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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Secular And Sacred Culture
Most people in western culture, consciously or passively, consider art to fit in one of two categories: secular and/or sacred arts. Few people know how to define these categories. Churches usually don’t educate their flocks on the arts, but along the way—going to church, Sunday school, Bible studies, etc.—members of the flock get an indirect idea of what religious art is, and what it is not. The rest of the culture wants to put sacred art into a box that they can tuck away from their lives. Only on the rare Christmas or Easter church services they attend do they enjoy religious icons, decor, or other religious artistic works. Continue reading
Popular Graphic T-Shirts
You’ve probably noticed that there was a boom of graphic t-shirts this decade. A great deal of them don’t deserve the light of day illustrating such utter nonsense or immaturity that I find these tees in general to come with strong notions about the persons wearing them. After all, if you can “dress for success,” there’s also a way to “dress for foolishness and depravity.” Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged designs, graphic shirts, shirts, snorg, snorg tees, t-shirt, tees
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Google’s Logo Art Contest for Grade School
I got the tip from iJustine that Google is doing a contest for grade school kids to make stylized treatments of the Google logo. These come with the twist, as the website tells:
Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we’re inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme “What I Wish for the World.” Continue reading
My First Video on YouTube
I haven’t the faintest idea how to make a good video on YouTube, but I figured out this morning I could make one with the cam built into my Macbook, so I gave it a whirl. Anyone know why the … Continue reading
Posted in Worldview
Tagged blog, Culture, introduction, joseph darnell, video, Worldview, youtube
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Tech: My Favorite RSS Aggregator (Feedly)
RSS is simply the streaming of content from web sites that can be brought straight to web content readers via a myriad collection of customizable RSS portals. Clear as mud, eh? That’s how I felt every time time I heard about RSS from friends that used it for the past couple years, and reading the Wikipedia page didn’t help me wrap my mind around it either. Some people would say, “You gotta use RSS!” But I had not idea where to begin to know what RSS was and how to take advantage of it. Continue reading
JosephDarnell.com is Now Active
My father-in-law had the foresight to purchase JosephDarnell.com a couple years ago before my wife and I were even engaged! He’s kindly maintained ownership till the two of us had time to syncronize transferring ownership to my GoDaddy account and setting it to my blog. It’s finally done! Yippee! Now it will be so much easier to share the blog. So if you have bookmarked my blog, josephdarnell.wordpress.com still works. It will redirect you to josephdarnell.com. Continue reading
Google’s Chrome Ad – Upbeat Artistic Deliverance
In followup to my other post this week, something I forgot to mention is you don’t need inappropriate content in advertising to make it attractive. Suggesting, or pushing, temptation to evil is not conducive to a morally civilized society.
So, on the flip side to that, I think I can affirm that good, wholesome, clean advertising can get better results any day of the week anyway! Take this example from Google… Continue reading
Posted in The Arts, Worldview
Tagged advertising, character, christian, chrome, evil, google, morality, Morals, sin, technology, temptation, values, web
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Moose Wallpaper for iPod Touch
I added a post to my Kontain blog: So I got tired of the wallpapers on my iPod Touch it comes with. I’ve been looking at the tropically green colored frog for awhile now, and frogs really aren’t my thing … Continue reading
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Facebook Regulates Advertising Content
I’ve heard many friends uprise to give Facebook encouragement to keep their advertising clean and family-friendly. This is good. When people speak, the organization hears, and changes are made, and good policies will stay intact. So-called adult content on the web is rampant from all sorts of web surfers, and it’s not difficult to stumble upon stuff you don’t want to see or think about. Well, Facebook is one online community that strives to honor your request to keep the web clean. Here’s the lowdown. Continue reading
Posted in Worldview
Tagged activism, ads, adult content, advertising, children, christian, conservative, ethics, facebook, family friendly, morality, parents, smut, social network, spam, surfing, web community, web users
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