Jarrett
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” —Einstein
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Five Years
What does one write on their blog that has fallen to the wayside over the past couple months to celebrate it’s fifth anniversary? Do you write anything at all? Do you even mention that you’ve been meagerly slaving away for five years on a little blog that maybe no …
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This Is It
When Michael Jackson died in June, just shy of his fiftieth birthday, the world lost mourned the loss of arguably the greatest entertainer of our time. Maybe even the greatest entertainer of all time. Personal problems and molestation cases stole the spotlight from his …
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Recent Photography
Shortly after I moved to Philadelphia for a brief time in 2007, I went on many photographic excursions to help get acquainted with my new city. I spent a Saturday a few weeks ago doing the same thing for my most recent town. There is a strong contrast of the rural …
About
I'm a designer, photographer, writer, student, artist, and general creative. I'm fond of music, movies, typography, bonsai, simplicity, the internet, good books, delicious meals, communication and learning.
Movies
The Village, Big Fish, The Truman Show, Juno, Secret Window, Inside Man, K-PAX, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, The Shining, American Beauty, Lars and the Real Girl, The Illusionist, Napoleon Dynamite, Lady in the Water, Little Miss Sunshine, Winter Passing, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Green Mile, V for Vendetta, Corpse Bride, Garden State, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, King of California, Lost in Translation, Smart People, Invisible Children, Unbreakable, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Into the Wild, National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sixth Sense
Music
(in alphabetical order) Aaron Sprinkle, The Afters, The Album Leaf, The Almost, Anberlin, Aphex Twin, Audio Adrenaline, Between the Trees, Bleach, Bon Iver, Brandon Heath, Brie Stoner, The Classic Crime, Coldplay, Copeland, David Crowder Band, David Vandervelde, DC Talk, Deas Vail, Derek Webb, Edison Glass, Eisley, Eleventyseven, Explosions in the Sky, Fair, Falling Up, Family Force 5, FM Static, The Fold, Fono, The Fray, Gabriel Wilson, Hawk Nelson, Hillsong United, House of Heroes, Ian Eskelin, Iron and Wine, Jars of Clay, Johnny Cash, Jon Foreman, Jonezetta, Joy Electric, Katie Herzig, Kevin Max, Leeland, Leigh Nash, The Listening, The Lonely Hearts, Mae, Mat Kearney, Matt Wertz, MuteMath, MXPX, Newsboys, Over the Rhine, Paper Route, Paramore, Phil Joel, Phil Wickham, Red Umbrella, Regina Spektor, Relient K, Riley Armstrong, The Rocket Summer, Ruth, Sanctus Real, The Send, She & Him, Sigur Ros, Sixpence None the Richer, Skillet, Starflyer 59, Sufjan Stevens, Switchfoot, Thousand Foot Krutch, TobyMac, Tycho, Tyler Burkum, U2, Until June, The Violet Burning, VOTA, The Wedding
Television
LOST, The Office, Fringe, 24, Heroes, Mad Men, No Reservations, HGTV, Food Network
Books
Bible, Velvet Elvis, Blue Like Jazz, On Writing, Through Painted Deserts, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Sex God, Searching for God Knows What, The Orphaned Anything's, The Tipping Point, Blink, Flatland, Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Eleanor Rigby, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Great Divorce, Nonviolence, The Laws of Simplicity, The Chronicles of Narnia, Freakonomics, The Irresistible Revolution, The Learners
Interests
design, photography, art, music, technology, movies, creativity, spirituality, modern interior design, architecture, typography, vintage cameras, mega churches, reading, writing, laughter, crying (but not over spilt milk), love, beauty, industrial design, life, death, fashion, blogs, Relevant Magazine, water volleyball, indie culture, telling stories, hearing stories, Dwell Magazine, ephemera, reflecting, silence, loudness, monotonous spontaneity, the Roxy Theatre, coffee shops, unexpected smiles, handwritten letters, simplicity, but also complexity, snail mail, messy sketchbooks, Polaroids, listening, going to bed, waking up, making a difference
Gary, Mar 5, 2009:
http://naldzgraphics.net/inspiration/60-most-beautiful-and-creative-business-cards-design/
If you haven't seen that yet, thought you'd appreciate it.
Sarah, Feb 22, 2009:
ok so I just logged on to here for the first time since FOREVER! I love the new set up of virb. I need to update like it's nobodies business!!
Carina Hdez, Sep 16, 2008:
OMG how was rev gen? i was there till 3 pm then went back home. I love your pictures. Going to Creation 2009?
Sarah, Jul 8, 2008:
Hey Sir! I have an important question for you....
leslee mitchell {photography}, Dec 30, 2007:
Thank you!! And thanks for looking at my work.
Sarah, Dec 17, 2007:
oh my gosh!!!!! i knew you'd love it hahaha!!! thats awesome! so we had a horrible ice storm which ment no electricity for a while (we have it now thank goodness) but I haven't been on to talk to you forever!!! and now i will be back and forth from manhattan and clay center so i can work...so its just business!!! how was the last of your finals?!
Gary, Dec 16, 2007:
so im basically a jerk... I never saw your comment and I'm posting back a good 2 months after. sorry!
college is going alright, it's definitely a change of pace, that's for sure... how about you, how was your first semester? You should get Facebook!
Jonathan, Nov 28, 2007:
umm yea, that would have been me. i tend to be pretty much all over the place at those gigs. you should have said hi :)
Sarah, Nov 3, 2007:
yay for color!! haha...i like it!
eric hurtgen, Oct 18, 2007:
thank you sir.