2008 Woodie Awards
I love photography and I am a huge fan of Photography Professor Pablo Delano's teaching, so when I found out that there was going to be a show in the Broad Street Gallery of work by the Photography I, II, and III students I was very excited.
0 CommentsThere must be over 1,000 acts of violence on television everyday. If you take René Girard's philosophy that all sex is also an act of violence (not that violence is bad) that has to boost the number to at least 2,000, if not more. Then there are those events on television that you witness a little less often, like marriages, divorces, contest winnings, first kisses, and of course, break-ups.
0 CommentsThe remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original of which was made in 1974, opened a few weeks ago with much anticipation. The story of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that of a group of young people who make an unfortunate stop on their drive through Podunk Texas, pick-up a deranged hitch-hiker, and investigate a nearby farmhouse.
0 CommentsInspiration for art can come from many different sources, even the very newspaper you're holding in your hands. A popular exercise in creative writing circles is to take a story from a newspaper and create your own back story for it. For my parents' 25th wedding anniversary, I came across the article Confused Couple, 85, Take 300-Mile Road Trip: A Visit to Dillard's in Ocala Somehow Led Them to Panama City.
0 CommentsMusic is something that surrounds us on a daily basis. It can be found in the most mundane of things: the tapping of a pencil, a bird's song, the flatulence of your neighbor. Alright, so maybe the last one is a stretch, but you get the point. Put pieces like these together and you'll get a song, and quite a bizarre one at that.
0 CommentsIf you listen to metal, good chances are you have heard of the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. It is one of best and biggest metal festivals there is, presenting some of the most popular and talented metal bands. I attended last spring and had a wonderful time, two days chock full of heavy riffs and festivities.
0 CommentsLet us all imagine a smoky and hot basement somewhere in Florida, about four years back. Art students, punks, and hippies crowd the room, fighting for space and whatever cheap beer is on tap. James Bowman sits in a corner, playing songs from some forgotten punk rock band he was in on a missing-string acoustic guitar; the chords are sloppy and the songwriting isn't epic, but he screams his heart out anyways.
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