Waking up to reality
This is an illustration I did ages ago for CCB for a series called ‘The World We All Want’.
EN37 Secular Sunday School
The Bible epilogue text can be found here and here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
One of the regular things I am interested in exploring is the shift from a predominantly pre-war christian worldview to an overwhelmingly modern secular one. This strip pokes fun at the age-old joke among christians that the answer to every sunday school question is 'Jesus'. In a secular age God gets replaced with something else, and Google seems to be doing just that.
Just before doing this strip I had been slightly disturbed by the way in which Google had really achieved a fundamental role in the way I was operating on the web. I began to reflect on the link between the parallels between my online dependencies and greater worldview ones.
I just went for something really simple here with the carpet suggesting the worldview shift. I like dots.
The Zechariah bible text is something I had stumbled on in the early 90s when I had just started at university and was reading this magnificent old testament book. The images keep on reflecting something of God's omniscience and power for a people who were feeling the pinch.
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.
EN19 Secular School Dinners
01/04/05 13:50 Filed in: Psalms
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
Who wasn't moved by Jamie's School Dinners? I loved the way he made the link between dietary intake and the kind of children we are creating. It only follows that in a secular educational system obsessed with grades and levels you produce a form of spiritual blindness.