R.I.P. Alexander McQueen

more than fashion.

inspirational fine art.

my lover tintin

I have been in love with Tintin my whole childhood. and through my whole childhood I imagined what he would sound like. what that crazy hairdo was all about and what his character would be like: would he be timid? would he be stubborn? would he seem fierce and bold?

I adventured to far off lands with him and to the moon and even to the United States of America. my favorite of the books was Tintin in Tibet. There Tintin goes looking for his friend from China, lost in a downed aircraft. It is unbelievable that his friend would survive and even more unbelievable that Tintin's seafaring travel buddy, Captain Haddock, would; but they manage to live long enough to get tangled up in all kinds of mischief, with all sorts of hooligans, especially and most exciting the legendary yeti of the Himalayas.

I have always wondered what this strange and small wonder of a man would be like to meet. and I started thinking about him again recently because I may get to.

Steven Speilburg has undertaken an English language Tintin film based off the Tintin novel by Herge called "Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn". I will finally hear his voice. See his face. Know what he is like.. and reserve the staunch and most joyous right of whining when they get it all wrong.

Apparently, to preserve the art of the comic style book, they are using the same technology employed by "Avatar" to create the graphics and animation of the film. My thought is that it is more because it allows them to do this::

"Ultimately, all the camera data was fed into a computer to create a 3-D replica of the actor. The digital document of the actor and the performance is so all-enveloping that the director, in this case Spielberg, can go back and change the "camera" movement and orientation long after the actor has left the set. "

-- Los Angeles Times

basic. laziness.

no pick ups or reshoots needed my friends.. its all in the computer.

surprise from Mister Spielburg, but maybe that is what filmmaking is ultimately coming to.

“I just adored it,“ he says. “It made me more like a painter than ever before. I got a chance to do so many jobs that I don’t often do as a director. You get to paint with this device that puts you into a virtual world, and allows you to make your shots and block all the actors with a small hand-held device only three times as large as an Xboxgame controller.”

--Steven Spielburg, quote from The Los Angeles Times

So now filmmaking is just like playing an Xbox.

awesome.

! these guys !

if all works out, I'll be excited to collaborate with some "young guns" next month.

my alter egos

Gustav Klimt's Judith. Nothing is so stark and so fierce as a bare breasted female. right? That is why Delacroix painted his lady liberty that way.. Because a woman can be such a symbol of strength of spirit and yet so vulnerable at the same time. I always envied this Klimt lady. She stands so proud but from such a position of venerability.

Madame X surely turned heads after Sargent painted her. She was so risque. Now we laugh. So mild. So tame. But I tell you I saw this lady twice. Once she traveled to the Seattle Art Museum, when I was in elementary school and my mother took me to the show. Even then, my inpatient and squirmy brain was compelled to stare into her eyes just a little bit longer than all the others.

The second time, I was in New York City, I turned a corner of the MET and there she was, like an old friend. I tell you, photos do not do this lady justice. She is suave, she is poised. She is a woman.

((snapped this with my camera phone, when confronted with her the second time))

MARY PICKFORD. queen of the silent cinema, and now facing someone twice her size. Women with balls.. women with balls.

AND YES...

this gal

she is hilarious.

and ambitious beyond belief

((parting music))

SNEAK PEAK Session

INTRODUCING//alex thompson from Sahale Jensen on Vimeo.

pics from my phone

more to come someday : )

why I want to go to Ethiopia

the simien highlands

SEXY

seattle love

no photoshop employed yet .:.
pics by me and katie hand

.. the world is larger ..

For Jesus Class haha or my slang for WORLD RELIGIONS we are working on our papers for the class. I decided to do my thesis on Christianity and Messianic Figures in Eastern Religions. I wanted to find a connection between WORLD RELIGIONS and the God I serve. I feel like anything with substance that is good is from God, and I wanted to find the shadow of Him in the East.

In that process I stumbled across and article that was pretty fascinating.

Gerald Mcdermott, in this Christianity Today Magazine, seems to talk about the use of the theologies of other religions as supplementing and helping us with our understanding of our Jesus and His doctrine. The author says that the idea of other religions informing ours and having shades of Christianity is an old idea and very much valid, with he discerning mind of someone who won't be sucked into the occult and more extreme followers of the faith..

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"CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF THE RELIGIONS IS at a crossroads. Its dominant paradigm for understanding salvation (exclusivist/inclusivist/pluralist) is widely challenged, and its understanding of God's revelation in Jesus Christ is confused. Heim claims that "the Trinity teaches us that Jesus Christ cannot be an exhaustive or exclusive source for knowledge of God nor the exhaustive and exclusive act of God to save us." Barnes asserts that the Logos (Christ as Word) "does not exhaust the meaning" of God because the Spirit "blows where it will" (John 3:8) and goes ahead of the disciples in Acts of the Apostles."

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I really liked that thought //

"...the Spirit "blows where it will"

I really believe that. God cannot cannot be put in a box and He, of all people and all creation, will "blow where he will". That is a beautiful thought. No one is left out. God's wisdom is left in the traces and beauty of other religions as well. And while I am rooted in Jesus Christ, that same Christianity allows me to be a more liberal thinker, because I am able to accept all the beliefs and religions of the world as having some truth, .. versus an atheist who has to throw out and distance himself from all the religions of the world and the people that believe them.

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"Griffiths' proposal echoes the observations made by Lesslie Newbigin several deeades ago. Newbigin noted that

Jesus told the disciples there was still much to learn (John 16:13) and that the learning would come through the church's mission to the nations.

Therefore the mission of the church always involves change for the church, just as it changed when it learned new things from the experiences of Cornelius the convert. Newbigin concluded that the church will continue to be challenged by the gospel as it hears from people who have read the Bible with minds shaped by other cultures, which in turn are rooted in religious visions."

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That is so true!

The church in other nations will see their beliefs through the lens of their culture and as a church we must not CHANGE per say but we must CHANGE our perspective and our limited viewpoints to walk closer to the Christ that they see! Our understanding of Jesus Christ must deepen. Don't leave your brains at the door, but elevate our thinking to a bigger picture. I feel like one way to do that is be diverse in our thinking. Don't see {God//love} through the blinders of one culture, but through all, .. and through that culmination, see God clearer, and bigger and more amazingly than we ever have.

QUOTES FROM::

Mcdermott, Gerald R. "Jesus and the religions. " Books & Culture. 10.1 (Jan-Feb 2004): 9(3). General OneFile. Gale. King County Library System. 3 Mar. 2010

after thought song:: ha like an after dinner mint. instead of for the pallet, for the contemplation of the mind : ) ---->

Paul Griffiths, Problems of Religious Diversity (Blackwell, 2001).

Michael Barnes, SJ, Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002).

S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Eerdmans, 2001).

apologies

sorry I haven't writtern in a while. I've been buzzing with plans and ideas.
travels. dreams. ideas.
I come to you from the Bothell Regional Library in Bothell, WA, one of the premiere library systems in the country THE KING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM

been working with Tim Hinck to do some experimental visuals for his
experimental music composition concert.

I need to come up with scary and gripping flashes to accentuate the music and its interpretation.
I saw this guy: Volkan Ergen on vimeo giving me inspiration. like, like, liking his stuff::

△enchantress△ from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

o c p d o c p d △ o c p d o c p d from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

And then on the session front .:. I've been working with a young mister Alex Thompson on a session idea that is going to take my musical sessions to the next level. We are going to give Chattanooga and its music and culture a whole new look at itself. Its going to be amazing! Trust me. We have been brainstorming ideas and setting a couple perspective shoot days already. Its always exciting to get artists into a symbiotic relationship. Makes both of us very happy.

Then on a last note, I am going to start teaching at an inner city camp that is trying to promote the arts in Chattanooga. I will be teaching a film ciriculum to the kids. I've been working on some lesson plan ideas and I hope that I know how to make film interesting to elementary kids. I think it will be really good for me to try and teach some of the things that I have learned over the last four years and hone my abitility to communicate that information. Not only that but have some working credentials in that direction since ((cross your fingers)) I plan to pitch a similar course//camp lesson plan to AVA for this comming quarter!!

exciting stuff..!

Sahale OUT