Month: February 2020
Music as Advocacy in the United States
What features make music successful in catalyzing social change?
Gender Expression for Black Queer Women
How are Willow Smith and Janelle Monáe doing gender expression in their music videos?
On the Reinvention of the Horror Genre
The psychological elements of Hitchcock’s "Psycho" remain crystallized in our cultural zeitgeist to this day, inspiring new generations of horror filmmakers. The rise of Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, and Robert Eggers signals a contemporary shift.
A Letter to My Hearing
I've always fixated on sounds, isolating them, meditating to the gurgling rush of the heater, the wetness of feet unsticking from the floor, the mingling of exhales . . .
The Screen and Us
Jordan Peele's 2019 film makes a political statement with an unnerving horror, but the audience remains at a safe distance.
Think on It
Just outside of Grey’s Papaya, there was an odd, frozen cluster of people. Neither my babysitter nor I could see through or over the group from afar, so we kept on walking toward it. Valerie squeezed my little hand.
Don’t Be an Art Historian
"Bolero reminds me of something—not something I have forgotten but rather something I have never thought." Why knowing nothing about a work of art can aid appreciation.
Good Design: White T-Shirts
How might a white t-shirt be re-imagined to represent different design principles?
White T: Alignment in Balance
The goal my T-shirt, while simple and plain, is to express the human body’s relationship with the world. While we are small in the world on an individual level, the inner balance and “zen” we all seek in life, through …
White T: Orthogonal
This t-shirt is built on the principle of orthogonality, contrasting linearity with the natural curvature of the female body.