EN68 Spotting Specks from the Media Plank
03/06/09 19:18 Filed in: Matthew
The Matthew 7v1-6 text is crucial to understanding this one. You can find it here.
My main motivation for this cartoon came from a couple of places Read More...
EN61 Brand and Ross
The Bible epilogue text can be found here and here (you will need to scroll down to find the exact part).
Yes, it was a major media event - perhaps whipped up by people who didn't like these two presenters, perhaps an indication of how disgraceful licence-fee wages are for such childish antics, perhaps a sense of people getting ready for harsher financial times. Anyway - it dominated the news for some time and so I weighed in with this piece that has two main ideas in it: Read More...
EN54 Fooled by TV: not just in April
01/04/08 13:54 Filed in: Proverbs
The BBC proudly paraded this 'April Fools' piece on the 2nd of April.
My mind got working on the thought: why do we need to be told it is a joke? Why the permission? Anyway, you get the idea. Read More...
EN53 Celebrity Saviours
01/03/08 13:54 Filed in: Matthew
EN44 Phoney TV Phone-in Hope
01/05/07 13:53 Filed in: 1 Timothy
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
There was a lot of stuff about TV phone quizzes being rigged in the last few weeks, so I decided to try and make some comment on it. In particular I wanted to say something about the unkind nature of these things. The text I have linked to as the epilogue is perfect as a commentary. Read More...
EN32 The Wages of Wogan
22/05/06 13:52 Filed in: 1 Peter
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
Terry Wogan earns a huge amount of money. I thought that this was well worth using because it raises the big question of 'who is worth that?'. The lovely thing about being a christian is that God places infinite value on us by giving His life for us on the cross. People with little or no self esteem can be cherished and cared for in the arms of God. Amazing.
I cheated a little here. The image comes from a set of three pictures I produced for the Brighton Festival Fringe.
Tim Bongers is the dedicatee. I did this specially for him and then the EN staff inadvertently chopped off the whole right hand side of the strip... it was made worse by me telling Tim to look for it. Sorry.
EN31 Planet Earth: did they plan it?
01/05/06 13:52 Filed in: Psalms
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
I really don't know if this point is that obvious, but I will try to explain it...
The Planet Earth series was hugely popular with lavish filming techniques and equipment being used to capture amazing things around the world. The ironic problem (as I saw it) was that while we were being expected to accept evolutionary assumptions about how the world is randomly gorgeous, the end 'making of' section undermines this idea. How can we accept hat the world is the way it is through chance, when that is the last thing that is being used to make the program. It is incredible how purposeful and creative the process is for the filmmakers - sometime spending weeks in a small room with a camera trying to capture a bird or some such creature. After watching the program you are amazed at how deliberate and personal every edit is, but are still expected to see nothing of the creator in the world at large.
I don't know if this is very clear, but at least I tried...
The parallel text and image layout is okay, but I think it actually confuses things. You have to really work hard at spotting the difference. Not happy.
Those are screengrabs from the episode where the elephants are swimming and some guy is chasing something in a helicopter.
EN20 Strictly Politics Fever
01/05/05 13:51 Filed in: 1 Samuel
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
There is a classic bit in the selected Bible passage where the distinction between human and divine perception is made. God judges the heart, man judges appearance. I felt that there were some pretty obvious connections between the general election and strictly come dancing. I think that there is as much a comment being made on people who vote as well as the people trying to get the vote.
I got a version of this published on the channel 4 news site.
