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So I broke down and got a 50mm lens.  I had been curious as to why so many people use it for portrait shots and such.  Now that I've been playing with it, I can certainly see why.  :-)

Having done calligraphy as religious art for 17 years now, I have finally tried my hand at another highly traditional art form of the church: icons.  Icons are windows into heaven, and are not meant to be relatistic representations of the figures, but more stylized forms that allow the viewer to center and contemplate the figure represented and beyond. I've always found it interesting that iconographers "write" icons, whereas we calligraphers draw letters.  In either case, the procedures for both are fairly strict, and both are exceptionally meticulous.  The process of writing an icon is rich in symbolism.  For instance, once the wood board

I have a great fondness for the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema here in Atlanta.  I count myself very lucky to have this theatre around as it is one of the only venues here in Atlanta that shows the greater variety of independent and more influential films that are being produced today.  Last night, Br. Addison and I went to see the new documentary on Hunter S. Thompson.  That alone will be topic for a later post.  But to my great surprise, I saw a preview for a new film by Parvez Sharma (Director) and Sandi DuBowski (the same producer of "Trembling Before G-d"). As with DuBowski's previous film, Sharma and DuBowski explore the intersection of r