Frank Ocean has blessed us with the perfect soundtrack for the moment.
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Composing Landscapes: Interview with BFA Senior Will Demaria
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Will Demaria ’20 is a senior BFA who is a constant in the printmaking studios. He is our resident tool-sharpener and is always there to answer questions or tell you that you’re wiping your plate wrong.
Alumni
Student Game ‘Family Style’ Finds Success
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The seven alumni started their journey here in Ithaca, but through a social media campaign, a stroke of luck and a motto of “keep fighting,” they created a video game with devoted fans around the world.
Arts & Entertainment
YANG | When Cities Are Under Mass Surveillance, In What Space Can Subcultures Survive?
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Pardon me for postponing the second part of my series Marxism Lens on the Digital Age, in which I summarize the emergence of the fringe philosophy Accelerationism that coincides the neoliberal shift in the digital economy, but I feel the urgent need to direct the same critical lens to the rapid changes happening around us. I simply cannot unsee or unfeel the intensity and the uncertainty surrounding the unprecedented circumstances. Perhaps things only become clear to most when they are pushed to the extremes. The current situation is definitely out of the ordinary. This is also when the control of the state becomes the strictest and the pushback becomes the fiercest.
Arts & Entertainment
TEST SPIN | 5 Seconds of Summer — ‘CALM’
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The album continues the group’s departure from their quasi-punk roots, a trend that began to emerge in their 2018 album Youngblood.
Arts & Entertainment
YANDAVA | Literature in Isolation
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I often find that literature helps me make sense of the world in difficult times and gives me some comfort and solace when life feels chaotic and turbulent.
Arts & Entertainment
Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia’: Hit or Miss?
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She captures a unique, hometown sound, blends it with ‘80s pop and adds her own flavor to it to create the most pleasant sounding album of this year so far.
Arts & Entertainment
A Conversation With Fanclub Collective
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Music can seem like it’s white dominated. But it’s not.
Arts & Entertainment
GUEST ROOM | Is Love Blind? No, Just Conventionally Attractive
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Love is Blind’s exclusion of Asian men further proves its bias for only casting members considered attractive by Hollywood’s standards.
Arts & Entertainment
Lecrae and YK Osiris’ ‘Set Me Free’ is a Quarantine Anthem
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For those quarantined now, they’ll no doubt find Lecrae’s latest more than relevant for when the shackles are taken off, and they’ll have no other response but to dance.
Arts & Entertainment
Governors Ball Canceled Due to COVID-19
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This year’s festival will be canceled, rather than postponed, “due to a myriad of planning and logistical issues.”