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6 Tips for Organizing Sketched Artifacts

July 2, 2014

design / jared spool / sketching / user experience

The more EightShapes sketches, however, the more we desire to retrieve and share those ideas later-to revisit abandoned, complex, or unrealistic notions of a better experience, to remind ourselves of passing ideas.

We may find ourselves amid the next hour’s design studio summation. Or the day’s prototyping. Or the next week’s task scoping. Or the next quarter’s project proposal. But the sketch’s value extends beyond the initial presentation and discussion.

As such, we’ve adopted techniques for organizing our sketches for future reference, even into the annals
of antiquity!

Experimental Theology: Soulful Resistance

June 21, 2014

And yet, when you sing “I’ll Fly Away” inside a prison you come to understand that the song is, to use Andrew’s words, an act of “soulful resistance.” When the body has become trapped and is no longer under your control your only way to resist is to retreat into interiority and spirituality. The spiritual must resist the oppression and dehumanization of material existence where life has become, as Andrew describes it, a “living death.” Oppressed persons have long known this, and it goes a long way toward explaining why dualistic and charismatic spirituality flourishes in oppressed contexts.

Experimental Theology: Soulful Resistance

June 12, 2014

music / richard-beck / theology

For people like me, it’s all well and good to embrace material existence when you are well-fed and safe. But when material existence is oppressive and dehumanizing the cry to “fly away” functions as a lament, a prophetic rebuke, and an act of soulful resistance.