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- 03/24/10
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We Can’t Sing - Michael Krahn: “I see a parallel between the lack of confidence in singing and the world of visual images in tabloid and fashion magazines. Photoshopped images create unrealistic body expectations. In the modern era of music autotuned recordings give us unrealistically perfect sounds.”
An Interview - Frank Viola recently interviewed me about blogging and life in general.
Another Interview - I also guested on the Samson Society podcast a couple of days ago. We talked mostly about Sexual Detox. Scroll down and look for episode 17.
The Lost Girls - Carolyn McCulley points to an article that looks at the growing problem of sex slavery in the US. “Imagine you live in a country riven by war or poverty or both. There is no work. There is not enough food to feed your family or money for medicine when someone gets sick or injured. Education is nothing but a pipe dream. If you are a woman, your value is even more tenuous; you have probably been beaten or abused in some other way by a father, a husband, or an employer. You’re smart enough to understand that this life promises to be the only one you will get. It will last for another thirty or forty years, with no improvement. And that will be it.”
Voices of Haiti - Amazing photography highlighting the human devastation in Haiti.
Kindle for iPad - This app could change everything about the iPad for me. Then again, what are the chances that Apple will even allow it?
Christ Conducts His Choir - A reflection from David Murray. “In this astounding video, American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre spliced together nearly 250 videos of individuals singing individual parts of ‘Lux Arumque.’ He sent out the music, auditioned the singers, and then chose 250 of the submitted videos, which he spliced together to form this ‘virtual choir.’”
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Comments (7)
Re Voices of Haiti: Did all of the Haitians write their message themselves? OR did the photographer Jeremy do it himself and hand it to them - or in the case of the graffiti, pay them something - in exchange for something? Though the faces and setting are real, this all looks staged for opportunistic profit. If so, shame on Jeremy. Visit his site and he’s even selling each photo for $65. Please.
As to Apple allowing the Kindle app on the iPad - they already did for the iPod Touch and iPhone.
Like Warren said, they have it for the iPhone/iTouch, so why would you not be able to download that app for the iPad. Anyways, if that is the only reason that would sell you on the iPad, I’d much rather have something that fits in my back pocket or jacket like the iTouch for the kindle app than a 9-inch screen.
re: Technology and singing.AMEN! I couldn’t agree more! As a music pastor, I fight this mindset all the time, either through people afraid to sing or through people in love with the “sound” of worship. What I mean by that is people who sense that a service/event is “more worshipful” when it sounds good - when it sounds like the well-produced sounds off of whatever recording they have in mind. The old “traditional vs. contemporary” debate is much less about what songs are sung and more what the songs sound like. People bring me CD’s with this earnest desire for me to sound like this, and i tell them that it’s impossible (and I stress that it’s truly, physically impossible) to sound like that because the sounds are so processed and tweaked to perfection. The maddening thing is when they look at me funny and wonder why - don’t all modern musicians sound like this?
I was curious about your comment — so looked at the “about” section of his site. There he clearly lays out the terms for purchase of the images — all proceeds minus cost of shipping and printing are going to the purchase of tents as dwellings for Haitians. It’s laid out in part here: “…100% of net proceeds minus printing and mailing cost from your purchase to Safewater Nexus, a non-profit organization aligned under the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. All printing and mailing costs will be accounted for by Jeremy Cowart Photography. As all proceeds are restricted solely for the purchase of tents for the Home in Haiti project, Safewater Nexus will purchase tents directly from the “A Home in Haiti” program and deliver them to the sites most in need. ”
He also answers in part your question about the words people are using. I hope it’s okay to post this in under your own comment directly — I don’t mean to be obtuse, but I’d hate for folks to assume poorly about the work this guy is doing when, really, it seems a lot more well-intentioned than your first perusal led you to believe/comment.
sorry — that was in reply to “anonymous’” comment. thought it would come out more clearly.