In a World Seen event, we take a look at how worldviews are shown in popular culture.  Movies, music, commercials... each are based upon a worldview.  We have chosen clips from the following songs and movies that clearly display the different worldviews covered in the presentation.

Media Currently Used and Evaluated

Songs

Cursive "Big Bang"
Dispatch "The General"
Dropkick Murphys "The Green Fields of France"
Enya
Flipsyde "Happy Birthday"
Flipsyde "U.S. History"
Flobots "Handlebars"
Garbage "Bleed Like Me"
Get Set GO "So You're Going to Die"
Jack Johnson "Good People"
Liam Lynch  "United States of Whatever"
They Might Be Giants "Science Is Real"
Pete Seeger "In Dead Earnest"
Jimmy Wayne "I Love You This Much"
Within Temptation "Mother Earth"

Television and Movie Clips

ABC News Report, Barbara Walters, "Heaven"
Bowling for Columbine
CBS News Weekend Report
Family Guy
Fog of War
Futurama
Garden State
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hope Is Emo
The Life Aquatic
Lord of War
Onion News Network
Red vs Blue
Sealab 2021
Spore (Video Game)
Thirty Days
Waking Life
The Weather Man
Wellbutrin (commercial)
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
The Wilderness and the West (PBS Special)
X-Box (commericial)
Zazoo (commericial)

plus MANY videotaped interview clips taken by our own team

Comic Strips

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Abstruse Goose
Bizarro
Calvin & Hobbes
Dilbert
Frank & Ernest
Grace
The Homicidal Maniac
Joy of Tech
Liberals for Lunch
McHumor
Mother Goose & Grimm
Non Sequitur

Oddly Enough
One Brick Shy
Reverend Fun
Rose Is Rose

Seriously, America?

Sdewalk Bubblegum

Stone Soup
Table Service
The Wizard of Id
xkcd
[Various Political Cartoons]

Books:

Stanley Aronowitz, Science as Power
The Bible
A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture: An American Commentary
Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Douglas Coupland, Life After God
Bradley Trevor Greive, The Meaning of Life
Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts
Paul M. Johnson, Intellectuals
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation
Taylor Mali, "Totally Like, Whatever, You Know?"
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
Marvin Misky, The Society of Mind
R. A. Montgomery, You're Going to Die
Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Qu'ran
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening Your Life's Purpose
Frank Warren, Post Secret

Artists:

Aivo
Thomas Blackshear
Marc Chagall
Salvidor Dali
Leonardo DaVinci
Sven Geier
Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin
Rob Gonsalves
Alex Gray
Rene Magritte
Marilyn Manson
Michelangelo
Edvard Munch
Scott Mutter
Pablo Picasso
Chaim Potok
Charles Roylo
Vincent Van Gogh
Andy Warhol

Websites:

Center for Disease Control: cdc.gov/nchs/data
CNN.com
despair.com
Emergent-See
joyoftech.com
MyDeath Space
The Onion
Post Secret
weblogcartoons
xkcd.com
YouTube

Skits:

"Train of Thought," Act 1
"The Problem Story"
"Artistic Reflections in Photography"
Pomo FX
"The Test of Life: Pomo"
"The Test of Life: Atheism"
"The Test of Life: Spiritualism"
"The Test of Life: Theism"
"This Is Your Life"
"Train of Thought," Act 2

Quoted Sources:

ABC News
Kenneth Burke
Jim Carrey
CBS News
CNN
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Douglas Coupland
Richard Dawkins
Daniel Dennett
John Dewey
Discover Magazine
Tony Dungy
Albet Einstein
M. C. Escher
Ludwig Feuerbach
Alex Haley
Jack Handy
Happy Bunny
Stephen Hawking
Christopher Hitchens
Adolph Hitler
Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Kuhn
Lindsay Lohan
George Lucas
Taylor Mali
The Monist
National Center for Health Statistics
National Geographic
The New Scientist
NBC News
The New York Times
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oprah Winfrey
Popular Science
Richard Rorty
Seneca
George Bernard Shaw
Cybill Shepherd
Adam Smith
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Tim Tebow
Eckhart Tolle
Hedo Turkgolu
U.S. Bureau of the Census
U.S. Center for Disease Control
Andy & Larry Wachowski
Andy Warhol
Kurt Warner
The Washington Post
William Whitehead
Pharrell Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Irving Yalom