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My friend Dan Au has recently launched a website to promote his photography business. He skilfully wields his camera as a way to support his family while he studies full-time at Bible College. If you want pics taken of your family, wedding, event, pet rabbit, or whatever – Dan might be your man! Check him out www.danauphotography.com.
Dan featured in an old blog series of mine called SNAPSHOT – see his work here.
Great article on the life and death of the Apple iPod in the SMH. Some really interesting comments on the iPod as the “first cultural icon of the 21st century”. Here’s a snippet:
Apple has changed the way we think about technology and design, the way we shop, the way we consume media and the way we interact with each other. Via the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad it has opened up doors for other methods of technology to come into our lives. None of that would have happened without the iPod. “It was the first cultural icon of the 21st century,” says Dr Michael Bull, a lecturer in media and film at the University Of Sussex, south-east England, where his studies on the sociology around the MP3 player have earned him the sobriquet “Professor iPod”. “It was the first MP3 player that really worked. With the earlier ones you had to get down on your knees and pray to get a bit of music out of them. And it became symbolic of the way people like to move around in cities. It fitted the desire for a technological freedom, whereby you moved to your own soundscape. Roland Barthes argued that, in medieval society, cathedrals were the iconic form. Then by the 1950s it had become the car – the Citroen DS. I argue that 50 years later it was the iPod, this technology that let you fit your whole world in your pocket. It was representative of a key moment in the social world of the 21st century.”
Read the rest here. Some of the content reminded me of some of Stu Crawshaw’s thoughts from his Youth Ministry as Shock Absorber article.
Do you have an iPod? Do you still use it? Can you name a competitor for other 21st Century icons?
If you’ve got a growing number of online profiles (facebook, twitter, linkedin, tumblr, posterous, flickr, youtube, vimeo, etc…), you might like to consolidate them into one place. About.me provide a free online app to make it easy. I made one and the set up only took 5 minutes. I didn’t put much thought or energy into it, I just wanted to try it out.
Check out what I came up with: about.me/davemiers (if you click on the links under the profile, they have a good-looking RSS feed of your latest content).
davemiers.com consolidates my online profile. But if you don’t have your own dot com, about.me would be really useful for your email signature or any of your profiles that ask you to list your website.
Have a crack yourself (if you do – leave a link in the comments).
Check out tentblogger if you want to take it a step further.
Check out this recent interview with Carlos Whittaker (from ragamuffinsoul). He discusses the power of social media and how authentic community can be created through it.
One of the things I love about Los is the way he takes opportunities to point people to Jesus. In the above video, he is able to speak about Jesus being the way, the truth and the life. That’s cool.
So. What do you think? Can Social Media Create Authentic Community?
(Watch the vid before you comment).
(h/t los)
Face of Tomorrow is a really cool art project by Mike Mike (cool name, thinking of changing mine to Dave Dave! haha). MM is travelling the globe taking photos of 100 people in different cities and then, with the help of some swanky digital technology, combining them to make one ‘average’ face. Check it out. It would be interesting do the project in your church, and then compare it to the average face in your community.
Here is the composite picture of the average face in Sydney:
They look quite beautiful!!
See below for the separate pics from Sydney University and Bondi Beach:
The Kiwi Odyssey has been choice bro. Sweet as. Lots of quality time with the family. Our second night was in Dunedin. It’s a beautiful city with beautiful buildings. I noticed that many of the older buildings have fire escapes on them. Kinda like the ones you see in New York movies. Here’s a trio of Dunedin fire escapes for my 3photos series:
Two more after the jump:
Continue reading “3photos: Dunedin Escape”
I’ve been riding this blog template for almost 3 years. 3 years is a long time in blog template world. It’s time for a change. The template has served me well, I still like it, but some of the coding in the background is now outdated. I have a pretty good idea of what I want it to look like. There’ll defs be some continuity with the current look & feel.
As I head back into full-time work with a church, there will probably be some slight changes to content and direction. But nothing too radical. I’m keen to keep posting about culture, design, life and (most of all) Jesus.
If you’ve got any ideas. I’d love to hear them! Stuff you really like, stuff you really hate. Or what you’d like me to get you for Christmas. Thanks for reading. Peaceout.