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Posted on February 4, 2008

Music for 18 Musicians

I just heard a fascinating story on NPR about a small Midwest University undertaking an incredibly challenging piece of music that has garnered them worldwide attention.
The piece of music is called “Music For 18 Musicians,” an experiment in musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976. Here is what Wikipedia says about it:
The piece is [...]

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Posted on February 4, 2008

Frozen in Grand Central Station

Have you heard of ImprovEverywhere.com? This is a loosely organized group that believes in “organized fun.” They meet across the country to stage innocent pranks on a huge scale.
Check out this mission from ImprovEverywhere where over 200 people froze in place in Grand Central station for 5 minutes.
(click here if you can’t see the video)

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Posted on February 2, 2008

Artwork from a Single Sheet of Paper

Artist Peter Callesen created the following pieces of artwork from a single sheet of paper. Pretty amazing, huh? When was the last time you did something this creative with a blank piece of paper?

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Posted on February 1, 2008

Jazz Dispute

This is one of my favorite videos on YouTube right now. This heated jazz dispute between Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie is brought to life by Jeremiah McDonald (the creator of the first YouTube Church called the Church of Blow – also hilarious).
(click here if you can’t see this video)

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Posted on February 1, 2008

Don’t Walk Off The Job

I love this verse!
“Since God has so generously let us in on what he is doing, we’re not about to throw up our hands and walk off the job just because we run into occasional hard times.” (2 Corinthians 4:1 – The Message)
As a church planter I know for sure that there are hard times [...]

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