TRENT, you are a hard guy to hook up with. Send me a note to say hi when you find yourself here;-) I'd like to talk DESIGN with you.

2004 Winner TRENT COMBS

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CREATION WEST JULY 27 - 30th 2005.

You are invited to attend the eighth annual Creation festival at the Gorge Amphitheater! Join with thousands of people from all across the United States and Canada for three exciting days of great Christian music, inspired teaching, camping, friends and much more. The dates for Creation 2005 West will be Wednesday July 27 to Saturday July 30.

The response to last year's festival has been tremendous. More important than the great music and perfect weather was the many life changing decisions made to follow Jesus Christ. That is what Creation is all about.

Creation 2005 West is one of only two Creations festivals that will be held this summer. The original Creation is celebrating its twenty-seventh birthday this year and is considered to be the world's largest annual Christian festival.

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Lifest

Oshkosh, Wisconsin Lifest is July 7 -10, 2005:
2006 info coming soon...

Lifest exists as a youth driven, family friendly event to build bridges with Christians and churches by presenting the gospel through entertainment, diversity of the arts, training and discipleship.

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San Diego Convention Center
September 9-11, 2005

ASR is the leading action sports industry trade event, bringing together top manufacturers, retailers, industry advocates and media to conduct the business of surf, skate, snow, swim, moto and youth culture.

ASR communicates to both inside and outside the industry a showcase for trends in the youth market. Now in its 24th successful year, ASR gathers over 500 action sports brands and approximately 7,000 retail buyers and decision makers three times a year, with Spring and Summer season shows in San Diego and ASR Fall in Huntington Beach.

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Magic the Business of Fashion
Woodland Hills, CA 91367

August 29 - September 1, 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada Overview of Shows Each February and August, the fashion industry converges on Las Vegas for one of the most influential four days in the business – the MAGIC Marketplace. Seventy years in the making, what started as a small group of manufacturers has developed into the preeminent fashion market in the world.

MAGIC connects a global audience of serious buyers and sellers of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel and accessories. Thousands of retailers spanning single store boutiques to mass market domestic and international chains come to the Marketplace to access more than 3,000 manufacturers showcasing over 5,000 brands and private label resources.

MAGIC International is the world’s largest and most widely recognized producer of trade shows for the apparel industry. The MAGIC Marketplace consists of five concurrent running events, providing the most comprehensive apparel and accessory offerings found anywhere in the world.

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California Gift Show
July 22- July 25, 2005
LA Convention Center

The California Gift Show is the oldest and largest gift and home furnishings show in the West. The well-established (70 years!) California Gift Show attracts approximately 30,000 buyers at each of its semi-annual events, which present some 11,800 companies in over 3,000 booths. The California Gift Show is managed by George Little Management, LLC (GLM) on behalf of dmg world media.

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TEDGLOBAL
"Ideas Big Enough to Change the World"
July 12-15, 2005. Oxford, UK.

TEDGLOBAL will be like TED http://www.ted.com/ but with an even stronger focus on really big world-changing ideas. Stand by for memes and dreams from the intersecting worlds of science, business, globalization, invention, and creativity.... seasoned, as ever, with inspirational performance art, music and comedy. There will be a more international mix of speakers and attendees. Smaller numbers at launch, but quality all the way.

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Spirit West Coast
Monterey, CA
July 28 - 30th 2005

The Spirit West Coast festivals are the two largest and only multiple-day Christian music festivals in the Southwest United States. The festivals rank as two of the premier Christian music festivals in the country, drawing fans from many states, especially from the Western region including California, Arizona, and Nevada. The event's combined "unique visitor" attendance in 2004 was 43,700 and the combined 6-day cumulative attendance was 90,000.

Spirit West Coast - Monterey debuted in 1997 at the Laguna Seca Recreation Area, located along the Central Coast of California. Now entering its ninth year, many Christian music insiders claim the Monterey festival is the highest-quality Christian festival in the country. The newer second annual festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego County on Memorial Day provides Christian music fans and event goers from Southern California and other areas (Arizona, Southern Nevada) a new opportunity to experience the same dynamic combination of music and ministry that has been enjoyed by thousands in Monterey for years.

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Event Description & Notes

The Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts at Fuller Seminary presents this Worship Summit from June 12 – 15, in the beautiful resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho.

Speakers include Eddie Gibbs, Barry Taylor, Sally Morgenthaler, Pedrito Maynard–Reid, and many more.

Pastors, theologians, artists, laypersons, worship leaders, and students will gather to discuss the most fundamental questions facing the Church today: Who's worship for? What difference does worship make? What role do the arts have? Who holds center stage? Who’s left out? You can learn more about the conference at www.brehmcenter.org.

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Ministries use tech, flash to attract teens
By Kelly Kurt

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The hottest teen hangout around is packed and throbbing with what seems an unholy beat this Wednesday night, the night local churches claim for midweek worship. A DJ spins dance tunes upstairs, sending boys in sagging pants into contortions. Downstairs, girls surf the Internet from rows of iMacs flanking a glassed-in basketball court. Hundreds of new arrivals flow under a neon sign reading, “Oneighty,??? slowed only by a weapons check at the door.

Church night Bible study, it’s not. But the music is Christian, the surfing monitored and “the funnest part,??? a 12-year-old Oneighty regular attests over a video game, “is learning about God.???

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The History of the Silver Ring Thing Silver Ring Thing (SRT) sexual abstinence program was created by Denny Pattyn and the Youth FORUM Southwest leadership team in 1995. The program was designed to attract the attention of the typical 21st century teenager and offer them protection from the destructive effects of America's sex obsessed culture. In 2000, Denny joined the John Guest Team as the Executive Director and with him brought his vision for the Silver Ring Thing program. It was here that the national SRT program was developed. The Silver Ring was designed by Paul Bensel Jewelers of Yuma and is worn as a symbol and reminder of the abstinence pledge. The "Thing" in Silver Ring is the high-tech presentation that makes this program uniquely attractive. By featuring awesome lighting and video systems, hilarious skits, concert sound systems, high-energy music, TV's, computers, and a faith-based abstinence message, students become interested in the message being offered to them about their sex lives. In the first five years of operation, nearly 1000 teenagers completed the two-hour program, received a silver ring and signed an abstinence vow.

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may 20, 2005 :: 8:00pm Seamless is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. each project [re]interprets the conceptual goal of a seamless relationship between technology and fashion. these are real clothes that inspire and provoke. seamless. computational couture. the sigtronic collection of runway fashion featuring works by current and previous students of mit, harvard, risd, parsons

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