Brian Lundin

storyteller, writer, and geek

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Perfect SXSW-less Sunday afternoon at the best pub in town. #atx #VSCOcam

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Last night @daisylinz and I celebrated our third anniversary. I often tell people that it seems like we've been married forever. They give me a funny look, thinking its a negative thing. But it's not. It's a wonderful thing, because I can't remember life without her. I can't believe how blessed I am to have this woman as my wife.

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After 13 years in the tech industry, today I am starting down a new path—full-time ministry. I'm humbled and honored to join the staff of The Austin Stone to help lead and shepherd the @story_team with my good friend @stevenbush. Our God is so faithful, and so good!

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It's harsh, but true.

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How many unfinished manuscripts are on your hard drive? How many empty canvases are in your closet? How many ideas have you walked away from? Did you do it because of the voice in your head? Or the mocking voice down the hall? Is it others' measuring stick that's always just a bit too long? Are you terrified to do what you love? Have you ever looked fear and doubt in the eye, and blinked? I have. I will again. But not today. #art #writing #fear #dothework

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It annoys my wife that I don't care more about my birthday. What I want for my birthday is simple: "happy birthdays!" from friends and family, my favorite steak that I make, a good drink and a favorite old movie. That's it. This is completely different than Lindsey's idea of a good birthday. But that's okay. She loves me well, and takes care of me. And she doesn't make me have a party. Which is one of the many, many reasons I love her! #lovemywife #VSCOcam

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Heading back to Austin from my hometown. This trip always feels like it did the first time. #vscocam

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A great night of worship and community with my @story_team and #asw brothers and sisters at the #aswcollective!

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"God made the world not as a warrior digs a trench but as an artist makes a masterpiece."

Tim Keller, Every Good Endeavor

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"Kierkegaard kept up his energy with coffee, usually taken after supper and a glass of sherry."

From Daily Rituals, on Soren Kierkegaard's energy management techniques.

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"The walks were where he had his best ideas, and sometimes he would be in such a hurry to get them down that, returning home, he would write standing up before his desk, still wearing his hat and gripping his walking stick or umbrella."

From Daily Rituals, on Soren Kierkegaard's schedule:

"The Danish philosopher's day was dominated by two pursuits: writing and walking. Typically, he wrote in the morning, set off on a long walk through Copenhagen at noon, then returned to his writing for the rest of the day and into the evening. The walks were where he had his best ideas, and sometimes he would be in such a hurry to get them down that, returning home, he would write standing up before his desk, still wearing his hat and gripping his walking stick or umbrella."

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Jed Perl in The Cult of Jeff Koons:

"Koons, simply put, is Duchamp with lots of ostentatious trimmings. This is not a pretty sight. Duchamp’s readymades have an almost monastic austerity. Koons has bulked them up, transforming the ultimate insider’s art into the art that will not shut up. For Koons’s supporters, and they are legion, this is an anti-tradition that has become an honorable tradition, with all that implies about the risks and rewards of legitimacy. The art historians, with their addiction to neat chronologies, will tell you that Duchamp begat Rauschenberg and Johns, who begat Warhol, who begat Koons. It has been Koons’s weird instinctive salesman’s genius to capitalize on the art world’s increasingly confused adulation of Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, who are nowadays seen as seductive mixtures of trickster, mystic, magus, prophet, virtuoso (and at least in Warhol’s case, huckster)."

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"This album is a humble offering to Him. An attempt to say “THANK YOU GOD” through our work, even as we do in our hearts and with our tongues. May He help and strengthen all men in every good endeavor."

From Tim Keller's Every Good Endeavor:

Your daily work is ultimately an act of worship to the God who called and equipped you to do it—no matter what kind of work it is. In the liner notes to his masterpiece A Love Supreme, John Coltrane says it beautifully: 

This album is a humble offering to Him. An attempt to say “THANK YOU GOD” through our work, even as we do in our hearts and with our tongues. May He help and strengthen all men in every good endeavor.

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Such a great book. To read about the habits of other writers and artists is a pleasure and an encouragement. I always leave these pages feeling hopeful about my work. #writinglife #vscocam

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"You can be hermitic, but within your little hermit cave or whatever, I think it is important you have something else happening somewhere else in the world." Douglas Gordon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3mm-LNkmXU 

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Douglas Gordon on the need for artists to work in different mediums and ways:

"People always put you in a pigeon hole, why would you fly in on your own?"

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From the MoMA Collection: Douglas Gordon's "Play Dead; Real Time"

Douglas Gordon came of age with a generation of artists drawn to critiquing and deconstructing media technology. Over the past two decades, he has produced text-based and photographic works as well as video installations, often based on cinematic imagery, that investigate the construction of meaning and the notion of the sublime.

For the monumental installation Play Dead; Real Time, Gordon arranged for a circus elephant to be transported to Gagosian Gallery, in New York City, where he filmed it obeying a series of commands (repeatedly lying down and then awkwardly struggling to rise). Like many of Gordon's protagonists, the elephant is subject to greater forces, beyond its controL Simultaneously presenting several different versions of the scene, in front and rear projections and on a monitor, the work depicts the event from a range of perspectives rather than from a single static viewpoint.