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Metadata.

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  Dawnian Productions has just added the video 'Metadata' to its channel on YouTube. We live in an age obsessed with what can be measured, tracked, analysed and monetised. Every click, pause, purchase and location becomes part of a digital profile - a collection of metadata that tells the world who it thinks we are. Yet beneath the satire lies a deeper question, 'Is that really our identity?' Modern culture increasingly defines people by their data, productivity algorithms and online presence. We become statistics and consumers instead of 'image-bearers'. The danger is not merely technological; it is spiritual. When our worth is determined by what can be countered, we begin to forget the value of what cannot! God has never known us through metadata. He knows us personally. Before there was a digital footprint, our Creator saw us, loved us and called us by name. He sees, not just our action, but our motives, fears, hopes and the quiet moments that no database ca...

Tapping Out.

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 Dawnian Productions has just completed, 'Tapping Out' (now available to view on YouTube). For those of you who are unsure of what 'Tapping Out' means. It signifies that one has given up, quit or has admitted defeat. 'Tapping out' is an expression I have become more aware of recently. It is something I have witnessed in other people. I have also recognised it in myself. One might be having a conversation, reading instructions on how to do something, listening to someone talk or explain something and I can see by their expression, their eyes, their body posture...that they have tapped out (I would describe this in myself as, 'eyes glazing over').  We live in an age of convenient exits. If a task becomes difficult, a relationship becomes complicated, or an idea challenges our assumptions, there's always a button to press, another distraction to chase, or another device to focus on. We've become accustomed to abandoning books, conversations, commitm...