Jordan Running posted his Top 10 Web Moments of 2005 over at Downloadsquad on December 31. I found the link when I noticed hits on Duncan’s TV Adland doubling. See below for the notes on Wizards in Winter synchronized Christmas Lights - there’s a link to my post on the Miller Lite Christmas Lights TV ad.
The Top Ten Web Moments were:
10. Numa Numa Dance - webcam performance
9. Samy is my hero - the MySpace glitch
8. Wizards in Winter
7. Michael Barnett’s Hurricane Katrina blog
6. Flying Spaghetti Monster
5. Live 8
4. Google buys 5 % stake in AOL
3. Lazy Sunday - Narnia Rap
2. Sony BMG’s XCP rootkit fiasco
1. Kanye West “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”
Jordan’s still taking comments on other people’s top web moments for 2005.
When Mason, Ohio’s Carson Williams set up a video camera to record his music-synchronized Christmas light display, I’m sure he knew it was cool, but did he realize it would enthrall web video junkies like it did? The video, which shows Williams’ 25,000-light display dancing in perfect sync with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s bombastic “Wizards in Winter,” seems so perfect that some people believed it was a series of stop-motion capture rather than real-time. In fact, the setup took the electrical engineer nearly two months and $10,000 to accomplish.
The Internet wasn’t the only place Williams’ work was noticed: Miller Brewing filmed his spectacle for a Miller Lite commercial (”Enjoy the Lites“), and the police eventually asked him to shut it down after local traffic escalated and at least one accident was caused.
Van Biema provides a fascinating review of literature, art and theology through the centuries, spanning apocraphyal writings of the second century BCE, and medieval connections with the nuclear family and hard work. He draws from the work of Louise Bourassa Perrotta in her book, “Saint Joseph: His Life and His Role in the Church Today“.
‘The Virgin Mary’s Walk across the Mountains’, by Joseph von Fuelrich.
‘Marriage of the Virgin Mary’, Pietro Perugino.
‘The Holy Family with a Small Bird’, by Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo.
‘The Childhood of Christ’, by Gerrit van Honthorst.
‘Rest on the Flight to Egypt’, by Simone Cantarini.
‘St Joseph and the Christ Child’, unknown artist, Cuzco, Peru.
‘St Joseph and the Christ Child Enthroned with Four Angels’, School of Cuzco.
‘Death of St Joseph’, Piazzetta Giambattista.
‘The Childhood of Christ’, Gerrit van Honthorst.
‘Marriage of the Virgin Mary’, Pietro Perugino.
The Churches Advertising Network in the UK have come out with another poster campaign based on the revolutionary Jesus image. Around the UK people will be seeing red posters with the image of a baby’s face superimposed on the Che Guevara portrait.
The text at the bottom: “Dec 25th. Revolution Begins. Celebrate the Birth of a Hero. Jesus? Txt Hero or Zero to 81025 or visit www.rejesus.co.uk”
The Jesus/Che Guevara poster from Easter 1999 was CAN’s most celebrated image. Now the revolutionary Jesus appears as an infant.
CAN’s explanation:
“We proclaim the saviour who would change the world.
Just as in the “meek mild as if” campaign, we declare that Jesus was not “a wimp in a white nighty”. This campaign shows the potential of the infant son of God.”
When people text their response (hero or zero) to 81025, they receive a text back thanking them for taking part and pointing to the hellojesus website for more information.
[eminimall products="Che Guevara"]
And why is the poster modelled on Che Guevara?
“A challenging face, a hero, a real revolutionary. It’s Jesus who changed the world, not Che. And it’s not “gentle Jesus, meek and mild” - it’s modelled on the unmistakable image of Jesus with the crown of thorns”.
David Kunzle, art historian at UCLA and author of “Che Guevara - Icon Myth and Message“, describes the child as a two or three year-old as in Renaissance art. He says the child shows a wisdom and insight beyond his years.
The Churches’ Advertising Network describes themselves as an independent ecumenical group of Christian communicators which exists to provide high quality national Christian advertising campaigns, especially around major festivals, and to provide the means for local churches to share in and receive the benefit of such national campaigns. They don’t consult widely before coming out with their advertising campaigns - which usually means that there’s plenty of discussion among church leaders in the weeks after the campaign begins.
The Churches Advertising Network in the UK have come out with another poster campaign based on the revolutionary Jesus image. Around the UK people will be seeing red posters with the image of a baby’s face superimposed on the Che Guevara portrait.
“, describes the child as a two or three year-old as in Renaissance art. He says the child shows a wisdom and insight beyond his years.
