After my post during Halloween week regarding various ways pumpkins can be decorated other than just the stereotypical carving, I received quite a few e-mails about stencils. Specifically, most people were interested in creating (or finding) their own ASU related stencil to carve on their pumpkins. From my own experience with pumpkin carving, I have [...]
Out in the wider pastures of the West, cowboys use their horses to round-up the cattle, to the very last bull; this has been historic. Now fast-forwarding to the somewhat green “pastures” of the Polytechnic campus at Arizona State University, riders use their control differently. No, they don’t round-up anything but they make up for [...]
A typical trope in video games this generation is the element of choices. While it may seem like a common thing to include in a video game, they are literally two-dimensional. Moral choices appear in such games as: Grand Theft Auto 4, inFamous 1&2, Red Dead: Redemption, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Bioshock, Mass Effect 1&2, [...]
There has been a fair share of sold-out show buzz kill antics this year. There was The Black Keys in April (ahhh what could have been, and minutes from my house at the Mesa Amphitheater), there was Indio’s Coachella (my mouse pointer was literally on the confirm purchase button and I decided to wait- the [...]
A few days ago, my friend opened my eyes to the world of Workaholics, and since then, my life has been changed. My inner immaturity finds myself laughing at every possible juncture during any given episode. If you haven’t watched Workaholics, it’s a show about Blake (Blake Anderson), Adam (Adam Devine) and Ders (Anders Holm), [...]
What does trauma feel like? What does safety feel like? These are the questions Athens-based artist Jennifer Nelson posed during her artist residency at the ASU. Friday night, I went to the artist’s reception at the ASU Art Museum to hear about the conversations, activities, and gathering that have taken place to create Nelson’s exhibition [...]
The title of this piece is very direct and curt but it really focuses my opinion like a laser beam. First person shooters, or FPS, games have taken a wide range of settings and plots over the years. Doom, in 1993, had us going to hell with a double-barreled shotgun. In 2001, Halo: Combat Evolved [...]
How many girls told you the week before Halloween “I need to lose weight?” I think it’s comical that the necessity to wear a revealing outfit is the sudden reality check to shed a few pounds, but regardless, the topic got me thinking about all of the crazy fab diets created for times like these [...]
