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Name: Bruce
Gender: Male
Interests: Old movies; promoting small groups in churches; doing creative, wacky things for and with my kids; writing; speaking in elementary schools; drawing for kids anywhere in the world God might lead me
Expertise: Old movies; illustrating; leading small group Bible-studies; writing for kids; public speaking; creativity. It's all about the ideas, man.
Occupation: Illustrator, Author, Speaker.
Industry: Books, art, public speaking
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Member Since:
8/2/2004
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| I'm ignoring the chilly weather this week and thinking warmly of the months ahead, unveiling my line up for yet another summer of Guy Movies. For the uninitiated, I've been gathering a group of buddies at my house sporadically for around eight years to watch classic tough-guy flicks. During the school year, I can only show them once every couple of months. But in the summer, I put together a whole line-up, picking the films according to a theme I dream up.
Then I put together a "poster." I know it's over-the-top to design something that has an audience of around a dozen guys, but honestly, it's fun to create. This year, I was particularly tickled that I was able to find movie stills that I could manipulate to make almost everyone on the poster looking at the BIG type in the middle.
And I do love to find great (or at least good) films on a given theme. I even was able to find a truly, wonderfully bad 50's sci-fi flick in the same vein. Our Cheesy Movie Night finishes off the summer with a showing of a so-bad-it's-good movie in the back yard, with whole families in attendance, encouraged to bring with them a cheesy snack.
I can't wait. It's going to be BIG fun!
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| Over the weekend, I just had a hankering to create some art. Funny for a guy who makes a living from drawing to say he needed to make some art on the weekend. But my wife and daughter were away and it seemed the perfect time to plunk myself down at the keyboard and color some line drawings I scanned in.
These, silly though they be, are for the young couple who run the children's program that kicks in half-way through our church's morning worship. They call the time The Big Idea. The husband, an artist in his own right, puts together a slide show to walk kids through each week's lesson. I sat in once and saw that he has some clip art of a light bulb he calls Bob. So I decided to give Bob some personality.
I just randomly picked these poses. Though I hope he enjoys them and uses them, I just needed to do something fun and simple -- something unlike the complicated business images I create most of my working hours.
This fits the bill. Or fits the Bob.
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| Here are a couple of pics from our Serendipitous Sunday, when my daughter and I went for a hike and ended up sitting in a group of people, listening to a falconer explain about birds of prey. Since my best friend is a licensed bander of hawks, Grace and I have both handled redtails, kestrels, sharpshins, and last year, a rare goshawk -- at least rare for us. So we listened to this woman with many a knowing glance to each other.
Still, it was very impressive to see this Eurasian eagle owl. And to be buzzed by a gyrfalcon that she released. It flew far across the field, wheeled and bulleted back, just missing my head with a last-second twitch of its wing.
And along the walk, we found these Virginia bluebells in full bloom.
A wonderful, surprise-filled walk.
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| So, I was on this long, boring flight to the West Coast, looking out of the window at the incredible, varied topography of our country. And I saw these amazing, verdant tributaries reaching out into geometric farmlands like furry fingers. So I decided to draw it with my own twist. You decide: cool or disturbing?
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| Does this photo look creepy to you? Apparently, the Banff Springs Hotel is famous for its supposed ghost sightings. One of the strange features of the place is that it has a missing room. Where Room 873 should be is just continual wall. The story is that a family was murdered in there, so they walled it up, but haven't kept the ghost of the little girl from roaming. I don't give credence to such tales, but I thought I'd show you the wall. Why? This is taken from outside the door of my room -- Room 876.
Here's the hall in which I ate dinner, at the banquet my client put on. I took a picture of it early this morning, before dawn, to get that "candlelight" glow to really capture the magical feel of the place. When I heard we were going to have dinner there, I said to my client, "Wow -- I didn't know you could rent Hogwarts!"
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