Archive for October, 2005

Rectilinear Still Life

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Here is a photo of the still life I used for my drawing assignment I turned in on Friday:

This is the drawing I made of the above still life:

I don’t think it came out too bad. At least my instructor seemed to like it. =)

Philadelphia - Fels Planetarium Excursion

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I’ve had this post sitting around in my drafts for a year. On October 8, 2004, my excitement for the week was to fly to Philadelphia with my boss and look at some equipment that the Planetarium soon after purchased.
So, just by rough headings:

Flight at 6
Taxi
Breakfast at Marathon Grill
Fountains
Franklin Institute
The “60000″ (Train)
Planetarium
Digistar II
Constitution Center
Liberty Bell
Flight [...]

Context is everything

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I was reminded tonight of a quote I heard over the weekend:
A text without a context can be a pretext for anything.
— Dr. Jack Kinneer (referring to use of Scriptural proof-texts)

First week of class

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Well, I was thinking about making a blow-by-blow account of each day, but I’ll just summarize to make things quicker. =) Attended North Hills RP with the Mathews (my neighbors across the parking lot). Sunday happened to be their fellowship lunch, so the church sent me home with some leftovers, which I was able to [...]

Arrived in PA!

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I’ve made it to Pittsburgh in one piece. After packing the entire day on Saturday (When I should have left closer to noon), I finally left at 5:55 pm (EST) toward Pennsylvania (and I have a picture to prove it). Though you should definitely read the disclaimer about not being completely accurate on the map [...]