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On Violent Imagery and Civil War
I saw Alex Garland’s Civil War with my friends because the movie seemed like an entertaining, if self-serious warning about how America could descend into a civil war. The trailer featured cool shots of the White House getting blown up, and as Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri said in his review “Americans sure do love…
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How the Crossword Comes to be
Crosswords are one of the purest forms of a puzzle, one of the originals. Dating back to Arthur Wynne in 1913, crosswords were first born in diamond shape. Now, they look all sorts of funky. In a way, crossword puzzles are like people: they can come in every shape and any size, and while most…
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Dead Media Explorations
It may seem ridiculous now, but before our digital age of streaming and the internet, media used to exist in a physical format. Sure, you remember your parent’s CD collection, or an old VHS player with their clunky tapes. And for those audiophiles out there, you may even have a vintage vinyl collection that you…
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All Too Familiar Actors
When was the last time you watched a movie and said “Oh god, this guy again? Is there anything he isn’t in?” It feels like that happens to me more and more these days. I am constantly thinking about why certain actors are reused again and again and some are fantastic in one film and…
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So you like Science Fiction? A couple SciFi stories for your next read
1. Microcosmic God, Theodore Sturgeon Sturgen’s Microcosmic God is a short story that follows a scientist named Kidder, and the microscopic beings he has created called the Neoterics. Kidder’s island, on which he lives by himself, is inhabited by a higher authority, Conant, as he builds a large power source. Although Kidder is a genius,…
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Dune Part Two: A Generational Tour de Force
I have always had an utmost appreciation for films that facilitate meaningful conversations after viewing. Nearly all of my favorite films hold this trait. I love showing someone a film that I feel strongly about and afterward having that “what did YOU think” conversation. From what I’ve heard, Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of those…
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Photograph of…
Human eyes/Caged despair and ticket stubs/Many things can be wrong and more all at once/Something was made to hang/Between two windows/To gather dust/And be the object of the piece of writing that isn’t much anyway/Many things can be human/Reflected by a wall of glass/An animal became human/A girl became a caged animal/Both are lonelier than…
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Just For The Record: The Importance of Physical Media in the Digital Age
Located on the first floor of Balfour-Hood, tucked in between Pappas Fitness Center and the Lyon’s Den, lies The Vlad, the on-air radio studio for the Wheaton College Communications Station (WCCS). As a WCCS Executive Member and self-appointed custodian of The Vlad, I’m in charge of training new radio hosts on how to use the…
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Dance Fest 2024: Momentum, A Major Success
Momentum saw big numbers, with over one thousand people who came to show support for the five groups performing this past weekend.
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WCCS Winter Playlist
A playlist for the frigid winter months at Wheaton – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station.
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The Death of a Snow Day?
A short snapshot of Wheaton students on the first snow day of the year
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Why Are Studios Deleting Finished Movies?
Let’s talk about the atrocious phenomenon in Hollywood where a studio will fund a movie, write, direct, and edit it, and then delete the entire thing, erasing all of the work put into the project and spitting in the faces of those who contributed. I hate this. Why do they do this? Well, it’s movie…
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WCCS Winter Playlist
By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes…
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WCCS Winter Playlist
By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes…
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6 Winter Break Book Recommendations
One of my favorite reads this year was Claire Dederer’s searching book, part memoir and part piece of cultural criticism. She examines our post Me Too society, but looks more deeply at the question of “can you separate the art from the artist?”, instead interrogating what it means to live in an age where we…
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Actors and AI: What the end of the SAG-AFTRA Strike Means for the Television and Film Industry
At long last, the 118 day actor’s strike has ended, following the end of the WGA writer’s strike which ended in late September. For those of you who don’t know the motivation behind the two strikes- as always, they lie in pay and benefits, and now concerns over streaming and artificial intelligence. Streaming essentially took…
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The Making of a Poetry Festival
The Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival took place this past weekend, marking the first event of its kind on Wheaton’s campus. The festival included round table discussions held by visiting poets, a showcase that featured undergraduate students from the Boston area and Wheaton alum, as well as a poetry reading by a local arts…
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Killers of the Flower Moon Review: A Masterfully Told Tragedy
I was rather shocked to learn that 80 year old director Martin Scorsese had another movie set to release so soon after 2020’s “The Irishman.” “Irishman” was a movie filled with themes of what it’s like to see the world change around you as you grow old. Seemingly the perfect film for a director with…
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Do Wheaton College Artists Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Conversation on A.I Art In the past few months, it has been nearly impossible to escape the A.I. conversation. Almost every American industry has had conversations on what their futures hold with the growing strength of online predictive algorithms like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. One such group that has had especially fascinating…
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Resurrecting the Artist
A response to “The Death of the Artist.”