September 2007
17 posts
“People look at pieces of art in museums that they don’t understand and...”
– Art Spiegelman
Spiegelman visits Marist
Art Spiegelman, comic artist and author of the comic series “Maus” came to Marist for a lecture and q&a session. When the Twin Towers fell, something rose from the Pulitzer prize-winning author. The outcome was The Shadow of No Towers, a graphic novel that traces the author’s frightening day on Sept. 11, 2001. ”Disaster is my muse,” says Spiegelman, who won the...
The Fruits of WristStrong: Colbert Cast Sells For...
Steven Colbert injured his wrist June 27 in a fall while running around his New York studio before tapping an episode. Since publicly revealing the injury on the July 26 episode, he has created a red “WristStrong” bracelet, which parodies the yellow “LiveStrong” bands. Proceeds from purchases of WristStrong bracelets, as well as the procedes from auctioning of his cast,...
ridiculous?
this quote actually exists on a poster that is for sale online. It actually fits right along with my picture below which is from the show The Swan, where “ugly” women are made “better” through various painful medical procedures….because everyone wants to be beautiful, don’t they?
“If you’re attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for...”
– http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/beauty.jpg
This character below could one day be me. If I ever get bored with life, I might just go about creating a character in Second Life that is the total opposite of the real me, such as the character in the picture below, and I could create a new “fake” life for myself through my computer. I find it just incredible that I was never aware of any of this before last week.
Media Seen/Unseen
Although there are endless amounts of issues and events that are a part of our time, I find it to be incredibly true that the defining issue of our time is the media. In our world today, we are simply overloaded with different forms of media. I suppose it’s a good thing that we so much available to us practically at our fingertips. However, we can probably all agree that with so many different...