Random Picture Monday? Sure.

so I'm not necessarily trying to start a thing here, but I think that this picture found on Pinterest describes us very well here at GND.

That's basically what we're about. Doing what we love, with who we love, the way we love doing it.
It's about nerdiness. It's about artisticness. But, I hope that at it's core, it is about glorifying God through the talents and skills that He has given us. I hope that we find joy in delighting Him with worship. I hope that everything we do is worship of Him.

~Heather Rose

IN RESPONSE TO OBLIVION - STARS AND BOULEVARDS

Wait dear, a white horse is walking down my street here, / Your words are creeping at my feet / I fear, sunrise will come too soon and you'll disappear / Into the haze of this city and go south...

       "Just stay, please." She stares at me and I know she will go. I can beg and beg and beg, but I can't make her stay. I know I shouldn't want to, but I have to try. Everything that I've done, should make me want to push her out and never let her look at me again. But everything she is  makes me want her to stay.

In respose to Oblivion

In response to Oblivion's last post, I've listened to the song Save Me by Avenged Sevenfold. It inspired a short fiction piece. The crazy thing is, after listening to that song, I remembered a Misty Edwards song. So the piece that I wrote is a mash-up of inspiration. The Misty Edwards song is called  The Harlot. 

 It's kind of long. And posting it on here is a little scarry, because I don't usually let people read what little fiction I do write. Here it is, though:

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The Harlot


The place she found herself in was familiar. She had been there a thousand times before, and had each time promised herself that she would never return. Here she was again. The loneliness was crippling. She only wished that there were silence. If only such a luxury and comfort were alotted in a place like this. No, all she had was her own inner-monologue; that is all it really was. But to her, it sounded like a thousand voices screaming her name like an obscenity.

Songpic-Songfic-SongWHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE

I personally know that all different kinds of art affect me in different kinds of ways. For a while now, an idea that's been on my mind is the idea of a picture with the image stemming from the song "Save Me" by Avenged Sevenfold, one of my personal favorites. I also believe that anyone could possibly get some inspiration from this beautiful song, so anyone who is interested, go listen and lets see what you come up with!

- Oblivion

Operation: First Deadline

So, our first deadline was three days ago.

Here is my contribution:

 

 

 

This is a mixed-media piece. Basically, you're looking at a canvas that has been painted, dripped with melted crayons, and deco-paged.

A more in-depth post on how it was made can be found here, on my blog.
This picture will also be posted on the Mixed-Media page, entitled "Deco-page something, you'll feel better."
I think it would be a good idea for everyone to post their stuff on the pages, so that their work doesn't get lost in the archives on the main page. Hopefully, there will be many posts here, and it will be easier for us to find specific things if all the actual art and such are on the pages.

I can't wait to see everyone else's stuff!


~Heather Rose

 

Code Name: Guild Next Door

No one asked me to do the intro for our little collective of friends, but I figured it would be okay if I did. So is this okay? Oh, well, I'm doing it anyway. And I'm not saying I'm the best person for it, but I would say that the people I work with are some of my best friends and I think that I can get this done.
So raise your hand if you have ever felt the lack of good, accesible, online media content.... Okay so that's about 579 of you. Great that's a start! Well when Alex suggested that we all get together and create this guild I was so excited. I think I scared Andrew a little bit at one point. I was excited because as someone who works with a ton of online media I find it hard to find places with good, substantial, content. I personally saw this guild as an opportunity to create and share good art and media. As for the rest of our band of Merry Men it was also such and opportunity.
When we first started talking about this I was saying that this was an opportunity to create what we wanted to on the schedule that we want to create it. Andrew (who was actually trying to tease me ha-ha Andrew) said something along the lines of "We can create it HOW we want to as well!" Well that was the point that I scared Andrew, because I sort of jumped him and yelled "YES! Exactly!" And all joking aside that is exactly what we are aiming to do; make good online art that reflects who we are as people.
Really we are just a few kids who grew up together who happen to like similar things. I should say that while somethings we like are similar, we are very different people. Heather, CB, and I write, it's part of who we are. But Heather writes non-fiction, while CB and I write mostly fiction, and our styles of writing fiction ar very different. Anthony and Taylor are artist, Maga artists to be specific. But they too have different styles in how they do things. Jason is somewhat of an artist too, but he mainly likes to draw weapons for characters that Taylor and Anthony draw; he's one dedicated kid.  Andrew is a musician, he plays guitar on the youth worship team at our chuch. He's also one of the smartest kids on out team. Alex is probably the hardest to pin down because we never know what he's going to do. Recently he sent me a self portrait in the drawing style that Brian Lee O'malley uses to draw Scott Pilgrim. But if you ask him, he won't subscribe to the lable "visual artist". He doesn't really subscribe to any lable because likes to touch on all of it.
We all bond over books we all like to read and movies we like to watch and games we like to play. The bond that we have is not something that happened over night, it is continuously growing. That's why we decided that this guild was a good idea. Basically we are people who doing the things we love, with the people we love, in the way we love to do it. I have seen people work together and their friendship suffers for it, but I have the utmost confidence that because of what we have built already that won't be our case. We know how to disagree and we know how to overcome that disagreement. We're here to stay.
We decided early on that being apart of this wasn't about making content for other people; it's about making it for each other because we love each other. And beyond that it's to give glory to God in all that we do, because He's the reason we are friends to begin with. Beyond creating things that are worth while I think this is about growing closer as not just a group of friends, but as a family.

OPERATION A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

Upcoming stuff:

Okay, guild-mates.
This is the blog, and the current template is called
 Smashed Lightbulbs


and all the other ones that I found fit our purposes were not compatable (with my skill level) with this blog. If anyone sees something you like, i.e. a cool background, let me know.
If you find a template, make sure that it has an HTML code, and I could put it up here.
This one is not by any means the final one.
Ideas are welcome.

~Heather Rose