 7:17, WEB)
I will play your Name forever, that I may fulfill my vows day after day. (Psalm 61:8, KJV)
Sing to God, play His Name. Raise Him up who rides upon the desert plains by YAH, his name, and be joyful before Him. (Psalm 68:4, KJV)
Dennis McCorkle, in The Davidic Cipher: Unlocking the Hidden Music of The Psalms, explains what it means to play the name of God:
To a non-musician, the above interpretation of these verses might seem strange and you are probably asking yourself, “How can you play someone’s name?” If you are trained classically in music, you may however be familiar with the Italian phrase soggettocavato … In a musical sense, the phrase soggettocavato refers to a type of compositional device in which the letters of a word or name are mapped to specific tones of a musical alphabet or scale … For example, during the Renaissance it was common for composers to honor their patrons and rules with compositions using names as the source for the themes and melodies … King David, who was directly associated with four of the five instances in which this technique is alluded to in the Scriptures, was apparently familiar with this type of compositional device … This compositional device literally enabled the Levite musicians and singers to not only sing the Name of God, but also to play the Name of God as the Scriptures state … The Names YAH and YHWH were directly integrated in the music that was written and the instruments that were played.[xxii]
David loved God so much, and was so in wonder of His magnificent works and covenant with His people, that he designed his music to contain the name of God in both musical lyrics and notes. This music was like a sweet song in the ears of God, as every note and every word glorified Him. It was a musical masterpiece, an exquisite symphony of song that brought the listener’s heart to the throne of God Almighty, where it would ascend to joyous celebration.
The Levites as Musicians
David taught the Levites the essence of this music of worship. 1 Chronicles 23:4 declares that four thousand Levites were designated to praise the Lord with instruments that David gave them for giving praise. In 1 Chronicles 15, when the ark of the covenant was brought to Jerusalem to be placed in the tabernacle, David assembled a ceremonial marching band of Levites playing harps, cymbals, lyres, trumpets, and horns. Skilled singers raised sounds of joy and praise to God. King David was leaping, dancing, and celebrating as he led this band of musicians into Jerusalem. What a breathtaking musical demonstration of love, joy, and celebration this must have been.
Once the ark had been set in Jerusalem, David appointed some of the Levites to minister in music and praise before the ark of the Lord.
He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to extol, thank, and praise the Lord, the God of Israel: Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals, and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
That day David first appointed Asaph and his associates to give praise to the Lord in this manner:
Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced.
He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations.
Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day.
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are his dwelling place.
Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations the Lord reigns.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.” (1 Chronicles 16:4–15, 23–29, 31, 34, 36, NIV)
What beautiful lyrics! We can worship God in the splendor of His holiness and ascribe to Him the glory, majesty, and greatness due His name. This inspiring music gave thanks to God in song for His goodness and unfailing love. Does the music you listen to glorify God with this type of awesome heart?
King David used his musical abilities to proclaim God’s name, to make Him known, and to tell all who would listen of the might, strength, and glory of the God of Israel. His music led people to seek the face of the Lord. What does the music you listen to lead people to do?
Music always leads the heart to seek something, and we must be vigilant to not allow the songs we listen to lead our hearts down a path that God has not ordained. Our music should encourage us to seek the Lord.
Biblical Kings and Music
The Bible is full of other examples of men of God who understood the importance of music in the worship of God and even in bringing great victory against the enemies of God. When King Solomon had the Ark of the Covenant brought to the temple at its dedication, he had the Levites play cymbals, harps, lyres and trumpets. Singers raised their voices to praise God with this magnificent musical accompaniment. The glory of the Lord filled the temple with a cloud after this musical display. (See 2 Chronicles 5:12–14.)
When a vast army of Moabites, Ammonites, and Meunites came against Jerusalem, King Jehoshaphat and all of Judah stood before the Lord and prayed. They received a word from the Lord to go out and face their enemies in battle, for the Lord was with them. Early in the morning, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and praise Him for the splendor of His holiness as they went out ahead of the army. As these men sang and praised the Lord, God set ambushes that caused this mighty army of the enemies of Judah to be utterly destroyed. When the Israelites returned to Jerusalem in victory, they went to the temple of the Lord with harps, lutes, and trumpets, praising God in music and song. (See 2 Chronicles 20:21–22, 28.)
In 2 Chronicles 29:25–28, we read that when King Hezekiah opened the doors of the temple and cleansed it from idolatry, one of the first things he did was reestablish music and song there. He furnished the Levites with cymbals, harps, lyres, trumpets, and all the instruments of David. As they began to sacrifice a burnt offering on the altar, they sang to the Lord, accompanied by music from all these wonderful instruments. The entire assembly bowed in worship while the singers sang and the trumpeters played.
King Hezekiah ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph, another psalmist. They sang these praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshipped. After this worship service of song and music, King Hezekiah declared that the people had dedicated themselves to the Lord and that they should bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the Lord. Music can often be the catalyst to a rededication of the heart to the Lord and a commitment to follow Him with thanksgiving and love.
After rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah immediately established the singers in the temple. At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites joyfully celebrated with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres. At the dedication, Nehemiah formed two large choirs to give thanks to God. They positioned themselves on top of the wall on opposite sides and were joined with the music of trumpets and all the instruments David had prescribed for the worship of God. Their joyous music and song could be heard from far away, as all Jerusalem rejoiced on this wonderful occasion in the history of Israel. (See Nehemiah 12:27–43)
The book of Nehemiah indicates in the time of David there were directors of music for the singers and songs of praise and thanks. All Israel contributed to the daily portions for the singers. (See Nehemiah 12:44–48) Nehemiah realized how important music was in the service of God in the temple and for the worship of God among the people.
Jesus Singing with His Disciples
After Jesus instituted communion as a memorial of His death, Matthew 26:30 says, “When they had sung a hymn, they went to the Mount of Olives.” Mark 14:26 states that Jesus sang this hymn along with His disciples right before He prayed in Gethsemane shortly before He was crucified. This was probably not the first time they had sung together, but this is the only time recorded in Scripture that our Lord sang. Jesus sang right before He gave His life on the cross and endured the most horrible torture and beating ever known to mankind.
This hymn is believed to be from the psalms called the “Great Hallel” or the “praise Psalms,” which were Psalms 113–118 and 136. I can only imagine how Jesus’ heart poured out to His heavenly Father in song before the most trying time of His life, realizing that He would bear the sins, sicknesses, sorrows, and punishment of the whole world. Knowing this road of rejection, persecution, and death was hours away, Jesus sang. How important this song was to the heart of our Savior! How the lyrics must have comforted and strengthened Him.
If music was so important to Jesus that He sang with His disciples on the evening He was taken to be crucified, how important should music be to us! A song can lift us into the presence of God and comfort our hearts even in life’s darkest hours. It can encourage us to follow God’s will and stand for Him even in the midst of the fiery darts that Satan is throwing at us. Our hearts should always be singing to God, because nothing in heaven or earth compares to Him.
Paul and Silas Singing in Prison
Paul and Silas were severely beaten for preaching the gospel and thrown into prison with their feet in stocks, but they sang praises to God in the midst of this seemingly hopeless situation. God moved with a great earthquake that shook the entire foundation of the prison and they were set free. The world longs for a song in the night when all seems lost, and only God can deliver this song to the depths of the heart.
Music in Church History
Throughout time, great men in church history have understood the profound effect of music on the heart and the importance of godly music in the life of a Christian.
Martin Luther: The Composer
Martin Luther, who is credited with igniting the flame of the Protestant Reformation, was a wonderful composer. He must have understood the importance of music to the Lord in the midst of relentless persecution.
Luther began singing at a young age as a soprano in the choir. He later studied music theory and composition, and learned to play flute and lute quite skillfully. He wrote thirty-seven songs. One of his greatest contributions was the return of music to the church.
For about a thousand years, congregations had not sung as music and melody to the Lord had died in the church. Some hymns were written during this period, but they were use only on special occasions outside of the church. Luther brought music back to the church and made the congregation an active participant in song.
One of his greatest hymns, which was one of my favorites growing up, is “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” The words and music are majestic and heavenly, and they never failed to motivate my heart to stand for God, no matter what the world might throw at me.
Don Cusic, in A Sound of Light: The History of Gospel Music, expounds on Luther’s heart for music:
Martin Luther had a legendary love for music. He was an accomplished lutenist and could improvise accompaniments for singing. He often played after dinner with his family and guests and composed songs for his children. Through his life, he carried his lute with him on his travels and entertained friends and guests after dinner with singing and playing. Music was not just a recreational tool for Luther—it was an integral part of his life and he found a source of strength and comfort in music.
He stated that we “should praise God with both word and music, namely by proclaiming (the Word of God) through music” and another time said “He who believes (the gospel) earnestly cannot be quiet about it. But he must gladly and willingly sing and speak about it so that others may come and hear it … Luther’s prophetic statement “I intend to make … spiritual songs so that the Word of God, even by means of song, may live among the people” became a guiding principal in his life …
Luther was well aware of the power of music and insisted that its proper use was “to the glorification of God and the edification of man.” He said, “We want the beautiful art of music to be properly used to serve her dear Creator and his Christians. He is thereby praised and honored and we are made better and stronger in faith when His holy Word is impressed on our hearts by sweet music.” Luther said of music, “Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.”[xxiii]
The power of Luther’s music, which came from a heart fully devoted to God, helped to fuel the Protestant Reformation and renew the beautiful worship of God and the lyrics of His mighty Word in the body of Christ.
Charles Wesley: The Inspired Man of Thousands of Hymns
Another revival in history was inspired by a man who was also a composer of music and song. During the Wesleyan Revival in the 18th Century, Charles Wesley wrote more than six thousand hymns, including some that became classics of the Christian church, like “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing,” “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” and “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”
A. W. Tozer: The Love of the Hymnal
Christian writer and preacher A. W. Tozer loved hymns and acquired an extensive collection of old hymnals. The Fellowship of the Burning Hearts states this about Tozer:
He longed for a “God-conscious soul”—a heart that is aflame for God. … He often used these hymnals as means for meditation and devotional reading. Often, he would counsel people to get a hymnbook—“but don’t get one less than a hundred years old.” In one the articles for the Alliance Weekly he wrote, “After the Bible, the next most valuable book for the Christian is a good hymnal.”[xxiv]
Music: Times of Refreshing from the Lord
Listening to music is not meant to replace a Christian’s time in studying and meditating on the Bible, or prayer and intimate fellowship with the heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus. This is always our first priority. However, to keep the heart spiritually tuned to the heartbeat of God, and continually renewed and refreshed, music can be of critical significance.
The soundtrack of the heart is a measuring stick to its overall health. We must never be careless about this vital truth, that music can be either a healing balm or a toxic poison to the life of the heart. Music can help us stay on the path that God has ordained for our lives, or quickly turn the heart to a path that leads to destruction. Music either pulls you into the heart of God or pulls you into the heart of the world. God is crying out to the church and to every Christian believer, “Do not be ignorant or fooled by music and think your listening choices are harmless to your walk and relationship with Me!”
Since the fall of Lucifer, music has been a major weapon in the battle for the heart. When we examine the condition of our hearts, we must ask ourselves this vital question: “Who is the great musician of my heart? Who is feeding my heart its song and melody?”
These great men in church history also illustrate that we must have a vibrant and joyful song in our heart for God. Whenever we remember God’s faithfulness, mercy, and love, a great song will come forth, praising Him for His goodness.
Music in Times of Trouble
Often our greatest songs of praise are borne in trials and temptations. Martin Luther was relentlessly persecuted and hunted for his faith in God and his belief in the Scriptures. David was hunted and hounded by King Saul and his army, who were trying to kill him at every turn. Hezekiah was attacked by hostile kingdoms at the outskirts of Jerusalem. Charles Wesley faced unbelievable persecution as he was threatened, mocked, hit, and violently opposed. Moses had to deal with a rebellious and idolatrous nation of murmurers and complainers who challenged his every move. Jesus faced the callous hearts of the religious elite, the betrayal of a disciple and a friend, the vicious beating of His body to the point where He could not even be recognized as a man, and the horrible death by crucifixion. Yet each of these men had songs in their hearts.
Many Christians today have lost the song in their hearts for God. They cry like the psalmist, “Oh, how could we ever sing God’s song in this wasteland?” (Psalm 137:4). When the heart is bitter and unforgiving, when the heart forgets God, when the heart becomes entangled with the things of this world, it loses its song. An unforeseen problem, a tragic circumstance, or a bewildering turn of events can cause Christians to question God and lose the song in their hearts for God.
In Exodus 15, the children of Israel sang the right song when they were delivered from the army of Egypt, but they sang it on the wrong side. They should have been singing this song even when they were in bondage in Egypt, not simply after a great miracle and deliverance from God. The song they sang was not really in their hearts, because just a few days later they were complaining against God and cursing Him for bringing them out of Egypt. The challenges of the wilderness took the song for God out of their hearts.
Our God will never fail us. He will deliver us from any foe. He is always faithful to His Word, and we are His children. Our God will never leave us or forsake us, and His strength is perfect in our weaknesses.
A Song in Our Hearts for God
What a song our hearts should have for God! We should always be singing and making melody to the Lord. Our hearts cannot remain silent. The song of our salvation and our love story with God should be filling our hearts with music every moment of every day.
Yes, indeed—God is my salvation. I trust, I won’t be afraid. God—yes God!—is my strength and song, best of all, my salvation! Sing praise-songs to God. He’s done it all! Let the whole earth know what he’s done! Raise the roof! Sing your hearts out … The Greatest lives among you. (Isaiah 12:2, 5–6, MSG)
Our song is never a song of anxiety, fear, or worry. The song of our hearts boldly declares that “God is.” He is everything we will ever need in this life, and He will come into any circumstance for us when we call on His name. God is our salvation. He is our strength, our defender, our provider, and our deliverer. The almighty God is our song. He is the greatest in heaven and earth, and He lives within us! We should be raising the roof with our praise-song to God.
When we begin to get a glimpse of how magnificent and glorious God is and that He cares about every detail of our lives, the song of God will rise in our hearts. We cannot keep silent about the wonder of our God and His amazing works. God is grieved when we rob Him of this song of love and praise. We lose our song when we do not completely surrender to Him, when we allow something else to be our first love, when we do not trust Him with our very lives. God cries when the song of our hearts goes silent.
Carter Conlan, in The 180 Degree Christian; Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess, says:
What I believe grieves God most is we have robbed Him of our hearts. It is as if He would say to us, “You have robbed Me of the full heart of surrender that I was looking for that would have allowed Me to fill you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet. If only you would have turned to Me! I would have caused you to live such a profound life that you would have stood out as a light shining in a darkened world.”[xxv]
Don’t lose your love song for God by turning away from Him when things get tough. If you sing praises to God in all circumstances, your heart will rest firmly in His presence and you will experience the faithfulness of our God.
God Sings Over You: You are His Love Song
Did you know God sings? Did you know that the song of His heart is about you? The Creator of the heavens and the earth has blazed in His heart a joyful song that He loves to sing just for you. The song that is constantly in His heart is a love ballad dedicated to you. He is singing this song to you right now, even as you are reading this book. He will sing this song to you in all your tomorrows, and He will sing it to you throughout eternity.
The Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. (Zephaniah 3:17, NLT)
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. (ESV)
Yahweh your God is there with you, the warrior-Savior. He will rejoice over you with happy song, he will renew you by his love; he will dance with shout of joy for you. (NJB)
Can you imagine how beautiful it must be when God sings? It has to be simply breathtaking to hear God’s voice in song. The even more astounding truth is that is He is singing to you. The song bursting forth from His heart is about you. The Creator of every living thing, and the maker of every mountain on earth and every star in the universe, has a song that is constantly on His mind and it concerns you. You are His song! You are His melody! You are His music! God is rejoicing over you with a song that deeply expresses the joy and love He has for you. God calms our hearts with a lullaby of His love, like a mother singing sweetly to her child as she gently rocks him to sleep. God even dances over us with shouts of joy!
This song of God is a hymn of deliverance, victory, and salvation. Psalm 32:7 says that God “surrounds us with songs of deliverance.” He wants His songs of victory to fill our hearts with rejoicing and thankfulness for His mighty salvation. God sings because He knows that He has made you in Christ and that He has given you a name and a divine destiny.
The world will rarely sing over you in triumphant song. But God says, “No matter what anyone says, you are My beloved, My treasure, My pearl of great price, My heart’s desire. I have made you beautiful, precious, and more valuable than all the treasures of the earth. Let our hearts rejoice in song together, for you are My song and I passionately desire to be your song. Let our hearts make music together, for My song never fails, fades, or disappoints. My heart is always singing for you. Never forget My love song and My songs of deliverance for you.”
The music that is born of above, with its sweet melody, sounds out from every corner of our hearts. God sings to us. We sing to God. We are God’s melody and He is our melody. This is the music that can fill our hearts and transform us into the image of our glorious God and Redeemer.
[i] Cary Schmidt, Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music (Lancaster: Striving Together Publications, 2007), Kindle Edition, 24.
[ii] Dr. Howard Hanson, “A Musician’s Point of View Toward Emotional Expression,” The American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 99, (1942), 317.
[iii] Alan P. Merriam, The Anthropology of Music, (1964): 218..
[iv] Dr. Adam Knieste, quoted by David Chagall, in Family Weekly, January 30, 1983, 14.
[v] Jay Grout, A History of Western Music (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2009).
[vi] Daniel and Bernadette Skubik, The Neurophysiology of Rock, published separately as an appendix in John Blanchard, Pop Goes the Gospel: Rock in the Church (Durham, England 1991), 191.
[vii] Norman M. Weinberger, The Nonmusical Outcomes of Music Education (University of California Board of Regents, 1995).
[viii] Freidrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924), 343.
[ix] Don Campbell, The Mozart Effect (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001), 67.
[x] Cary Schmidt, Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music (Lancaster: Striving Together Publications, 2007), Kindle Edition, 24, 25.
[xi] Cary Schmidt, Music Matters: Understanding and Applying the Amazing Power of Music (Lancaster: Striving Together Publications, 2007), Kindle Edition, 41, 42.
[xii] Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David: Volume 4, Study of the Psalms, (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1976), Psalm 99, Kindle Edition, 51882.
[xiii] Patrick Fairbairn, Exposition of Ezekiel (Mount Joliet: Sovereign Grace Publishers, Inc., 2001), 312.
[xiv] E. W. Bullinger, The Chief Musician, or Studies in the Psalms and their Titles (New York: Cosimo, Inc., 2007), 7.
[xv] Selah means to pause and carefully consider these words, and lift our hearts to God as we reflect on His magnificent truth.
[xvi] David Wilkerson, Sermon: “Counterfeit Christianity,” May 22, 2010.
[xvii] David Wilkerson, World Challenge Pulpit Series, “Driven to Darkness,” August 3, 1987.
[xviii] Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David: Volume 4, Study of the Psalms, (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1976), Psalm 144, Kindle Edition, 87898.
[xix] Dennis McCorkle, The David Cipher: Unlocking the Hidden Music of the Psalms (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2010), Kindle Edition, 294.
[xx] Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2003), 1159.
[xxi] Dennis McCorkle, The David Cipher: Unlocking the Hidden Music of the Psalms (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2010), Kindle Edition, 329, 330.
[xxii]Ibid., Kindle Edition 662.
[xxiii] Don Cusic, A Sound of Light: The History of Gospel Music (Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002), 15, 16, 18, 19.
[xxiv] A.W. Tozer, Fellowship of the Burning Heart: A Collection of Sermons by A.W. Tozer (Alachua: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 2006), 10.
[xxv] Carter Conlan, The 180 Degree Christian; Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess (Ventura: Regal Books, 2012), 68.
Excerpt from “The Heart: The Key to Everything in the Christian Life” | artistic |
https://thelilaclysander.com/2019/02/16/a-caged-bird/ | 2019-11-19T21:48:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670255.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119195450-20191119223450-00365.warc.gz | 0.916986 | 434 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__140704075 | en | There are things I will never miss about anorexia.
I will not miss
Staring in the mirror
While the shower steamed up the corners of the glass
Watching my naked body
Like a caged bird
While my eyes began to sting
As I fought to keep them open
Out of fear that
Should I shut my eyes,
I would open them
And be twice the size as before.
I do not miss the freezing showers
Chapped fingers tentatively turning the dial to cold
As I carried out my latest new trick to poison my body.
I remember the droplets shooting off my cheeks
Quicker than I could count calories
As my teeth chattered
From the icy water cascading down my malnourished body.
Blue hands and lips were a reasonable price to pay for skinny.
I don’t miss standing on the golden sacred scales
And hitting rock bottom
Only to realise it was just a balcony
In a 100 story block of flats
That I had yet to fall down.
I don’t miss the feeling of frightening bliss
When every mouthful
Was the most wonderful relief for my tummy
And the most vivid nightmare for my mind.
Sometimes I miss starving myself
But I don’t miss starving my family
As much as I believed I was soaring when I was starving
I was simply flying a descending plane with my eyes shut
Steering myself towards the ground
With the people I love as the passengers
Sacrificing myself ceremoniously
And bringing the rest of the world down as collateral damage.
Most of all
I do not miss hindsight
I do not miss the perfect irony
Of shrinking myself small enough to hide
From all of the things I was painfully afraid of
When really I was igniting the dead wood of my life
Into a rageful roar of flames
That almost killed me while I was trying to quench the heat.
Although I am warm now, rosy, happier,
The little fires still sizzle in the ashes
By Emma Catherine | artistic |
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https://www.colliasolani.it/en/our-land | 2024-04-23T17:11:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818732.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423162023-20240423192023-00561.warc.gz | 0.93187 | 819 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__140846880 | en | Spread across several separate sites along the Colli Asolani panoramic route, our family vineyards stretch for about 90 hectares within a 15-mile radius from the winery. Our Glera and Pinot Grigio grapes are grown with care and dedication to make sure they retain the quality all the way through to the glass.
Over time, we also cemented the bond with faithful local grape growers with whom we share decades-long family closeness and a mutual vision to preserve our land and pursue sustainability. Using only estate-grown and locally sourced grapes for our Prosecco is key to ensuring consistency in the flavour profile and in the overall quality: a most valuable edge for the trade and consumer alike.
Asolo Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G.
Asolo Prosecco received the DOCG designation in 2009 and was the first appellation in the area to include the Extra Brut category.
With the nearby mountains providing protection from strong winds, the gentle south-facing slopes of the Colli Asolani foothills offer the perfect confluence of elements to grow grapes of consistently outstanding quality. Plenty of sun exposure, warm days and cooler nights make for perfectly ripe fruit, fresh acidity and excellent flavour concentration.
The rich, clay based soil has brilliant water retaining abilities and produces wines of richness and texture. When applied to sparkling wines, this translates into remarkably creamy bubbles that give Asolo Prosecco Superiore its distinctive finesse and elegance.
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Located halfway between Venice and the Unesco world heritage Dolomites, Colli Asolani - the smooth hills of Asolo after which the winery is named - are a unique combination of natural beauty, cultural heritage and excellent food and hospitality.
Named as “The city of a Hundred Horizons” by the Italian poet Giosuè Carducci and recently listed among the “Borghi più belli d’Italia”, Asolo is a picturesque medieval village dominated by its castle and pre-Roman Rocca fortress overlooking the sunny countryside.
Home to Caterina Cornaro Queen of Cyprus, Eleonora Duse and Freya Stark, this hiddem gem has drawn many remarkable artists and intellectuals over the centuries such as Robert Browning, Pietro Bembo, Antonio Canova, Andrea Palladio, Igor Strawinsky and Ernest Hemingway.
Seduced by the charm of its romantic alleyways and peaceful views, they dwelled in the region and left their mark with countless masterpieces.
Today, visitors can enjoy these works of art and still breathe the atmosphere that inspired them. Local, authentic food, great wine and a relaxed lifestyle add to the experience, making for an unforgettable “off the beaten path” trip.
Located in the very heart of Asolo old town, Asolo Wine Shop is the first and only boutique wine shop that focuses entirely on Asolo Prosecco superiore DOCG. Under the arcades overlooking the old town’s main square, visitors can soak in the beautiful views while sampling the finest Asolo Prosecco superiore DOCG from Bedin and Dal Bello – a like-minded, historic winery that joined us in the challenge of creating an appellation-centered flagship store to promote the excellence of our land.
Our family-run Ristorante Casa Bedin, based right next to the winery, is the ideal destination for the wine and food enthusiasts looking for an authentic wine-pairing and dining experience. The extensive menu constantly changes, reflecting some of the best seasonal produce and finest delicacies that the region has to offer. Blending tradition with a modern approach, the newly renovated restaurant offers an elegant, cosy atmosphere and is the locals’ choice for the easy, every day dining occasion as well as family celebrations. | artistic |
https://gasolinealleyhd.com.au/products/harley-davidson%C2%AE-mechanic-lady-polystone-garden-gnome | 2022-07-05T16:36:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104585887.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705144321-20220705174321-00510.warc.gz | 0.903107 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__58089655 | en | Harley-Davidson® Mechanic Lady Polystone Garden Gnome
This premium garden gnome is sure to be an eye catcher for any Harley enthusiast! Crafted from high-quality painted polystone. Sculpted female gnome decked out in your favourite H-D garage shirt and ready for some motorcycle fixing. According to folklore, Garden Gnomes are believed to bring good luck to your garden. Now you can also bring good luck to your favourite rider. Size: 5" W x 8.5" H. Pair it with the mechanic male gnome for a complete set!
- Made from painted polystone
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- Size: 5" W x 8.5" H
- Garden Gnomes are believed to bring good luck to your garden | artistic |
https://gingervogt.blogspot.com/2008/03/ | 2021-05-07T16:40:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988796.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20210507150814-20210507180814-00619.warc.gz | 0.966333 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__34072824 | en | I had the opportunity to show in Boise last week at the We Art Women benefit. Some of my pieces sold at this benefit and I am glad I had a chance to take part in this show and help a worthy cause. One of my unsold pieces was selected to go to Sachels for a post benefit show. Satchels is 705 W. Bannock in Boise, Idaho.
I will be heading out on the road again this summer my first stop is NicFest in Casper, Wyoming. I will be there June 19th-21st. This show is held at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center at 400 E. Collins. I am planning on bringing a full booth. So whether you are in love with the Cowboy Way series, my Wild Flower series, or my Buffalo you will have ample pieces to choose from. I know this is still a long ways off but it was on my mind today as they sent me an email confirming my booth space. I hope to see many of you who follow my blog there.
Until then, may your days be filled with sunshine and warmth. | artistic |
https://greatpeninsulaconservancy.salsalabs.org/june22 | 2023-02-01T21:18:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499953.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201211725-20230202001725-00164.warc.gz | 0.882999 | 163 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__148484806 | en | On August 19th, we're heading back to the fairgrounds for an evening of celebration, community, and conservation! We'll gather in a covered outdoor arena for live music, catered dinner & drinks, a keynote speech from renowned forest ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, and hand-selected environmental shorts from the Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
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P.S. Now through the end of June, unlock access to the feature film My Garden of a Thousand Bees from Tangled Bank Studios, a national partner of the Wild & Scenic Film Fest.
Want to promote your business or purchase a sponsorship on behalf of your favorite community organization? Let us know! Email Community Engagement Manager, Claire Voris at [email protected]. | artistic |
https://www.arc3de.com/blog/creating-my-first-scene | 2024-04-14T03:40:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00756.warc.gz | 0.872724 | 846 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__13656034 | en | Creating My First Scene
Welcome Back to ARC3DE. In This video I’ll show you how easy it is to create your first scene and play it in virtual reality on the Oculus Quest.
To save a scene in ARC3DE you’ll need a verified account to save your scene to. If you haven’t already done so create your FREE account at the Login page. Once signed in the first thing you’ll need to do is select which scene you wish to start from. In this example I’m going to select “Blank Scene”.
The scene will load followed by the Editor. The very first thing you’ll want to do is save the scene using “Save Scene as Copy” to save a copy of the scene to your account.
Let’s do a quick overview of the Editor. This is the scene view. Use the mouse to pan and zoom your scene. The scene gizmo allows you to change the camera view.
To the right is the Hierarchy panel that shows all the gameobjects in the scene. Everything from the camera, lights, and more are visible in the scene’s hierarchy. Even if the gameobject is disabled the gameobject can be accessed here.
To the right of that is the Inspector panel. This shows the components attached to your current selection. You can hide these panels if you prefer and bring them back using the File Menu’s Window option.
Now let’s get creative…
To import art select the Import option under the File Menu’s Window option. The Import panel allows you to access the ARC3DE asset library and bring art into your scene.
Select Prefab followed by selecting the search input and type in the word “tree”. The “More” button on the right will load more prefabs. Now let’s select a tree. There we go. The tree is now in our scene.
Let’s focus on this tree with “F” and use the mouse to orbit the tree. Now let’s transform this tree in the environment. Use “W” to select the translate tool and move it. Next let’s use the scale gizmo by selecting “R” and make the tree bigger. To rotate the tree select “E” and use the rotation gizmo.
Let’s save and play this scene.
Here’s our scene with the newly imported tree. Now that we know how to import art let’s add some more items to our scene. We’ll timelapse this segment to speed things up.
Our scene is looking better. Now it’s time to play it in virtual reality using the Oculus Quest headset. For this video I’ll be using Oculus Link to play on Desktop using the Firefox browser. You can also use the Oculus Quest in standalone to play your scene using the Oculus Browser. If you haven’t done so make sure Firefox is updated as WebXR is a relatively new API.
At the time of this video Chrome support for WebXR wasn’t as stable as Firefox. That might have changed but for now we’ll just stick with Firefox.
Let’s copy/paste the URL from Chrome to Firefox. Once prompted, select “Enter VR”. And that’s it!
I’m playing the scene I created in virtual reality. Pretty cool!
When you are ready to share your scene with the world you can Publish it from the Scene’s menu located off your Profile page.
Another quick tip: you can share your scene with others simply by copy and pasting your scene’s URL.
There you have it! Creating a scene and playing it in virtual reality is pretty easy using the Editor at ARC3DE. Be sure to check out more Editor videos to see all the creative things you can do with your scene.
Until next video… happy gaming! | artistic |
http://neworleans.ilivehere.info/resources/141643 | 2015-01-26T18:22:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115862015.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161102-00049-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.911082 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__936392 | en | Crescent City Lights Theater
- Julie Condy - Executive Director
- Julie Condy - Contact Person
Geographic Service Area
- New Orleans
The Crescent City Lights Youth Theater is a performing arts program for the young people of Greater New Orleans producing 3 to 4 musicals per year with casts of children in grades 4 through 12. Program entry is by audition application usually one month prior to the program start. Through CCL, children learn the performing arts skills of drama, voice and dance through putting on a musical. they also learn life and job skills that help them in all aspects of their lives. CCL changes the lives of the New Orleans children through theater. | artistic |
http://www.helenafourie-artist.com/About | 2024-02-25T05:55:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474581.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225035809-20240225065809-00570.warc.gz | 0.935065 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__176186188 | en | About the artist
Helena Fourie (Groenewald) obtained her B.A. Fine Art at the University of Pretoria in 1987 under Prof. N.O. Roos and other artists like Gunter van der Reiss, John Clarke and Judith Mason.
Inspired by her absolute passion for nature she devoted herself to the painting of wildlife, and applying it in an individual and idiosyncratic style. Fourie’s art reflect both her passion and concern for the subject matter. In order to further her knowledge of wildlife, Fourie worked as volunteer at Klipkop Nature Reserve between 2000 and 2002. Klipkop served as rehabilitation centre for wild, injured animals and birds. The aim of the conservancy was to reintroduce wild animals to their natural habitat after rehabilitation.
Fourie works in a variety of mediums with a preference for Oil and Scraperboard. | artistic |
https://tackledirect2u.co.uk/p/hi-spec-tool-box-set-with-parts-organiser-tray-for-the-job-site-garage-around-the-home-for-tools-fishing-tackle-arts-crafts-hobby-storage-equipment-box-high-vis-orange-3-piece/ | 2020-07-14T23:37:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657151761.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200714212401-20200715002401-00505.warc.gz | 0.895447 | 663 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__26903322 | en | DIY, Hobby and Arts and Crafts Storage in Small, Medium and Large – In Vibrant Electric Orange!
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https://tamarakaroli.com/about/ | 2019-06-15T20:34:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627997335.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190615202724-20190615224724-00238.warc.gz | 0.872224 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__141535874 | en | Born in the south of France in the middle of nowhere near the Côte d’Azur, Tamara Karoli grew up in a creative and liberal surrounding. As the daughter of a musician with a passion for photography, her eye was trained to see the beauty and details around her from a very young age. Her interest for the visual arts grew as her multi-cultural family moved to Germany and travelled.
Out of her love for illustration grew the passion for photography, which brought her – after studies in Cologne and Lyon – to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Berlin at the Berliner University of Applied Arts. She is now living in Germany and France, creating new work along the way.
ZWØLF – Lehrter 17, Berlin 2015 – Group Exhibition
BTK, Berlin 2012, European Month of Photography – Group Exhibition
Café Lichtung, Cologne 2012 – Group Exhibition
Körper Raum – Café Lichtung, Cologne 2011 – Group Exhibition
Körper Extrem – Café Bauturm, Cologne 2011 -Group Exhibition
Teddy Awards 2013
Kompakt Record Store | artistic |
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"That song was so beautiful, Mr. Frodo," Sam whispered, still in awe. He could hear her voice in his head, the echo of her melody still lifting his heart long after it was over.
Frodo smiled next to him, his eyes glowing bright in the candlelight. "Do you want to know what she was singing about?" he asked.
Sam laughed. "To tell you the truth, I'm a bit afraid to find out. It was such a lovely song and I'd be mighty disappointed if it were about something simple." He paused. "But then again Elvish songs are never about simple things, are they?"
"Some of them are," Frodo replied. "Elves have lullabyes, and children's songs, and simple hymns and songs of thanks. Sometimes the most beautiful songs are about the simplest things."
"Is your song about simple things?" Sam asked.
Frodo laughed quietly, a wide smile on his face. "Yes, I suppose it is. It's about the fields and hills of Valinor. It talks about how flowers of every color stretch for miles there, and the way the sunlight looks as it shines through the tree branches. And how clear and warm the water is if you swim in it." He sighed. "I'm not sure why it touches me so. I first heard it not long after I came here, when I still used to ache inside for home. Even though I didn't understand it at first, something about that song took the ache away." He was quiet for a moment. "Are you disappointed?"
"No, not at all," Sam answered after a short pause. "In fact, I think I like it even more now."
"I'm glad to hear that," Frodo said. His wide grin had been replaced with a warm content smile that crinkled up the lines around his eyes. He turned around and snuffed out the candle on the table beside the bed, then settled into the pillows once more.
They did not speak again, but lay next to each other like they had countless times before, in much more dire circumstances. Sam smiled as he listened to Frodo's even breathing, enjoying the presence of the friend he had missed for so long. He reached out, searching for Frodo's fingers, and he felt Frodo's soft warm hand grip his. A feeling of peace came over him as he fell into a deep sleep and untroubled dreams. | artistic |
https://claudioahlers.co.uk/ | 2023-12-09T06:03:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100800.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209040008-20231209070008-00107.warc.gz | 0.952409 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__87342370 | en | Hello and welcome to the web presence of Claudio Ahlers, composer for broadcast television, advertising and film.
I have been writing music for the moving image for seventeen years for clients including the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV as well as for a number of advertising campaigns and short films.
Please have a look around to read more about the work that I do or listen to examples of previous compositions for a variety of clients in the MUSIC and VIDEO pages.
If you would like to get in touch to discuss a project, or if you would like me to compose a pitch for one of your films, please go to the CONTACT page or call me on 07771 567798.
I am always happy to discuss your requirements. | artistic |
https://omilutin.middcreate.net/about-me/ | 2023-05-29T19:25:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644907.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529173312-20230529203312-00392.warc.gz | 0.831117 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__44735218 | en | I specialize in premodern Japanese literature, language and culture, with a focus on issues related to sex, gender and sexuality in Japanese court tales. I am currently finalizing a monograph on representations of sexual violence in Heian (795-1185) and Kamakura (1185-1333) monogatari (court tales)and conducting new research on contemporary adaptations of Japanese classics in manga, anime, and film. My other research and teaching interests include monsters in Japanese culture, femmes fatales in Japanese literature, and sex and censorship in Japanese cinema.
Favorite historical figure: Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji
Favorite anime: Sailor Moon
Favorite anime tearjerker: The Rose of Versailles
Shameful little secret: procrastinating by playing RPGs
Favorite RPG: Dragon Age
Last RPG played: Assassin Creed: Odyssey | artistic |
http://workshopheaven.blogspot.com/2015/02/ | 2017-04-28T19:56:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123048.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00556-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.973876 | 501 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__190903444 | en | As a child I remember walking downstairs in my aunt and uncle's Victorian house in the north of England and marvelling at the way the profile of the handrail (then at my eye level) flowed around the return between one flight and another. I could see how the straight bits might be made, but that seamlessly integrated return was really, really clever.
Who would have thought that 35 years later I would be sitting here writing for you about the most celebrated stairmaker in Europe.
In the careful hands of Athenian Tasos Vardopoulos, the craft of the stairmaker is elevated to a sculptural art form. His ability to make a staircase flow like a waterfall, twist like a serpent, or spread into a room like the train of a wedding dress is legendary among the top flite of European architects. To them, his exceptional skills provide a whole extra palette of sculptural forms with which they can express their vision for a space. Each of his architectural confections is completely unique, tailored to enhance the space and the building.
Like so many elite craftsmen, Tasos works entirely with hand tools. This isn't a faded romantic notion, despite all the technological advancements of the last century, hand and eye is still the most efficient way to make unique and geometrically complex one off pieces like the progressively curved stringer below:
Apprenticeship is the process of supercharging a lifetime of hands on experience with the enriched wisdom of previous generations, it is at the very core of what the crafts do. There are many notable exceptions, but the process of training and apprenticeship often tends to be particularly potent when the individuals involved are related.
Tasos was trained by his father Yiannis Vardopoulos and his grandfather Anastasios, who brought his helicoidal stairmaking skills to Athens from the city of Smyrnos over a century ago. I am sure Anastasios would be immensely proud to see both the depth of his grandson's mastery of the craft, the artistry with which he employs it, and the pleasure that his elegant creations bring to his clients and their successors.
Perhaps one day, many years from now, another small boy will walk down one of Mr Vardopoulos' staircases and pause for a moment to reflect upon the skills of the man who made it. I hope that he too will be able to find a living contemporary in whom those skills not only live on, but thrive and grow. | artistic |
http://www.mailingsystemsmag.com/2024/beyond-blueprints-crafting-unique-house-interiors/ | 2024-02-26T04:21:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474650.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226030734-20240226060734-00802.warc.gz | 0.916387 | 638 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__114210885 | en | Crafting unique house interiors goes beyond mere blueprints; it is an art form that transforms a structure into a personalized haven, a reflection of the inhabitants’ tastes, passions, and lifestyles. In the realm of interior design, every element, from furniture selection to color schemes, plays a pivotal role in creating a harmonious and distinctive ambiance. The process begins by understanding the inhabitants’ needs and desires, as this forms the foundation upon which the design narrative unfolds. It is not merely about filling spaces; it is about curating an experience that resonates with the dweller’s essence. Beyond the structural constraints, the true magic lies in the meticulous balance between functionality and aesthetics. Texture, a silent yet powerful storyteller, is a key player in this symphony of design. Beyond the visual appeal, the tactile experience of a space adds layers of richness. Soft, plush fabrics for upholstery and rugs, juxtaposed with sleek, polished surfaces, create a sensory dance that elevates the atmosphere.
Consider a living room adorned with a velvety sectional sofa in muted tones, inviting you to sink into its luxurious embrace, while a gleaming coffee table and metallic accents provide a visual contrast, establishing a refined equilibrium. Color, the soul of any design, breathes life into a home. Beyond the conventional palette, daring choices can infuse character and vitality. A kitchen awash in deep indigos and vibrant yellows can evoke a sense of culinary adventure, while a bedroom enveloped in calming earthy tones becomes a sanctuary for restful sleep. The interplay of colors extends beyond walls, weaving through furnishings and accessories, creating a cohesive visual narrative that unfolds as you traverse each room. Furniture, more than mere functional pieces, becomes an extension of the inhabitants’ personality. Beyond conventional layouts, bespoke furniture crafted to meet specific needs becomes a focal point, seamlessly blending form and function. A reading nook adorned with a custom-made bookshelf that doubles as an artistic installation, or a dining table designed to accommodate a growing family, exemplifies the marriage of practicality and personal style.
Art, in its myriad forms, transcends the boundaries of conventional décor, breathing life into walls and spaces. Beyond mere aesthetics, art becomes a conversation starter, a mirror reflecting the dweller’s cultural inclinations and aesthetic sensibilities. From statement pieces to carefully curated collections, art serves as the soulful punctuation that ties the entire design narrative together. Lighting, often an underestimated design element, can metamorphose a space. Beyond its utilitarian purpose, lighting sets the mood and accentuates design nuances. Consider the transformative effect of pendant lights suspended over a dining table, miami best luxury interior designers casting a warm glow that transforms mealtime into a culinary celebration. The interplay of natural and artificial light, strategically positioned, becomes a choreographed dance that unfolds with the rhythm of the day. In crafting unique house interiors, it is the synthesis of these elements that transforms a house into a home, a sanctuary that not only shelters but resonates with the heartbeat of those who inhabit it. | artistic |
https://michaelrschaffer.com/about/ | 2021-04-11T01:07:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038060603.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411000036-20210411030036-00621.warc.gz | 0.960856 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__15802611 | en | I am a fine art wedding and portrait photographer based in Austin, Texas.
I specialize in crafting compelling, elegant images that capture the authentic moments and real connections of your day. I want my pictures to not only show what your wedding looked like, but also tell the story of what it felt like to be there. I am in love with the romantic, vibrant and beautiful look of color film, and use a combination of film and digital cameras to achieve a timeless, cinematic quality in my pictures.
My goal is always to create a shared sense of trust and collaboration with my clients. I think this is the only way that each image can be given room to embody what is unique and beautiful about the people I have the privilege of working with.
I would love to hear about your day and vision for photography. Please get in touch to learn more about my photography packages and pricing. | artistic |
https://blackhallframinggallery.co.uk/pages/frame-choices | 2018-07-20T02:31:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591481.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720022026-20180720042026-00242.warc.gz | 0.864768 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__58773418 | en | We have over 2000 different profiles of picture frame to choose from on our display wall, with access to well over 10,000 in catalogues allowing you to have the very best chance at picking a style that will both enhance and compliment your artwork.
We regularly carry profiles from the following designer brands:
Ashworth & Thompson
We also Carry the Nielsen Designer Aluminium mouldings
We take great care in the quality of wood we source for our picture frames. This way you can be guaranteed every picture frame we make for you will be structurally sound, free of any imperfection and in turn last for future generations.
Frame it Once, Frame it to last. | artistic |
http://eyesandearsclinic.ca/optical | 2022-09-27T01:17:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334974.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927002241-20220927032241-00300.warc.gz | 0.919301 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__281728267 | en | "The spirit of Tokado resides in Italy, in the town of Treviso in the northern region of Veneto.
A few miles out of Venice, Treviso is the home of some of the world's fashion giants, and where all our frames are manufactured. "Eccelenza Veneto" (Veneto Excellence), the region's motto, is the foundation of Tokado's
Combining legendary Italian elegance and timeless style with unparralleled craftmanship, our frames are produced upholding a long tradition of excellence in optical and solar eyewear. Tokado strives to bring our client the Veneto "sapere" (know- how), along with the Italian "eleganza" and combine both in a frame you will love and cherish for long." | artistic |
http://www.genuinekansas.com/famous_charles_rogers_actor_kansas.htm | 2019-05-19T23:22:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255182.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519221616-20190520003616-00522.warc.gz | 0.988294 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__198296352 | en | In 1937, Rogers became the third husband of silent film legend Mary Pickford, a woman twelve years his senior. The couple had two children—Roxanne (born 1944, adopted in 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted in 1943)—and remained married for 42 years until Pickford's death in 1979. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a flight training instructor.
Respected by his peers for his work in film and for his humanitarianism, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Rogers in 1985 with The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A longtime resident and benefactor of California's Coachella Valley, Rogers was honored by having a children's symphony orchestra he and second wife, Beverley Ricondo, a real estate agent he married in 1981, helped found named after him. A street in Cathedral City, California is named after him as well.
Buddy Rogers died in Rancho Mirage, California in 1999 at the age of 94 of natural causes, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near Palm Springs, California. | artistic |
https://thehoneybirds.bandcamp.com/album/pennies-from-heaven | 2022-05-20T04:08:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662531352.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520030533-20220520060533-00507.warc.gz | 0.827733 | 213 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__109331060 | en | Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Artwork by Tessa Smith and Tori Watson
Includes unlimited streaming of Pennies From Heaven
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Our first album, made possible by the lovely contributions via our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign!
released June 25, 2014
Vocals - Daisy Thurkettle, Jenny Smith, Tessa Smith
Piano - Andy Cholerton
Bass - John Marley
Drums - Aly Pryde
Clarinet - Samuel Thornton
Recorded by Greenmount Studios
Mixed by Gavin McGrath
Mastered by Jamie at Greenmount Studios
all rights reserved | artistic |
https://couleursdechine.org/miao-embroidery-a-real-art/?lang=en | 2023-12-06T21:21:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100603.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206194439-20231206224439-00177.warc.gz | 0.921174 | 454 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__168916501 | en | Miao embroidery, a real art !
Miao embroidery has a history of over 2000 years. It is an essential and important aspect of Miao culture.
In the past, embroidery was a form of language used to narrate legends, past events, to express feelings or simply to illustrate daily life. Thus, each generation left a trace of its history through embroidery.
Elements of nature such as mountains, rivers, trees, flowers or animals are very often pictured in a stylised way.
Each place, each Miao village has its own system of symbols. In some areas, the Cypress leaf is a symbol of eternal life, the butterfly represents creation and the ancestors. In others, the dog is a symbol of loyalty, the bird of the protective Mother.
Although natural textiles such as hemp, silk or cotton are still popular with embroiderers, the use of synthetic threads and textiles has led to an evolution in processes and styles. Miao embroidery is made up of a multitude of stitches: cross stitch (shizi hua), front stitch (ping tiao), flat pass (ping xiu), outline stitch (suo bian xiu), knot stitch (dazi xiu), etc. There are also different forms of embroidery: with the application of a braid (bian xiu) or gathered braid (zhou xiu), with small metal cylinders (ti xiu) or with geometrical patterns (na jin xiu).
Many common objects are adorned with beautiful Miao embroidery: baby carriers, jewellery, clothes, costumes… Each creation is unique because each embroidered motif cannot be reproduced identically.
Today, the handicrafts and the richness of the Miao clothing are endangered, and traditional costumes are often abandoned for more modern clothes.
However, new generations of designers are beginning to integrate the expertise of Miao embroidery and are thus participating in the preservation of this art form. Couleurs de Chine also works to protect and promote the culture of the Guangxi minorities, particularly through renovation projects.
Thanks to Fabiola Liacy from Felip ByFab Pictures for these nice pictures | artistic |
https://www.delphimages.com/about | 2022-01-19T16:06:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301475.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119155216-20220119185216-00357.warc.gz | 0.896088 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__26057205 | en | I am a French professional photographer and digital artist, inspired by travels, bright colors, architecture, landscapes and cityscapes.
I have been published by the National Geographic, the French decoration TV show D&Co, Air China, Bild Magazine, Essilor, France Inter, Hager, HEC, INRA, La Poste, Le Petit Fute, Orange, Ouest France, The Telegraph, Voyage SNCF, FNAC and many others.
My work is available as fine art prints in many different sizes and styles (e.g. canvas prints, framed prints, metal prints, acrylic prints, prints, posters, greeting cards), and other products like phone cases, throw pillows, tote bags, mugs etc.
I also create custom portraits of your loved ones, your pets or your home.
If you have any questions or if you want to license an image, please contact me. | artistic |
https://banditocomics.com/about-us | 2024-04-24T08:58:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819089.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424080812-20240424110812-00883.warc.gz | 0.960495 | 128 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__198996016 | en | Paulette and Josias have been collecting since the 2000s. They established Bandito's in June 2021 using their personal collection. After minor success on the convention circuit, The Banditos opened up their first physical store in June 2023!
The Bandito's logo represents Paulette's and Josias' cultural heritage. The colors pay tribute to the Mexican flag, and the Bandito is a tribute to the Mexican-American community that they were raised in. | artistic |
http://creativelybiased.blogspot.com/2011/06/longhorns-sacrifice.html | 2018-05-25T18:20:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867173.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525180646-20180525200646-00200.warc.gz | 0.979617 | 709 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__40796016 | en | In Texas, there is nothing bigger than football. In our house, there is nothing bigger than college football. Our Saturdays revolve around the college football schedule. My husband is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, thus making us Longhorn fans. Although, we live in Lubbock, Tx and he went to law school at Texas Tech University, he remains true to his undergraduate alma mater. There are many rival games in Texas, but none bigger for us than University of Texas vs. Texas A&M....Longhorns v. Aggies. It is part of our Thanksgiving tradition to sit and watch this great rivalry game. My husband has several cousins who are A&M fans, thus making this game even more fun. Oh, the trash talk that goes on during that week. It's great!!!
Well, in May 2011, one of my sister-in-laws graduated from Texas A&M San Antonio. Yes, she is now an Aggie. Poor thing. My heart goes out to her lost soul. Haha. Love you! After several years of doing accounting, she decided she wanted to do more. She pursued a degree in Elementary Education and graduated this past May. I am so very proud of her. When I asked her what she wanted for graduation, she had only one request... a quilt. YAY!!! I could do that. Then she dropped the bomb... she wanted an Aggie quilt!
WHAT?!?!? Umm.. no way.. no how!!! How could I bring maroon fabric into my burnt orange household?!?! Nope.. not gonna do it.. nuh uh. I told her my machine might blow up as soon as the needle hits maroon fabric and she would have to buy me a new one.
But of course, my soft heart gave in. I would sacrifice just this once... afterall.. she IS family. We started talking about what she wanted on her quilt. All she wanted on it was Aggie fabric and some zebra print. Umm...that was HARD!!! I am a very symmetrical person. I can't handle abstract very well. I thought about the quilt for several weeks. How was I going to combine the aggie fabric and zebra print so that they flowed together nicely? I couldn't make anything work that I was pleased with. I finally went to my LQS for some advice and inspiration. I perused through the fabrics and couldn't find any that looked good. I don't usually follow patterns, because I don't follow rules well. :) Then.. it happened... I found the perfect pattern...an abstract pattern. Funny how things happen like that.
The wonderful ladies at the shop helped me find all the coordinating fabrics.
I was excited to get this baby started.
Strips to cut and sew into squares
I quilted a meandering pattern all over the quilt in maroon thread. Each of the fabrics flowed into each other very well.
I put a zebra print on the back and a solid maroon binding
This quilt is one of the biggest quilts I have made. It measures appx 87"x57". A perfect size to lay on the couch with and watch a movie... or a football game. :) Now, I need to put this in the mail so I can get this maroon fabric out of my house. Hahah.
Hook 'Em Horns. | artistic |
https://danielpaulphotography.co.uk/about | 2019-02-21T16:37:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247505838.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190221152543-20190221174543-00174.warc.gz | 0.985053 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__77740895 | en | Welcome to Daniel Paul Photography.
I am a photographer from Chichester, England. I started taking pictures in my early teens, I remember the first image I took that I was really proud of, it was a typical sunset overlooking a harbour on a film camera.
Since that day and that image my passion for photography has grown and grown. My mum bought me my first digital camera for my 18th birthday and that opened my eyes further to the possibilities within photography, no longer would I have to go to the camera shop to develop my pictures!
A number of years ago I got my first DSLR and started to take photography more seriously and now it is a passion and a hobby that I really enjoy. I take my camera everywhere with me and a lot of my photography to date has been travel or architecture related. | artistic |
http://borobudurmarathon.co.id/2017/06/27/grateful-water-guzzling-heaven/ | 2024-04-23T05:52:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818464.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423033153-20240423063153-00567.warc.gz | 0.94847 | 1,226 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__138113759 | en | Overcast sky blanket over Pucangan Village, District Kartasura, Sukoharjo regency, Central Java. A total of 21 elementary school students wears colorful rainbow rainbow rainbow. They danced livelily, rejoicing.
In the courtyard of Studio Mugi Dance in Pucangan Village, the students of Sambon 2 Boyolali Primary School along with Gabriella Rosa Bertin from Newcastle, England, and Andi Pranata performed the work of Dispersion dance: Writing in Color. They collaborated with elementary school students Pucangan 2, Kartasura, who performed Nini Thowong dance in the 2016 International Rain Festival, Saturday (9/1).
Dispersion Dance is Gaby’s creation, Gabriella’s greeting, with assisted motion stylist Andi Pranata. Accompanied by the musical composition of Dedek Wahyudi’s concoction, Gaby and the children occasionally trotted around in the audience and danced in groups in the color of their raincoats.
Raincoats of red, yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink immediately reminded of the beauty of the rainbow after the rain subsided. Rain and rain are like bringing joy to the children. Unfortunately, the rain never greeted even though the clouds hung and the wind blew. However, they still rejoice.
“This dance is about the creation of knowledge, how to learn through the local environment and tradition,” Gaby said.
The International Rain Festival initiated by Mugiyono Kasido dance artist was held for the second time after the first one was held in 2015. Nuri Aryati, Director of the International Rain Festival Program 2016, said there were 300 artists involved, including students and students.
They include Suprapto Suryodarmo from Solo, Jamaloge from East Kalimantan, Yuan Moro Ocampo from the Philippines, Ayu Permatasari from Lampung, Lobo Art Community from Palu, Saung Swara from Salatiga, Saka Galeries from Solo, and Black and White Community from West Sumatra. Not only dance, also performed theater, wayang kulit, and performing art.
Like last year, the festival was held in the spacious courtyard of Mugi Dance Studio at Pucangan. The artists are welcome to choose their own “stage” to perform. There are several stages, namely pendopo, buffalo cage, fish pond, open stage cement floor called mandala, and field. The performances are held in a different place.
The audience shifted as the show moved to the stage. Provided plastic chairs that can easily be lifted and moved the audience. However, there is no shade roof that protects the audience from rain drops.
The second day of the festival, Sunday (10/1), rain fell since the afternoon. The dancers are getting excited and enjoying. Spectators wear raincoats and some open umbrellas. Under the water, Jamaloge dancers, along with Nino Saputra and Sukma Devianti, performed the dance titled Pekat in front of the buffalo cage.
The contemporary dance of Jamal’s creation tells the story of the forest fire tragedy in Kalimantan which resulted in a dense smoke haze disaster. Accompanied by music from the Saung Swara group, the three danced with their noses covered in cloth and sounded pained. Finally, the splash of water from the sky becomes the savior of life for extinguishing the fire. “The destruction of nature in Kalimantan has caused a catastrophic smoke disaster,” he said.
Through the dance, Jamal conveyed his invitation to love nature. Local wisdom should be re-upheld in managing forests. Local wisdom teaches not to be greedy when clearing the forest.
On the mandala stage, Yuan Moro Ocampo presents a performing art called Jejaring Kehidupan. In one scene, he blows repeatedly one of the containers of white flour. The audience participated in reading sheets of paper bearing animals, plants, to the names of people and artists and world figures. From each sheet of paper read by the audience, Yuan Moro then blew a container of white flour to fly. At the end of the show, he said, “man”.
Artistic Director of the Philippine International Performance Art Festival wanted to show that every creature can be lost without trace, like dust in the wind. If there is no concern for nature, all living things including humans and their environment threatened to perish. “Hopefully with the show could increase awareness of the audience to be more concerned about the environment,” said Yuan Moro.
Nuri said the rain festival was held to invite people to be grateful for the rain. Rain should be seen as a blessing that brings prosperity to humans. In addition to displaying the variety of art, also held workshops make Biopori.
“The multidimensional rain festival is the goal. It is also to bring the arts into the village so that villagers can see directly the arts from other areas so that have a broader perspective, “said Nuri.
According to Mugiyo, in the minds of some people, the rain is seen as an obstacle, even his presence raises concerns. Fear of disasters, such as floods or landslides. In fact, the disaster actually occurs due to human activities that are neglected to the environment.
“Rain should not be viewed as a cause of disaster, but as a blessing. Just how to manage it in order to avoid disaster, “he said.
(ERWIN EDHI PRASETYA)
This paper was published in Kompas Daily, Saturday, January 16, 2016 with the title “Thankful for the Trust of the Sky”
Photo: KOMPAS / ERWIN EDHI PRASETYA | artistic |
http://www.wordsby.net/clowdus-sleepy-hollow-old-sturbridge-village/ | 2018-02-20T19:36:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813088.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220185145-20180220205145-00620.warc.gz | 0.941703 | 921 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__192044390 | en | Ghosts, goblins, jack-o-lanterns, and trick-or-treating: all things that embody the spirit of Halloween season. This year, a new tradition begins at Old Sturbridge Village.
Brian Clowdus Experiences’ “Sleepy Hollow: A Legendary Outdoor Experience,” opened October 11, 2016 at Old Sturbridge Village. Originally the show was produced at Serenbe Playhouse, founded by Clowdus in Atlanta, Georgia, the show finds a new home at the Massachusetts living history museum.
This is the theatrical production’s first venture outside of Atlanta and Clowdus is especially thrilled to bring the timeless tale to New England. “It really is something different that audiences have really latched on to,” he says of the positive reception of past productions. In producing this New England version, Clowdus was inspired by the region’s famous historical moments of witchcraft, coinciding perfectly with the spooky, supernatural nature of the production and the original classic tale about the Headless Horseman ghost. “This [version] inherently feels a little creepier,” he adds.
The original 1820 story by Washington Irving fits in with the Old Sturbridge Village time frame of rural New England life from 1790-1840. “The great thing about [the] adaptation [is] that this version is different than the one in Atlanta because I’ve adapted it to the space,” he says. When Clowdus first visited the museum, he felt as though he walked right into Irving’s classic tale. “I have stepped back 200 years! I literally feel like I am in Sleepy Hollow!” he says. “In Atlanta we have a full set built, but in Old Sturbridge Village, everything we need is [already] there,” he adds, referring to the museum’s historic buildings and landscape. One particular favorite was Old Sturbridge Village’s Vermont covered bridge, bringing to life an integral part of the legendary tale.
The sold-out performances are structured as interactive theater, completely immersing the audience in the world of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. “Interactive theater breaks down the fourth wall. I think it gets the audience to be engaged,” says Clowdus. “[T]he actors are speaking directly to them [and] the audience is on their feet going from each scene. […][The] show can be a little different each time based upon how the audience [reacts].”
Not only is the audience engaged with the actors, but the atmosphere around them adds to heighten the world of Ichabod Crane. “The lighting and sound is truly incredible,” Clowdus says. The Old Sturbridge Village buildings will be enveloped in theatrical lightening, while fire pits will appear on the Village’s small lake and large-scale puppets will appear in the show. “I think [the show is] going to have this vibe of haunted house-meets-play, but it has a level of sophistication to it that typical haunted houses [don’t have],” Clowdus says. “I hope [the audience] find[s] themselves immersed and forget they’re even in a play.”
Though the performances this year are sold-out, with its 3-year contract, guests will get a chance next year when the show returns to Old Sturbridge Village. “I think hopefully people are going to really enjoy it [and] that it becomes a family tradition every year. I hope they’re scared, I hope they laugh, I hope they cry!” says Clowdus. He also hopes that bringing the classic tale to life in a unique and interactive way will resonate with audiences, no matter if they know the original story by heart or are inspired to read it after meeting Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman in his production. “I firmly believe that a classic work has to be reinvented to stay alive,” he says.
With Clowdus’ imaginative spirit, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” will return with new life every year. Catch “The Sleepy Hollow Experience” at Old Sturbridge Village until November 5.
© Chelsea E. Dill 2016 | artistic |
http://paintrosesred.blogspot.com/2011/04/beginnings-and-endings.html | 2017-05-23T22:35:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607704.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523221821-20170524001821-00345.warc.gz | 0.986489 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__2297396 | en | The sky was glorious today. For the first time, I brought the baby to the backyard and sat with her. It was wonderful to see her soak it all in- the sunshine, the clouds, the warm breeze and the sounds of the train passing nearby. She startled when a bird sang and looked at me quizzically.
"It's a bird", I said.
This is your world, I thought. It came alive when you came into it, and it is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Today was the first day she held a blossom to her face, and studied every petal (before she tried to shove it in her mouth). Today was the first day she listened to a bird's song, and laid on her back under the sky. The wonder on her face was incredible. It's funny that she won't remember any of her first day in the sun, because I think it will be stamped in my mind as long as I live.
It's hard not to think about mortality when you work with ill people. As morbid as it sounds, today I realized that when my time comes, if I'm afraid or in pain, these simple lovely moments will be my sustenance.It comforts me to know this.
If my soul was a gas tank, this girl would be premium petrol. | artistic |
https://www.taylorsbags.co.uk/ | 2017-12-11T11:31:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948513478.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211105804-20171211125804-00081.warc.gz | 0.978191 | 388 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__174277905 | en | Welcome to Taylors Bags
Bespoke bags designed and handcrafted in the UK, each one custom made to your own individual requirements
What Our Customers Say...
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Eliza Goldsmith: I have previously had a very bad experience with a custom bag maker where the finished product was awful and my bag and scrap was ruined. 12 months on I decided to put my faith in Sarah and oh my word I'm so glad I did. She helped me create my own custom design, was extremely polite and helpful and has made me a very happy lady. Thank you so much xx
Sara Palmer: Sarah has made me two stunning handbags and some beautiful accessories to match. The attention to detail is incredible and she really is the kindest, most considerate person. I wouldn't go anywhere else :) xx
Emma Cooper: Sarah took delivery of a wrap scrap from me and created the most beautiful slouchy bag, wallet and mirror. I cannot thank Sarah enough. She contacted me at all times during the process to work with me and come up with suggestions on how to best work with the materials. I totally trusted her ideas and the finalised products are literally amazing. I am so proud and pleased to use them, in fact I literally cannot stop stroking them! I've already had lots of admiring glances and comments. The items she makes are infused with such care, love, passion and attention. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend - I cannot wait to think of the next project to send her way | artistic |
http://www.four-thirty.com/company/ | 2017-11-22T08:52:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806543.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122084446-20171122104446-00461.warc.gz | 0.924345 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__27169154 | en | With backgrounds in creative strategy and human resources, we source and vet the best creative talent on the market so we can help emerging and established companies build better brands.
Co-Founded by Ronn Richardson and Daniel Calderon, Four Thirty is an innovative freelance creative agency that is a visual catalyst for forward-thinking lifestyle brands.
An experienced digital marketing professional, Ronn partnered with Daniel, a former Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Amazon.com, to build and launch Four Thirty. The duo’s vast experience in their respective industries fostered an undeniable synergy that allowed the two to forge a service that caters to both the client and creative freelancer’s needs.
Collaboration makes creating better & we’d love to work with you. | artistic |
http://washingtonrarebookgroup.org/2023/07/18/of-possible-interest-artist-talk-at-lc/ | 2024-03-03T16:13:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476396.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303142747-20240303172747-00252.warc.gz | 0.946358 | 382 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__110715363 | en | Artist Talk: The Nightingale & Commissars: From the Neva to the Hudson
Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 3:00pm
Rosenwald Room (LJ 205)
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Jefferson Building, 2nd floor
Join the Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress for a rare opportunity to hear Soviet-born New York book artist Mikhail Magaril talk about the need for “an artistic paper book” in our electronic times. Magaril will present his most recent projects, which focus on themes of the artist’s freedom and lack of freedom. He will also discuss his inspirations, from Hans Christian Andersen to Joseph Brodsky, as well as his own life experiences. Magaril will be joined in conversation by longtime collaborators Michael Weintraub and master printer Peter Kruty, who will add to the discussion of how concepts can be expressed graphically. The group will show tools and the original forms from which the books were printed.
The talk will be accompanied by a display of Magaril’s works from Library of Congress collections. Magaril’s books are produced in editions of only a few copies. They weave elements of history with humor and evocative representations of Leo Tolstoy’s alphabet books, fairytales and Jewish folklore, and Soviet Army songs. Magaril has illustrated works by Nikolai Gogol and Daniil Kharms, offered a purely visual interpretation of the Russian fable Masha and the Bear, and produced a set of color portraits of riders on the New York Subway. His collaborators have included other prominent printers, photographers, and cartoonists.
This event will be filmed for later viewing on the LC website.
For more information about this event, contact Barbara Dash: [email protected] | artistic |
https://ricidress.com/pages/brand-story | 2023-12-05T21:22:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00822.warc.gz | 0.943762 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__220866802 | en | Ricidress: A Journey of Fashion and Elegance
Once upon a time, in a bustling city, a young visionary named Sophia embarked on a journey to redefine fashion for discerning women around the world. With a passion for creativity and a keen eye for style, she founded Ricidress, a cross-border women's clothing brand that quickly captured the hearts of fashion-forward individuals.
Ricidress, derived from the words "Rici," meaning elegance, and "dress," representing the epitome of feminine fashion, became synonymous with sophistication and exclusivity. Sophia envisioned her brand to cater to the cosmopolitan and high-spirited European and American women, who embraced the latest trends while remaining true to their unique individuality.
At Ricidress, we believe that fashion is an art form, and each garment tells a story. Our team of talented designers and artisans meticulously craft every piece, paying attention to the finest details. Our primary focus lies in bespoke women's clothing that epitomizes contemporary fashion trends, ranging from elegant dresses to chic tops, stylish jumpsuits, and exquisite accessories like jewelry and handbags.
What sets Ricidress apart is our commitment to providing an unparalleled personalized experience. We understand that every woman has her own style, preferences, and body shape. That's why we offer made-to-measure services, allowing our customers to customize their garments to fit perfectly and showcase their individual beauty.
Our brand philosophy revolves around sustainability and ethical practices. We prioritize sourcing high-quality materials from eco-friendly suppliers and promote fair trade practices. We believe that fashion should be a force for good, not only making women look fabulous but also contributing positively to society and the environment.
As we continue our journey, Ricidress strives to inspire women to embrace their unique sense of style and radiate confidence in every outfit they wear. We constantly stay attuned to the ever-changing fashion landscape, ensuring our collections are always on-trend and in sync with our customers' desires.
Join us on this fashion odyssey as we unveil new chapters of style, elegance, and self-expression. With Ricidress, you become a part of our story, a story where fashion knows no boundaries, and every woman shines in her own extraordinary way. | artistic |
https://robertlovesart.com/ | 2024-04-18T14:40:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00732.warc.gz | 0.972334 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__42217968 | en | Robert Love is a critically-acclaimed artist and writer best known for co-creating FIERCE, SHADOW ROCK, and NUMBER 13 for Dark Horse Comics. Robert is also the co-creator of the animated web series THE ADVENTURES OF VENUS KINCADE, which was developed by FOX 2000. In addition to his creator-owned properties, Robert was the artist for ALPHA GIRL (Image Comics) and NEVER ENDING (Dark Horse). He has also done illustration and design work for Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, B.E.T., Vibe Magazine, and the Sacramento Kings. Among his current projects, he is writing and drawing the comic series CHILDREN OF THE PLAGUE. | artistic |
https://www.shesaidyesphotography.com.au/portfolio_tag/romanian-wedding/ | 2024-02-29T02:01:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00419.warc.gz | 0.873277 | 362 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__129971530 | en | Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Romanian weddings as our photography and videography portfolio, She Said YES!, reveals the unique blend of customs, emotions, and vibrant celebrations that define these joyous occasions. Each photograph and video clip in our Romanian Wedding collection showcases the rich cultural tapestry, heartwarming moments, and timeless beauty that make these events truly unforgettable.
From the intricate detailing of traditional Romanian attire to the captivating dances that fill the air with energy and excitement, our portfolio captures the essence of these extraordinary celebrations. Our skilled photographers and videographers have a keen eye for the small yet significant details, immortalizing the tender exchanges, laughter, and tears that are the hallmarks of any wedding day.
As you explore our Romanian Wedding portfolio, you’ll be transported to the heart of these lively ceremonies, where age-old customs blend seamlessly with a modern flair. Witness the time-honoured rituals such as the symbolic tying of the bride’s and groom’s hands, the vibrant hora dance, and the breaking of the bread, each moment captured in stunning visual clarity.
Our team at She Said YES! understands that each couple’s love story is unique, and we strive to reflect the individuality and authenticity of every Romanian wedding we document. The result is a mesmerizing collection of photographs and videos that not only evoke the emotions of the day but also preserve the cultural heritage of these momentous occasions.
Step into the vibrant world of Romanian weddings with our captivating portfolio, and experience the passion, joy, and love that make these events truly magical. Allow She Said YES! to take you on a visual journey through the heart and soul of Romanian traditions, providing a vivid and lasting reminder of the beauty and significance of these extraordinary celebrations. | artistic |
http://artbyserena.blogspot.com/2008/08/blogging-friends-forever-award-card.html | 2017-04-28T18:01:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123046.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00207-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970415 | 547 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__119021264 | en | BFF gold card - BFF stands for 'blogging friends forever' - i feel stoked and honoured to have this award card bestowed upon me by nic. nic is not only a wonderful mixed media artist but also a creativity coach. i'm always inspired when i visit her blog. thanks so much, nic!
here are the rules -
1. 5 people are allowed to receive this award.
2. four dedicated followers of your blog.
3. one is to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. please link back to whoever gave you the award.
as with all the awards i post here, PLEASE know that participation is entirely optional. i would hate for anyone to feel pressured in any way. i have met so many wonderful blog friends since joining the blogosphere and they all mean so much to me but, unfortunately, i am limited to listing just four regular readers and one new reader to my blog.
maria - a wonderful artist who specialises in abstract and mixed media
jessica - another wonderful artist who i feel privileged to know.
julie - i like to think of julie as 'the succulent queen' as she shares her love of succulents and cacti with the world.
becky - who does such cute illustrations for children's books. a very talented lady.
luci - visiting luci's blog never fails to bring a smile to my face. i love her stories and illustrations.
janet - who inspires me so much as she shares her creativity and growth as an artist.
kate - an amazing photographer. i am always touched in a positive way after visiting her blog.
ro - doll maker extraordinaire! i have known ro for several years and i am grateful to call her my friend. now, ro, I know you stipulated that you won't participate in these blog thingies and you are not expected to but....i just wouldn't feel right if i didn't list you as one of my 'blog friends forever'.
okay people, i know! i can't count......shoot me now! i just couldn't pick and choose between friends, so there! i was tempted to list more but i knew i had to draw the line somewhere.
the new reader to my blog and who i was delighted to find via another bloggy friend (thanks,ro) is linda. i was totally hooked after my first visit to linda's blog.....it's full of variety with great posts and OH, her amazing sculptures and mixed media! a lovely lady all round and i hope linda will always remain a BBF. | artistic |
https://happylifestylehappyliving.com/author/happylifestylehappyliving/ | 2023-06-01T18:47:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648000.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601175345-20230601205345-00135.warc.gz | 0.975323 | 2,740 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__99697253 | en | A Safe House
Welcome to my Safe House. This small piece of utter tranquillity is where I can escape when I am overwhelmed by the world. Here, in this small corner of my mind, I have complete control, it is somewhere I can go that is truly safe. I developed my Safe House from a technique taught to me by my former therapist. This was to have in my mind somewhere I could go, when the anxiety and depression were suffocating, that would give me a sense of peace. It was about picturing vividly in your mind the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and feel of the world around you, building on every detail. It is a technique that has become invaluable to me when trying to navigate the many aspects of this world that I struggle with. It hasn’t just given me a place to go when I need a sense of calm, it has become a library for my thoughts, my fears and my desires.
I gazed up at the deep blue sky, noticing a hint of dusk on the east horizon. Wisps of cloud scurried across the sky, racing the birds that flew alongside them. I ran my hands over the silky grass, the gentle tickle of the blades against my palm sending a shiver up my arm. Nature’s peaceful symphony filled the warm summer air. The distant song of a blackbird rang through the air. The wind whistled through the leaves of swaying trees. In the distance you could just make out the soft babbling of a brook as it raced through the forest floor. A woodpecker’s distinct knocking reverberated through the air, disturbing a flock of starlings who rose in unison. In a magnificent show they danced through the air with instinctive synchronisation, coming to rest only when the performance was done. Their movement had disturbed the trees, whose leaves shuffled from the shifting of a million feathers. At the edge of the forest a young doe grazed. Her ears stood to attention when she heard the commotion, but she remained unperturbed by the events unfolding above her. She moved with a silent grace, searching for the most delectable patch of foliage to nibble on.
All around me sat plump bushes of English lavender, lined up in the fashion of well-behaved school children. The lavender’s sweet perfume invaded my every inhale, reaching each part of my body in a relaxing embrace. A neat grass path, inlaid with square paving slabs, led to a pair of magnificent arched French doors in a large house of aged Cotswold stone. Behind these French doors fell curtains of soft velvet, dyed an exquisite teal. Beyond these curtains lay a stone flag floor, worn with the memory of a million footsteps. On my left was a small open kitchen, decorated with duck egg tiles and blue speckled marble. I flicked on the copper kettle and listened to the gentle roar as the water started to warm. After a couple of minutes steam had coated the duck egg tiles and beads of condensation raced each other towards the marble counter. An earthy aroma filled my senses as the water tumbled into the mug and became consumed in the essence of the tea leaves. I wrapped my hands around the mug and made my way towards a plush blue sofa. Beneath my bare feet the bitter cold stone floor pinched at my toes, who rejoiced when I came to a thick sheepskin rug that lay in front of the sofa. I sunk into the thick cushions, sighing contently as I did so. I brought the mug to my lips, carefully testing whether the tea was at a drinkable temperature. Establishing that the tea needed a few minutes to cool, I placed the mug on a tarnished brass coffee table, inlaid with two thick slabs of glass, and buried myself further into the sofa. At the opposite end of the sofa sat a large pile of soft blankets, into which I submerged by frozen toes.
From underneath a blanket emerged the white head and liver brown ears of a Dalmatian. Florence, named after my father’s love of Italy, was a ten-year-old liver Dalmatian, whose age you could see in her grey flecked whiskers. She had been born the runt of the litter and, as such, she was much sleeker than others belonging to the stocky breed. She gazed sleepily around the room before readjusting herself, laying her head on my lap, and letting out a rather melodramatic sigh. I stroked the space between her eyes, tracing with my finger the contour of her head, before letting my hand rest lightly on her shoulder. From behind the sofa I heard the light patter of small paws on the stone floor and in a moment a large cat had landed, quite gracefully, on the back of the sofa. This majestic Bengal was Simba, a three-year-old with the heart of a dog and the stomach of a blue whale. He stepped delicately down from the sofa onto the dog, who sighed in annoyance and, after a curious sniff at the source of the sigh, he curled up into my lap and settled his head next to Florence’s. The two of them lay there, resting in perfect peace. I smiled. In the whole world I have yet to find something more wholesome, more life-affirming than lying next to a creature who is unquestionably loyal to you.
The light in the room had now changed and my eyes travelled to a large arched window, framed in a dark wood, through which I could see the sun setting over the rows of lavender. I watched the light of the day slowly fade away, and the occasional silhouette of a bird racing across the amber sky. I rose from the sofa and took my tea in my hand as I walked around the room to switch on a collection of lamps dotted about the furniture. The room became flooded with a soft artificial light that highlighted the objects in the room in a much gentler way than the piercing bright light of the sun. On the wall opposite the sofa, adjacent to the tiny kitchen, was a huge bookcase that stretched across the entire length of the wall. The bookcase, carved out of a light oak, showed its age in the faded sections of wood and chipped corners. My eyes travelled along the many rows of books. Among them were titles that inspired reminiscence or sadness, some that took me back to my childhood and others that brought to mind people or places long since forgotten. I ran my finger down the spine of a book that was heavily faded and worn with time. Pulling the book from the shelf I felt that same sense of joy I had always felt when holding a book I love. I turned the book over in my hands and gazed into the wide eyes of the rabbit on the front cover. Hazel had always been my favourite character in Watership Down. I placed the book back into the empty space on the shelf and continued scanning the rows of books, running my finger along the old wood as I did so. My eyes came to rest on a collective edition of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The story of young Lyra had touched a chord in me when I was younger, as an honest coming of age series it is a tale we can all relate to, (I mean besides the magic dust). Due to Pullman’s raw and honest genius, I will forever class His Dark Materials as one of my all-time favourite novels.
At the end of the bookcase I came to a small table holding a speaker. I pressed a button on the top and let the heavy beats reverberate throughout the room. Simba and Florence looked up for a moment, but soon realised it wasn’t a disturbance they were remotely interested in and turned back to the sofa. My feet beat against the floor in time with the music and a smile crept into the corners of my mouth. Music was a refuge for me, I could let the notes drown out the worries on my mind and focus solely on the beat of the bass, the emotion in the lyrics and the freedom of allowing the music to enter your limbs. Tears swelled to the corner of my eye and I blinked back a tear. I am most certainly a crier, it is pretty much how I deal with everything in life, from tiredness, to happiness, to sadness, to anger. Music reaches deep into my soul and uncovers emotions I had forced myself to forget, that I had locked away deep in my mind. When I connect with a song I find myself engrossed by the lyrics and the emotion of the artist, how each note is carefully placed to achieve perfection. My feet had truly been captured by the music and they spun across the floor, coming to rest before a pair of tall wooden doors. With a great heave I used both my arms to push the doors open. The room before me was magnificently dressed in chandeliers of teardrop sculpted crystal and aged oak bookshelves. Twenty-six bookcases lined the walls of the library. Down the aisle ran a plush red carpet. A brass letter adorned each of the oak bookcases, each one a further step down the alphabet as you ventured further into the room. The air was filled with the scent of paper and ink. At the end of the room a writing desk, carved from a dark Cherry, was perched on a raised platform. In the daytime this room would be filled with sunlight from the stately arched window that was mounted in the far wall. Now, at dusk, the only light in the room came from the high chandeliers, whose chiselled crystal ornaments threw the artificial light across the room. I made my way towards the desk and sat down on a sturdy chair, made of the same dark Cherry wood. The surface of the desk was dressed in a deep red leather and had brass buttons placed neatly around the border. On this leather lay a gold fountain pen and a closed book that had written on the cover, ‘Grandma’. I picked up the book and walked back towards the bookshelves, placing the book where it belonged in the ‘G’ run. I meandered through the shelves of memories, some good, some bad, and some I would never revisit.
One technique I have developed is, when I am being pursued by a particular fear or anxiety, I write it down in a book, I picture the book closing and I put the book back on the shelf. The fear or anxiety hasn’t disappeared, I am aware it is still there, but I now have control. I can choose when I go to the shelf, open the book and deal with whatever demon is there.
I happened upon the run of ‘M’ bookshelves and glanced around the shelves until one book caught my eye, ‘Marmite’. Marmite was our first cat, a stocky Burmese with a coat of dark brown. The next book on the shelf was labelled ‘Maisie’. That fierce little Westie was our first dog. I had wanted to name her snowy, but I was overruled by my parents who thought it was too generic for a white dog. Further down the shelf was a book labelled ‘Simba’. This book was one of the hardest in my library to look at, causing a painful stab in my gut whenever I laid eyes on the cover. As if he knew Simba suddenly appeared at my side, mewing loudly and stretching his front paws towards my leg as an indication he wanted to be picked up. I crouched down and gathered him in my arms. He set his paws on my shoulder and nuzzled his head against my neck, purring loudly as he did so. I picked up the book from the shelf and stared, in agony, at the front cover. Simba looked up at me and I looked back into the vastness of his green eyes. He rubbed his head against my face and I buried myself in his fur, finding comfort in the deep purring that reverberated throughout his body. It breaks my heart that I can no longer hold him, hear his low purring and enjoy the love that he showed by kneading my stomach with his paws or rubbing his face against mine. I placed the book back on the shelf. I may not have him here with me, but he will always be in my Safe House.
I had spent enough time mulling over the past in my library and so, without glancing back, I made my way towards the heavy oak doors. As I left I flicked off the light switch and the room was instantly plunged into darkness. I closed the doors and left my library behind. I planted Simba next to Florence and stepped over to the arched windows that sat opposite the sofa. I drew closed the pair of curtains at each window, running my hand down the soft velvet as I did so.
I opened my eyes to the bare white of the ceiling, my mind palace now locked away deep in my thoughts. It is time I come back to the real world, until such a time when my eyes close and the doors to my palace of tranquillity open once again. | artistic |
http://quiltninja.blogspot.com/2010/12/gifted.html | 2013-06-20T06:09:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710366143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131926-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.981083 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__125816879 | en | We had to rag this by hand (sigh) while we wait for warranty repairs on that Accuquilt, but this is what we ended up making for my sister-in-law this year. She lives by herself, and a nice lap quilt seemed like the perfect thing to have in the winter. The top is recycled denim, the bottom is a combination of recycled t-shirt knit, cotton, and flannel scraps. There's a layer of thick batting in the middle.
I think it turned out totally fun, and we'll have to make more of these soon. | artistic |
https://graftonfurniture.com/custom-furniture/ | 2020-05-28T20:32:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347400101.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528201823-20200528231823-00468.warc.gz | 0.937027 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__12865375 | en | Bring your projects to our Design Lab, where we combine style with functionality.
At Grafton Furniture, we specialize in crafting high quality custom furnishings using the best available materials. Our custom pieces have been featured and displayed in a variety of esteemed locations, including hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs, as well as in private homes. Our commercial furniture is highly regarded in the interior design and furnishing industries, featuring fine seating and millwork. Whether starting up a business or investing in a makeover, Grafton Furniture produces top of the line furniture for all occasions. | artistic |
https://sainlak.com/product/affordable-interior-design/ | 2022-11-30T06:19:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710733.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130060525-20221130090525-00830.warc.gz | 0.91479 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__71119888 | en | In this DIY home decorating handbook, Helmuth reveals insider tips and her tried-and-tested methods for choosing colors, creating a gallery wall, how to use accent tables, entry benches, rugs, and more!
Helmuth has shared her affordable design advice and step-by-step approaches with millions through live teaching workshops, guest columns, television appearances, and interviews. Now, she has distilled her expertise into this practical guide. The chapters follow her secret design formula and include creating a design budget, mapping out floor plans, selecting a color palette, and accessorizing like a stylist.
It’s time to start living in the home of your dreams without maxing out your credit cards. Learn how with Affordable Interior Design! | artistic |
https://alainaelizabethphoto.com/2022/09/07/botanicalchic-engagement-daisyorest/ | 2023-06-10T22:06:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646350.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610200654-20230610230654-00676.warc.gz | 0.977291 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__210509226 | en | I’m the photographer for the couple who likes to explore, is down to get a little messy and who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. I don’t want to just take photos of you - I want to make moments together. Let’s first connect and then create.
Let’s start off with the obvious— have you seen a more photogenic couple than Daisy and Orest? They are both complete naturals in front of the camera and it shows! What’s even more impressive than their “Magazine Couple Status” is how tangible their love is. The connection between Orest, Daisy, and Daisy’s daughter is so apparent, it truly is beautiful to see in person.
You’d never know it now, but Daisy and Orest met years before ever truly having a conversation! Orest’s best friend managed the hair salon where Daisy and her sister worked, and Orest would often come in to have Daisy’s sister cut and style his hair. After a few years, Orest finally asked who “the pretty girl” was and Daisy’s sister sprang into action! She snatched both Daisy and Orest’s phones to put their numbers in and set them up on their first date! Their first date was over 6 hours, and as Daisy describes it, the most amazing (and longest) date of her life.
Ever since, Orest has made sure Daisy and her daughter know how much he loves them. Orest even proposed with a ring designed to look like a daisy, inspired by her name. I mean, how romantic is that?!
I am so happy we captured these sweet moments of your family to celebrate your engagement. I had a blast shooting your session at NJ Botanical Gardens and absolutely love all of the images we captured together. All three of you are so full of joy, it truly is contagious.
Since this shoot, Daisy and Orest have tied the knot! Don’t miss the photos from their fairytale bohemian wedding at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz. You can check them out HERE.
[…] If you want to see more of Daisy & Orest, take a peek at their engagement session! […] | artistic |
http://rosieconsulting.com/news3.html | 2023-03-30T12:04:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949181.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330101355-20230330131355-00190.warc.gz | 0.970961 | 324 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__16364781 | en | Loving the original logo we set the branding specialists the task of improving and modernising the logo, while remaining true to the basic design and providing a fresh, visual look for all branding including our website, electronic items and print.
Our logo has been with us for some years and as well as being something we liked, we felt it still expressed our company ethos. We tasked the David Lovatt Design Studio to bring the logo up-to-date whilst keeping the fundamental look of the original. This was to be the basis for all changes reflecting our brand. From this we asked them to work with us to provide the visual designs and layouts for our revised website. The clever use of an additional deep pink took the logo design from almost 2D to 3D; a simple change, but a bold and welcome move forward.
With a revised logo decided upon, we then asked them to work on our stationery. A fresh new look, coupled with our revised wording, brought our stationery right up-to-date.
Finally, various themes were suggested for the website, but we felt the chair theme fitted so well with what we do, sitting talking to people to understand them, their needs, wants and frustrations - Market Research. They worked with us to understand what we wanted to feature on the site. From that they created a design that was not only pleasing to the eye but also easy to navigate and logical. Pretty is not always functional, so the balance they offered between the front end and back end of the website was excellent.
We hope you agree that collaboration has produced a great result. | artistic |
https://mamahuman.com/tee-club/ | 2022-06-29T06:26:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103624904.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629054527-20220629084527-00729.warc.gz | 0.817385 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__116940105 | en | MAMA HUMAN® TEE CLUB
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The mama craft club is a monthly delivery of something seasonal and fun for you to paint and decorate for your home. Craft club members gain access to our special group where we all share in on the fun. Once the box ships, we go live and paint live with you (or you can replay for ideas later).
All supplies are included. | artistic |
https://eurotunnelcalais.worlddutyfree.com/en/brands/tom-ford | 2024-04-13T10:41:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00831.warc.gz | 0.913514 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__57747947 | en | Tom Ford is one of the most celebrated American designers of his era. He launched the TOM FORD brand in 2005 with a mission to re-define modern luxury for the 21st century. Comprising menswear and womenswear, accessories, eyewear and beauty, TOM FORD is synonymous with sexy, timeless elegance, superior materials and workmanship, and outstanding personal service. TOM FORD Private Blend is a collection of unisex perfumes created for the true fragrance connoisseur. These mesmerizing fragrances are unconstrained by the conventions of mainstream scent making. They fuse artisanal craftsmanship with extraordinary ingredients in Tom Ford's visionary interpretations of perfumery’s finest notes. | artistic |
https://www.gowriehouse.com/tag/cozy-room/ | 2019-04-23T08:50:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578596541.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190423074936-20190423100049-00073.warc.gz | 0.950315 | 542 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__12332047 | en | There are so many ways to make your home reflect your personality or lifestyle. Personally, I love a cozy, comfortable home that’s also very clean and traditional looking. I tend to lean towards neutral colours like beige, creams, and greys for my furniture and decor. However, in at least one room of the house, I like to express the eclectic of my personality. That room is typically the coziest room in the house. Here’s a couple of ways to make your house seem more cozy.
- Use lots of colour. Colour often helps to fill up a room even if the room is quite empty. Bright colours all mixed together gives a positive vibe and the more colours you put together, the more cozy your room will look. Try placing one piece of furniture that is a bright pop of colour and then mixing and matching prints with that piece.
- Mix different materials. Mixing different materials and textures will also give your home a cozy feeling. Softer materials like a velvet couch will really cozy up a room.
- Put stuff on countertops. If you have a really big kitchen and you often feel like it gives off a cold vibe, it’s probably due to your appliances. Large stainless steel appliances are gorgeous pieces, but you can sometimes have them coloured. If you live in a building, you can also find some great appliances for your apartment that are of a smaller size. Instead of hiding these appliances in your cupboards, try placing a couple of them on your countertops to create a little bit more of clutter. This is also a great way to style a smaller kitchen as well.
- Don’t go too far with clutter. Yes, in number 3 I mentioned you can put some appliances on your countertops. However, don’t put everything you own on there. Only place appliances you need or want to show off like your best quality countertop dishwasher, a pretty kettle, or a coffee maker. It will look even cozier if you get these pieces in bright pops of colour.
- Look for interesting and original art. Or even better, create your own! Nothing makes a house less cozy than making it look like a museum with really expensive paintings and statues. Instead, pick out photos, paintings, or even clippings you find in a magazine! Throw these in frames, and viola! – picture perfect! The more mismatched your artwork is, the more cozy the room will feel.
Hopefully these tips will help you create your perfect cozy and comfortable room. Remember, embrace your individuality and original style. You always want your room to reflect who you are! | artistic |
https://peterhoward.com/about | 2024-04-18T11:46:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418093630-20240418123630-00616.warc.gz | 0.951921 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__160262502 | en | Photographer, director, producer, stylist, trouble shooter, facilitator, psychologist, fabricator, mediator, travel agent; these are just a few of the jobs that award winning photographer, Peter Howard, performs during any one assignment. "I just love every aspect of what it takes to create and communicate my visual interpretation of what I see, whether it's a self-directed project or a large art directed production. There are so many things going on during a shoot that it can get overwhelming. I try and keep everything on a low stress level and running smoothly. That means being respectful to your crew, attending to the needs of your client, collaborating with the art director, and most importantly, making your subject feel comfortable, relaxed, and having fun."
Peter runs the gamut of shooting newborn babies to senior citizens, from homeless people to CEO's of multi-billion dollar corporations. "I like to tell people I shoot anything that breathes. I've met and photographed some wonderful people over the time I've been in business. They've contributed to some great memories and experiences that I will never forget."
Peter's work has taken him all over the world, allowing him to explore many diverse cultural environments, in addition to different photographic environments. "Every location is different. That's what keeps me going. I love to walk into a new situation and figure out what to do. Nothing is more gratifying than putting my experience and creativity to work to make a great photograph."
Partial client list includes: AARP, ACE Insurance, AGFA Healthcare, American Red Cross, Anne Arundel Medical Center, APUS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Chubb Insurance, Crayola, DuPont, Doylestown Health System, Erickson Senior Living, LLC, Gensler, Guardian Insurance, Internal Revenue Service, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Legg Mason, Marriott International, Music and Arts, National Cancer Institute, Novo Nordisk, Patient Experience Project, Pfizer, Polk Audio, T. Rowe Price, The Carlyle Group, Tulane University, Touchstone Energy, US Mint, USDA, United States Naval Academy, Verizon, Williams College, Wired Magazine
Peter splits his time between Silverthorne, CO and Baltimore, MD with base camps in both cities. He also competitively races mountain bikes for Joe's Bike Shop. | artistic |
http://denversalonandspa.com/blog/Body-Soul-Salon-and-Day-Spa.htm?promotion=22243 | 2017-04-26T21:32:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121665.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00134-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.952774 | 106 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__65210762 | en | It is a delight to welcome Nikita to the Body & Soul Family. Nikita will be available on Fridays and Saturdays beginning on September 11th. Nikita has been in the industry since 2005 and her skill set includes styling textured hair, hair extensions and making wigs. Nikita is energetic and full of life, we are excited to have her on our team. Please join us in welcoming Nikita to the Body & Soul Family!
posted: September 2, 2015 - Body & Soul Salon and Day Spa - Blog | artistic |
https://www.whatsturning.com/ | 2024-02-23T10:04:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474377.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223085439-20240223115439-00759.warc.gz | 0.97449 | 240 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__141290983 | en | When The Pawn... is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released on November 9, 1999. It is a blend of modern, alternative pop, jazz, and classical music. It features intricate string arrangements to accompany Apple's deep and insightful lyrics. Apple's powerful and passionate voice also shines through on the album, creating an emotionally powerful experience for listeners. Fiona Apple is an iconic alternative singer-songwriter from New York City. Her music often revolves around themes of depression, fear, and self-examination. She has won multiple awards for her music, including the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for her hit single "Criminal". Apple has also been praised for her live performances and her emotional lyrics. When The Pawn... was released to critical acclaim and solid commercial success. The album was praised for its production, featuring an array of jazz and classical influences. Apple's songwriting on the album was also praised for its range, with songs touching on themes such as heartbreak, depression, and determination. The lead single from the album, "Fast as You Can" became a moderate hit, reaching number 34 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. | artistic |
https://rwmffringe.com/project/kelunan/ | 2022-01-21T11:32:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303356.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121101528-20220121131528-00588.warc.gz | 0.922633 | 226 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__222474044 | en | Featuring an inter-generational cast of performers from the Kayan and Kenyah of Tubau and Baram, KELUNAN is a multi-disciplinary performance deeply rooted in the rare performative traditions of these indigenous Sarawakian peoples.
With support from the Australian Council for the Arts and with original compositions by Corrina Bonshek together with Adrian Jo Milang, KELUNAN debuted in 2019 bringing native Sarawakian performance art to a greater audience.
Produced by The Tuyang Initiative, the show provides a distinctive and accessible gateway into the history and early lifestyle and culture of the Kayan and Kenyah. KELUNAN is crafted to provide a 50-minute journey from war to love and times of celebration. It is delivered through the poetic singing-storytelling traditions of both communities, dances, stage-acting and live music from traditional instruments.
Date: 5th of July 2020
Time: 3:00 pm – 3:50pm
Venue: The Auditorium @ Old Court House
Photo credited to Mosesparen Production | artistic |
https://www.southbrookstudio.com/ | 2024-02-21T08:24:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473401.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221070402-20240221100402-00585.warc.gz | 0.936458 | 388 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__131718104 | en | NOW BOOKING SUMMER 2021
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https://www.cobsj.org/member-spotlight/glen-schneider | 2024-04-16T21:24:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817106.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416191221-20240416221221-00267.warc.gz | 0.978161 | 1,283 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__66789578 | en | We've asked one of our bassists, Glen Schneider, a few questions in this installment of Member Spotlight!
What was the first instrument you owned?
I grew up with a piano and guitars in the home, but the first instrument that was specifically mine was a horrible Kramer electric bass with a warped neck that I got from a neighbor. That was the instrument I learned on, playing along to songs we taped off the radio with my brother.
How did you come to study your instrument, and what drew you to it?
My high school didn’t have an orchestra, we had a concert band. I had auditioned to be a part of the jazz ensemble on electric bass, and began spending time in the band room. In one of the back rooms, I discovered a double bass hidden away in an old canvas sack. I had never seen one before, and wanted to try it out. The band teacher told me I could use it if I joined the concert band and agreed to take lessons. After that, he connected me to my first teacher, Eliot Porter, who opened up the whole world of classical music to me and I was hooked.
What is some of your favorite repertoire?
I really like the solo bass pieces composed by Giovanni Bottesini. It’s extremely challenging stuff, but also very expressive and beautiful. For orchestral works, I love anything by Beethoven, Schubert, or Tchaikovsky. My tastes are sort of all over the place, and I enjoy playing all kinds of music in ensembles. From a listening perspective, or in terms of general appreciation, I really like the pieces written by Ravi Shankar for small ensembles of Indian instruments. His daughter Anoushka has also written and performed several works in that style as well. I saw her in concert at the Park Theater several years ago and I think that was the best performance I’ve ever seen.
Who have been some of the most influential people in your life?
Certainly all of my teachers. Without their enthusiasm and inspiration, I may never have taken any interest in music at all! That starts with my piano teacher, David Longo, high school band teacher Marc Blanchette, bass teachers Eliot Porter and David Cobb, and the music faculty at Rhode Island College at the time, especially Dr. Markward. My brother Jeff was my main inspiration when we were younger. He is six years older than I am, and I spent so much of my youth looking up to him and trying to keep up as he learned to play guitar. My fellow students at RIC were, and continue to be, also extremely influential and inspirational to me. Those include our concertmaster Wendy Rios, Erin Quinton, Alicia Ruggiero, Jacob Stott, Chris Farias, Chris Mink, Tom Casale, and too many others for me to list.
What, for you, is the most fulfilling aspect of your life as a musician?
I’ve been very fortunate to have been in several different roles, and in a wide variety of styles and contexts around music. They all have aspects that I really enjoy, but I think the most fulfilling thing for me is being a part of acoustic ensembles that perform live and in person. The creative process of thinking through the music, both in terms of determining how it should sound and technically how to achieve that sound and feel, is my favorite part. In that sense, rehearsals are the most enjoyable and interesting part of the process, for me. I love the fact that all the musicians have to juggle and balance the complicated task of playing their own parts while also supporting and enabling each other.
Are there any performances or moments in your performing career that stand out in your memory for their significance?
Could you tell us what made these performances particularly special for you?
In 2004, as part of my graduate studies, I attended the 25th anniversary celebration of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, the first Balinese gamelan ensemble in America. They arranged a week-long program of study with master teachers from Bali, and we all stayed together on a small ranch north of Marin County in California. Learning from those teachers, getting to understand their creative process and the spiritual and cultural values that the music contained was really special and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. On the final day, we held an open celebration and performance. Although we weren’t playing at an extremely high level, it was the culmination of a really special experience that I will never forget.
What would be your dream concert to perform?
If it ever becomes possible, and I do hold hope that one day it will, I would love to be a part of a performance of Charles Stepney’s symphony, “Cohesion.” He had written it specifically for Minnie Riperton and the Ramsey Lewis Trio as soloists, accompanied by symphony orchestra. It was performed perhaps twice around 1970, once led by Stepney himself in Minneapolis and once by Seiji Ozawa (though I don’t know with what orchestra). It was recorded at the time, but the recording, and perhaps even the score itself, are now lost.
What CD or playlist is in your car?
I actually don’t listen to a lot of music in the car, I prefer to listen to NPR. However, when I do feel like listening to music while I drive, I go to the Talking Heads (especially “Stop Making Sense”) and early Parliament/Funkadelic.
And lastly, could you tell us a bit about upcoming musical projects outside of COBSJ that you are looking forward to?
Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of stuff upcoming. At least, not at the moment. But, I am working on making a recording of Edouard Nanny’s “Dragonetti” double bass concerto. At least the slow, middle movement. I don’t have any particular timeline for it, only whenever I can play it well enough to record! I look forward to all of our COBSJ performances, that’s enough for me. | artistic |
https://fishsnackart.gumroad.com/l/nsgkn | 2022-11-28T15:26:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710533.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128135348-20221128165348-00644.warc.gz | 0.886661 | 417 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__173540088 | en | The "Renderlayer Manager" is a free Blender addon that provides an easy and fast setup of renderlayer and file output nodes.
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Any Blender version before 2.83 is not supported. | artistic |
https://www.katbutterfield.com/about-me | 2022-01-21T22:39:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00353.warc.gz | 0.89215 | 1,162 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__77860380 | en | I'm an award winning comedy writer and producer and the co-creator of MODERN HORROR STORIES on Comedy Central, an 11 part online sketch series and TV pilot that has been broadcast worldwide.
Most recently I have written two 30 min episodes of young adult comedy dramas for BBC iPlayer (Flatmates) and CBBC (Almost Never) and I co-wrote series 3 of the award winning Radio 4 sitcom 'Ability' with Britain's Got Talent winner Lee Ridley (Lost Voice Guy), which played on BBC Radio 4 / BBC Sounds.
For this year's Red Nose Day I co-wrote the Derry Girls zoom sketch and I also wrote/produced/directed this year's Cannes Lions Awards live shows. Last year, we wrote the Netflix/BBC One Stranger Things sketch for Sport Relief including cameos for Jennifer Saunders, Orlando Bloom and Emma Thompson. I have also written on Channel 4's Reasons to be Cheerful with Matt Lucas and have worked as main studio writer on The Jonathan Ross show (ITV). I am currently working on numerous original sitcom and comedy drama projects in development with various production companies with my writing partner Daniel Audritt.
After graduating from the National Film and Television School Writing and Producing Comedy course, I went on to write a number of sketches for the LOVIE award-winning Comic Relief Originals series including Stephen Hawking's New Voice which aired on BBC One & NBC America, starring Stephen Fry, Michael Caine, Rebel Wilson and a host of other stars and viral hit 'A Modern Dating Horror Story' which was viewed over 250M times around the world, and was featured by The Independent, Stylist, Viral Thread and many other viral news sites.
With my writing partner Daniel, I was nominated for Debut Writer in the 2020 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voices Awards and shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe comedy writing award as well as the David Nobbs Memorial Comedy Writing Prize.
I've also co-written a young adult sitcom pilot of "Numskulls" for Beano, a broadcast sitcom pilot for BBC Radio 4 (Wisebowm: The Struggle is Real) and two series of Takeshi's Castle for Comedy Central as well as entertainment show Gods of The Game and their all female sketch show.
I was also shortlisted for the inaugural BBC Caroline Aherne Bursary for Funny Northern Women and I'm a contributing writer for the New York based satirical site Reductress.
In addition, I manage production company BoxJack Productions and create branded content and comedy sketches for online and broadcast.
Writing Agent: Julia Mills, Berlin Associates
Lost Voice Guy's Ability to return to Radio 4 British Comedy Guide
The week's best comedy on TV and radio Chortle
How do you make a sitcom in a pandemic? British Comedy Guide
Kat Butterfield: Writers in Various Stages of Development Comedy Loser blog
NFTS Stories: “I went from writing just for myself, for fun, to writing full scripts that I was seeing get performed' - NFTS Interview
'NFTS Comedy Writing Grads team up for Red Nose Day' NFTS blog
MODERN HORROR STORIES
Comedy Central International greenlights six digital short form originals DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
Comedy Central preps shortform C21Media
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'Stephen Hawking has used the same iconic computerized voice for more than 30 years, but it’s time for a change.' - SLATE
'...hilarious spoof clip' - HUFFINGTON POST
'Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick, and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are Among the Hopeful Candidates Trying Out...' - VULTURE
'Hilarious spoof...'. - HYPEBEAST
'Stephen Hawking has used the same computerized voice for over 30 years...' - E! ONLINE
'Stephen Hawking Auditions Celebrities to Be His New Voice' - ELLE
'Stephen Hawking is on the hunt for a new voice. Who will make the cut?' - BROADWAY WORLD
'Hilarious Red Nose Day sketch' - DAILYMAIL
'Anna Kendrick, Lin Manuel-Miranda and Others Vie to Be Stephen Hawking's New Voice' - JEZEBEL
Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick and More Audition to Be Stephen Hawking’s New Voice in Hilarious Red Nose Day Sketch - INDIEWIRE
RED NOSE DESIGN MEETING
‘Comic Relief release hilarious video showing rude designs for this year's red noses’ - METRO
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‘New comic talent for Comic Relief' – FUNNY WOMEN
'New comics join Red Nose Day' - CHORTLE
'The Red Nose gets a VERY naughty redesign in this funny Comic Relief video' - DIGITAL SPY
'Comic Relief gets X-rated with phallic new clip' - EXPRESS
'Comic Relief has launched a new ‘Comic Relief Originals’ YouTube comedy series'. - BEYOND THE JOKE
MASSIVE DAD: FLATSHARE
'Help! We're trapped in an American sitcom' - GUARDIAN
'When Massive Dad met Comic Relief' - HUFFINGTON POST
THE COMIC RELIEF EXPERIENCE
ALL-FEMALE SKETCH SHOW
Comedy Central celebrates International Women's Day with new short form series - DEADLINE | artistic |
http://digitalmattepaintinghandbook.com/About_the_Author.html | 2017-04-27T01:16:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121778.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00385-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.953262 | 415 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__154381624 | en | David B. Mattingly
David Burroughs Mattingly was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. After high school, he attended the Colorado Institute of Art , Colorado State University and later transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. After school, he worked at Walt Disney Studios, ultimately becoming head of the matte department. He worked on "The Black Hole", "Tron", "Dick Tracy", Stephen King's "The Stand" and most recently "I, Robot" for Weta Digital in New Zealand.
David teaches digital matte painting at two of New York Cities finest arts schools, School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute. Each semester he adds new assignments to keep the students up to date with the latest advances in matte painting. Student are required to produced five finished matte paintings over the course of the semester, including a moving matte in After Effects 3D space, and 3D camera projection in Maya.
Along with his work as a matte artist and teacher, David is well known for the over 1000 science fiction books covers he has produced. He has worked for most major publishers of science fiction and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW, Del Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor. For Scholastic Inc, David painted 54 covers for K.A. Applegate's "Animorphs" series. He illustrated the popular, New York TImes best selling "Honor Harrington" series for author David Weber. He is a two time winner of Magazine and Booksellers "Best Cover of the Year" award, and winner of the Association of Science Fiction Artists "Chesley" award. Other clients include Michael Jackson, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Totco Oil, Galloob Toys, R/Greenberg Associates, Click 3X and Spontaneous Combustion.
David lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, and is married to Cathleen Cogswell. They share their home with three cats, Jackson, Glinda and Annie. | artistic |
https://www.shiralevitt.com/about | 2023-03-29T16:10:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949009.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329151629-20230329181629-00249.warc.gz | 0.869963 | 547 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__78452334 | en | Shira Levitt is a graphic designer and marketing specialist based in Jerusalem, Israel. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Yeshiva University in 2021.
Shira’s favorite thing about art is how the advancement of technology has impacted the ways in which people create. In addition to her logo and website design, Shira’s passion involves creating multimedia collages, using elements from her own photography as well as photoshopping and drawing in designs to create a multi-layered conceptual piece. She works using many mediums and enjoys creating physical pieces as well as digital artwork.
Shira’s diverse skillset allows her to implement multiple elements to establish a story in her designs. She utilizes color and pattern in her designs to create a more visually appealing product, and her unique eye for spatial design and typography allows her to produce a fully-formed, thought-out, and detail-oriented concept.
Shira has worked with clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel, such as Aish, Bradley Beach Synagogue, Kedma Israel, Ohr Torah Stone, Gift, JClay Studio, Yad L'Olim, Young Israel of North Netanya, Midreshet Lindenbaum, Kemp Mill Synagogue, and more.
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Dreamweaver, XD, Lightroom
Digital Illustration: Procreate, Adobe Fresco
Digital and Film Photography
Website Design: Wix, Google Sites, Squarespace, WordPress
Social Media Management: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok
Communications: Bloomerang, MailChimp
Microsoft Suite: Powerpoint, Word, Excel
2D Animation: Adobe Photoshop and After Effects
Social Media Manager & Graphic Designer
The Yeshiva University Commentator
Social Media Manager & Layout Editor
Graphics and Marketing Intern
2019 - 2021 • Yeshiva University
Participant in YU's joint program with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
BA Studio Art - Focus in Graphic Design
cell phone number (IL)
(972) 58 593-7327
cell phone number (US) | artistic |
https://odieida.bandcamp.com/releases | 2019-03-25T08:30:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203842.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325072024-20190325094024-00489.warc.gz | 0.883131 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__94463256 | en | Produced by Maddie Thiele and Biddy Healey.
Recorded and mixed by Jez Giddings at Hothouse Studios and Jonathon Dreyfus.
Mastered at Deluxe Mastering by Tony "Jack the Bear" Mantz.
Biddy Healey: lead & backing vocals, cello.
Maddie Thiele: lead & backing vocals, violin, ukulele.
Selene Messinis: keys, backing vocals.
Luke Haaja: drums.
Tracks 1 & 4 by Biddy Healey.
Tracks 2 & 3 by Maddie Thiele.
Cover photography by Steve Chan. Cover artwork by Kanomi Kawagoe. | artistic |
https://switzerland-stay.com/en/o/widder-hotel-zurichs-luxury-hideaway,1edu.html | 2022-10-07T18:43:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338244.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007175237-20221007205237-00765.warc.gz | 0.939548 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__108807362 | en | In a tranquil location in Zurich’s Old Town, just 200 metres from the Bahnhofstrasse shopping street, this 5-star hotel occupies 9 adjacent, carefully renovated historic buildings decorated with works by famous artists. An award-winning gourmet restaurant and free WiFi are featured.
Furniture and various objects by artists including Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Adolf Loos can be admired in Hotel Widder, as well as paintings and sculptures by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.
The Widder Hotel’s spacious, luxuriously furnished rooms are all individually decorated. They are air-conditioned and offer complimentary soft drinks, a modern video and audio entertainment system by B&O, and an elegant bathroom.
Awarded 15 points by the Gault Millau guide, the Widder Restaurant serves Swiss and international gourmet cuisine. Traditional Swiss dishes are offered in the Zur Schtund restaurant, and in summer, guests can also dine in the courtyard.
At the Widder Bar, guests can choose from a large selection of spirits from around the world and enjoy regular live jazz performances.
Zurich's Main Train Station and the shore of Lake Zurich can both be reached in just a 10-minute walk. | artistic |
http://pastseasons.whitelightfestival.org/events/verdi-requiem | 2022-11-28T05:23:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710473.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128034307-20221128064307-00002.warc.gz | 0.861768 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__99859054 | en | London Symphony Orchestra
Penned by a grief-stricken Verdi to memorialize poet Alessandro Manzoni, the Requiem transforms fear, piety, supplication, and hope into an earth-shattering operatic work. Presiding over this astounding masterwork is Gianandrea Noseda, a conductor soaring to great heights on the wings of his luminous interpretations of large-scale symphonic works, and known for “forcing audiences to question their musical beliefs” (Guardian, U.K.).
“Electric from start to finish.”
—Guardian (U.K.) on Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Verdi Requiem at the Barbican
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Erika Grimaldi, soprano
Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano
Francesco Meli, tenor
Vitalij Kowaljow, bass
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey, chorus director
- Pre-concert lecture by Andrew Shenton at 1:45 pm in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Sung in Latin with English supertitles.
There is no late seating.
Endowment support for Symphonic Masters is provided by the Leon Levy Fund.
Endowment support is also provided by UBS. | artistic |
https://nlcommunitymealcenter.org/news/volunteer-of-the-month-april-2020/ | 2020-08-15T04:57:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740679.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815035250-20200815065250-00158.warc.gz | 0.983737 | 182 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__128194939 | en | Meet Douglass Rice, our April volunteer of the month. Doug has been the Wednesday and Thursday volunteer lunch (and often dinner) cook for the Meal Center since 2016. He is an artist and sculptor. You can view some of his paintings on the walls of the Meal Center. Doug says that it is an amazing honor to cook at the center and he is thrilled to work with Peta. He is a multi-talented cook and entertains the other workers with his jokes.
During these times of Covid-19 Doug has been unwavering in his support of the Meal Center. Besides his regular volunteering, he has also collected food items and cash donations from his neighbors in Stonington.
Thank you, Doug, for your service to the community.
If you would like to support the Meal Center, please consider a secure donation on our website at www.nlcommunitymealcenter. | artistic |
https://psglib.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=6788&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2019%2F10%2F01&fbclid=IwAR03LdNOlkAU7vqTHQ4Y6rmu8-rkeXDvAo081oP-rham7R8HRcMv4DKqgSM | 2020-02-21T15:42:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145533.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20200221142006-20200221172006-00466.warc.gz | 0.930075 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__130265662 | en | 9-week session including manuscript review. Saturdays October 12 - December 7, 2:30 - 5:45p.m. Cost $150.
This expanded session includes a manuscript review component. Participants in this workshop write together to prompts using the AWA method, and the closing hour of each day is dedicated to a manuscript review. This is a valuable opportunity for writers to develop their revision craft through workshopping peer manuscripts.
Join us for this fun and productive learning experience.
This creative writing workshop is facilitated by Orin Pierson.
Orin Pierson is trained and certified to facilitate writing workshops using the Amherst Writers and Artists Workshop Method. AWA workshops follow a proven method with a simple philosophy: every person who writes is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and develop craft. The AWA Method creates a safe and supportive space where writers of all ability levels come together to play on the page. Details about the AWA and a schedule of upcoming workshops is available at www.rainforestwriters.org | artistic |
http://www.katiejonesphotography.net/ | 2018-01-24T01:19:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892892.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180124010853-20180124030853-00360.warc.gz | 0.893643 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__227425455 | en | Welcome to Katie Jones Photography
Lives in Oklahoma City, OK
I am a natural light photographer in the greater Okc area. My passion and mission is to capture life's sweetest moments, and turn them into art for you and your loved ones.
This week's deal:
ONE DAY ONLY
Easter Mini Special!
Sat, April 1st 5-8 pm
Will Rogers Garden OKC
Five 30-minute spots
$100, includes 30 minutes of camera time, props, proofing on private website, all Web-size and full-size digital photos on thumb drive by April 9th, print options for purchasing.
Please contact me at 405.609.4071 to register your slot! | artistic |
https://sxcpatna.edu.in/clubs/ | 2024-04-14T17:15:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414161724-20240414191724-00638.warc.gz | 0.912765 | 1,083 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__203743863 | en | Xavier Dhwani Club is a harmonious platform where students with a passion for music unite. Through melodious gatherings, and performances, the club celebrates diverse musical talents. Members can refine their musical skills, collaborate on captivating tunes, and stage heartwarming performances that enrich the college’s cultural activities.
Xavier Dance Club aims to promote the art of dance and provide a platform for members to express themselves through dance. It helps members to improve their dancing skills, whether they are beginners or experienced dancers.
Kabir Club stands as a beacon of mutual respect and understanding, dedicated to nurturing connections among people of varied faiths and beliefs. The club fosters an environment where diverse religious perspectives merge harmoniously through enlightening dialogues, collaborative initiatives, and shared experiences. Kabir Club is committed to promoting inter-religious harmony and to spread sisterhood and brotherhood among the staff, students, and society at large.
The XAVIER ART CLUB (XAC) is your pathway to a world of limitless creation, where innovation meets imagination. Art club serves as the rhythmical soul of artistic expression on campus. We gather to appreciate the beauty of creation in a variety of disciplines, like painting, crafting and more.
Xavier Quiz Club is a group of individuals passionate about testing and expanding their knowledge across a wide range of subjects. We organise inter-college as well as intra-college (Department level) quizzes. Participants from various schools and colleges come together to participate in quiz competitions, brainstorm answers to trivia questions, and challenge themselves intellectually.
At the heart of every successful event lies the art of seamless communication and captivating engagement. The College Anchoring Club has a major take at every event as it weaves together the fabric of various clubs and organizations, and ensures the success of diverse events. Be it an academic seminar, a cultural extravaganza, or a celebratory gathering, our skilled anchors bring life and coherence to the occasion. Anchoring isn’t just about introducing speakers; it’s about creating an atmosphere, setting the tone, and ensuring every moment shines.
Welcome to the Xavier Debate Club, (XDC) which is a student centric body to promote the culture of dialogue and discussion that define our times. The club tries to promote democratic values, respecting the right to disagree, strengthen the narrative of inclusiveness and sustainability and enhance process of creating informed opinion. This club takes issues of social, economic, political and other areas of concern and engages in respectful exchanges of ideas and views. Join XDC to explore the art of rhetoric, and promote scientific temper as enshrined in our constitution.
“Poetry is really the only history we have of the human heart.”
A poem that takes up a few inches of space on a page can have the power to open readers’ hearts and maybe even blow their minds. Every poem has a shape. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called poetry “the best words in the best order,”
The College Poetry Club consists of aspiring poets and poetry lovers who appreciate lyrical art, experience the grace of expression, the force of words, and the wonder of verse.
Welcome to the Xavier Photography Club – where creativity meets the lens! 📸 Are you passionate about capturing moments, telling stories through images, and exploring the fascinating world of photography? Look no further, as the Xavier Photography Club is here to help you unravel the art and science of this captivating visual medium.
Our club is a hub for photography enthusiasts of all skill levels, from absolute beginners to seasoned photographers. Whether you’re someone who’s just picked up a camera for the first time or a shutterbug with experience, our community offers a supportive and engaging environment to learn, share, and grow together.
The club’s mission is to provide a platform for individuals to delve into the realms of composition, lighting, post-processing, and the multitude of techniques that make a photograph truly stand out. We believe that a great photograph is not just a result of technical prowess but also an expression of the photographer’s unique vision and perspective. Thus, we encourage our members to explore various genres, experiment with different styles, and push the boundaries of their creativity.
Let’s capture the world, one click at a time!
Get ready to unlock your potential and embark on an adventure through the captivating world of photography. Join the Xavier Photography Club today and let’s create visual masterpieces together! 📷🌟
- Camera Fundamentals
- Capture the moments
- Expert’s Tips
- Events like Sports, XEST, Cultural Programmes, and National Festivals like Independence Day, Republic Day, and Gandhi Jayanti and other campus activity documantation.
- Meeting/ Collaboration/Sharing ideas
- Extra knowledge about Macro Photography
- What students will get- fundamentals of photography?
The students should have – Passion for photography
- Showcase our talent through Photography club – as a photo exhibition/competition.
- Xavier’s Photography Club is open for all, not only for BAJMC Students.
- Practice and experiment will enhance an additional skill with the club. | artistic |
https://www.alexduquette.net/about | 2024-02-23T13:15:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474412.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223121413-20240223151413-00895.warc.gz | 0.966086 | 360 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__64860007 | en | Born in Illinois, Alex Duquette is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, audio engineer, and video creator. His multimedia career spans all across the entertainment medium; from live music performances and video scoring, to video advertising and comedy-sketch writing.
Besides audio/video, Alex also loves video games (old and new), and has a strong passion for building positive and fun communities surrounding his various content, whether it be his gaming livestreams, his weekly variety show (Jam & Chat), or his nostalgic TV show theme song medleys on YouTube.
If music is the universal language, Alex Duquette has found a way to say life is what it is…hard, funny, messy…and worth sharing.
With an innate sense of the heart, Alex Duquette’s songs either pull you smack into the middle of the human condition or they join you there. He is a talented, well-rounded musician, having played drums, guitars, and keys for the past 15 years while simultaneously developing his craft in every other part of the musical process: From arranging and recording, to production, mixing, and beyond.
Alex's passion and natural talent for video production predated that of his music endeavors. For nearly two decades, Alex has always found any excuse he can to get behind the camera; whether it be for the dozens of projects throughout his school career, the various comedy sketches and short films he's created or collaborated on with others (Camp Nostalgic), or his self-made medleys and music videos on his YouTube channel.
It doesn't end behind the camera, however. Alex's skills carry over to the computer screen, with video editing and production being his favorite parts of the entire multimedia-creation process. | artistic |
https://www.metallon.gr/grapevine | 2023-09-28T01:38:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510334.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927235044-20230928025044-00752.warc.gz | 0.945045 | 165 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__200005932 | en | If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.
From ancient times the fruit of the vine, the grape, has been identified with the generous deity of nature. It was a symbol of peace, abundance, joy and parenthood. A gift from the gods, who inside its juicy substance, hid the power to inspire and elevate the spirit of mortals in a higher realm.
The vineyards of Kavala, our hometown, are among the state-of-the-art and comprehensively organized vineyards in Greece. We grew up surrounded by this divine gift of nature which have inspired us to create this collection called "Grapevine". | artistic |
https://www.iliveup.com/blog/downsizing-your-acoustic-guitar/ | 2021-10-17T10:50:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585171.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017082600-20211017112600-00466.warc.gz | 0.966191 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__287162122 | en | Downsizing Your Acoustic Guitar
One of the trends among buyers of acoustic guitars today is downsizing. After years dominating the market, large instruments, like the acoustic guitars; Martin Dreadnought, are giving way to smaller instruments, like the Collings OM2H or the Taylor 212ce for example.
What’s behind this trend seems to be a search for comfort over volume. A little history may help us understand.
The first instruments considered guitars appeared on the music scene in the 15th century. They were quite small and until about 1750 they had fewer than the six strings we see on guitars today. Many had pairs of strings, much like the mandolin, or just four strings, meaning they might have been forerunners of the modern ukulele.
Over the next 100 years or so, guitar builders experimented with somewhat larger bodies, added new forms of bracing to effect different tones and explored a range of tone woods now in common use.
In 1916 the C.F. Martin Guitar Company introduced a very large guitar shape they christened the Dreadnought after a battleship common at the time. Its larger body made for a much louder sound, making it possible for a guitar player to be heard when playing with other loud instruments, like the banjo and the violin. In fact, in recent years Bourgeois Guitars began offering a Dreadnought model they actually called The Banjo Killer.
Dreadnoughts soon became the guitar of choice for bluegrass, folk and Old Tyme music players and is often what novices mean when they think of guitars. Over the years Martin introduced new sizes – the single O, double O and triple O – to each of their model lines and other builders followed suit (often with their own names for the different sizes).
If you play standing up (with a strap), the Dreadnought can be a comfortable feel. Sitting down it’s a bit more challenging due to its size, especially for smaller-framed people. A Martin OOO-28 or a Taylor 312 are easier to enjoy lounging on a couch. And it looks like smaller guitars are becoming popular for standing up performances, as well. Witness Ed Sheeran’s very small guitar.
Of course for some folks, change doesn’t come easy. They want the loud sound of a Dreadnought they’ve known for years but in a small bodied, more comfortable instrument. While some manufacturers are working hard to adjust the bracing on guitars to produce more volume, there’s only so much you can do.
Whichever size you choose to advance your music career – small, medium or large – size does matter. | artistic |
http://stevedreyerphoto.com/ | 2015-10-13T08:53:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443738004493.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001222004-00251-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.934026 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__28021609 | en | Creating “milky water” can add drama to an otherwise everyday scene. This photograph, which is also on my website at www.stevedreyer.com, was made with a neutral density filter. The filter reduces the amount of light entering the lens so that a long exposure is necessary (which then softens the details in the moving water). Two other requirements: a tripod and a little patience for good measure!
I will be exhibiting photographs from my “Presence of Light” series at the Upstream Gallery. The exhibit is part of a group showng by Red Circle PhotoArts – a collective of photographers.
The exhibit runs from August 1 through August 30, 2015 and the opening reception is on Thursday, August 6,
from 6 to 8 pm. The gallery’s is located at 8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. I hope you will be able to attend! To see the full series, please visit http://www.stevedreyer.com.
Thanks to “The Handmade Photograph” online magazine for publishing my article on creating textured images using onOne Software. The article is on The Handmade Photograph website.
Note that onOne has a new release that brings additional features for making great images. Click here to find out more!
©Steve Dreyer Photography LLC.
All Rights Reserved. | artistic |
http://www.nealehaynes.com/profile/ | 2024-04-17T16:25:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817158.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417142102-20240417172102-00099.warc.gz | 0.96016 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__52095431 | en | Neale Haynes is a British photographer and film maker. His work has appeared in some of the world’s most highly respected publications, including Conde Nast Traveller, Time, Esquire, Grazia, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, GQ, Harpers, The Times among others. He has shot advertising campaigns for Virgin, Bmw, Austin Reed, Nike, Puma and Sony and has images hanging in London’s prestigious National Portrait Gallery.
Tv work has included Next Top Model as featured photographer both on location and on the panel with Elle Mcpherson.
Having travelled to over a hundred countries on assignments as varied as Richard Branson’s space training in the states to hanging out of helicopters photographing ‘The Americas Cup’ in New Zealand nothing would seem to out of the realm.
Recent shoots have included Bill Gates in Seattle, South Africa for National Geographic, Cowboys in Montana for Conde Nast Traveller, a week in a nuclear submarine in the med and a flying car across Timbuktu.
Based in London, Neale is married with 3 young children | artistic |
https://besbizsolutions.com/entertainment-business-services/ | 2024-04-17T00:14:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00426.warc.gz | 0.947581 | 203 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29498461 | en | Music and Entertainment
You’re an artist seeking the right contract or you wish to setup or expand a business in this industry. We can assist you in reaching your potential.
Just choose your specialist area!
- Artist Management
- Contract Negotiations
- Music Copyright
- Royalty Investigations
- Distribution Deals
This is arguably our quintessential expertise. Atlanta is now among the top five hubs of the nation’s music industry, and nobody knows that business better than B.E.S’ CEO Jim Welcome, who has excelled in every aspect of that industry as a stellar national tour concert promoter and artist manager since 1971.
“This is our strong suit,” Welcome confidently confirms. “We promoted over 100 events annually. In 1986 we implemented the largest one day event ever promoted in the country. I have successfully promoted almost every major music artist prior to 1991, and we are still intrinsically involved in entertainment management and marketing.” | artistic |
https://phxindia.com/search-results/elementor-3796/ | 2024-03-03T09:06:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476211.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303075134-20240303105134-00879.warc.gz | 0.875098 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__54182290 | en | Welcome to our portfolio of architectural photography, where we capture the essence of design and space. Immerse yourself in the allure of our stunning images featuring swimming pools—a testament to the seamless integration of aesthetics and functionality.
Our lens unveils the architectural poetry embodied in each pool design. From the reflective serenity of infinity edges that seamlessly merge with the horizon to the geometric precision of modern poolscapes, every photograph tells a story of elegance and artistry.
Dive into the symphony of color, where azure waters complement the surrounding structures, creating a visual masterpiece. Our images showcase the interplay of light and shadow, accentuating the inviting curves and clean lines that define these aquatic havens.
Whether set against a backdrop of lush landscapes or nestled within contemporary urban environments, our aesthetic images of swimming pools capture the intersection of design brilliance and the natural world. Each photo invites you to appreciate the harmonious coexistence of form and function, inviting a moment of contemplation and appreciation for the beauty of architectural ingenuity.
Explore our curated collection, where every image is a celebration of the timeless allure and captivating aesthetics of swimming pool design—a visual journey into the heart of architectural elegance. | artistic |
http://saitenart.ch/index.en.html | 2017-04-26T02:06:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121121.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00136-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.942995 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__25291983 | en | Marc Ramser is a specialist for sonorous and beautifully designed hammered dulcimers. The range of products includes: hammered dulcimer, bass hammered dulcimer, santoor, sound bed and polychord.
The internationally renowned Marc Ramser has been making and playing hammered dulcimers for many years. Thanks to his musical experience, he has developed the hammered dulcimer to meet modern demands. The systematic-chromatic tone arrangement, the muting system and the electronic sound pickup have all convinced discerning musicians.
The products available at SaitenArt include instruments for musicians, musical therapists, students and friends of the hammered dulcimer.
Being a small business, SaitenArt is able to cater to individual tastes. Besides the models described on these pages, Marc Ramser has a long and broad experience with customized products and looks forward to your questions.
Well-known musicians from the international hammered dulcimer scene play instruments from SaitenArt. | artistic |
https://shop.sproutcollection.com/collections/the-things-between | 2023-12-07T11:27:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100651.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207090036-20231207120036-00023.warc.gz | 0.900792 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__43803816 | en | Things Between Midnight Crew NeckRegular price $180.00 Sale price $49.00 Save 73%
Each garment is hand-dyed and uniquely made just for you! Please note that the item you receive may differ slightly from the image shown—that is the beauty of tie-dye!
Content + Care: 50% cotton, 50% polyester
Hand-dyed and made in the USA
Due to the nature of the dye, please note that color may fade over time Size + Fit: Model is 5'9" and wearing a size S.
Former Rental in Great Condition.
All Sales Are Final. | artistic |
https://www.jlslc.org/holiday-master-class/ | 2023-12-05T02:12:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100540.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205010358-20231205040358-00633.warc.gz | 0.880339 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__150660635 | en | Master your party-throwing skills by learning how to craft a charcuterie board or delectable drinks. Create unique centerpieces and decorate your gifts to surprise and delight your guests.
Choose 3 of the following classes. Each 30 minute session will be offered at 6:30, 7:15 and 8:00.
Centerpiece Magic: Learn how to create three stunning, long-lasting centerpieces using flowers and easy-to-find holiday accessories. Dazzle your party guests with these unique decorations that are the perfect accompaniment to your celebration.
App-tastic Charcuterie Wreath and Wine Pairing: Create an irresistible meat and cheese board themed for the holiday celebration. You will gain the skills to create your own and get a sampling of delectable flavors that will impress your guests.
Greeting Guru Cards & Gift Tags: Customize your message and craft personalized, cards created from your heart. Learn how to create hand-crafted cards and tags will deliver that holiday cheer you wish to spread this season.
Mind the Wrap: Master the corner creases, ribbon tying and learn how to create accouterments to give your gifts that too-pretty-to-open look. Guests will be taking home a goodie bag with items and instructions for throwing some pizzazz onto the gifting. | artistic |
https://www.light-for-the-world.org/dance-without-barriers | 2019-10-22T23:32:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987826436.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022232751-20191023020251-00400.warc.gz | 0.859421 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__169426092 | en | Dance without barriers
The motto “Dance with me” inspires us to enjoy a night full of dance, music, and diversity – perfect to taste the spirit of the Viennese carnival season.
We will have a fabulous live music act and we will award the winners of the Her Abilities Award 2018.
Lillis Ballroom, the first barrier-free Latin dance studio in Vienna, will flash us with a slow dance and then guide us through an amazing barrier-free dance experience.
Dance with me! An inclusive and unique dance event celebrating diversity.
When: 22. February 2019,
Begin: 6.30pm, admission from 6pm
Where: UniCreditCenter “Am Kaiserwasser”, Eiswerkstrasse 20, 1220 Vienna
The event is supported by UniCredit Bank Austria and will be in English and translated into international sign.
Register for the event here: | artistic |
https://www.tasteofsomething.com/press | 2023-12-02T06:21:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00270.warc.gz | 0.890158 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__125811533 | en | In the Press
Keep up with taste of something MUSIC artist and label news
BrickWindow announce full-length album, "Terraform"
June 5, 2020
PLAINFIELD, NJ: New Jersey indie electro-rock group BrickWindow announce the release date of their upcoming album, "Terraform". The full-length album will be released on June 26, 2020. Atmospheric and rhythmic, this instrumental album combines distorted synth, pumping bass, layered guitar, with radiant keyboards and a groove-based blend of live and electronic drums.
Glasse Factory : Review of BrickWindow's "Disassociate'
May 22, 2020
BRICKWINDOW JUST RELEASED THEIR TRIPPY, AMBIENT NEW SOUNDSCAPE "DISASSOCIATE" TODAY.
Its combination of crystal-clear electric guitar, distorted synth, pumping bass, radiant piano, and a groovy drum beat makes for a wonderful listen.
A&R Factory : Review of BrickWindow's "Disassociate"
May 20, 2020
SPACEY & SONICALLY PLEASING HOUSE WITH BRICKWINDOW’S NEW SINGLE "DISASSOCIATE’’
This is a perfect song to wake up to. The start of "Disassociate’’ seems perfect for a morning stretch, doing yoga and re-calibrating the mind from all that over-thinking. ‘BrickWindow’ is here to mesh that good energy and put us in the right gear for the day...
Happy Little Accidents announce full length album, "Lollibeats"
April 27, 2020
PLAINFIELD, NJ - New Jersey based musicians Happy Little Accidents announce the release date of their upcoming debut album, "Lollibeats". The full album will be released on all streaming platforms on Friday May 15, 2020.
Ahead of the album, the group has released two singles, "Party" on March 23th, and "Chips & Salsa" on April 24th. "Lollibeats" combines loops, samples, live drums, and other instrumentalization to create break-beat type tracks spanning several genres.
The album will be released on independent label "taste of something MUSIC." | artistic |
https://www.thereselindquist.com/biography | 2024-02-22T08:01:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473735.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222061937-20240222091937-00279.warc.gz | 0.900703 | 757 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__140700973 | en | Thérèse Lindquist studied piano and chamber music (with Dorothy Irving among others) in her home country of Sweden, and continued her studies of Lied with Paul Schilhawsky in Salzburg. As a piano accompanist for lied recitals she has been awarded several prizes (including first prize at the Jenny Lind Competition) and has participated in master-classes, for instance with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Helena Lazarska, Robert Holl and Silvia McNair. Thérèse Lindquist has been official piano accompanist in international competitions such as the Robert Schumann Competition and the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. She has given concerts together with renowned artists such as Wolfgang Holzmair, Dana McKay, Hillevi Martinpelto, Christian Miedl, Christiane Karg, John Thomasson, Peter Ullrich, and Dietmar Kerschbaum at international festivals such as the Heidelberger Frühling, the Carinthian Summer, Allegro Vivo, Musikwoche Lienz, Musik vid Siljan, Caixa Galicia, The Florida Festival of Fine Arts, Festspiel-Presentation Salzburg, and Osaka Festival Hall. In cooperation with countertenor Paul Esswood she made an intensive study of the performance practice of early music.
Thérèse Lindquist is professor of lied and oratorio at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and also much in demand as director of master-classes for singers and lied-duos in Europe, Japan, Korea, Israel and the USA. The National Association of Teachers of Singing has frequently invited her to give lectures and hold master-classes at various universities in the USA (Florida International University, Columbus State University, The University of Miami Frost School of Music etc.). Her award-winning CD recording of songs by Josephine Lang (Deutsche Schallplatten) with Dana McKay, soprano, was highly acclaimed in Dieter Kühn’s biography of Clara Schumann as a “miniature masterpiece.” Thérèse Lindquist accompanied Wolfgang Holzmair on a CD recording of songs by Anton Webern (Webern Pur, Institute of New Music in Salzburg), as well as on a recording of Kowalski songs (Bridge Records) and Wunderhorn songs (on the Col legno label) which all received glowing reviews. — see Press
In addition to her mastery and interest in the German, French, and English-American Lied repertoire, which she has explored in various projects, Lindquist has been a dedicated proponent of the Lieder of women composers und has accompanied Liederabende and given lectures on this subject in many international festivals and symposiums. Under the title „Eine exklusive Gesellschaft“ (An exclusive Society), she recently presented a well-received master class for singers and Lied duos at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). Lindquist has also dedicated herself to the performance of Lieder by Jewish composers, such as the critically acclaimed CD of the Lieder of Max Kowalski (Wolfgang Holzmair, Bridge Records) and a recent master class with the Lieder of Viktor Ullmann at The Jerusalem Academy of Dance and Music.
Beginning in 2020, Lindquist will focus on teaching Lied duos at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, performing concerts, and leading international master classes and projects.
Updated: April 2020 | artistic |
https://www.caitlinkriskoandthebroadcast.com/ | 2024-04-24T13:32:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00171.warc.gz | 0.865249 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__103367644 | en | Known for her soaring vocal performances, Caitlin Krisko and The Broadcast is a powerhouse soul rock band hailing from Asheville, North Carolina.
Established in 2021, Krisko's electrified and unforgettable performances led to her working with members of Tedeschi Trucks Band and David Bowie's Blackstar Band on the band’s newest studio album Lost My Sight.
Krisko captivates her audiences, bringing the perfect blend of power and vulnerability throughout her shows. With a mix of soul rock arrangements with dashes of blues and pop, Caitlin Krisko and The Broadcast has shared stages with Mavis Staples, the late Charles Bradley, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Marcus King, The String Cheese Incident, Bettye Layette, and Gregg Allman’s Buffalo Mountain Jam among others.
THE BROADCAST IS:
Caitlin Krisko (vocals)
Aaron Austin (guitar)
William Seymour (bass)
Michael W. Davis (drums)
Tyler Housholder (percussion) | artistic |
https://hipchampaign.town.news/g/champaign-il/n/32288/champaign-fully-supports-nashvilles-ultimate-attraction | 2021-09-19T16:07:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056892.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919160038-20210919190038-00419.warc.gz | 0.904095 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__67428072 | en | CHAMPAIGN FULLY SUPPORTS NASHVILLE’S ULTIMATE ATTRACTION
Oscar Smith, Publisher/ HIP Champaign/ Music City TV Network- ROKU/ Tennessee Television
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
Twenty-plus years in the making, it shares the historical significance African Americans have played in music over the last 400 years. This museum is what Nashville needs, providing a welcome addition to the tourist destination, we know as Broadway. Situated right in the heart of downtown, you have a chance to enter the heart of American music starting from the past to present through seven interactive and striking galleries that will make a music lover out of anyone. Check out our guide to experiencing Nashville’s must-see cultural attraction.
Designed by an African American father-daughter architect duo, Harold and Andrianna Thompson, the 56,000 square foot building is stunning and provides a whole new vibe to the Broadway corridor. The intentionality, once you enter, is also very evident, from the vast music memorabilia on the walls to the smart wristband you receive before entering. There is a chip inside that will allow you to take home your experience from the music, videos to rap battles and sing-alongs for you to enjoy even after your visit. | artistic |
https://www.purebeautyphotography.com/blog/stephs-sportswear-boudie-call-mildura-portrait-photographer | 2024-04-12T16:49:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00612.warc.gz | 0.97434 | 870 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__174719576 | en | Steph's Sportswear Boudie Call - Mildura Portrait Photographer
Steph is an incredibly hard working and motivated 23 year old who applied to be one of my sportswear boudie calls. Between working as a dj, personal trainer and retail assistant, she is on her way to becoming quite the entrepreneur. It was such a pleasure to have her in the studio and see her absolute kill it as a sportswear babe.
Did you have any obstacles or fears about doing this session?
I was nervous as insecurities got in my head but at the same time I love trying new things and I put all my fear aside and just go for it!
What made you take the leap of faith to do a boudoir session?
I actually got tagged in a post to enter a competition going at the time and I won it. I was so excited and glad I got that opportunity!
Did I provide enough pre-session info?
Yes! Everything was loud and clear
How did you feel BEFORE your session?
I was excited. Being really into fitness I am always putting extra pressure on myself with my body but when the day come I was just in the zone.
How did you like working with my team? Did you love your hair & makeup?
I loved it! The girls were beautiful and got me hyped for my shoot!
How would you describe the session? (poses, direction, comfort level, thoughts, FEELINGS)
AMAZING! It made everything so easy for me when getting told to go in certain positions and poses. The energy in the room really had me motivated!
Was the session different than you expected? If so, how?
Not really because I didn't really know what to expect so I already came into it not really knowing how it was going to be but as mentioned early I love a challenge and I think that's what made it more exciting.
How did you feel AFTER your session?
AMAZING! I felt so happy and left in confidence.
What was your favorite part?
The whole thing really but seeing the end result and not expecting to be as happy with my photos with my insecurities and seeing how much I loved them was an awesome feeling!
What was your least favorite part?
When it finished! Time went quick because we had so much fun!
Would you ever do another session?
How did you feel when you saw your images?
Very proud of myself to have the confidence I did and extremely happy.
Did anything change about the way you see yourself after the session?
It encouraged me to love my body and be confident and own it. We must love ourselves in order to be happy in life.
Do you have any advice for women considering doing a boudoir session?
As scary as it seems don't let fear stop you. The feeling you get is so amazing and feeling proud for something you have achieved for YOURSELF is unreal. Especially those lack self love really need to do something like this to remind yourself how beautiful you are and to let everything go and do this not for anyone else but yourself because you ARE beautiful and deserve it!
Any final thoughts on your session, or anything you'd like other woman to know?
I think I have cleared everything up. These images are something I will have forever and to look back on one day to either make my children proud or embarrass them :) however I did this for me and I will never forget it!
Do you give me permission to use this information on my website & on social media?
Here you will find my featured babes, #wearepurebeauty , as well as some tips for your boudoir shoot- from lingerie shopping to hair and makeup
Something to add?
We are excited to announce we are now accepting blog features. If you have something you would like to add to our blog, click here
Mildura resident and Photographer, Lauren Southwell launched Pure Beauty in late June, 2018 & is committed to helping woman feel beautiful, sexy and empowered through the art of Boudoir Photography. | artistic |
https://www.wry.photography/engagement-packages/ | 2023-12-06T16:34:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100602.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206162528-20231206192528-00685.warc.gz | 0.923235 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__166489271 | en | Pricing & Packages
We love photographing engagements. An engagement session is a great way to get used to being in front of the camera together. We get to celebrate with you while we work together in a relaxing session to capture the photographs you'll treasure forever. Engagement sessions are also the perfect way to get to know us before deciding who will photograph your wedding!
An hour and a half session for you and your partner, in an environment you choose in consultation with Annemarie & Mike.
Starting from $525
A longer session with time to capture all of the photographs you're looking for, including opportunities to change outfits and even to break out that wedding dress.
Starting from $725
When should we schedule our engagement session?
We encourage you to do your engagement session as soon as possible. The latest we suggest is at least 10-12 weeks prior to the wedding date due to the time necessary to post produce each image and complete your product order(s). If you plan to use an engagement photo for your Save-the-Dates, we would encourage you to plan for an engagement session even six months in advance of your wedding day.
Where are you based and do you travel?
We are Boston-based wedding photographers working throughout New England capturing love stories of all kinds. We love destination weddings and have done work in Mexico, California, and Virginia. Our passports are up to date. You can book us for events worldwide.
When will we get our photos?
You will receive an online gallery link with all your photos within 8 weeks (sometimes more quickly depending on the season we photograph your session). You can download all the photos from the gallery but also share them, choose your favorites, and also order prints!
How many pictures will we receive?
We typically deliver between 40-60 images for an engagement session. For a wedding, we typically deliver between 60-80 images per hour. | artistic |
http://jameyo.com/audiosyn/ | 2017-09-22T14:59:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688997.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922145724-20170922165724-00199.warc.gz | 0.942428 | 577 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__24021132 | en | Connecting listeners with the diverse, eclectic and prolific sounds of today's best contemporary instrumental musicians since 1999.
We're glad you're here. Here you will find information on the program, the music and some of the projects we're involved with.
Please feel free to get in touch!
The Audiosyncracy radio program first aired on KTEP-FM, the public radio station in El Paso, Texas, back in October of 1999 with a small collection of my own albums and CDs. Since that time, the program has grown to include a library of several thousand CDs from hundreds of artists, well-known and not-so-well-known.
The show format focuses on the newest works from acoustic artists, featuring the piano and guitar, primarily, but is broad enough to include world, neo-classical, ambient and some (but not much) electronica. The show can be heard locally and also online (live only) on Sunday evenings at 11:00 pm Mountain time (-7 UTC).
The Audiosyncracy podcast is an unscheduled, free downloadable program, based on the Audiosyncracy radio show. The artists consent to podcast play and the episodes are free to download and enjoy at your convenience. The podcast is available in iTunes as well as most podcast directories online.
Use a free podcast app on your smartphone, tablet or computer and search for Audiosyncracy. Hit the "Subscribe" button and enjoy!
Introducing a brand new series of musically themed cruises! Audiosyncracy is working with CruisePlanners to present cruises featuring Audiosyncracy artists on major cruise lines, sailing to fantastic destinations! We had a fabulous first cruise with Michele McLaughlin, an award-winning solo pianist from Salt Lake City, Utah. Our 2017 cruise will feature pianist Elijah Bossenbroek and guitarist Matteo Palmer! Two fabulous artists who you will enjoy hearing and getting to know! We will sail from Miami on MSC Cruises on an exciting 7-night Caribbean and Antilles itinerary featuring private concerts with Elijah and Matteo and you are invited! Click the link for booking information!
A big announcement wouldn't be complete without "One More Thing," right?
Listen to Audiosyncracy 24/7! Now up and being tested, a streaming version of the same music you hear on the radio show, but 24/7 and without staying up late on Sunday night! Check out our stream on Radionomy!
We're still testing what we can do with Radionomy and please get in touch if you have trouble accessing the stream. Due to rights restrictions, the stream may not be available in all locations and success in accessing the stream may vary due to how you try it. Please try a variety of browsers and apps for a successful experience and please let me know if you have difficulties. | artistic |
https://dvrpedia.com/adobe-creative/ | 2024-02-28T18:02:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474744.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228175828-20240228205828-00021.warc.gz | 0.88868 | 787 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__200238544 | en | In the ever-expanding realm of digital creativity, Adobe Creative Cloud stands tall as an ecosystem that has not only revolutionized the way we approach design but has also become an integral part of the creative process for millions of individuals and professionals worldwide.
This comprehensive suite of applications, services, and collaborative tools has shaped the modern creative landscape, setting new standards and empowering users to bring their artistic visions to life.
A Diverse Ecosystem of Creative Powerhouses
Adobe Creative Cloud boasts a diverse range of applications, each serving a unique purpose and collectively forming a powerhouse of creative potential. At the forefront, we have Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, the trinity of graphic design. Photoshop, a pioneer in image editing, provides a robust platform for manipulating photographs and creating stunning visual effects. Illustrator, a vector graphics powerhouse, allows users to craft scalable, precision artwork, while InDesign facilitates desktop publishing, making it an essential tool for print and digital media.
For those navigating the intricate world of web design and development, Adobe XD and Dreamweaver step in. Adobe XD enables the creation of interactive prototypes and user experiences, while Dreamweaver offers a comprehensive environment for web development, catering to both novices and seasoned professionals.
Video editing and animation find their home in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Premiere Pro offers a dynamic video editing environment, while After Effects opens the door to a realm of endless possibilities in motion graphics and visual effects. Together, they form a formidable duo for filmmakers, video editors, and animators alike.
Photographers, too, have found their creative haven within Adobe’s suite. Lightroom streamlines the photo editing process, providing a toolkit for enhancing and perfecting images, while Photoshop remains the go-to solution for advanced editing and compositing.
Collaboration and Cloud-Driven Creativity
Adobe Creative Cloud extends its influence beyond individual applications, fostering collaboration through an array of cloud-based services. Creative Cloud Libraries serve as a centralized hub for sharing assets seamlessly across projects, ensuring consistency in design elements. Cloud storage and version history offer creators a safety net, allowing them to revert to previous iterations and access their work from any device.
The integration of Creative Cloud Libraries with Adobe Stock further enhances the collaborative experience. Adobe Stock, a treasure trove of royalty-free assets, provides a vast array of images, videos, templates, and 3D models, seamlessly integrating with Adobe Creative Cloud applications and reducing the time spent searching for the perfect asset.
Mobile Creativity and Flexibility
Acknowledging the rise of mobile workflows, Adobe has developed a suite of mobile apps that sync seamlessly with their desktop counterparts. Adobe Fresco, for instance, brings the joy of painting and drawing to the iPad, providing a tactile and intuitive experience. Adobe Spark, another mobile gem, empowers users to create stunning graphics, web pages, and video stories on the go, offering unprecedented flexibility in the creative process.
Continuous Innovation and Evolution
What sets Adobe Creative Cloud apart is its commitment to continuous innovation. Regular updates introduce new features and enhancements, ensuring that creators are equipped with the latest tools to push the boundaries of their craft. This commitment to evolution has solidified Adobe’s position as a trailblazer in the creative software industry, staying ahead of the curve and meeting the ever-changing demands of the creative community.
In conclusion, Adobe Creative Cloud transcends its status as a mere collection of software applications; it is a dynamic and immersive experience that nurtures boundless creativity. From graphic design to video production, Adobe’s suite of applications empowers individuals and professionals to turn their ideas into reality. As the creative landscape continues to evolve, Adobe Creative Cloud remains a steadfast companion, inspiring and supporting the next generation of digital artists in their quest to redefine what’s possible in the realm of creative expression. | artistic |
https://www.nothangryanymore.com/product/pasta-organic-cotton-tea-towel/ | 2024-02-27T06:09:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474671.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227053544-20240227083544-00415.warc.gz | 0.935091 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__110392241 | en | Hand-illustrated tea towel featuring all of your favourite pasta shapes including penne, fettucine, macaroni, farfalle, ravioli, spaghetti and more.
It makes a gorgeous gift for yourself or a loved one. An excellent way to say “thank you” to friends, family, neighbours, co-workers or even to celebrate a special event such as saying “congratulations” as a housewarming present.
This soft and absorbent cotton towel is the perfect size to use as a dish towel, tea towel, to cover bread as it proves, to cover a picnic basket, or even simply as a decoration in your kitchen.
100 % Certified Organic Cotton
42 x 70cm / 16.5 x 27.6 inches
Design printed on one side only
Designed in Australia
Printed with water-based ink in a solar-powered facility in Melbourne, Australia
Plastic-free packaging and shipped in a compostable mail satchel. | artistic |
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/gg1998sl.html | 2022-07-03T05:55:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104215790.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703043548-20220703073548-00646.warc.gz | 0.832113 | 1,917 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__34853382 | en | Governor General's Literary Awards
1998 Nominees: Children's Literature Categories
The Canada Council announced its nominees for the annual Governor General's literary awards in these and other (adult) categories on Wednesday October 20, 1998
The winners were announced on Tuesday, 17 November 1998.
Canada Council Press Release
Complete List of Winners
Gayle Friesen, Janey's Girl (Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press) (ISBN 1-55074-461-5 - bound; ISBN 1-55074-463-1 - paperback)
Claire and her mother Jane travel to a farm where Jane grew up, but Claire has never been to a place where the family truths lie - truths that Claire learns and her mother must finally face. Friesen has written a beautiful story of love and sacrifice where redemption is afforded when the piano music returns.
Julie Johnston, The Only Outcast (Tundra Books; distributed by Canbook) (ISBN 0-88776-441-X)
The Only Outcast is a sensitively evoked coming-of-age story set during the summer of 1904. Julie Johnston's exquisite prose captures the flavour of a golden summer when a young man balances on the cusp of manhood.
Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (Alfred A. Knopf Canada; distributed by Random House of Canada) (ISBN 0-394-28074-1)
Phoebe Olcott, the heroine of The Hollow Tree, is a fifteen-year-old girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. In 1777 she sets off on a harrowing journey through the wilderness to deliver a message to the British in Canada. The author's crystal-clear language captures the period speech and setting perfectly.
Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring (Tuckamore Books/Creative Book Publishing; distributed by H.H.Marshall Limited, General Distribution Services) (ISBN 1-895387-93-0)
Newfoundland in the spring of 1945. Evelyn McCallum competes for a scholarship named for her father while clinging to the hope that he may yet return safely from the war. Make or Break Spring is a compelling, well-crafted tale of forgiveness and change; of the need to move on and forge new relationships.
Sarah Withrow, Bat Summer (Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre; distributed by University of Toronto Press) (ISBN 0-88899-351-X - bound; ISBN 0-88899-352-8 - paperback)
Terence is bored with his conventional life until he meets Lucy, an extraordinary girl who claims she is a bat. Her increasingly dangerous fantasy transforms them both. A remarkable first novel about the recognition of the shadowy forces in young peoples' lives.
Victor Bosson, The Fox's Kettle, text by Laura Langston (Orca Books Publishers; distributed by General Distribution Services)
Victor Bosson's accomplished computer illustrations enhance this original tale. His sumptuous evocation of traditional Japanese art is enlivened with a whimsical touch.
Harvey Chan, Music for the Tsar of the Sea, text by Celia Barker Lottridge (Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre; distributed by University of Toronto Press) (ISBN 0-88899-328-5)
Harvey Chan's masterful use of colour and composition takes the reader to another time and place. His powerful interpretation of elemental forces creates a lasting impression.
Zhong-Yang Huang, The Great Race, text by David Bouchard (Raincoast Books; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 1-55192-090-5)
Zhong-Yang Huang's haunting images of a land before time began have a mythic quality. The race advances dramatically through a brilliant orchestration of light, landscape and character.
Stéphane Jorisch, The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Stories, text by Barrie Baker (Annick Press; distributed by Firefly Books) (ISBN 1-55037-522-9 - bound; ISBN 1-55037-535-0 - paperback)
With soft colours and delicate lines, Stéphane Jorisch has brought a village to life. His skilful ability to capture gesture and humour extends the text and engages the reader.
Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes (Kids Can Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press) (ISBN 1-55074-554-9)
Children will be drawn into this lovingly rendered treasury and rewarded by Kady MacDonald Denton's quick wit and sly humour. Readers of all ages will be delighted by her fresh approach to these classic rhymes.
Angèle Delaunois, Variations sur un même «t'aime» (Éditions Héritage; distributed by les Messageries A.D.P.) (ISBN 2-7625-8782-4)
This collection of short stories captures our interest with varied themes, from passionate love to heartbreak to tenderness. The tone rings true, the writing is rich without being artificial. A moving work.
Guy Dessureault, Lettre de Chine (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre; distributed by Diffusion du Livre Mirabel) (ISBN 2-89051-662-8)
In her travels between Quebec and China, between her adoptive mother and her biological mother, Catherine lives through the emotional intensity of rediscovery, tenderness and separation. This novel weaves plot, characters and style harmoniously and powerfully.
Daniel Mativat, Terreur sur la Windigo (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre; distributed by Diffusion du Livre Mirabel) (ISBN 2-89051-668-7)
In this novel, fantasy is written into our culture, into the world of logging camps, legends of the forest and the winter. The dramatic tension builds inexorably, in a skilful combination of mystery and terror.
Danielle Rochette, La Fugue d'Antoine (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre; distributed by Diffusion du Livre Mirabel) (ISBN 2-89051-679-2)
Antoine, the hero of the story, lives in Louisbourg in 1744. Suddenly, he is propulsed into the 20th century. Our interest is sustained by Antoine's reactions to the realities of modern life, and the author successfully combines several genres: suspense, detective novel, fantasy and historical fiction.
Hélène Vachon, Le Cinéma de Somerset (Éditions Héritage; distributed by les Messageries A.D.P.) (ISBN 2-7625-8625-9)
In the wake of a misunderstanding, a young schoolboy with a fertile imagination leads us into an adventure filled with humour and unexpected twists and turns. The highly original subject is treated stylishly and skilfully.
Stéphane Poulin, Petit zizi, text by Thierry Lenain (Éditions Les 400 coups; distributed by Diffusion Dimedia) (ISBN 2-921620-16-2)
The quality and presentation of the illustrations make for a very lively album that is filled with humour and tenderness.The strong compositions, with their imaginative angles and perspectives and close-ups combine with an attention to detail to make a book that is irresistible.
Pierre Pratt, Monsieur Ilétaitunefois, text by Rémy Simard (Annick Press; distributed by Diffusion Dimedia in Quebec and by Firefly Books for the rest of Canada) (ISBN 1-55037-545-8 - bound and ISBN 1-55037-544-X - paperback)
The masterful design and strong moods lead us into a tale touched with humour. Pratt works magic with atmosphere and colour, and marvellously illustrates an amusing story.
Alain Reno, Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures, text by Alain Reno (Éditions Les 400 coups; distributed by Diffusion Dimedia) (ISBN 2-921620-19-7)
The quality of the illustrations underscores the disquieting, occasionally frightening aspects of the story. The choice of page design, sometimes simple and sometimes complex, keeps the reader surprised from beginning to end of the tale.
Yayo, Le Chasseur d'arc-en-ciel, text by Yayo (Éditions Les 400 coups; distributed by Diffusion Dimedia) (ISBN 2-921620-30-8)
We are captivated by the artist's poetry, sensitivity and ability to say so much in a few strokes. A fertile imagination that children will relate to instantly; he travels in time and space in a unique and fresh way.
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http://chris-nichols.com/samples_emails/samples_em_vpts.html | 2021-10-18T10:34:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585201.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018093606-20211018123606-00612.warc.gz | 0.911103 | 714 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__186418460 | en | the viewpoints :: 4 workshops
with synaesthetic theatre
Synaesthetic Theatre invites you to participate in our upcoming
Viewpoints Workshop series. Past workshops have brought together artists from a wide range of mediums and levels of experience
with the Viewpoints. Synaesthetic has planned a four-part series for this fall in which participants will explore Viewpoints
from the ground up, experiment with the use of sound and music, create choreography and practice using the Viewpoints as a
rehearsal tool. Originated by dancer/choreographer Mary Overlie, the Viewpoints provide a simple and profound language with
which performers, choreographers and directors can communicate. Mary introduced 6 labels: Space, Time, Shape, Movement,
Story and Emotion. Having deconstructed the basic building blocks of physical performance, the performer, choreographer
or director is free to examine these separately or in tandem, from all angles, in an infinite investigation. Synaesthetic
Theatre utilizes the Viewpoints extensively during our collaborative rehearsal process for ensemble-building, character exploration,
and the development of themes, relationships and staging.
||4 SATURDAYS :: 9/18, 10/16, 11/20, 12/18 :: 12:30-4:30
| Workshop #1 ::INTRO Saturday, September 18|
This workshop will introduce and explore each Viewpoint. This is a basic session for anyone new to the Viewpoints
or anyone wishing to revisit the foundations of Viewpoint work.
| Workshop #2 :: Saturday, October 16|
This workshop will focus on the use of sound. Working with music and words, we will explore the space, time, shape, movement,
emotion and story of sound.
|Workshop #3 ::Saturday, November 20|
This workshop will use the Viewpoints to create and build choreography and to facilitate group piece-making.
|Workshop #4 :: Saturday, December 18
This final workshop will use the Viewpoints to explore themes, relationships and staging.
||Cap 21 :: Studio 6
18 West 18th St., 6th Floor (between 5th & 6th Ave.)
||4 Session Workshop Package $80
(Single Session tuition $25)
Space is limited & reservations required. To reserve call 212.696.6721 or reply to this email
|Please arrive on time and dress comfortably in clothes you can move in. If you know someone else who might benefit from this workshop, feel free to pass this information along. For further information about the workshops visit: http://www.theviewpoints.com
We hope to see you soon!
Theatre is a collective of artists dedicated to creating process oriented, multi-media theatre, synthesizing voice,
text, movement, music, video, and visual art into a single performance experience. As a community of creators, our collective
strives to provide a home in which artists from all realms are supported and encouraged to take risks, exploring their
craft as tools for communication. In this age of expanded media, two-dimensional stimuli, and quick fixes, Synaesthetic
Theatre utilizes live experimental performance to inspire an environment where intellect and emotion function together
-- redefining the boundaries of theater, artist and audience, and encouraging conscious investigation and evaluation of
the world around us.
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https://darkskycolorado.org/about-our-organization/about-kate-hopson/ | 2024-02-23T07:09:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00526.warc.gz | 0.974602 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__99359107 | en | About Kate Hopson
Board of Directors
Kate Hopson resides in the San Juan Mountains located in the southwest region of Colorado. She works in the fields of tourism marketing and graphic design.
In 2022, she began serving as a board member of DarkSky Colorado, where she contributes her skills in marketing and graphic design.
When not working or volunteering, Kate enjoys spending her free time engaged in various activities, such as hiking, skiing, playing pickleball, playing music, and creating art. Kate is actively involved in promoting and preserving dark skies and is a participant in dark-sky work and events in her community. She is also involved in organizing the new western slope dark sky event, Lake City Star Fest. | artistic |
http://booksatbrock.weebly.com/blog/design-the-forest-awards | 2019-05-27T05:50:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232261326.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527045622-20190527071622-00279.warc.gz | 0.974119 | 135 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__221004044 | en | Here are some important points:
- your design has to be for the program you are participating in. eg. Silver Birch readers can design the Silver Birch award
- submissions have to be mailed and received by Monday March 30
- if you want Ms. Kondo to mail it in for you, please hand it in by Monday March 23
- don't include names of nominated titles, the name of the program (eg. Red Maple), or logos
- sign the bottom right hand corner and include "Brock PS" as well
- you don't get your original design returned
If you'd like to enter, here is more information. Good luck! | artistic |
http://thesurroundings.com/gallery-people | 2017-08-23T06:07:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886117874.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823055231-20170823075231-00343.warc.gz | 0.962946 | 887 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__218425132 | en | Faith Okuma is a Principal of Surroundings and is a licensed landscape architect, AICP Certified and a LEED Accredited Professional. She brings distinguished experience through programming, planning and design expertise for public agencies and private clients throughout the American West. Notable projects that she has led include: Santa Fe Railyard Master Plan; Planning Services for Los Alamos National Laboratory; Rancho Viejo Master Plan and Implementation and the South Santa Fe Transit Oriented Neighborhood Study. Faith graduated from ASU and studied landscape architecture at Utah State University and the University of Arizona. She has been involved with numerous professional affiliations and boards and has presented at national conferences of the APA and the ASLA.
Kenneth Francis, ASLA, PLA, RA
Kenneth Francis is a founding partner and principal of Surroundings, a New Mexico based multidisciplinary design studio. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York City and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. While studying at Harvard, he was awarded a travel grant to research the historic and cultural landscape of the acequias in Northern New Mexico. As a direct result of this study, Kenneth’s work has been focused on innovative and sustainable water practices in every scale of project that comes into the studio. Kenneth has 20 years combined architecture and landscape experience and has presented on the topic of green infrastructure at multiple conferences, including the 2014 ASLA National Convention. He has been interviewed on PBS Austin and was also profiled in Smithsonian Magazine for the stormwater design features of El Parque del Rio, a newly completed example of green infrastructure along the Santa Fe River.
Sandra Donner, RA
Sandra Donner is a a founding partner and principal of Surroundings. She holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Cooper Union and is a licensed architect in New Mexico. Formerly, she was a partner at ARC engine, an architecture firm engaged in commercial and high end residential design with projects in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and New York City. She taught design studios at the Boston Architectural Center in Massachusetts and has been a visiting critic at colleges and universities across the country. Sandra’s designs are built upon process-driven testing and experimentation to arrive at powerful and new solutions for our clients. Her methodical accuracy for drawing and critical eye proves to be an asset on every project. Prior to receiving her Bachelor’s in Architecture, she received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design.
Joseph Charles, PLA
Associate + Project Manager
Joseph Charles graduated from Rutgers University where he received his Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture. Previously he was an Associate at the Santa Fe office of Design Workshop for almost six years. He is a licensed Landscape Architect in NM. As a designer, Joseph looks to balance the functional and aesthetic requirements of a project with the responsibility of creating environmentally sound landscapes that positively enhance our quality of life. Joseph has been working within the Southwest region for the past ten years, and has designed and managed a wide variety of urban, institutional, streetscape, and residential landscape projects.
Madeleine Aguilar received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Planning and Design from the University of New Mexico. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. Previously, Madeleine worked for the Albuquerque Public School's planning department where she focused on facility planning and programming needs. Madeleine continues to draw upon her planning experience in her approach to landscape architecture. She, along with her team, were recently awarded first place in the national Better Philadelphia Competition for their master plan design addressing neighborhood health. Born and raised in Santa Fe, Madeleine’s design approach is sensitive to the unique cultural and environmental challenges that the southwest presents.
Will Iadevaia, PLA
Will Iadevaia earned his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Arizona State University and has been practicing in the southwest region and internationally for the last 9 years. During this time, Will has designed and managed a variety of project types including urban design, community planning, and residential landscape architecture. Will’s approach to design strives to discover the opportunities in which the aesthetic intersects with ecological, cultural, and client needs to develop successful design solutions. | artistic |
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