Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Pop Culture
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I’ve been a big fan of Doctor Who ever since I learnt to hide behind the couch and I really enjoyed the recently rebooted series. So when I saw that Damaris have just published Back In Time: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who I was intrigued. The sample text they have online looks like…
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The Guardian publish their list of the top 20 books for geeks. Just in time for finding that literary Christmas present for the geek in your life. Check of course that they don’t already own them. I’ve read most of the list (maybe 15 or 16) but not some of them for a while. See…
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The other day I was re-watching “Kid’s Story” off The Animatrix DVD. Of all the various Matrices (plural?) that’s the one story that gets me every time – in just over 9 minutes it seems to capture many themes that might make it a useful analogy in a religious context. Does the kid have a…
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I’ve got several ideas running around in my head for academic articles relating to religion and comic books. But I’ve never really figured out where I could send them, nor read other examples of how people engage with comics at an academic level. Until now. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies The objective of ImageTexT is to…
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There are songs that define the moment you’re in. You hear it on the radio and it takes you back to a certain time and place. For better or worse (probably worse) the current song that defines this moment (the end of 2005) is the Ookla the Mok song “Super Powers“. You can download the…
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Tripped into the city on Saturday to Armageddon and had an enjoyable half-day there. Avoided the long queue to get in by having prepaid for a ticket and spent a few hours looking around before heading to the panel with Mark Waid (Wikipedia). The bottom couple of levels of the Aotea Centre had things like…
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Ticket purchased to go to Armageddon (no, the other one) tomorrow. Will probably post about it on Sunday post-preaching at church. For those of you possessing back issues of the excellent (though now defunct) Reality Magazine check out Stephen May’s “Media Watch” column from Issue 34 (Aug/Sept 1999) where he comments upon his pilgrimage to…
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There’s another advanced screening of Serenity on this Sunday at Village Cinemas on Queen Street (Auckland). Tie in with the Pulp Culture festival also on at the Aotea Centre. See: Serenity – Special Advanced Screening – 23 Oct. Also, Serenity interviews here and the River Tam viral marketing campaign for Serenity here.
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You can see the first 11 minutes of Serenity as an video stream here.
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Dave Zimmerman over at Strangely Dim linked through to a podcast interview he did with Andy Rau over at Think Christian » Blog Archive » Holy podcasts, Batman! Talking about God and superheroes with Dave Zimmerman. It’s a fairly large MP3 (50+ Mb) but I found it interesting. Particularly the last 20-30 minutes where the…