Happy Birthday!

It's about time we celebrated someone important... guess who's birthday it is. It's not me. Sorry. Outside of the art world, he's not actually that important but it's Rene Magritte's 110th birthday. This guy is the surreal artist famous for the painting called "The Rape" and others. If I were honest with you I would have to tell you that I'm not super keen with the birthdays of dead creeps, so credit goes to Google for their art they did to celebrate his birthday. I wouldn't care so much if I weren't learning about him in my art history but it's cool.



A favourite of their images. This habit of theirs to create sick images like these is one of the things I most appreciate of Google. Thanks!

Accepted

I got a call from a girl from the Honor Academy a few days ago and I want to go. I'm praying that God will open doors. I filled out five job applications today and I'll be returning them as soon as possible.

Letters

My brother found this somewhere on the web. I really like it; I might use it sometime as a base for future work of mine. Of course, that's also the same reason I asked someone from Thunder Bay to write out the alphabet for me, because I thought she had really cool writing...

Today

Today I actually had a really good day. People. Answered prayers. Art. But something, I'm just wiped, something has been drained inside of me. I'm so tired right now. My art isn't finished, but it's close. I'm going to fail my math test tomorrow but my brother might get a dog tomorrow, which would make up for it. And anyways, I've decided I don't like math anymore and I don't care about it. I care slightly for my grade but it's alrighty bad. (Clearly I'm tired, and if you missed what I just did, you are too). My art mark will have to get me honours at the end single-handedly. Oh well, I'm going to bed. It's not even terribly late.

Making and Thinking

I found this, it's pretty cool. I'd say it's probably true of me.

Easter Eggs

So I've been looking up "Easter eggs" for Pixar movies and I found this image, it's definitely my favourite.



It's obviously the same trailer, but if you look to the left you can the Pizza Planet car from Toy Story in both. Apparently, the car's in every one of their movies. Also the number A113 is in most, if not all. From what I know, it's the classroom number where many of the animators got their skill. And the guy who voices Mack in Cars has had some kind of role in every movie too. There are so many Easter eggs in the movies and I've only just read of a few of them.

WALL-E

The movie comes to DVD and Blu-ray in three days! I'm asking for it for Christmas and I'm really excited about it. I found the whole screenplay on the Internet and printed it off. I've read through some parts of it and it brought back scenes from the movie for me.

I saw it on June the 28th, the day after it came to theatres. My brother took me for my birthday, he's so sweet. It's a fabulous movie, very well done. If you haven't seen it just go buy the movie. I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed. I love all Pixar movies.

Twilight

So a few days ago a friend of mine lent me the book Twilight. I started reading it. Then my parents told me that they didn't really want me reading those books from the series after reading an article about them in the Plugged In magazine from Focus on the Family. I read it myself. Apparently, as they go on there's a lot of detail in the occult type category. (The books are primarily about vampires, you should know that if you're reading this). And later on things become sexually between the characters. Even though that is after they get married, it's still there. For girls that's porn, I'd say. Girl porn. Lovely, right? No, not so much.

Now, today I tried to return the book to my friend who lent it to me telling her those things. I didn't call it girl porn though. My friend is a Mormon, which doesn't actually make a huge difference to me, but she promised me they were good. She told me the Stephenie Meyer, who wrote the books is Mormon, and Mormons hold similar beliefs to Christians, I believe, and she told me that if they weren't good books she wouldn't read them herself.

But I trust my parents' opinion more than hers. And I know that what I read was true because she didn't deny it, she simply praised Stephenie for sending the message of saving sex for marriage. And my other Christian friend who was there in my English class who's reading the books was like "they just kiss, and kiss some more and go a little further..." Ahh! And then another friend of mine, also there, a Christian guy friend said "As long as you know it's wrong, than it's OK to read it".

What?! I'm trying keep my mind clean, could I get some support here? All three of those friends believe that so whatever happened to

"There's more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, "The two become one." Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never "become one." There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another. Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body." 1 Corinthians 6:16-20 (The Message)

and

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8

So to tie things up, this is what happened. My first friend told me to just finish the book. She said that the book stands on its own and there's no need to read the other books for it to be a good story. The other books are the ones where things get worse. I agreed but left myself the right to stop reading at any point. And I definitely won't be reading the rest of the books. She promised it was good. We'll see.

My Room

On any given day there are things that can be said about my life just by looking at room. Today my room is disfunctional and messy. My life feels disorganized. There's a stricking relation. I'm going to clean my room.

What Do You Do?

What do you do when you know someone who you used to be somewhat close with, but now you both mutually know that in your minds that the relationship is coming to an end. Messages are occasionally sent both ways but never really replied to. When there's no real genuine care for what's happening in the other's life. You're happy to know that they're doing well but other than that, nothing.

I think in this case the answer may very well be to simply delete them off Facebook and call it an end. I'm still waiting but I think it's about time to move on. Goodbye, aurevoir.

Portrait Finished!

Here is my finished portrait! I finished it yesterday.


Please compare it with the originally and give me your critique! Note: please consider that the left side of my drawing is lighter than the other dark spots because of the lighting. Hope you like it! Oh, and also, I had played around with the values of the picture I drew from, making some parts of mine darker than the picture you see following.


Original photo link: click here

My Mind

Here's what I'm thinking about in this moment. I was so excited, what seemed like such an amazing opportunity just showed up right in front of me. One night I had a really hard time falling asleep because I couldn't stop thinking about it. But then following came such a harsh, solid, cautionary no, and it really made me think. It actually brought me to tears more than once because of the height it seemed I had fallen from. Truly bummed.

It made me question what I believed on certain differences between denominations. If thought about too much, the small details in theology almost make me feel like saying "forget the whole thing"! I would never give up my faith over that though. Jesus means too much to me, He's the best thing in my life.

Now, I find myself more reassured in what I know, but more prominently I find myself wishing that the differences between the groups simply didn't exist. That we could be one Body without these annoyances getting in the way.

So now the question confronts me, what do I do? Do I go anyways without the blessing and ignore the leadership placed in my life?

I don't intend on going somewhere because a certain place has caught my emotional workings, or because they have a well designed website (I think that's so important). Y'know, I want to base this on reason and prayer. I'm trying to consider everything, and if, despite a great program setup, the Honor Academy really does have Pentecostal views then maybe I should reconsider things.

If this next year is going to be my first year out on my own, then I want a really solid foundation I can count on. It's looking more and more like a less likely option for me. I'll still keep the possibility open and do some more research, but that's the way it looks right now.

It's distressing me in a way because if not the HA, then where? I'm being brought back to square one and that sucks, but it's alright at the same time. Do I stay at home? Find another place?

It's not accredited and the cost is quite great. I'm realizing, that it's not really the school that I want. I think that what I had put my hopes in was initially the school but now it's becoming more clear that what I want more than anything is the community I imagined I would find if I went. A community of people truly in love with Jesus. A people who would seek after and serve Him with everything they are. People you can trust and grow with. That's what I want for myself wherever I am.

At least I can say I know more of what I'm looking for. I want to put God first. Not art or some other program or education. I'm looking for a bunch of people in love with Jesus making themselves available to be used by Him. And I want to be blessed when I go. I want to listen to the leadership God's placed in my life and I think that that's probably wise.

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No Day

No day ever belongs to me. Just because I don't have anything planned doesn't mean that I can do whatever I want with that day. There are always interruptions. And sometimes a lack of self-discipline can ruin day to myself anyways.

Today I've written out a number of things on a To Do list but now I might be getting a hair cut this afternoon and this evening my family has been invited out for dinner to a couple's house in town. Interesting.