"Hello Chris! My name is Rrrrroberto Comparan!" Yes, that is how I will introduce myself to Mr. Martin when Phillip Bosco and I win the Coldplay video competition next month. Alright, alright, maybe I'm being a little presumptuous, but I honestly can't see us losing to a walking desk lamp or even worse, a pair of sock puppets. Although both interpretations are cute and clever, they still represent a category of culture or art that Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has labeled Superflat. Superflat is "a sort of cute, cuddly and naïve hell" (Mark Sayers, Superflat Faith Pt. 1).
According to Mark Sayers, an author and speaker who specializes in interpreting popular culture from a Christian viewpoint, our Western Culture has been "flattened". Sayers admits that, "As a culture our spiritual muscles have atrophied due to lack of use. We are offered a culture that is a million miles wide in terms of opportunities, freedoms and consumer choice, yet that is spiritually an inch deep. Our spiritual voice is being strangled."
In other words, people's need for "mystery, transcendence, revelation, and a sense of the other is repressed" (Sayers, Superflat Faith Pt. 1). So is there any hope for persons? Of course there is! I really don't want to sound like Obama here, but "change can happen." And that kind of change will happen when we allow God to rule over our culture, creations, and world. I'm not declaring a destructive rebellion on what we currently call ART. I'm just announcing a quite assault on the legion of demons that plague our culture from generating anything worthy of note.
Next week, Phillip and I will wrap up production on our video for Coldplay. Please pray for us as we intend to use this opportunity to feed Biblical truth to the world at large. For years, I have been praying that God would give me an opportunity like this...and well, here it is. After finally blogging about it in my obituary back in January, I can't help but believe that God's hand is in all this. Will we win? I can only hope.
4 comments:
Soooo excited, Berto! I'm praying God's hand is in all of this and I can't wait to hear that you won! ;)
I think this is SO AWESOME!!! I'm praying for a hands down victory, and can't wait to hear the good news.
See ya Sunday!
Janie McGarity
Berto....IT TOTALLY ROCKS....
even Eli was entranced.
We checked out several other videos....and, well...they just aren't as great as yours!
Imperically speaking, yours is a TRUE GIFT.
You have it, berto!
You have it...and i am praying that whoever is reviewing the vids will see yours like a light in darkness....
To GOD be the GLORY!!!!!!!
Hello, I've watched your video three times now....and am moved to tears! Praise God for your undeniable talent. I Am praying that you will win!!!
Love,
Haley Papez
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