Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
A copy of Mark’s Newsletter. The Taiwan Times – May Issue Hello my friends! I hope and pray all is well with all of you. I know everyone is very busy, but I do appreciate you taking the time to read about God’s work being done here in Taiwan. To… Read More »Taiwan Times – May Issue
Chapter 3: Tenderloining It! Tenderloining it! I’m sure if you were to rush to your dictionary you would fail to find the term “tenderloining” anywhere within its pages. One of the great things about language is the fact that it is constantly evolving. What was not a word, a correct… Read More »Chapter 3: Tenderloining It!
Chapter 2: Beans I do not get many e-mails at work. The ones I get are either related to a phone system failure that doesn’t affect me, the aisle copier being broken, new orders, or loaner requests. If I get a personal e-mail it is usually a link to read… Read More »Minutia – Chapter 2: Beans
After what could only be described as an extended absence, today I return to the blog world with full force. I have planned for this thin slice of cyberspace a monster of a blog. There will be 14 parts to this blog. When it has completely unraveled, it might be… Read More »Minutia: Chapter 1
I went through a little walk through the woods after work on Monday. I took the following images. They amuse me. Hopefully you will get some moments of amusement from them as well. I only came upon 3 deer during my walk. Last week I came upon ten deer. I… Read More »After Work Walk
As you may know, it is part of my Sunday ritual to check the Post Secret website. I think it is one of the most beautiful and compelling community art projects going. Everybody has secrets and it is therapeutic to find see that there are other people will similar secrets… Read More »Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World
I’m going to attempt to get out of the video posting rut that I’ve been in lately. Not that the videos I’ve posted have been bad. In fact, they have been highly entertaining. However, this here “Artist’s Notebook” isn’t supposed to be about funny videos. It is supposed to be… Read More »Randumbness
What lies below is a copy of the sermon Andrea gave on Sunday. I know what you’re thinking: If I wanted to know the sermon the Pastor at your church gave on Sunday I would have went to your church on Sunday. Irregardless of your skepticism, I am going to… Read More »John 20: 19-32
Last Thursday I went to a lecture by the Post Secret guy at the Union with Stephanie, Jen, Derrick, and Sara. It was rather informative. If you aren’t familiar with Post Secret it is an art project where people write down their secrets and send them to one guy. He… Read More »Post Secret
Below is the text from Mark’s April Newsletter: Greetings to all of you in the love our Christ our risen Lord. He is risen…He is risen indeed. I pray that all of you are having a blessed celebration of the resurrection of our Lord. here’s a quick Chinese lesson to… Read More »Taiwan Times – April Issue
For the last few years my sister Teresa has talk a lot of jibber jabber about entering the State Fair crocheting competition. In the same time frame, Monica has made a similar amount of dissonance about entering a painting into the State Fair. Last year they were together in a… Read More »Sister, The State Fair, and A Few Jokes
I haven’t had the “pleasure” of being on MySpace much lately. Which means that my “blogs” have become sporadic and if I’m not mistaken, lower in quality. I can’t say that this saddens me. There are more important things I should be doing with my time, but that doesn’t mean… Read More »Odonata
This is taken from Paul Shirley’s ESPN Diary. It is a retelling of one of the greatest injustices in the history of College Basketball. Plus he only gives a cursory look to my least favorite college basketball memory (I watched that game in F-ing Hunky Dory’s!) and the peripheral reason… Read More »Why I Love College Basketball
I became distracted on my way home from work tonight. Before long I felt compelled to do a little photography. Below are some of the fruits of my labor presented in chronolgoical order. Basically I felt like painting with light. I hope you enjoyed this little presentation.
Below is a rare image of BOTH my sisters engaging in manual labor. This picture is not doctored in any way. It is 100% real. You have to believe your eyes.
Mr. Wentworth came over to Boone this weekend. So it turned out to be a pretty good weekend. I took some pictures to remember the events that Bill’s presence triggered. First of all, I have completed the next picture to be hung in Salon 908. Below is a picture of… Read More »The Past Weekend
Here are some signs of spring: I took these pictures this morning on my way to the garage to go to work.
I went to the Union last night to check out this documentary. It is about the night commuters of Uganda. I first heard of this tragedy when Third Day played a video about these children at their concert I attended last February. Children fllee their homes at night and congregate… Read More »Invisible Children
A couple had two little boys, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous. The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be confident that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were involved in some capacity. The parents were at their wit’s… Read More »I Liked This Joke Too . . .
So I subscribe to the Comedy Central Joke of the Day. It is a wretchedly run service that often repeats the same joke up to 5 days in a row on occasion. Even when they send out a new joke it often isn’t funny. This is the joke of the… Read More »A Morality Tale – Well That is a Bit of a Reach
I went on a brief sojourn to Minnesota this past weekend. I had some pretty ambitious plans for a photo montage, but that fell through. So I put this little thing together to make me feel better about me. The Drink “This beer tastes like dog rectum. Jay let me… Read More »Something Out of Nothing