Duncan Macleod on faith and culture
Visit the agencies of Clemenger BBDO in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide to view quicktime movies of their recent work. Wait patiently for the lift to sort itself out. Choose your floor on the shockwave flash lift, click on “Work” and select Television, Print or Also check out the feature on how Clemenger BBDO develop advertising campaigns.
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In 2003 Youth Specialties & Zondervan published Dan Kimball’s book, “The Emerging Church“.
It’s designed as an accessible introduction to what Kimball calls “Post-Seeker-Sensitive” approaches to being church. Kimball’s “Vintage Faith” approach provides one practical example of what Robert Webber has been calling “Ancient-Future” church and worship. Rather than throwing out religious symbols and toning down focus on commitment, Kimball’s group of postmoderns are exploring radical discipleship in a multi-sensory environment.
Burger King’s promoting ‘chicken the way you like it’ on their virtual chicken site. You get to interact with a Chicken Man in his lounge room. Tell him to sit down, jump up, dance, watch TV, read a book, turn off the lights and so on. Just don’t tell him to strip – Chicken Man won’t be impressed! The site is a collection of flash animations prepared in anticipation of your demands – aimed to please you as the consumer. Of course there are limits to what Burger King can do for us! See the campaign at Subservient Chicken.
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Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, edited by Jonathon S. Epstein. Another book from Fuzz Kitto’s library I hadn’t seen before. Written in 1998 and published by Blackwell Publishers in the UK. Epstein provides a helpful introduction to Generation X, youth culture and identity. I was fascinated with Steven Best and Douglas Kellner’s article on “Beavis and Butt-Head” – they look at the impact of popular TV media on youth. Other topics in the book include sexuality & body politics, education, industrial-hard core music subculture, deadhead subculture, rave scene, punk and cyberpunk, gender in Canadian heavy metal music, and amateur stripping.
I was looking through Fuzz Kitto’s library in Sydney and found Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones. Tony’s one of the Emergent Village crew and has recently finished up as Young Adults pastor in Edina, Minnesota to do a Ph.D in Princeton. The book is published by Youth Specialties who have published online an appendix by Tony, talking about his experience of writing and talking about philosophy and youth ministry. I like the layout of the book – quotes are expressed in non-boring format. He models an approach to dialogue by including the comments of his reviewers – before the book goes to print!
Tabasco, the hot sauce produced by McIllhenny, has been the subject of a number of quirky television commercials over the years. You may have seen the 1996 television commercial for Tabasco sauce in which God up in heaven notices too late that his tabasco sauce bottle is dripping down to earth, causing terrible scorching explosions down below.
