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I’m always impressed when people are able to develop creative ways to communicate a message that evokes a deep sense of awe.
This video, using a technique called pixilation, left me in awe.
It took 4 weeks of prep, 4 days of shooting, 20 “animators”, and close to 300,000 tea lights. The making-of video on the original website is as amazing as the video itself.
Click on the picture below to jump to a hi-res link of the video.
Music downloading creates listerner apathy
Fascinating article on how the increasing ease over music accessibility has caused many listener’s to appreciate music less.
The article says,
The accessibility of music has meant that it is taken for granted and does not require a deep emotional commitment once associated with music appreciation,” said music psychologist Adrian North on Tuesday. North led a team from the University of Leicester, central England, that monitored 346 people over two weeks to evaluate how they related to music. They concluded that because of greater accessibility through mass media, music was nowadays seen more as a commodity that is produced, distributed and consumed like any other.
Western culture has gotten this down to a science…music has become a commodity, art has become a commodity, a person’s thoughts have become a commodity (ie, advertisers flocking to blogs)…even Church has become a commodity.
I see churches all around that offer so much programs that it fuels the consumer-driven mindset of a congregant and soon they are rating the programs like they would rate a movie or a play. And soon so much is offered that a congregant will block out what the church is “pitching” just like they have learned to block out what the commercials are “pitching” in between their favorite TV shows…
I see a generation of students that don’t understand the value of God’s Word because it can be put up on a projector screens during a service, it can be Googled, and is printed and dispersed for free by many religious groups…I’m all for accessibility of God’s Word but how do we maintain it’s value and dynamic, life-changing qualities in the midst of the excess we have created?
I see students not willing to even pick up a bible under their chairs in church because it has lost its value in their minds…
How does the church stop acting like a vending machine that spits out another commodity?
Would love to hear thoughts…
