Hi friends! Hope your week is off to a great start! We have some lovely inspiration for you today from design team member, Jessy. She is using the new and exclusive project pads from Joann Stores for her bible journaling! Read on for all the details & find links to the products at the end of the post!
Whenever I get to journal in my bible, it is something that I love to invest my time on! And Im so glad that I could use these new beautiful project pads from the Flourish & Sunny Days collection. With the verse Romans in mind, I took my journaling bible out and started to create a page out of the verse. Choosing a verse first certainly helps to speed things up and also keeps me focused on what I want to create.
Thank you for letting me share this page from my bible journal! Hope you have a wonderful crafting time journaling in your bible too! xoxo Jessy
Gus Fink is a commercial artist whose multidisciplinary work all falls within the umbrella of Pop Art and like the Ur God of Pop, Andy Warhol, Gus works in every medium available: sculpting, painting, cartoons, film, clothing design, digital art, indie games and music.
Simply put, Gus is an all round pop art visionary!
Gus and his art came to our attention thanks to the recently released Creeplings series of designer toys, a collaborative effort between Gus and his equally talented wife Emi Boz and just like all works that Gus is involved in, they are well worth checking out.
(Picture of some of the Creeplings series of blind box art toys, below)
With Gus constantly pushing his art and himself, working on project after project, now is the perfect time to get to know the man and his art, by reading the Art Talk interview below
Basics/Getting to Know
Name + D.O.B?
(Some art by Gus below)
City, State n Country you currently call home?
City, State n Country your from?
Describe a memory from some stages of yr life ….basically trying to piece together your pivotal moments. Concerts, art, action-figures, romance, school, crime… ANYTHING man!
* age 5 – beginnings:
(Picture below of Gus aged 2 with his Grandfather)
* age 10 – continuations:
* age 15 – getting serious:
(Picture of Gus on the left aged 17 with a friend)
* age 20 – young adult:
(Picture below of Gus aged 20 in his old shop)
* age 25 – adult mode:
(Picture below of Gus aged 25)
* age 30 – fully formed:
* age 35 – adult continuations:
(A recent picture below of Gus Fink and his wife Emi Boz)
Personal motto?
Favorite band(s)?
(Picture below of Gus aged 23 and playing in his old band Bleed as One)
Favorite TV show(s)?
Favorite sport(s) + teams?
(Pictures below of some art by Gus)
Favorite movie(s)?
Favorite books and comics?
Art Questions
Favorite other artist(s)?
Worst aspect of the contemporary art-hustle?
(Pictures below of some art by Gus)
Best aspect of the contemporary art-hustle?
Do you consider what you are making to be ‘art’, ‘design’, re-hashed crap?
When and why did you first start making ‘art’ (drawings, paintings, anything)?
(Pictures below of some art by Gus)
What did you draw and make as a pre-teen child?
What did you draw and make as a teen?
Any pivotal artistic moment/influence?
(Picture below showing the Basquiat film poster Gus pivotal artistic influence)
Why + when did you decide to go in on the art hustle?
Describe the process of producing your art
* Your sketches + comics?
* Your paintings?
* Your digital art?
Toy Questions
Describe the process of producing your sculptural creations? – from original sculpt, moulding, production, to finally holding that sweet sweet finished product in your hands (dot point all o.k.)
Your ‘Creeplings’ blind box series recently had a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign – getting funded and garnering a lot of praise and press
* What role do you each play in ‘Creeplings’?
* Why the name ‘Creeplings’?
* How do you see the series and concept developing – a cartoon, game, plush toys etc?
(Pictures below of the Creeplings line of blind box figures)
What release do you both get from collaborating, that you don’t get working independently?
What ever happened to your old plush toy series ‘Kreebils’?
(Pictures below of the Kreebils line of plush toys)
Are art-toys for the kids?
Is the rise of ‘art’ toys an indication of the changing nature of ‘art’? OR just a bunch of nerds with too much $$$ and time?
Thoughts on the rise of resin as an artistic medium?
What role did toys play in your childhood?
Odds n Ends
Please describe your experiences growing up in the USA?
Who was your 1st crush and why?
(Picture below of the poster for the film Whos That Girl featuring Gus childhood crush, Madonna)
Does sex change everything?
Please describe your latest dream in detail…
Of everything you have done what would you most like to be remembered for and why?
(Pictures below of some art by Gus)
Drugs – waste of time or gateway to the universe?
Please describe what you think the American Psyche/Zeitgeist is today?
Which ’s era cartoon, would you most like to see in a tribute sex toy, and why?
Who would win in a fight and why: a redneck on his way home from the pub Vs. A gang of teen art punks out on the town?
Gus Fink – Stand Alone Questions
You have been involved in the indie game ‘Fright Show Fighter’ released by 3Fright
* who is involved and what role did you each play in the game making process?
* why the decision to venture into the world of games?
* any other game projects in the works – either independently or with 3Firght?
(Pictures below of the Fright Show Fighter game)
I discovered you also make films when researching your interview, which was a nice surprise!
* Who is involved in the making of your films?
* Care to explain your recent film – ‘Hubert and the Night People’?
(Pictures below of Guss film work Hubert and the Night People in VHS format)
What ever happened to your old project ‘Dr Kinkles’?
What is the backtale – both artistic and narritive – to your art toy series ‘Boogily Heads’?
(Pictures below of some of the Boogily Heads)
How did you come to have your Antique Horror clothing designs stocked in ‘Hot Topic’?
(Pictures below of some of Gus Antique Horror t shirt line)
The Future
Any collaborations on the horizon?
Any major projects you want to hype?
Links
I’m a chaplain. Every so often I change a picture outside my office to a different inspirational quote for people passing by to read. As I was looking for a quote to post this morning I came across this one.
I’m not jumping on the bandwagon of folks lately who, for whatever reasons (right or wrong) have turned on Lecrae. I have seen some things on this young man that make me worry for him, but I don’t know him personally, and I don’t listen to his music enough to make any certain conclusions. I don’t know for certain if he even made the statement someone put on this meme. Update (four years after this devotional was first posted)- it seems Lecrae has sadly now gone off the deep end.
What concerns me is the proposition itself. I know it didn’t come from Lecrae, but I’ve heard it many times from a lot of different people and places. As far as I know, the statement is as old as the seventeenth century French philosopher/physicist/mathematician/theologian Blaise Pascal. It’s often referred to as the “Pascalian Wager”. The basic idea behind the wager carried on through many today is that if you just give assent to the idea that there is a God, and maybe apply that idea a little to your life that you’ll be glad you did when you die because you’ll be in heaven instead of hell. In other words, assume there’s a Jesus and live like you think God would want you to even if you don’t know for sure he exists and you’ll be glad you did. At the risk of oversimplification I want to address what appear to me to be massive errors in the wager.
While the idea is not without merit in a world of “scientifically-minded” spiritual nitwits, it is in my opinion a foolish proposition overall. It’s certainly not one that could be carried out fully in anyone’s life. A few of my arguments against it are as follows:
If you live your life only “as if there was a God” you’ll be in hell. You must have the Son to have God. Christianity isn’t some coin toss wager. It isn’t merely intellectual. I don’t think Pascal wanted this proposition to be an end in itself. I know that the proposition carries with it an invitation to working to convince oneself of the truth of it, etc. When people quote it today I doubt they imagine it to be a truly thorough apologetic. I don’t mean to oversimplify it entirely. But I do think we should stop using it. It reduces the Christian life down to something absurd. You may live a fake Christian life if your opinion of the Faith at all resembles a mere intellectual response to Pascal’s wager, but you will not live the Christian life that Jesus came to bring. That life comes through a transformation of all that we are.
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