Brothers: Tarot Randomizer #4

It was rather a synchronicity that the Tarot card picked for today's group creativity experiment was "The Devil." Last night my daughters and I attended a play at the Covey Center for the Arts, "Brothers," about the human side of two famous siblings, Lucifer and Jesus.  I'm planning on reviewing the play for the Mormon Matters readers, but for now I did a quick sketch to put up for our group.  I'm always lamenting my lack of artistic ability, but in this one I was trying to capture the moment in LDS doctrinal tradition where God the Father presents the plan of salvation to his children in the premortal existence.  Satan's face is supposed to represent his disdain for the plan, his inner thoughts that he can come up with a better one, and a bit of sadness foreshadowing his eventual downfall.  Jesus' face came out more beatific than I really intended, but I had difficulty capturing the feeling I wanted to express, of complete acceptance and excitement to put the plan in action.

L'Ermita Aki: Tarot Randomizer #2

Today's Tarot creativity project  -- The Hermit: which has the key words of introspection, searching, guidance, and solitude.  The card that was drawn for today also had the Kanji character "aki" meaning "autumn."  I used a picture from a photo shoot my daughters and I did yesterday, and we had some fun with photoshop.  Even though this was a spring St. Patrick's Day shoot of my daughter, I like how we came up with an autumn-like feel here.

PS Gigi: the name of the card is no reflection on your social standing!

  

inspired by the Hermit card from the Manga Tarot deck: 

Bounding out of the Wilderness

My mind has been captured by a phrase attributed to Joseph Smith in at least two of his sermons--that of John the Baptist "bounding out of the wilderness" to preach the gospel of repentance.

On the 23rd of July 1843, in Nauvoo, a sermon was delivered by Joseph Smith to the assembled Saints. At least 5 different men mentioned or took notes on this talk. In the James Burgess Notebook we have this description of John the Baptist:

Click here to read the rest!

The Eyes Have It

Guess Who?
Can you guess all 20 of these famous peepers? (Without cheating!) Put your answers in the comments, and remember, if you post under "anonymous," include your name or your pseudonym in the comment.

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Bloggernacle Personalities

I was reading the most fascinating post over at American Scholar. There's a site where you can go and make each side of your face perfectly symmetrical. When Heidi did it to her face, the two different sides looked like they had completely different personalities. I thought it might be interesting to see what some of our Mormon bloggers might be hiding deep inside! Just take a look at these:

Kevin Barney, scholar




Kevin Barney, weight-lifter









Blake Ostler, SLC lawyer



Blake Ostler, Mormon apologist (check out the Joseph Smith hair)










Ronan, friendly Euro broadcaster




Ronan, fundy polygamist









Rosalynde, wholesome Mormon Mom



Rosalynde, Wiccan graduate student









Nerd Clay



Jock Clay









Deseret News Em Jensen, outgoing




Em Jensen, shy








Adam Greenwood, sanctimonius




Adam Greenwood, snarky









Here's me, BiV--with stopwatch earrings




...and looking a little crosseyed!








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new daguerrotypes found!!









Full disclosure: These come out looking better if you are holding your head perfectly straight. Go on, everyone--try this by going to symface.com. Did it tell you anything about your personality?? Give me a link when you post your pics!