Reel Expressions showcases young filmmakers annually
The Children’s Media Project has been discovering and cultivating promising talent in the realm of filmmaking for the past 20 years, but until recently, a venue to showcase the labors…
Arts
Directing workshops offer freshman a new perspective into theatrical process
This past Friday night, the directing workshops drew smiles from the audience’s faces and tears from their eyes, and I am definitely not just saying that because I acted in…
Though heavy, ‘Ontario Gothic’ heals
From the start, Warren Hildebrand of Foxes in Fiction has been honest about his new album’s subject matter: loss. Three years in the making, the seven songs comprising “Ontario Gothic”…
Busdriver experiments with energy, sounds
Busdriver is, ironically, probably not for the children. His music often alienates listeners, jolted by his unorthodox bars and beats, and endears him to those looking for a (metaphorical) bumpy…
Student music partnership crescendoes on web
In an ethereal field, a barefooted figure enters the foreground. The sky behind him is dark gray and the trees a vivid green. The figure—Sean Eads ’15—comes right up to…
Santos’ photography offers tribute to Mexican heritage
All art instruction—coming from both within Vassar’s Art department and elsewhere—seeks to teach students one fundamental skill. They want you to learn, or, more specifically, relearn how to see. Photographer…
Campus Current brings narrative elements to radio
In 2014, TEDTalks attract just as many—and oftentimes, more—views as many Top Forty music videos on YouTube. Keeping that in mind, it should come as no surprise that WVKR is…
Zine creates new outlet for studio artists
Inspired by their desire to help Vassar students participate in the visual arts more around campus, Emma Rose ’17 and Esteban Uribe ’17 are in the process of creating an…
Williams’ filmic comedy stands test of time
My father knows that I prefer watching movies made in this millennium, which is why he periodically insists I watch an older film with him. When we heard Robin Williams…
Peripheral characters come to fore in ‘OITNB’ season two
“Orange is the New Black” took Netflix by storm July of 2013 when all 13 episodes debuted at once. And then it did it all over again June of this…