drgeez live blog

Every year we invite artists of all background to join us at our place in France for a time of conversation, work, prayer, inspiration, food, wine, and fun. I’m always amazed at how little it takes to refresh, encourage, and inspire each other. Too often we reflect only what is thrown at us. We reflect [...]

Folks, it has been a crazy ride here in the lower regions of France. I once hated France, avoided it like the plague, but then I became a supporter of the frenchies. Well, now I’m wondering why. Yeah, the Doc lives part of the year in France and in other regions of our planet from [...]

I apologize for the lack of content the last month, but DrGeez has been in exile in rural France where they only have dial up connection. In two weeks I will finally have a satellite connection (or we are praying) and the Dr will be back in business.

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Touched down in Nairobi early on a Thursday morning after a 9 hour flight. The theater and karate workshops would start that afternoon in Kayole – one of the nicer slums. I was there with my good buddy Mike Klumpp.

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DrGeez just got back from Kenya. I was hoping to keep you abreast of the trip and the projects that Mike Klumpp and I are doing there, but it was difficult without an internet connection. For those of you who have iphones with 3G connectivity you may think the Dr is living in the stone [...]

Dr Geez is off to Kenya with Mike Klumpp. We are developing an arts project there to help the young people in Kenya discover their voices of influence. Find Your Voice Kenya isn’t about bringing western culture ideas to Kenya, rather it is helping them to discover their talents and the ideas THEY want to [...]

I’ve heard people complain that missionaries have had negative influences on the cultures they have worked in. Why aren’t those same concerns voiced over the negative influence from MTV, Madonna, Oprah, and a thousand other pushers of the culture of self, sex, and ‘anything goes’?

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Following the traditions the Oscars the Dr has decided to do his own awards for films of great cinematic and artistic achievement. The current winner of the Geezer for best film goes to …  ‘Ladri di Biciclette’ (the Bicycle Thief) – 1948/1949. If you’ve not seen this amazing piece of cinematic story-telling by director Vittorio [...]

Why does contemporary-modern art have to be so boring and stupid? I was recently at an art gallery with new works and a performance. The performance consisted of  two people rolling around the floor. ‘Blink, blink’.  I’m a performer. I know what they did. For fifteen minutes they did nothing but a warm-up, movement exercise.

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I’ve just seen the 5 finalists in the Berlinale short film festival from the category known as the Talent Campus. These were all very well produced shorts. Big budgets and big crews. And for the most part they were interesting, artistic, and stunning – both in sound and imagery. I’ll go into more detail about [...]