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i like small hats and i cannot lie

December 21, 2009
By julia y
i like small hats and i cannot lie

Are people’s heads getting bigger, or are they just wearing smaller hats? In the past few years, fashion has spawned a major resurgence of the fascinator- a fancy term for tiny hats of British decent with lots of swooshy, feathery additives. Such hats disappeared from fashion in the 1970’s, but now one would be...
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boredom is the grandmother of invention

November 30, 2009
By julia y
boredom is the grandmother of invention

The occupied brain and idle hands that make for the best sketching conditions. In college I did my best sketches in my liberal studies classes. The more boring the lecture the better I drew, especially during those with slideshows. The condition of mild mental stimulation and nothing to amuse myself with but a pen and...
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if happiness is a warm gun “ceci n’est pas bonheur.”

November 23, 2009
By julia y
if happiness is a warm gun “ceci n’est pas bonheur.”

Rene Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images) was his commentary on an object, the re-presentation of an object, and the difference between the two. A representation of a warm gun is not a warm gun… a representation of a video game controller simulating a gun even farther still. Reenactments of this...
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