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~ Check out Joanne Bartone's website (HERE), she is a photog friend.

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David Burke's Shoot n Learn - Build Your Foundation
(Check it out ~HERE)
&
My Workshop - Now Booking
(Check it out ~ HERE & HERE)
&
Leeann Marie Photography has just launched new website
(Check it out ~ HERE)

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~Enjoy
Are You an M.O. Snob? by Johathan Fields
My Little Cookie Monster by David Burke
Chicks Who Clicks Gets a New Home! by Gwen Bell

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A must read: By Julian Walker
The Masks of God:Introduction to Forthcoming Book!

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MD of Polysemy interviews Andrew Campbell (check it out here)

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~ Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers. (buy book here)
~ Great review by Andy Ilachinski (here)

Recommended Reading

Building Muscle on a Vegan Diet: The Ultimate Guide
The Peak Condition Project in 2009
Plant Based Muscle Building (link via of IOC)

Recommended Reading & Viewing

Writing a short story today. No time to blog so here are some blog post for you to enjoy.
We have met the enemy – Friedman & Liebert
Donna & James by Elizabeth Craig
Apocalypse Not by Stuart Davis
Yellow is crazy hot by Matthew Dallman

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Be sure to check out Elizabeth's blog for our Saturday with San Mar Children’s home.

ON GOD AND FINE ART

Check out the podcast over at POLYSEMY

Dan Allison and Matthew Dallman discuss how “God” relates to making works of art.

Here is my perspective:

That is easy to answer. It gave me a place to steal a whole bunch of ideas from, plus no copyright infringements to worry about. The only quandary I had was in breaking commandment number eight; thou shalt not steal, but is pilfering ideas from sacred text really stealing?

The book of Genesis and the book of Revelations from the King James Bible are single handily the two most influential works I have ever read, re-read, and contemplated some more. The importance of their teachings and morals were lost on me for the most part in my youth. These two books were akin to Star Wars and the Beatles for inspiration. I recognized how current cultures (movies, TV, music) were right out of these books. These books are the pillars of western composition.

The study of God is the study of the ancient and the future at the same time. The artist in me needs these works for purpose in what I am doing.

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- Check out this new blog for some Insanely Useful Photography Tips.
Radiant Lite Photography
Beginner to Intermediate Guide for Digital Photography

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PODCAST: Tech Fatigue

Dan Allison, the POLYSEMY Multimedia Director, recently wrote a blog entry called “Feeling weary of the internet and technology in general“. This was cause for Dan and Matthew Dallman, our editor in chief, to discuss further issues raised in the piece, and in the course of the spontaneous discussion touch what we mean by technology, and how this relates to the creative process. This episode’s inquiry: Do we have a too-limited definition of “technology”?

Over at Polysemy

Some good reading:
The Nature of Aesthetic Study

Feeling weary of the internet and technology in general

Recommendation - Stewards of the Lost Lands

Re-posting from Jack/Zen blog

The responsibility of the artist
"Attending a new book talk by local emerging author, Kate Sopko, who has penned “Stewards of the Lost Lands”, a delicious collection of essays and poetry on the significance of community in a post-capitalist era. Questioning the current very outdated version of democracy that continues to mis-serve most, she reflects that “The responsibility of the artist is to help people see that more is possible.”

For more on my thoughts on this subject see:
Evolution Has Ended
800 Million solutions
Does birth soil equal entitlement?
Democracy Rant
Effort is the only solution
Live Consciously + Think Integrally
Ethics and Economics
Conscious Consumerism
Can the food industry go the way of the music industry?

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DJINGEN Blog -

Schuler Gallery -

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Bill from IOC turned me on to Stuff White People Like…. Funny, I am soooooo white… Additionally Metro Dad is a fun read for all the Fathers out there.