New Print: The Great Divorce

This painting is dedicated to public transportation to otherworldly dimensions, and the concept of spiritual planes intersecting.  Here’s to The Great Divorce. Fresh prints *Carlton dance* available here.

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Video: First Book Drop

Here’s some video of the first Mere Christianity book drop. I also threw in some bodies writhing in paint and some snake handling because – as you’ve probably already guessed, it reminds me of Thanksgiving as a child:

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First Book Drop

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It was a dark and stormy night. Psychleberry. It was a sunny day, whose temperatures could really only be described as moderate, when I handed out the first handful of copies…

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Lewis on Originality

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Mere Christianity, in its published form, is 60 years old this year. But the book was based on BBC radio talks given 8 years earlier during World War II.

Here’s the only recording that remains from the BBC broadcasts. It was recorded on March 21st…

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A Millionaire’s Vow of Poverty

Founder of Domino’s Pizza reads Mere Christianity, takes a millionaire’s vow of poverty:

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About ‘Anesthetic Fog’

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“What will all that chatter and hearsay count…when the anesthetic fog which we call ‘nature’ or ‘the real world’ fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable?”
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C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Several folks* have emailed looking for some insight on this painting. For giggles, listen to the following two snippets; it’ll take less than 3 minutes if you jump to the time brackets below:

  1. Listen from 0:00 to 1:42 of A.W. Tozer’s
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Chewy Lewis on Indiegogo

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Chewy Lewis Project is on Indiegogo. Close your eyes and imagine your parents making out. It’s not quite that awkward, but it’s close: See for yourself here (video)

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Stop! Motion! Update!

So far, it’s taken about 45 minutes of work for every 1 second of video below:

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Win a Proof

Anesthetic Fog Signed Proof

One lucky Facebooker or Twitterer-er will win a signed proof of this next print before it launches. Double your odds…

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The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or definition for the image of the thing. -Henri Matisse

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