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Tolkien | Ye Machine
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Simon J. Cook, scholar and editor. Heathen kings under a swift sunrise. A sort of addendum to my last two posts: two scenes from the siege of Gondor in the movie version of. The Return of the King. That provide food for thought. A song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise. I remember watching this scene years ago and ...
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Vignettes of the Weird | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Vignettes of the Weird. A middle-aged woman tapped me on the arm. Sir? Want to buy some of these? Want to touch it? Uh, that’s okay. I backed away a bit. I’ll get some plate holders. I bou...
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Blog | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! Which came out this spring. Now I was getting somewhere. I decided to make the bird yellow. It would now be a variation on the goldfinch, a sym...I dre...
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April | 2015 | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Back to the Gym: Sketch Dump. I got a cheap brush pen and have been using it to sketch. Here’s a 20 minute sketch of St. Edith Stein. (With red crayon background.). April 24, 2015. I don’t...
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July | 2015 | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! Which came out this spring. Now I was getting somewhere. I decided to make the bird yellow. It would now be a variation on the goldfinch, a sym...I dre...
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Option, Option, Who’s Got the Option? | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Option, Option, Who’s Got the Option? A lot of Catholics online are talking about the Benedict Option , a concept being promoted by the Orthodox writer Rod Dreher. Look back to the early 2...
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May | 2015 | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Here are some favorites from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you visit their site and search around, you’ll come across others. May 4, 2015.
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Design Portfolio | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Examples of my cover design work. February 11, 2015. February 11, 2015. Book Cover Illustration & Design. Book cover design plus illustration. February 11, 2015. February 11, 2015.
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The Pope and the Animator | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? The Pope and the Animator. That’s what my wife Aletheia posted online after starting to read Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’. Let’s take a look. Who is Hayao Miyazaki? Another theme i...
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Uncategorized | JOHN HERREID
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ART, DESIGN, WRITING. Prohibit Everything, Make Something. The Divine Physician and the Doctor. Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth. Reading on a BART Train. On Design Process: Keep Your Eyes Open! On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? On Roger Scruton and Beauty: Where Do We Go from Here? Introducing Children to Art. My daughter and oldest son have very different takes on this portrait by Raphael. By Anamaria Scaperlanda Biddick in. I’ve written here before about art.
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