Break: Advocate Class of 2015 Yearbook
Ma Advo bids adieu to her oldest brood, the Advocate members of 2015. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. – Garrison Keillor Processed with VSCOcam with b1 preset
View ArticleBreak: The Other Monster–Reviewing The Babadook
When a horror movie is good, critics praise it for being more than a horror movie. It’s also social commentary, a love story—anything other than just cheap thrills prodding masses to the theater. When...
View ArticleBreak: Disruption
Disruption is a series of digital images produced by a camera subjected to abrupt motion during exposure. The title describes the process of their creation, as well as their concern with the tension...
View ArticleBreak: On Cuba–An Interview with Journalist and Boxer Brin-Jonathan Butler
This image is taken from Brin-Jonathan Butler’s Twitter. Brin-Jonathan Butler is a journalist, sportswriter, filmmaker, and perennial boxer. His work has appeared in Vice, Deadspin, The Wall Street...
View ArticleBreak: And in the End, Where Did We Go?–A Review
About twenty minutes into the recently released David Foster Wallace biopic, The End of the Tour, the journalist David Lipsky, played by the appropriately leptosomic Jesse Eisenberg, eagerly (that is,...
View ArticleObscure Objects of Desire: Dread and Boredom in the Contemporary Novel
Luís Buñuel’s last and possibly best film That Obscure Object of Desire, begins with a scene in which Mathieu, a grey-bearded, houndstooth-suited Frenchman, dumps a bucketful of water on the head of...
View ArticleBreak: High and Low in the Windy City
Originally posted on Feed Me Eat More : Originally published on Put A Egg On It. The term “salad days” is a little abstruse, but I have a feeling these are mine. It’s my first summer living on my own...
View ArticleBreak: Sparkling Blue
I’m spending the summer after freshman year working in an old school surf shop in a small beach town in the South Bay, where I grew up. I work two days a week for minimum wage, and business varies—...
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