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if you turn these wheels then it's like you read the tibetan scriptures and are a step closer to... where you're supposed to go. (sorry i'm not sure if it's enlightenment, nirvana, or what the appropriate term is).
btw, this thing is huge. maybe 3 or 4 stories high.
New Site: Scriptures 4 Kids
Friday February 19, 2010
Scriptures 4 Kids is a fun new site that looks promising. There are currently 71 scripture stories which are from The Doctrine and Covenants and The Book of Mormon. Each scripture story comes with original illustrations and has four different reading levels, so children between the ages of 2-10 can read on their own academic level. Each reading level also has an audio narration for children who can't (or don't want to) read.
The site's plans for the future include an original Family Home Evening coloring page and game for each story. Right now there are only two online games and eventually there will be 40 games (available in a few months) along with a new game featured each month.
The stories and illustrations are well done and I really liked the two games where you had to find the items that "didn't belong" during the time of the scriptures. This site is very promising and is one that children will enjoy visiting as they learn about the scriptures and play fun scripture related games.
Scripture Rocks Heritage Park in Brookville, Pennsylvania.
Douglas Monroe Stahlman carved numerous rocks with biblical scripture and other musings in this part of Jefferson County between 1911 and 1913. Many have been documented and preserved in this park.
See More: My Pennsylvania Adventures page.
I am the last advocate for reducing texts, scriptures and languages to mere graphic forms. The whole dimension of the text's meaning, histories, combinations, connotations, sound and craft is disregarded. What is more problematic is that I am ignoring the power of words to move and persuade people.
After first year and my first internship, I felt slightly disillusioned and confused by what Architecture meant to me. I took a trip to Myanmar and the trip recalibrated a lot things. I found it particularly grounding and inspiring for some of the things that I want to achieve in the future.
The spatial and formal organisation of the Burmese language in signage was something I found very compelling. At least with the handwritten texts, so much thought and effort was put into crafting every character. You see pencil marks, underlays, brush strokes and outlines. There is a combination of type faces and textures to create visual impact in different programmatic contexts that I find fascinating.
The Burmese name for the round script is "ca-lonh", literally translating to "round text". There are 33 main characters in the Myanmar language. Instead of words that are formed by a combination of alphabets (like in English), this language makes use of additional vowel shift symbols, tonal change symbols and consonant modification symbols. The rounded form of the characters is a result of the use of palm laves a the traditional writing material. Straight lines and forms would tear the leaves.
By compiling this, I am exposing my status as alien and an outsider. However, the focus on the visuals may have the inverse effect of celebrating the text, for text's sake, specifically, it is celebrated as visual form and not just a sign that says "eggs", or something.
Regardless, I tried to interpret the scope of "text" in a broad but focused way - text, in its literal form, text in prayer, text in recitation, text in architectural program (the stupas of Kuthodaw Pagoda). Photos are arranged in chronological order. The journey started in Yangon, then upstream along the Ayarwaddy river, to Mandalay and Bagan, then back again to Yangon.
These photos aren't really anything special in terms of photography, and I am not going to attempt to make sweeping claims about directing a new visual order, but as a composite they attempt to represent my yearning to celebrate a culture of appreciation for the process driven intensity in text making and in the creation of form.
I shot this at the train station before leaving Valley Forge. I was almost certain that Jesus has been in Kutztown for the last two years, I'll have to talk to him about this...
Scripture Rocks Heritage Park in Brookville, Pennsylvania.
Douglas Monroe Stahlman carved numerous rocks with biblical scripture and other musings in this part of Jefferson County between 1911 and 1913. Many have been documented and preserved in this park.
See More: My Pennsylvania Adventures page.
Wisdom Quotes and Scriptures--for more like this--->>> www.cherylcope.com/wisdom-quotes-and-scriptures #wisdom #bible #quote
The picture is from October of 1970, my senior year of high school, shooting with my brand-spankin' new Minolta SRT-101. Somehow a few of my slides from that time have survived in pretty good shape. Reading Psalm 1 I kept coming back to this one in my mind. The scripture is timeless, the picture is only 40 years old. God is good!
This big roller (at Caesaria Philippi) makes the impression of some passages from the bible in a few languages on the sand.
Scripture Rocks Heritage Park in Brookville, Pennsylvania.
Douglas Monroe Stahlman carved numerous rocks with biblical scripture and other musings in this part of Jefferson County between 1911 and 1913. Many have been documented and preserved in this park.
See More: My Pennsylvania Adventures page.