I completely missed Earth Week, as it seems that environmental groups are not fans of putting up event flyers, for some reason. So for my post this week I have some interesting pieces of Land/Earth Art, or “Earthworks” as pioneer Robert Smithson called them. Rising with the environmental movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s in America, Land Art was...
Read MoreI was recently rejected from the tiny, and hence necessarily selective, visual arts program at my university. I met with the director afterward, and I remember one question from our conversation particularly vividly. He asked me how I felt about being rejected so soon after deciding to pursue art seriously. My response: “It would be really easy...
Read More1. The Magnetic Fields, “The Dreaming Moon”: While this first track does not correspond to a particular scene of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it embodies some of the play’s major themes, not only through its title (both dreams and the moon are both prominent elements, frequently mentioned in the text) but also lyrically. The lyrics...
Read MoreI’ve pretty much used up every last ounce of wit I had saved up in coming up with that article title, so after this point you will all have to bear with me simply being earnest in my writing about a great hobby and passion of mine: film scores. Sometimes an entire film can be summarized in the opening notes of its most notable theme. Who can forget...
Read MoreOn April 9th I attended MoCCA Fest in Manhattan; it’s a convention/exhibition that the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art has yearly at the Lexington Armory. According to their homepage, “Since 2002 the MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork...
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