for you metal heads. this comes via resonate media radar. introducing apocalyptica just watch and listen.
i might also suggest listening to one or unforgiven
Culture
eikon photography : action workshop
for those of you in and around hendersonville area & take a lot of photos. i wanted to invite you over to an evening with don mcpeak. don is a professional photographer of a different sort. he is passionate about action imagery. he works with belmont, tsu, sumner schools, and others. from what he told me he had a thumb print on a march madness issue of sports illustrated. since i don’t get sports illustrated i cannot confirm this, but i trust him. &:~D
come by our 3rd floor lounge area at 6:30pm sunday june 1st and 8th. don will be going over the aspects of good and poor action shots. some technical aspects and some play time. so bring your camera for some good fun and learning so you can catch all those fine moments during a fabulous summer.
prayers for the chapman’s : tragic loss
i am saddened to hear of the loss of maria to the chapman family. i know i am like many who have been impacted by steven’s music but their family story over the years. my heart breaks for their loss.
Keep
watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night,
and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord
Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering,
pity the afflicted, sheild the joyous; and all for your love’s sake.
-amen
southwest tweeting : doing customer service
so many of you know that i do the twitter thing now. well on saturday i wrote this.
i noticed today that i had this reply from, none other than southwestair.
wasn’t sure what they wanted to hear, so i told them the truth.
so this is their response.
i’ve been a fan of southwest for a long time. i love the hearding lines, the 24 hour check in that i always forget. mostly though, the cheaper prices and the fact that they try to have some fun doing those mundane tasks over the flight experience. never would i have imagined that i would be engaging in some customer service via twitter.. my how the world has changed.
putting yourself out there : be prepared for consequences
there is no doubt that you have heard of the 16 year old girl who had pleaded a case of rape in a video and uploaded up to youtube. a part of her confession struck me. a part where she indicated that uploading a video to youtube was her last hope. this isn’t just for teens there is also the wealthy new york socialite who is being divorced by her husband. she decided to throw him under the bus about sex life and more in a youtube video.
though i do not discount that these people have hurt. it is interesting to see how the crowds rally for or against your hurt. there is account now that ‘crystal’ the 16 year old girl consented to her sex. so now videos are popping up bashing her in very mean ways. mean enough and vulgar enough that i care not to link to them.
so i am wondering why the variant opinions.. i know people can be mean and rub salt in wounds. but generally people are caring and would tend to hurting people. so why? the only idea i can come up with is that putting videos out like such are, in-fact, acts of aggression. yes, people need to be outed for misdeeds and held accountable. but to air it in a youtube fashion may be perceived as aggression back, and that diminishes the empathy that one might normally have for a victim situation.
i understand that victims of all sorts of mistreatment want accountability & justice for actions taken against them. when that justice is not what they imagined is youtube really the last resort? one might want to rethink that & be prepared for the consequences.
am i way off?