the chrismas story so far...

back in belast once again, this time i was very glad to see home, last week was mental. since wednesday morning when i arrived home in my tux from the waterpolo christams dinner at 9am until last night when I arrived in belfast at 9pm I had had about 18 hours sleep, thats 18 in 108hours and most worrying of all only saturday night was it a result of being out. the other whole time was consumed with doing two huge courseworks. One a paper on Audio visualisation for VJing, and the other creating a martian landscape using computer graphics, but no drawing allowed every thing had to be programmed in maths, ie if you want the car to drive down the hill you have to work out the heigh of the hill at that point from a matrice of the landscape, compare it to the size of the car and work out what the new poistion to draw it at.

on the plus side it was only the second time i have actually felt i had given a good shot at something i was mean to be doing and i have also seen friends in london and birmingham on the way.

which is where the title come from, on sunday I had lunch with the betel community in the uk, a friend on mine has been living with them for a while. The Christmas story of Jesus being born to reunite people with their heavenly dad and remove what the world and selfishness has stolen suddenly took a new level of impact. The leader of my friends community was a category A prisoner under 23 hour lock down for armed robbery for 7 years. He now is, becuas of his relationship with Jesus, working in this Betel house helping about 30 people recover from drugs and alcohol addiction, with a beatuiful wife and young family.
Everyone loves a bad guy come good story at this time of year, but when you consider the power of Jesus in his life to take him from hopelessness to being a leader of hope, its pretty inspiring.
It is also challenging, I met a guy who was healed of hepatitus, after being a junkie for 20 years he had been tested positive, they guys had prayed for him and he is now all clear.

waves

Had an aweseom weekend, houseparty with 5 DJs all of who have residencies in southampton, me vjing, loads of people and a 5am slow down, saturday flew out to asda with ed in his toyota mr2, I woul definately kill myself driving that. saturday night did photography of gojira playing at the brook also saw the aweseom kid carpet and electric method who are dj/vj mash up kings. then was doing the sound desk at church, so really appreicated everyone's music as i was listening out all the time. then did photos and on out to jonny's stag do with Brown playing the sweetest funk since 1975 in the fat cat.

now for something completely different.

reading my "Visual Music" book doing research for my project and its talking about the discovery that music and colour are both waves of energy that the ears and eyes interpert to give us sound and sight. This kinda makes you see how its natural that they be closely related in our minds (ie if asked to play a note on a piano to represent yellow would play something high or low? answer in comments)

but that then made me think even more especially in relation to infa-red, its a colour on the specturm that is beyond what our eyes pick up, or a sound above 20,000Htz is beyond our ears. Spiritual experiences are almost always described by those who have had them as "energy", "warthm" or somes sort of having receieved energy from somewhere else. What if spirituality is a waveform of energy we have not tracked yet, one that we use our souls to recieve. God promises to reveal himself to anyone who would seek Him, who would wait on Him. Prehaps this is not just some sitting in an empty room, but a learning to recieve another waveform that is ourside our ears and eyes.

maybe its not that foreign or wierd, "where did that idea come from" is a common phrase but what is it actually asking? i dont think creativity is an internal process, "where did your inspiration come from?"

tune

hats off to the blog father charls for another first tunes on the blog, so if the wind is in the right direction (you have speakers jacked and media player installed) you should be enjoying the mighty snow patrol.

apart from that i've been posting on jesus :: cube :: us cause its been going off a bit, and did have a legend fry today

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