While I have had the privilege of visiting many big cities and exploring them, I have yet to actually live in one, excepting the few years I spent in Seattle during my undergraduate studies. Perhaps this is why graffiti still interests and confuses me. Some of the tags are crude phrases, some unreadable sprawls ofContinue reading “Inspiration – Banksy’s Art for the People”
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“Big Fish”: Tall Tales Stretching from the Page to the Silver Screen (Part 1 of 2)
Made in 2003, Big Fish is one of the smaller films from famous (and infamous) director Tim Burton. Based on a novel by the same name, the book made the jump to the silver screen with all the grace of a large trout swimming upriver. It is the story of two men’s lives and theContinue reading ““Big Fish”: Tall Tales Stretching from the Page to the Silver Screen (Part 1 of 2)”
Inspiration: Children Will Listen
Someone is on our side – Someone else is not. While we’re seeing our side, maybe we forgot… They are not alone No one is alone – “No One is Alone” from Into the Woods I thought long and hard about which theater production I wanted to write about on Mother’s Day. I wanted toContinue reading “Inspiration: Children Will Listen”
An Examination of “The Graduate”
“I want to say one word to you. Just one word.” “Yes, sir?” “Are you listening?” “Yes, sir.” “…Plastics.” One of the iconic scenes from the movie that made Dustin Hoffman a star and the name Mrs. Robinson synonymous with the seductive dangers facing the new generation, this one word, “plastics”, defines one of theContinue reading “An Examination of “The Graduate””
Inspiration – “The Long Halloween” and Graphic Literature
Not too long ago librarians would have balked at the idea of putting graphic novels, more commonly referred to as comic books, anywhere in their collection. Graphic novels have been considered time-wasters, subversive, perverse, and downright dangerous for a large part of their history, and until recently have been kept quite separate from what theContinue reading “Inspiration – “The Long Halloween” and Graphic Literature”