Tambo’s daughter under fire for backing JZ painting -
BRETT Murray’s painting of President Jacob Zuma has found an unlikely admirer in Tselane Tambo, the daughter of the late Oliver Tambo – one of the ANC’s illustrious leaders.
Tselane cited service delivery quandaries that the ANC-led government continues to grapple with for her support of the portrait. “So the Prez JZ has had his portrait painted and he doesn’t like it. Do the poor enjoy poverty? Do the unemployed enjoy hopelessness? Do those who can’t get housing enjoy homelessness? He must get over it. No one is having a good time. He should inspire the reverence he craves. This portrait is what he inspired. Shame neh!,” she tweeted.
Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule -
Wow, amazing article!!
Fave part:
“the focus on process (not goals), supports mental detours. When you face a block of time dedicated to finishing a milestone, your mind avoids detours as they might delay your progress. When you instead focus on process, your mind is free to follow the path most important to eventually producing high-quality output.”
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Art critics demand governing role as Zuma painting buyer ‘just likes penises’ | | HayiboHayibo -
Lol, too funny!!
Fave line:
When asked for clarification, he said, “DA blue and Cosatu red together, in one place? Ugh.”
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Annular solar eclipse at Tokyo by Yoshihiro Sekine
time lapse!
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An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.
The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee’s official website.
Go get em, champs. Pizza is a vegetable, propaganda is gr8, and next, try watering your crops with Gatorade!!
(via tjpytheas)
Huh, interesting - an iTunes LP. you double-click it in the playlist, and it opens up with a menu and the whole thing. interesting.
Geek note: I don’t know what kind of file it is - it’s a “.itlp” file - and it’s more like an app - you can “View Package Contents” like you can with an app.
(Source: flavorpill, via loveanddrevenge)
Ah, iTunes you tricksy devil, auto-downloading my pre-order of John Mayer’s new album! Yes please!
This is my thousandth post to hashcool.tumblr.com. Now, most of it is reblogs and photos of things I like, but I have tried to use this as a place to catalogue my musings on topics that fascinate me - design and faith primarily, because these are two of the major pillars in my life - two gifts from God. The first I believe is what God built me for - to create with design. The second, faith, is not something I earned either, it’s simply another gift from the preposterously generous dad we have. He loves to give us amazing gifts, He really does.
When thinking about what I should blog about that’s worthy of my first quadruple-digit-numbered post, I guess it’s a good a reason as any to take stock, look back and look forward, and share.
When I look at my life right now, the overriding feeling I have is calm. This is wonderful - its been many years since that is a word I can describe my life with! Life has been a roller coaster these past few years!
Spiritually, I’ve been on an amazing journey the last 3 years. As I write this, I cannot believe I’ve been on this mad journey of getting to know God, falling in love (and out - and back in again) with Jesus - I’ve been on this road for 18 years this year. 1994 was the year God took me, shook me, and changed me into a different creature. He showered me with grace and forgiveness, filled right to the brim - so full, that as I walked away from that experience, still unsure why I felt taller and cleaner - I ran into another student (I was at school - detention), he said to me - “what’s with you?! What did you take???”. I didn’t know what he was on about, until I stopped in the bathroom and saw the goofy, grinning idiot staring back at me in the mirror. I was high. Amazing Grace, how sweet it was.
Wow, what a day!
And then my mind immediately goes to the darker days, the ones in 2010, where I was convinced that God not only didn’t like me - but that he was actively hating me. What a confusing terrible time - but I thank God for that awful time more than the wonderful afternoon in 1994. It was in the dark that I truly realized that I was God’s, and that He was mine. That crisis of the soul was as much my salvation as that first day.
It’s something I’ve begun to realize more - we think of “being saved”, or “becoming a Christian” as a single event, a single decision, a single moment in time. But I don’t think that way anymore. I think it’s more like the way a tree grows - every year we add another ring of growth, and our salvation is each and every ring. God saves us every day. He transforms us a little more all the time. Keeps forgiving us - cos we keep being human. Keeps turning us into new creatures.
My thoughts also go to everyone who hasn’t experienced this awesome journey with God. Many of them have been shown hate by God’s people - we are often so misguided! When non-Christians think of us, many of them think of us - as a group - as unintelligent, full of hate, and hypocritical. I’ve been all three before. Often still am. I can be dangerously stupid!
My journey, going forward, is to make sure in my own life, I get rid of these things. Focus on Grace - God gave it to me, so I need to spread it around a lot! Being informed. And lastly, to avoid being hypocritical - the way I’ve tried to fix that one is by being honest and transparent and authentic. It’s not OK to say everything is great when it’s not. We need to be honest!
These days, when people ask how I’m doing, if my bank account is empty and I’m stressed, that’s what I tell them. But I also remind them - and myself - of the 10 years of God giving me money when I needed it.
It’s not easy, being open about failure or about matters which culture deems sometimes as personal. Please understand - I know what’s appropriate and what isn’t - but often our culture of privacy means we all serve time in solitary confinement. Will someone truly open up at church about their shambles of a life when every person they meet says that they are just doing “AWESOME!!” because God is good (“all the time!!”), and that they’re just doing so well because they’re living in the favor of the Lord. Is the person racked with addiction or broken relationships going to feel like its safe to open up? There’s a reason addicts go to AA and not to church, and church has better coffee, so it’s not that. (just a disclaimer - please don’t think I’m being down on AA or mocking, or somehow suggesting church should compete with AA. I love those 12 step programs - they are God’s church on this earth, I truly believe that. Jesus sits in every AA and NA meeting around this world, I know it. Ask him when you see him. It’s true.)
So for the poor bastard who’s bank account is empty and there’s more bills than dollar bills - does that mean God’s favor is not on them? Is God not good all the time then? (I’ve been that poor bastard - so I know the answer - they feel alone and forsaken by God)
So I guess my journey going forward will be to continue to struggle and strive with God. Work out my salvation with Him. Wrestle with Him and ask Him questions. Live with Him. I’ll keep trying to live a life emulating Him.
As for people? I’m gonna love them, forgive them, shower them with Grace and point them to Jesus. He knows what he’s doing. His plan for them is so complex and ridiculous, if He told me what it was, I’d just say, “oh no, that’ll never work, you know what you should do? Lemme tell you…”
So I’m gonna try and show people how he loves us by loving my wife with all my strength. Showing his forgiveness and grace by doing that for others.
I’ll fail, of course, and I know that, and so does Jesus. Perfection isn’t what I’m after. It’s the journey.
Knowing that success isn’t my goal is quite liberating. (it’ll be nice, of course, but it’s not my goal). I want to finish this thing up and know that through it all, I can lay my head down knowing I did my best to get to know Jesus and live with Him. It won’t be perfect, it will be messy, but sheesh, it’ll make for a good story, and I’ll tell it to Simon Peter when I get to heaven… I think he seems the sort to have a hearty booming laugh, and I think he’ll enjoy a good story. :-)
And now, back to your regularly schedule programming of cool design, funny memes, sarcasm about politics, and the occasional glimpse into my life.
Onto post 1,001!!!!!
Hehe!
(Source: ircimages, via thats-so-meme)
First Day on the Internet Kid
Hehe, see them all here: tumblr.com/tagged/first-day-on-the-internet-kid(Source: kirbysqueak, via thats-so-meme)
For all his big talk that he sprouted, when you see this, you are reminded that he really was exceptionally fast. It looks like he saw the world in slow motion. A Physical Genius.
He once said that he’s so fast that he switched off his bedroom light, and he was in bed under the covers before the room was dark.
Hey, you never know, you weren’t there….!
(Source: xxoppxx, via berrrnabeee)
This is an interesting tool. The one thing about Social Media is that it seems like so much vapour - a constant stream of stuff from our lives that rushes towards us in a feed - and if you check out for an hour, you miss something, and it’s gone.
But this tool gives you a look at what your social media posts were about on this day 1 year ago, and it’s quite interesting.
Foursquare emailed me about this thing this morning, and without that, I wouldn’t have known that today was the day last year that we sold our Corsa - it’s been a year and we didn’t know.
Pretty cool!