Far From Home

Earlier today I posted about Kevin Rudd, Australia's now former Prime Minister, stepping down to be replaced by his deputy, Julia Gillard. As I watched the news reports tonight, which covered the highlights of the day included K Rudd's speech, what struck me in particular was passion and emotion with which this man spoke. Here he was, standing before the nation barely holding it together. A friend from my church talks about the moment he came to become a christian, he broke down in tears, "loosing his man points"... How many man points did Rudd loose today?.. but I don't feel this is something to laughed at.. I feel this was a very appropriate and sincere response to the end of a time in his life that he had poured EVERYTHING into. Rudd may not have been the perfect leader, but he clearly devoted everything he was to his role. He was freaking passionate!

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This is the kind of person I really want to be. Not the politician side.. (that would kill me) but in my life to just be truly passionate and devoted to everything that I do.

Rudd's probably feeling pretty lost as so suddenly his whole life was turned upside down and I think we really need to remember his great achievements making Australia's first official appology to the native inhabitants of this land. This is what he should be remembered for as it is such a great thing. As I was writing this I was reminded of a nice song called Far From Home by the Classic Crime. I love this song, it's definitely one of my favourites. I love how the song is intensely passionate in how it's sung, how it's played and it's lyrics. It is a perfect song, for me. Go check it out :)

Quotes rock my world

So I was doing this English assignment, which involves making a poster/collage type thing by finding quotes and pictures from a website about the September 11 terrorist attacks (real year 12 work!). It's actually a little enjoyable, which is a nice change, because it involves being a little creative, which is nice. As I was scouring the website, looking through mediocre stories about how someone remembers waking up to the beautiful weather (seriously 9 out of 10 start with this) and turning on the TV to see horrible events taking place on the other end of the screen.. I came across a one written by a rescue worker who shared the memorable images he saw that day and in the days following. One of these images struck me,

"One day someone found a heart lying on a piece of metal. Somebody's heart... all by itself"

Wow! I find this to be such a powerful image. Something that should be comparable to the photo of the falling man. It not only encompasses the sheer horror of the day but it is the juxtaposition of something so fragile as a heart sitting on a piece of metal, designed to be incredibly strong. And then you could go on to say that this represents the human spirit prevailing of the disaster.. or something like that. I love how little things in life just happen, how does someone's heart manage to get there on its own?! Blows my mind. Blows my mind that an image created by chance, someone's heart randomly finding its way onto a piece of metal, could create such a powerful image that represents such an horrific event so perfectly........

If you want to you can check out the rest of the story here, it's quite interesting! http://911digitalarchive.org/smithsonian/details/6845

And also I'd like to make a shoutout to my mega awesome photographically nice friend Rachel who's blog is right here http://rachiesaycheese.wordpress.com/ and you should go check it out :)

Creativity

One of the reasons I decided to create a blog (yes it was a big decision) was because it allows me to be relatively creative not only what I can post but how my page looks (I will be making my own style at some point.. so stay tuned :)... Ever since I was a kid I've been designing websites, one I worked on for a while was 'Comic, Inc.' which I actually had a look around for and I actually found it!!

http://comicinc.bravehost.com/home.html if you want to check it out (it's kinda lol)

And I guess it was this that led me to fall in love with myspace.. -well, not literally in love.. im not that much of a creepy nerd- but i just loved how much freedom was given, I could pretty much re-design the whole thing and make it look exactly how I wanted. It was nice. (this is of course overlooking all the crummy aspects of myspace, such as the fact that it's just so horribly designed)

But as it seems with a lot of good things, they must come to an end and myspace became a ghost town as everyone migrated all of a sudden to myspace's cleaner, modern and BROING-ER counterpart, facebook... Facebook is great, don't get me wrong, I love a good, clean website with great features that allows me to keep in touch with my friends. But besides choosing your display picture, there is NOTHING else you can do to make your profile your own. As a christian, I see our ability to create things as a gift from God - we are made in the image of God, who created all things (that's pretty freaking creative) and he's given us that ability and that's really why I love being creative 'cause I feel so connected to God. It makes me sad that this opportunity for people to be creative has been totally lost.

Recently I've been trying find ways of being a bit more creative with my facebook profile, and so far I've found a nice little app which sits in a tab up the top of my profile. This app is pretty much an html sandbox which is freaking awesome! So far I've managed to re-create a sort of myspace design on my facebook profile, it even has music. I'm pretty excited..

If you're interested in doing this yourself, the app is Profile Box. All you need is some html code (you could pretty much just copy the code from your actual myspace profile) and then just add the Profile Box tab to your facebook profile.

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Hi, I'm Brendan. Nice to meet you.

Hello :)

I am Brendan but some people call me Scollop.. sometimes. I Love Jesus, I Love Music, I Love Photos, I Love Sunsets, I Love Headbands, I Love Hugs, I Love Possiblilities, I Love Stormy Nights, I Love Once, I Love Holding Hands, I Love Driving, I Love the Beach, I Love Chocolate, I Love My Family and I Love You.

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