Almost every time we read a story, they are all different in some way or another. Every story has a different setting, conflict, or purpose. But these stories are all built in a similar way in that we follow the journey of the people that traverse through this unique world…

A Grandma walks into a restroom at Sears and starts washing her feet. The other women in the restroom protest and “a clash of civilizations [brews] in the Sears bathroom.” Obviously, the other women in this situation are in the wrong and they should have just swallowed their pride and…

Standing on the shoulders of giants. This phrase is most commonly known from Issac Newton who, in writing a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, wrote “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” …

Standing on the shoulders of giants. This phrase is most commonly known from Issac Newton who, in writing a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, wrote “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” He means that his contributions to the world…

In the age of the internet, it has become increasingly easy to become swamped underneath the constant stream of information and news with most of the news people read being negative. And for kids that have most of their lives revolving around the internet, they are extremely susceptible to this…

60 years ago, Ed Ruscha started noticing something that a majority of people wouldn’t even give a second thought about apartment buildings. He started taking pictures of those apartments and he soon published those pictures in a book called Some Los Angeles Apartments. When looking at the pictures in the…

“…at the time of her death in 2004, Agnes Martin claimed not to have read a newspaper in over 50 years.” hearing this quote from The Anthropocene Reviewed: Works of Art by Agnes Martin and Hiroyuki Do I immediately asked myself a plethora of different questions. At first, it was…

60 years ago, Ed Ruscha started noticing something that a majority of people wouldn’t even give a second thought about: apartment buildings. He started taking pictures of those apartments and he soon published those pictures in a book called Some Los Angeles Apartments. When looking at the pictures in the…

When I first laid eyes on “Mend” by Nathaniel Mary Quinn, my eyes were immediately drawn to that abstract collage of facial features. However, education from school told me that I had to look at and pay attention to the other features of this portrait like the long, chiseled neck…