tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post1679699356522136604..comments2024-02-22T17:07:38.225-08:00Comments on Diary of an Arts Pastor: Sayers wit, O'Connor discipline, 3 Movies and Righteous Architecturew. david o. taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-6845714503832173162009-10-06T16:52:05.741-07:002009-10-06T16:52:05.741-07:00Ok whoops. Phaedra had logged into my gmail. I j...Ok whoops. Phaedra had logged into my gmail. I jumped on my blog, wrote that last comment and posted it, and only moments later discovered that "PhaedraJean" had written these nice notes to strange people. That would be me in the previous comment.w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-3810313849904990422009-10-06T16:43:10.465-07:002009-10-06T16:43:10.465-07:00SOS: I visited Barcelona in 1994. Gorgeous city.
...SOS: I visited Barcelona in 1994. Gorgeous city.<br /><br />Stephanie: very nice to e-meet you.<br /><br />Hamster: Thanks for the book recs. It's always great to wind of a new volume and Wood's book sounds great.Phaedra Jean Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733258249923104102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-14567256646392092422009-10-02T09:44:30.493-07:002009-10-02T09:44:30.493-07:00i'm half way through the gooch biography. it&#...i'm half way through the gooch biography. it's great. ralph wood's CHRIST HAUNTED SOUTH is close to next on the list, but i gotta read LET THE RIGHT ONE IN first. <br /><br />reading about flannery o'connor is the next best thing to actually reading flannery o'connor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-11411649408204627302009-09-25T15:23:22.484-07:002009-09-25T15:23:22.484-07:00Love your Blog! I have a Christian art blog..
ww...Love your Blog! I have a Christian art blog.. <br /><br />www.creativebecauseofcreator.blogspot.com<br /><br />Check it out when you get a chance!<br />Mega Blessings.<br />Stephanie Green <br />stephaniegreenart.comStephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00585210944838429494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-9169093246018604562009-09-24T20:56:18.909-07:002009-09-24T20:56:18.909-07:00Missing Barcelona and all the beauty within her at...Missing Barcelona and all the beauty within her at this very moment. Sigh. Oh to have more Gaudi architecture in my present world.Essentially Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03792347432702187466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-14133893373724670912009-09-23T19:45:15.035-07:002009-09-23T19:45:15.035-07:00Si. BW = Brian Williams.Si. BW = Brian Williams.BWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10808452177749178870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-86212086312880933292009-09-23T19:36:09.783-07:002009-09-23T19:36:09.783-07:00Adam: whaddup! I'm having a good time here in...Adam: whaddup! I'm having a good time here in blue devil land. I told Phaedra yesterday that I'm consciously needing to resist the thought that I should be doing something more "productive" than sit in a library all day long, reading, thinking, reading, note-taking, and reading some more, hoping that it will land somewhere fruitful. If I remind myself that this is how scholars "do" productivity, then I'm ok. But after nine years in pastoral work, it's a hard mental habit to break to think of pastoral activities as more "productive" than scholarly ones.<br /><br />Of course, when I think of how much I enjoy the fruits of scholars, then I assign myself penance for thinking such a foolish thought: 100 push-ups on the library floor and 50 Kyries.<br /><br />BW: fantastic quote from O'Connor herself. Wow, that's nearly infinite chewable gum there.<br /><br />Ok, MUST get Despereaux book.<br /><br />BW = Brian Williams, yes?w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-63856876780549882162009-09-23T14:36:14.243-07:002009-09-23T14:36:14.243-07:00As for O'Connor - one can never say enough abo...As for O'Connor - one can never say enough about her, can one? Thomas Merton: "When I read Flannery O'Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles. I write her name with honor, for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man's fall and his dishonor."<br /><br />“Flannery O’Connor is the first major Christian writer this country has produced...we have not yet begun to fathom the depth of her literary and theological witness. Which is to say: we have not yet comprehended the real power of her art.” – Ralph Wood<br /><br />High praise with which I can do nothing but agree. <br /><br />And from the sardonic Southerner herself to your point:"Art is the habit of the artist; and habits have to be rooted in the whole personality. They have to be cultivated like any other habit, over a long period of time, by experience; and teaching any kind of writing is largely a matter of helping the student develop the habit of art. I think this is more than just a discipline, although it is that; I think it is a way of looking at the created world and of using the senses so as to make them find as much meaning as possible in things." Whew. There's a workshop full of material there, eh?<br /><br /><br />And, if you liked Desperaux the movie, you really should read the book - wonderful language and, of course, much better than the movie.BWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10808452177749178870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-37299364462623888882009-09-23T14:00:35.352-07:002009-09-23T14:00:35.352-07:00hey there David!
love the architecture! And I L...hey there David! <br /><br />love the architecture! And I LOVE that collection of Sayers' essays! I think it used to be published under the title: Letters to a Diminished Church.<br /><br />hope you're having the time of your life at Duke!Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10682585331782239902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-2703356374380554702009-09-21T14:37:24.661-07:002009-09-21T14:37:24.661-07:00Kelly: that's great. I did see the note about...Kelly: that's great. I did see the note about a 3D experience of CORALINE, but regrettably we had no pair of red and cyan glasses handy, so we settled for a 2D experience, which was creepy in its own special way.<br /><br />Jake: it's worth a good bit, because I'd like to buy a copy. Thanks.w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-3153454083026968882009-09-21T10:35:37.713-07:002009-09-21T10:35:37.713-07:00FYI, at my library, "Christian Letters to a P...FYI, at my library, "Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World" is now called "The Whimsical Christian."<br /><br />For whatever THAT's worth.Jake Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02935908847591536511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-57412392488999986952009-09-21T10:12:10.273-07:002009-09-21T10:12:10.273-07:00If there's anything I keep up with it's ki...If there's anything I keep up with it's kid's movies - mostly because I don't have to get a babysitter to see them. And they often have a level of craftsmanship that's better than more grown-up fare. So . . .<br /><br />I agreed somewhat with the critics about Despereaux. I thought the story and the characters seemed pretty half-baked. But I was still mesmerized by the look of it. Truly outstanding design and animation throughout.<br /><br />I had no reservations at all about Coraline, though. It really is a stunning piece of cinema. My kids are a little older and are pretty bookish so the fact that it was darker and slower than most animated movies didn't bother them at all. They loved the movie and are still talking about it several months later. If you didn't get to see it on a big screen in 3d you missed out on an even more excellent experience.Kelly W. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08109011810152591518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-65231936858601247632009-09-21T09:37:54.290-07:002009-09-21T09:37:54.290-07:00Miniature knitting: wow.
Really small hair: wow.
...Miniature knitting: wow.<br /><br />Really small hair: wow.<br /><br />Great making-of vids. Thanks.<br /><br />Seriously: how can all this mind-boggling, extraordinary creativity not make you, if not properly believe in God, than want to believe in a God who endows us with His own image as well as imaginative powers and gives us, through works like "Coraline," only hints of the mind-boggling, extraordinarily creative "new heavens and new earth" that is yet to come?w. david o. taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048604209388355706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22105457.post-29847145920596283392009-09-21T07:39:41.079-07:002009-09-21T07:39:41.079-07:00we also loved coraline... although the part with t...we also loved coraline... although the part with the spiderweb still gives me the heebie-jeebies.<br /><br />check out these great making-of videos:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5MFdAB7fI<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnRhAvJDpMksamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12956469803898607995noreply@blogger.com