Ever wonder as an independent artist how to get your music on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, and other leading digital distribution sites? Well there are multiple ways to do this and I’ve done the research and conveniently compiled it for you here below: Read More
I’m going to give you a second to soak in that picture and to no longer be frightened. Ok…now that that is over, I am going to explain to you what a Gravatar is and why you should get it. The definition on the gravatar website is: “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.” This probably does not mean a thing to you, but in a basic sense, it makes it so that if you do this 1 minute process, you can have your picture show up on this blog (and many others), rather than a blank image next to your name on comments.
Simply go here and follow the instructions.
Then, simply upload a picture. Make sure you select “G” rating so you can show up on everyone’s blog. I recommend making it a faceshot since it will be a small image. I also recommend not making a face like the picture I have put above. 
It will take you less time to get the gravatar then you spent reading this tutorial. Do it.
Welcome to Tainted Canvas!
So what is Tainted Canvas about? Well, you can read about how I chose the name here, but essentially, TC is an ongoing conversation about life. Specifically, it will be a blog that focuses on faith, music (including reviews, insights, and suggestions), marketing, culture, worship, politics and a few stories along the way. If this is your first time visiting and you are thinking, “oh great, another overzealous, evangelical Christian is going to write nonsense”, you are wrong. At least I hope you are wrong. This blog will look at tough questions like, “what do Christians do if they believe that gay marriage is wrong, but want to show them love?” or “why is there this huge Christian subculture and what is it all about?”. The line of thinking will fall more into the progressive and less into the traditional. There is a movement of people who are dedicated to seeing Jesus of Nazareth in a different way than the old, stuffy church portrays him, or the Jesus we see on tv. And what to do with music? We got rappers who can only talk about their newest way of having sex in a club, top 40 radio that rotates the same 10 songs every hour, and Christian music that has to meet its quota of JPM’s (Jesus’ per minute – ha!). If questions and topics like these sound interesting to you, or if you are a friend of Jonathan “Siggy” Sigmon’s, subscribe either by email or RSS feed and be sure to leave your thoughts. Welcome to the journey.
