Meet Jesus at uni
Here’s the finished brochure cover. Jesus is courtesy of Puppet Revelation.
If you could buy Jesus in a pharmacy, he would be…
“Meet Jesus at uni” is the slogan for the brochure I’m working on, for the 2008 AFES Commencement Camps SA. I’ve been trawling the web for images of Jesus, trying to find something in between gritty and fun. Who wants a sop-bag? WANTED Jesus. Must be able to transmit God’s […]
Contact, pt 4: The search for meaning
The X-Files told us that The Truth Is Out There. The search for meaning is one of humanity’s defining features. As far back as we can trace, human societies have in this sense been essentially religious. Prehistoric burials and ancestor worship indicate our grappling with life and death from the […]
Contact, pt 3: Which god?
One of the main themes that Contact deals with is religion. Through the extremist preacher Joseph (right), the film shows that religion can be a very destructive force. Yet we also see a benign expression of religion that is knowledgeable and sophisticated. Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey, below) is Contact‘s poster-boy for […]
Contact, pt 2: A question of faith
How can we know reality? As a SETI scientist, Ellie Arroway is in the business of quantifying and measuring things. For Ellie, something can be known if it can be measured. God — whoever or whatever that is — cannot be dealt with in these terms, so Ellie is unwilling […]
The dynamics of interbeing and monological imperatives in “Dick and Jane”
This is one of my favourite Calvin and Hobbes cartoons (official page). Bill Watterson is criticising academic writing for its obscurantism (in plain English: the inability to communicate in plain English). The fact that fake, randomly generated academic writing is so realistic would seem to support this! Dick and Jane, […]
Where do you live?
This popular cartoon is by Randall Munroe (you can now buy posters of it too). I especially like the submerged land of Usenet* and the tiny principality of Attractive MySpace Pages! Where do you live? * Usenet was/is a huge and ancient kind of e-mail-based discussion system
Meet Jesus at uni 