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  • Amen Series Part 2 – Developing a Grateful Heart

    Amen Series Part 2 – Developing a Grateful Heart


    keystonechurch.com/media_amen_series.php

    AMEN! You’ve heard someone give this word a SHOUT OUT and you’ve even said it yourself. But what does it mean? Why do we say it?

    It’s simple, “AMEN” means “So be it” or “It is so.”

    So in other words…
    RIGHT ON!
    BOOMSAUCE!
    TRUE DAT!
    SWEET!
    Or, THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT!

    In THE AMEN SERIES, we will look at several truths of God that will make you say, “YES!” It’s one thing to just listen and take in a message, but quite another thing to express your full on agreement with your heart. Don’t miss one week of THE AMEN SERIES as we lead up to Christmas.

  • Josh Holmes from Microsoft on the Internet of Things – Awwwards Conference 2015

    Josh Holmes from Microsoft on the Internet of Things – Awwwards Conference 2015


    Microsoft Architect Evangelist Josh Holmes gives a talk on the Internet of things, Microsoft Bands, Nitrogen.io, Azure, Arduino, cloud computing and smart homes.

    Josh Holmes is a passionate soul who gets his kicks solving problems with deep fried awesomeness. He is currently employed by Microsoft as the Director of Architecture in the Partner Catalyst Team. Prior to joining Microsoft in October 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on web technologies on the Microsoft stack such as ASP.NET, PHP, IronRuby, JavaScript and more. Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash. You can contact Josh through his blog at http://www.joshholmes.com.

  • The Creation of Fumba Town, Zanzibar

    The Creation of Fumba Town, Zanzibar


    Production team Zanzifilms.com with storyboarder-videographer-editor Guillaume Balois, photographer Alice Bensi, drone pilot Nick Schuelgen and art director Dominique Marie shooting the Fumba Town Development introduction clip, http://www.fumba.town
    The construction team behind Fumba Town is introducing a completely new way of building houses in Africa – the Prefab House System. The houses are built with long lasting, innovative and renewable materials that are completely adapted to Zanzibar’s climate and environmental conditions.

    CPS live Ltd., supported by Environmental Systems Ltd., together with a group of German engineers, architects, urban designers and permaculture specialists spent the last three years developing a master plan for a comprehensive residential housing project on a 1.5km stretch of breath-taking seashore of the west coast of Zanzibar. The project is promoted by ZIPA (Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority) and enjoys full support of the government of Zanzibar and Tanzania. 08-2015
    http://www.fumba.town/index.php/fumba-s-diary/article/12

  • Art In The Streets

    Art In The Streets


    Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles’s role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photos, video, and ephemera will provide a historical context for the work.

    More information at http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=443

  • Inkling

    Inkling


    Logo Development for an adaptive typography app

    http://www.jenhingley.com/new/inkling.php

  • Crawlomatic: how to scrape Google search results and import them to your blog?

    Crawlomatic: how to scrape Google search results and import them to your blog?

    In this video I show you guys how to import Google search results to your WordPress blog, using the Crawlomatic plugin.

    You can get the plugin from here: https://1.envato.market/crawlomatic

    ▶Portfolio – https://1.envato.market/coderevolution
    ▶DONT CLICK THIS – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLIksvzyk-D_oEdHab2Lgg?sub_confirmation=1

  • What is Fresh Tracks?

    What is Fresh Tracks?


    Through the Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, New York Live Arts provides an opportunity for new artistic voices to gain professional experience and recognition. Each year six early career artists are selected by a panel through a live audition process. Artists selected receive research, development, and performance support.

    Fresh Tracks engages artists directly with peers, arts professionals and Live Arts staff in dialogues about their work within the context of the professional contemporary dance and performance field. In the spring, following their initial performances, each member of the group receives a 50-hour creative residency along with introductory level professional development workshops in marketing, fundraising and career development.

    http://newyorklivearts.org/programs/create/fresh-tracks.php

  • Walter Ruttmann – Lichtspiel Opus III (1924)

    Walter Ruttmann – Lichtspiel Opus III (1924)


    Lichtspiel: Opus III (1924) is composed from squares, rectangles and other straight-edged forms animated in overlapping, kinetic compositions. The shapes in this film are not solid colors, but graduated tones, and the development of each sequence is built around asymmetrical compositions that break the frame into harmonious sections. The result is dynamic, active: the moving shapes suggest the rapid movement of machinery, pistons. Then in the middle of the film there is a shift towards a bifurcation of the frame and oscillating patterns that rotate around this central axis, before a return to the asymmetry of the machine-like motions. The compositions employed in this film are unique in the 1920s, resembling the later work of Joseph Albers, or, the more contemporary work of Peter Halley in the 1980s.

    Color serves a dramatic purpose in this film. Short sections of red and blue alternate towards the end, creating a contrast, but as in Opus II, the whole frame is tinted, and there is no hand-painting. The alternation of monochromatic, colored compositions at the conclusion enables the end to achieve a dramatic resolution that was missing in his earlier films.

    This use of color for emphasis will be repeated in his last abstract film, Lichtspiel: Opus IIII (1925).

    Michael Bentacourt – http://www.cinegraphic.net/article.php/20110220082757118

  • Lacrimosa – Alleine Zu Zweit

    Lacrimosa – Alleine Zu Zweit


    Band: Lacrimosa

    http://www.lacrimosa.ch/cms/front_content.php?idcat=75

    http://www.lacrimosa.ch/cms/front_content.php?idcat=91

    Elodia
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    Elodia is the sixth album by German duet Lacrimosa.

    Elodia is a concept album and a rock opera, divided into three acts. The first act describes a love that is slowly being overwhelmed; the second act describes the act of separation itself, while the third act begins with a requiem, “Sanctus”, before ending on a note of hope.

    Elodia was an important point in the development of Lacrimosa’s music into more classical areas, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rosenberg Ensemble and the Hamburg State Opera contributing to the orchestral side. “Sanctus” is a particular example of this, as it is based on the Christian liturgy of the same name, and dominated by the choral vocals of the Rosenberg Ensemble. It is not entirely an orchestral work, as it includes a section of Tilo Wolff’s vocals and a guitar solo; it did, however, pave the way for the track “Kyrie” on Lacrimosa’s eighth album Echos, which was entirely a classical work.

    The song “The Turning Point” starts with Anne Nurmi saying a small poem in Finnish. The poem is “Poutaiset pilvet haihtuvat. Katoan nopeasti tuulten mukana, kuin tämä uni, jossa en enää sinua tavoita”, and roughly translates to “The white clouds are fading. I disappear quickly with the winds, as this dream, in which I no longer reach you”.

    info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elodia ….