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Designer Coco Chanel said,“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
Slate journalist and advice columnist Emily Yoffe (left) interviews ASU Professor Brad Allenby at a Future Tense event in September 2011. (Photo Courtesy of Joseph Eschrich and the New America Foundation)
Whoever thinks good music doesn’t come from Texas is profoundly mistaken. I’m not a fan of the pop-country fusion you hear at bars that serve buckets of Bud Light and offer mechanical bull rides. But I do love the timeless twang of more classical folk and country.
It is finally April... which means that school ends in less than six weeks. WHAT?
This post contains spoilers about various literary works.
A couple days ago while I was sitting at my desk and scrolling through Twitter, I read words that had been missing from the world since 2011. The Black Keys was finally going to release a new single. It’s one of those bands I can’t say I still listen to very often. However, I fostered an addiction to them my sophomore year in college while walking from the light rail to my English class in Tempe. It was a long stretch of ground to cover coming from my internship downtown, and I had a solid hour and a half of peaceful solace to listen at will. The Black Keys albums would be on shuffle the whole span.
"I have become a woman who writes poetry. I believe in my words, and therefore myself because of this." - "Thank You For Taking Me To the Library" by Ariana Brown
Life is funny because it moves on even when we want to stay in a moment forever. I'm in the second semester of my senior year and it hit me last week that this is almost over.
“They’re Singing Ro…co…co, Ro…co…co, Rococo”
I’m not one for huge concerts. There’s a certain intimacy that you get in small to mid-sized venues that leaves arena shows feeling more like miniature festivals or sports events. My comfort zone dwells somewhere near the stage, surrounded by meshing conversations and the lingering scents of beer and cigarette smoke. Assigned seats miles from the stage—who needs them?
I had another lit-filled weekend and I hope you all did as well.
I spent the better portion of my spring break slouched in my swivel chair at work, daydreaming about sandy beaches and bright blue waves. For so many students, this was their exciting and fantastic spring break reality.
Money makes the world go round, but it doesn't always have to dictate what you can and can't do. Travel is expensive, but you might need a lot less than you think.
The end of spring break has finally arrived (sadly), and we're forced to return to reality. However, we're fortunate to have one more holiday to celebrate, hopefully before getting back to classes. It's St. Patrick's Day, a holiday celebrated with kegs of beer, leprechaun outfits and strands of green and gold beads.
Travel blogging, travel journals, books, movies — all of them extol the benefits of traveling. They're quick to tell you how much you benefit from it and why everyone should do it, but they only mention why the whole experience is worth it.
Continuing on from my last post, we’ll finally wrap up the rest of Baroque. During the 17th century, England was having a pretty rough time. For the most part, England imported their painters. But now, for the first time, England was able to produce talented native artists. My ultimate favorite is Gainsborough. Gainsborough’s paintings have an informal feel to them. He loved nature and believed it to be worthy subject matter for art, so he incorporated natural landscapes as the backdrop for his portraitures. He mastered the elongation of the human form to make his figures look regal. He offset this regality with natural, casual poses and contemporary dress. This is seen in Gainsborough’s “Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.” He paints the woman among the landscape in such a natural and beautiful way. She is dressed informally, no aristocratic garb, and sits very naturally. There is no pomp and circumstance. She isn’t stylized to look like a goddess and there is certainly no usage of props. The English Baroque style is definitely characterized as a restrained elegance.
I was in my Business and Future of Journalism class last week when we were given a group project. The idea was pretty simple: We were supposed to invent something people needed. Ideas largely included apps (hello, 2014) with innovative and funny concepts. One of them in particular struck me as interesting. It was a dating website that matched you up with your dream significant other according to your taste in music. Country two-steppers and hipster snobs could now be provided with almost effortless means to snagging that perfect first date. Not a bad idea—admittedly better than my group’s sad attempt at some “get back at your ex-boyfriend” app that referenced Ryan Gosling. It left me wondering: Is that what we’ve come to as a people, and, would it work?
The spring break experience is like the senior prom of high school — except you get four of them. It's a week of shenanigans, beaches and friends. Spring break is basically a free for all for kids to get buck-wild and be carefree.
Burton Barr Central Library encourages us to critically consider the messages we receive today with the exhibit "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda". This is a traveling exhibit with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, rooted in Washington D.C. (my second home).
Baroque (1600-1750) was an art movement that came after the Renaissance. It took techniques like realism and chiaroscuro and combined them with the intense drama and emotion of the Mannerists (a group of artists that chose to deviate from the harmony and perfection of the Renaissance). Because Baroque combines Renaissance and the Mannerist ideals, it yielded some of the most ostentatious and ornate pieces of art. Art became more of a way of life during the 17th century. The point of Baroque art was to elicit an emotional response. To do so, artist perfected the use of chiaroscuro and became masters of light. Technically, the Baroque era began in Rome around the 1600s. Then it spread to France and to the rest of Europe. In this post we will be focusing on Italian, Flemish and Dutch Baroque, and in the next post we will finish the entire time period with English, Spanish and French Baroque. This will give you a little taste of what the Baroque era had to offer and how each country and artist took their own spin on the Baroque style.
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