Blog This. Blog That.
I just realized that I probably have way too many blogs:
• This blog.
• My business blog.
• My minisry blog.
• My son’s blog (overseer).
Trying to update them all is a bit too much. Maybe I should pull the Top Pup blog. It’s difficult keeping a business blog, when you already have a “Latest News” section. I intended it to be more personal, kind of an outlet for my passion for media. But, I shouldn’t have to explain myself and my passion for media. Simply, it should be reflected in my work.
The ministry blog is more of a news section. That was the original intention. And, I’ve used it for that. I also use to document some of my favorite quotes. It’s an easy capture system to do that.
And finally, there’s my son’s blog. To get him to take time to blog is like pulling teeth. “Why daddy?” he said this morning. “Why do I need to do this?” I explained that you don’t have to, but it would be fun to share and express yourself. A strange smirk. (Give me the pliers.)
The Marketing of Evil
Film is, by its very nature, highly propagandistic. That is, when you read a book, if you detect you’re being lied to or manipulated, you can always stop reading, close the book momentarily and say, “Wait just a minute, there’s something wrong here!” You can’t do that in a film: You’re bombarded with sound and images, all expertly crafted to give you selected information and to stimulate certain feelings, and you can’t stop the barrage, not in a theater anyway. The visuals and sound and music-and along with them, the underlying agenda of the filmmakers-pursue you relentlessly, overwhelming your emotions and senses. And when you leave the theater, unless you’re really objective to what you’ve experienced, you’ve been changed-even if just a little bit.
The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian
CalebPond.com
Just finished creating my son’s website www.calebpond.com.
We had a great experience at the San Antonio Film Festival a couple of months ago. This summer (2005), we made a movie, a father/son project. We had so much fun, and the people really enjoyed the film. It’s really a funny piece. In San Antonio, we won the Audience Choice Award, and we were nominated in the top five for the narrative category.
You can read about my son’s experience on the movie section of his website. In his own words, he was “famous for a day”.
You can read the production notes on the Growing Up page. And, you can watch a short clip of the film here.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Merry Christmas!
You know, I almost feel dirty for saying that. Christmas has become such a dirty word in a America.
“Don’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ to anyone. You may offend them. Use ‘Happy Holidays!’”
It’s incredible. My wife and I were in Wal Mart the other day, and as we were checking out, my wife told the lady “Merry Christmas”, to which the lady sheepishly replied, “Uhh. Happy Holidays?” with an sense of “Am I saying this correctly?”
Scary. You can’t say “Merry Christmas” without people flinching.
96% of America celebates Christmas, yet we get our hand slapped if we say it.
In New York last week, Jews were passing out pamplets letting people know it was okay to say, “Merry Christmas.” Wow. Leave it to the Jewishs people to bring the Oy! back in Joy! Read more…
I have to laugh, though. They tell us to say “Happy Holidays”, yet the word ‘holiday’ comes from the words “holy day”. So, by saying “Happy Holidays!” aren’t you implying that it’s a religious day anyway?
Let’s just cancel Christmas. Arrr!
Changes to the Pond Blog
It’s nice to have my domain up and running with my blog. In the past, I had other plans for russpond.com. It was going to be my production site where I could showcase my work. The problem is that I already have a Business Site to do all of that. So, it was a duplicated effort, and with multiple productions coming every month, it was too difficult to maintain both sites.
Plus, I didn’t show any traffic on the russpond.com site.
So, I thought–let’s make it a pure blog site. Just a raw blog with pictures and my life. So, here we go.
Measuring Maturity
“Maturity can be measured by the level of uncertainty one can tolerate.”
-Dick Dobbins 1985
Not a Journey
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but to skid in broadside, used up, worn-out and saying ‘whew, what a ride!’” -unknown