The King Comes: Seeing the Nativity Through Scripture
by Daniel R. Spanjer All people know that they need salvation, even if the salvation for which they hope is that of a meal when they are...
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Feb 16, 2008
A Stream Across the Path
I was reading through the responses to the Sigur Ros video and decided to grab a line or two from each one. It’s remarkable to me how...
Feb 6, 2008
The Point of Rockets
At the Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch, I present a new craft or art project to our eighty-two boys every month. In the past years these...
Jan 29, 2008
Beowulf: Justin the Ghastly
Here’s another cool video, courtesy of my friends at Portland Studios. Justin Gerard illustrated the cover to my 2005 record The Far...
Jan 9, 2008
Co-opting Beauty: The Art of Andy Goldsworthy
—Andy Goldsworthy Not too long ago here in the Rabbit Room we followed a thread dealing with creative intent, and talked at length about...
Nov 25, 2007
The Paying Customer Public Relations Department
From the Proprietor: I didn’t ask Russ to write this. We spoke on the phone several weeks ago about this issue and I expressed the...
Nov 15, 2007
Creative Intent, Part Two: Flowers and Sacraments
[This discussion is continued from yesterday’s post by Russ, “Creative Intent: What Are You Thinking?”] …your thoughts about the...
Nov 14, 2007
Creative Intent: What Are You Thinking?
This post is a bit of an experiment in attempting an open discussion about the creative process between any and all reading these words....
Oct 25, 2007
Known and Loved
I was further bombarded with “hello Miss Coates!”-es from all sides as I made the trek to my subterranean art cavern, and then again as I...
Oct 24, 2007
A Work of Art?
Next to my name on the front page of the Rabbit Room it claims that I’m a boatwright. That’s a bit of a stretch in my mind; building...
Oct 22, 2007
Gift + Desire + Faith = Art
Most of us began by desire; at some point we desired a guitar or banjo, or wanted to write stories or essays or songs, or we longed to...
Oct 17, 2007
Serious Business
Russ offered a great story about an art class experience. It reminded me of my own brief career as an art student. I was ten years old....
Oct 16, 2007
Welcome to the Rabbit Room
Two years ago I walked the streets of Oxford with my wife. We were in London for a few days during the final throes of Spring and took...
Oct 13, 2007
Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
If you’ve ever tried to paint a self-portrait, here’s what you find—only the truth will work. In school I was given this art assignment,...
Sep 26, 2007
Art, Generosity, the Airport Shuttle
My flight arrived at 10:30 at night. There were about a dozen of us on the shuttle bus to long-term parking, and I was careful not to...
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