Steve’s Blog

Hey everyone.  Last week had a wealth of interesting and incredible discoveries for me.  It seemed as if everyday brought a new invention, thought or memory that I wanted to write about so I’m going to toss a couple out there for you to chew on…

The Espresso Book Machine.  Dare I say that this invention will revolutionize print media? This is a machine that will print and bind an individual book on demand in less than ten minutes!  With the rate that books are being digitalized (google books, kindle, etc.) this machine can conceivably have the entire library of congress on file and provide a person the opportunity to have an instant copy of any book.  Granted this might be a little idealistic, but it is possible that this machine, and whatever technology comes after, would mean a book would never go “out of print.”  This is an incredibly exciting advance in technology and makes me think that books and print media are not going to become obsolete  with time but integrated and more accessible. 

Artist Marc Johns always amazes me with his quick wit and simplicity.  I’ve been spending some time on his website lately and thinking more about the different aspects of “simple” images and humor. These are his words: “I generally aim to say as much as possible with as few elements as possible. My work often leans toward humour. Finding the humour in things often leads to finding the truth. I like to create absurd situations, by combining things together that don’t belong, or imagine what inanimate objects would say if they could speak.”  I highly recommend his “things with antlers” collection.

Mario Paint was one of my favorite video games for the Super Nintendo system and was one of the first places that I was able to explore writing and composing songs.  The game had different aspects of art (drawing, coloring, puzzles, music) all which cross marketed the nintendo family of products but the music aspect was my favorite.  I don’t know if this video was what the creators were expecting but I found it really entertaining.

I’ll post some theological/church thoughts a little later but these were the fun things from last week.