Telectroscope

This is one of the coolest things ever.

Visit the Telectroscope

It is an art project that is going on now in London and New York, and the artist has done a brilliant job of creating a backstory to the project that really draws on your imagination and makes the actual device all the more mysterious.

Basically it is a fiber-optic video connection between New York and London, but it makes it look as though you are looking through a huge tunnel to the people on the other side.

If anyone wants to take a trip to London or New York in the next couple of weeks Becca and I would like to go with you.

Soda Pop

I don't really know why people think that soda (or pop, or in some places just Coke, even if it's Dr. Pepper) is so unhealthy. A quick glance at the ingredients of can will reveal that the number one ingredient is the number one source of all life. Water. What's more healthy than that? Then if you delve a little deeper you will find that soda is actually one of those fancy health food store staples because it contains NATURAL flavors. All Pepsi Lime needs to do is make their can a nice earthy brown, put a big image of a fresh lime being soaked in water and write NATURAL Flavors in cursive letters across the top.

The problem with soda is all a matter of marketing.

superhumanism

super- 1 a (1): over and above: higher in quantity, quality, or degree than: more than.

One of the issues that I always have to face when thinking or talking about creativity is the fine line between God given abilities and humanism. Creativity is a God created thing that He has instilled into every single person weather they believe in Him or not, and this can create some problems when we try and discover the root and source of our creativity. There are some terribly heathen people who can create awesome things. Do they do it out of their own human abilities? What separates the idea that "If it can be dreamed, it can be done." from total reliance on God for ideas and how to work them out?

I don't know that I have figured out all the answers to these questions and it is something that is always going to be a part of the creative dialogue, but here is a thought. As I have said several times before, I don't think we have seen the full measure of creative potential. Not really even close. Think about it. If a person with atheistic beliefs (or would that be non-beliefs) can come up with a medical breakthrough that changes the lives of people forever, or discover the tiniest specs of subatomic particles, what more is there. I have no idea. But I do know that it is something that is going to come from beyond ourselves. Remember that everything we create is simply a reflection of something that God has already created, and what He has created is only a miniscule portion of the ideas that He has.

He is limitless. We are not.

Kansas City

I love Kansas City. I have had the wonderful privilege to travel to many cities throughout the United States (and some other countries for that matter) and Kansas City always seems to be my favorite. Especially now. If you are not from around there or don't care very much about cities and buildings and such you probably wouldn't notice, but the city, especially the downtown is getting an amazing make over.

With buildings like this:



And I just discovered the other day that construction has begun on one of the coolest performing arts buildings ever.
This multi theater building is going to be home to a 1600 seat concert hall AND an 1800 seat proscenium theatre. Both. In the same building. With one really cool glass lobby.

Now I don't know how excited other people get about things like this, but I love architecture and I love performing arts and I love when things are done with excellence and this appears to be one of those rare times.

So now I have one more new reason to keep my love of Kansas City growing.