Old in the New

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Gordon-Conwell Christmas: Library Style

Each year the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary staff have a Christmas door decorating contest. This year, Goddard Library entered with a large, door-sized mosaic of theological book covers depicting Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

The images of book covers were gleaned from my own library on LibraryThing.

The images were then compiled into a photo mosaic using the free program, AndreaMosaic.

The original artwork is titled "Prince of Peace (2)" by Hanna-Cheriyan Varghese, an artist in Malaysia (see thumbnail below).

Many thanks to Hanna for permission to use her artwork. I have enjoyed her work for some time, as she envisions the biblical text with a non-Western Christian's imagination.

Update: The library's door won third place (as judged by an independent panel of employees), but we won the all-seminary community vote. Because of this we get to pick the cookies of our choice to be baked for the library staff. Yum!

Labels: art, library, nifty

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Of the making of many books . . .

If my library were to be incarnated as a creature such as myself, this is what it would look like.

Image courtesy of LibraryThing, AndreaMosaic, and my library.

See LibraryThing post.

See 4:14's tutorial.

Update: Here's another mosaic. This one is Spitzweg's "The Bookworm" via my library.

Labels: books, nifty

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: Name: James Darlack; Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, I currently serve as the reference librarian at the seminary’s Goddard Library. I am interested in the study of the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism. In seminary I have concentrated my studies both on the Epistle of James and the use of the Old Testament in later Jewish and Christian literature.

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