Xanadu 2012 - Category: Inspiration    
 Obama as Jesus0 comments
picture7 Apr 2007 @ 21:25
An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure — entitled "Blessing" — went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls.

David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.

"All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."

Obama's campaign worked Monday to the distance the Illinois senator from the artwork.
Sculpture of Obama as Jesus causes stir

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 Pope Michael I1 comment
picture7 Apr 2007 @ 21:13
David Allen Bawden (born September 22, 1959), is an American citizen who was appointed "Pope Michael I". He was elected by a group of six conclavists, that included himself and his parents, to fill the vacancy they consider to have been caused by the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. Unlike other papal pretenders, David Bawden's election did not involve any previously ordained clergy from the Catholic Church. As he is not and has never been ordained a priest, David Bawden has never offered a Mass as "pope."
Pope Michael I
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 The Prayer Antenna0 comments
picture7 Apr 2007 @ 20:39
The Prayer Antenna is part of a series of Religious Technological Artifacts that I am making. The Antenna receives signals from God (yes, your God). The Antenna currently takes the form of a surplus / thrift-store motor-cycle helmet (or similar) that is ornately ordained and fitted with sufficient technology to receive signals. The helmet bristles like a porcupine with many different antennas. The visor is blacked out. Integrated headphones allow the worshipper to experience the signals. Sufficient controls allow the worshipper to tune the signals. The helmet is mounted to the wall on an ornate arm (at around waist level) and a small kneeling stool is provided (like a prayer kneeler). To use the Antenna the worshipper must kneel on the stool and inset their head into the helmet. The wall and surrounding are painted with a decorative pattern.
The Prayer Antenna
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 The Ballad of Ralph Nader3 comments
picture4 Apr 2007 @ 01:56
Written by Dave Frishberg, Schoolhouse Rocker, in 1971. You'll have to turn your volume up for this, after you click below the fold.  More >

 Lemming the Didactic1 comment
picture2 Apr 2007 @ 18:19

Come to the edge...

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