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...Grosslight said he was flown to California and sequestered in a hotel for the final stages of competition. But, even across the country, he still kept his role as a TF in mind—he sent his students a picture of Marco Polo with a yellow cut-out of a ‘Q’ taken in his hotel bathroom to encourage them to fill out their course evaluations, run by the Committee of Undergraduate Education known as the CUE. After more than a week of mounting hopes as he watched the number of his competitors dwindle, Grosslight...
...tapes a giant poster of an eye in his Canaday common room window and threatens passersby via bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league of his own. “Two of the very first things he did were tell me that he had an army of cut-out penguins, and send me a copy of his newly-created manifesto,” said Hwang’s freshman roommate, Michael E. Birnbaum ’08. “I spent the rest of my summer before freshman year terrified.” Hwang and Birnbaum...
...more a down-home Modest Mouse. Their video for the song “Wild Mountain Nation” is a mash-up between a Best Week Ever skit and Warhol kitsch. Much like a disjointed nightmare, a Godzilla-sized lead singer dwarfs the skyscrapers around him, a cut-out plane flies overhead, and a man parachutes into a giant flower pot. Sound like a trip? At the very least, it was probably inspired by one at some point along the creative process. And then the band plays on top of the globe, as well as in outer space, straddling...
...He’s our guardian, he’s getting twenty bucks an hour back there” said Staff, gesturing at a sizable—and surprisingly lifelike—cardboard cut-out of the mug-wielding colonial beer-shill Samuel Adams, Class...
Confined to his bed in the last decade of his life and unable to paint, Henri Matisse found inspiration in the unlikeliest of sources. Across the beige walls of his Montparnasse apartment, he began assembling paper cut-out images of the South Pacific, which he had visited 16 years before. Here starfish bloomed, dolphins danced and seabirds swooped in an imaginary lagoon, eventually finding their perfect expression in the floating fabrics of his late, great silkscreen panels of Oceania, which can be seen at the National Gallery of Australia. "From the first, the enchantments of the sky there, the fish...