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Why hasn't Hollywood used this kind of thing yet? I could totally see this (or more likely, a St. Anthony one) being used in a campy plot which requires some kind of exchange of information between spies. Naturally the spy receiving it is an atheist who has no use for such trinkets, but takes it out of respect, and through various scenes slowly realises that maybe religion and religious items aren't so useless as they thought, till they finally understand that their "salvation lies within" the object given to them.Agabus said:
We should one-up this by developing Bluetooth-enabled vigil lamps.Agabus said:
Andy Dufresne would like a word.Asteriktos said:Why hasn't Hollywood used this kind of thing yet? I could totally see this (or more likely, a St. Anthony one) being used in a campy plot which requires some kind of exchange of information between spies. Naturally the spy receiving it is an atheist who has no use for such trinkets, but takes it out of respect, and through various scenes slowly realises that maybe religion and religious items aren't so useless as they thought, till they finally understand that their "salvation lies within" the object given to them.
To throw kerosine on the fire:RaphaCam said:This thread has crossed all limits of cringeworthiness.
Yeah, it's like NWO stuff.Dominika said:An usage of the icons (some of them schlock icons) for the smartphone:
http://frbillmcnichols-sacredimages.com/shop/galaxy+cases
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I can't understand that the author has no problems with the eyes of saints covered by the hole for the camera![]()
Agabus said:LOL. So earnest it's almost Evangelical.
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At least you would not have cut your chin shaving, which appears in that poster to have happened to the Theotokos due to the bizarre use of red icons on the right side of her chin. What was the point of that? They used almost as many red icons there as in depicting her lips.biro said:Yeah, you'd have lip bruises by the end. ;DTheTrisagion said:That would take quite some time to venerate them all.
These come across as making Our Lady look like a robot; actually I recall seeing a droid in one of the Star Wars films with that pattern of cameras as its face. I feel like saying to the guy who designed those, “Do you actually look at your work or do you just create these products blindfolded?” Actually they have the appearance of computer-designed products, of the sort you can have created, where your chosen image or logo gets randomly splashed across a diverse array of products (CafePress is responsible for some of these monstrosities).Dominika said:An usage of the icons (some of them schlock icons) for the smartphone:
http://frbillmcnichols-sacredimages.com/shop/galaxy+cases
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I can't understand that the author has no problems with the eyes of saints covered by the hole for the camera![]()
Nothing at all bizarre about the patch of red on the Mother of God's chin in the composite image. Ever heard of the Iveron icon of the Mother of God? Also known as Portaitissa/Of the Portal.Alpha60 said:At least you would not have cut your chin shaving, which appears in that poster to have happened to the Theotokos due to the bizarre use of red icons on the right side of her chin. What was the point of that? They used almost as many red icons there as in depicting her lips.
I have a copy of it as my primary icon for venerating our Lord and Theotokos, which was the first icon I ever acquired in fact, at the Syriac Orthodox convention in 2013 shortly after my conversion. I’ve never seen a version of that icon, or anything original, that looks like the massive open wound in the collage of icons linked to above.LBK said:Nothing at all bizarre about the patch of red on the Mother of God's chin in the composite image. Ever heard of the Iveron icon of the Mother of God? Also known as Portaitissa/Of the Portal.Alpha60 said:At least you would not have cut your chin shaving, which appears in that poster to have happened to the Theotokos due to the bizarre use of red icons on the right side of her chin. What was the point of that? They used almost as many red icons there as in depicting her lips.:
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Nonsense. Spare us your verbal exaggerations. You've been caught out, and you don't like it. As for the location of the wound on the Mother of God's face, it can vary, depending on who has painted the icon. Sometimes it is on her cheek, sometimes on the chin. This does not detract from the meaning of the icon.Alpha60 said:My point is that in the collage, the wound was exaggerated to a ridiculous extent, to the point where it looks like someone kissed the icon while wearing a massive amount of lipstick. They used almost as many red icons as tiles in depicting it as they did in depicting her lips, and of the same shade!
Is that a seatbelt buckle???Dominika said:Holy Serbia
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Yep.Alpha60 said:Is that a seatbelt buckle???Dominika said:Holy Serbia
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I have to confess I kind of like it. :-[Dominika said:Yep.Alpha60 said:Is that a seatbelt buckle???Dominika said:Holy Serbia
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I must add that I wrote "Serbia" as I'd found it on Serbian page, however the picture itself is from Russia.
Thanks for posting this; I didn't know of this story before today.Alpha60 said:
Orthodoxy has some pretty cool stuff eh?Ainnir said:Thanks for posting this; I didn't know of this story before today.Alpha60 said:![]()
What's so schlocky, besides the fact it looks like a Catholic holy card?augustin717 said:![]()
Edited to resize only - Agabus.
he’s omnipresent. But especially on bus boards . His popularity though is the result of a banal but deliberate marketing campaign by some orthodox institutions. It’s a long story but it has been thoroughly investigated a few years ago.RobS said:Heh, my girlfriend has a BW photo of Arsenie Boca on her bookshelf. What's your opinion of him augustin?
The first one defeats its own purpose, if you think about it.Sampson said:I like Uncut Mountain's stuff, but some of the new shirts strike me as kind of schlock-ish.
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I like the second one, but I don't wear white tops.Dominika said:Maybe I have a bad taste, but I like both.
The upper one is silly — "Look at me! I'm humble!" while the second one is too busy visually.Dominika said:Maybe I have a bad taste, but I like both.
"You probably don't even understand it. It's the "Our Father" prayer in traditional script. Now off with you."Arachne said:I like the second one, but I don't wear white tops.Dominika said:Maybe I have a bad taste, but I like both.
(On the other hand, tees with Orthodox stuff in Cyrillic or Arabic script, I totally would.)