Category: Culture

Book spine poetry (and theology)

So ages and ages ago, Ali tagged me in a meme. I liked the meme. I wanted to participate. And then Andrew participated, and one thing led to another…

I made some poems, that felt a little more like prose. I’ll write out the titles below each picture so that you

Like this attempt to capture the Zombie Apocalypse.

Revelation Unravelled
An Outbreak Of Darkness
Gridlock
The Summons
Newspaper Blackout
To The Burning City
World War Z
A Furious Hunger
Serious Eats
Backyard Ballistics
One Last Kill

And these…

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse
Meltdown
A Furious Hunger
Help Lord The Devil Wants Me Fat

How To Be A Man
The Idiot
The Big Idea
Absinthe And Flamethrowers
Fools Die

How To Have A No. 1 Hit Single
Songs Of The Humpback Whale
An Outbreak Of Darkness
Backwards Masking Unmasked
The Whole Truth

Just Do Something
One Day At A Time
Jogging With Jesus
Run Baby Run
Slim For Him

And then I made some theology. This is pretty much the narrative arc of the whole Bible, though it’s also a summary of Genesis and then the solution to the problem of Genesis…

How To Read Genesis
What Is History?
The Origin Of The Species
Utopia
Picture Perfect
Calls To Worship
The Tipping Point
Help Lord, The Devil Wants Me Fat
Adams v God
Weasel Words
The Collaborator
Cry, The Beloved Country
Requiem
The Promise Of The Future

Deliver Us from Evil
Emperor: The Death of Kings
Divine Justice
The Great Exchange
Paradise City
This Other Eden

Sometimes the Internet is a sad place

Seriously. Somebody tweeted what I can only imagine was a semi-funny, semi-serious, question about the history of the Olympics. And wow.

Some of them are clearly joking. I hope. There’s an extended edition here with a little bit of a language warning.

Via someone named @Chrissymacc on Twitter.

Sheet music album where it’s at for Beck

Remember Beck?

No? Not the Ted Danson show. That was Becker. And it sucked.

Beck. This guy.

The guy John Safran “exposed” as a scientologist (he was already well and truly known as a scientologist).

Anyway. Now that the short primer on Beck is over – he’s doing something a bit cool, he’s releasing an album. As sheet music. Through McSweeney’s – and they’ll be featuring notable user generated versions of the music.


(this is a mockup.)

 

This is ultra low fi. It’s lower fi than a 4 track tape release. It’s also a really nice way to tap into the music culture of the internet – in a fashion similar to Gotye’s remix of covers of his own song – harnessing user generated stuff is my favourite way to use the power of web 2.0.

Gotye’s Youtube Orchestra

Gotye (aka Wally De Backer) is a clever guy. He’s put together a remix of his own song using covers other people have posted to Youtube.

High Res 3D Panorama of Mars

Incredible. Scroll your way around Mars. This is from a previous Mars Rover but was released by NASA last month. There are more panoramas like this here.

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Here’s a nice little bit of perspective for those people who are saying trips to Mars are a waste of dollars…

New Mumford and Sons

I’m excited. I preordered the new album when I bought tickets to see these guys later this year.

New Third Eagle Romney Song

I’ll admit I haven’t watched this yet. But it hit the airwaves… well, YouTube, yesterday. And I did not want you to be ignorant of these things.

The Bolt Gun

Wow.


Image Credit: Sydney Morning Herald

Robyn and I watched Bolt’s semi final and “that final” this morning. It was just amazing. This truly is the pinnacle of individual sport.

The Olympics media restrictions are pretty tight, so here’s the race in Lego via the Guardian.




Curiouser and Curiouser

This Mars thing is pretty cool. We listened to the landing on the radio today, while driving through a massive tunnel that goes under the Brisbane River, and under a bunch of Brisbane suburbs. These are fun times we live in.

It’s amazing that it worked. Really.

You can follow the Curiosity Rover on Twitter.

Here’s a photo of Mars the rover tweeted an hour ago.

The Dark Lion Rises

I’m very much looking forward to checking out Batman when assessment allows it. In the meantime, there’s this.

Introducing John Daker

John Daker is available for your next church musical event.

Here is a subtitled and animated version.

“This is Now” gives an instagrammed snapshot of life in the city

This is Now pulls current instagram shots from five international cities (including Sydney). It’s pretty cool.

This is a few minutes ago in Sydney.
Sydney in the now

And in Tokyo.

Tokyo in the now

Excited train guy almost certain to be autotuned

This guy likes his trains.

Arty movie of guys throwing stuff with their weaker arm

Love this.

How churches use Social Media

It shouldn’t surprise you that I think churches should be using social media, and the ones who do use social media should be doing it better. Mostly because I think we should be going to where people are communicating and communicating the gospel to people (because I think that’s what Paul models in Acts 17 in Athens, and because I think it’s part of “always being prepared to give an account” ala Colossians 4).

It doesn’t surprise me that the churches that are using social media think that it helps them reach people, which seems to be the implication of this infographic from an American survey that was featured on Mashable yesterday.

Here are some resources for using Social Media for ministry, or thinking about Social Media.