Word: frogs
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...have to. While my classmates face the long goodbye of Senior Spring, I know I can always come back to visit friends or grab a drink at Daedalus. All the things I meant to do these four years, like walk the Freedom Trail or skate on Frog Pond, don’t need to be expunged from my extended “To Do” list quite...
Biology had its share of the agenda. Corn and garden cress seeds were tucked into soil to test the influence of microgravity on plant growth. Frog eggs were fertilized to determine if low gravity alters the development of organs responsible for balance. At one point a fruit fly escaped from its container and was quickly dubbed Willy. Later the astronauts found the ill-fated drosophila dead in a filter. Tongue in cheek, officials at Oberpfaffenhofen handed out an obituary for "our bold little astronaut...
...then running away so that everyone would come chasing after me. By the way, don't believe those rumors that your old friend Big Bird has gone show biz. I know there was a picture of me in a limo, but that's just image stuff. You know, the frog and his flat-nosed girlfriend got the big treatment for their movies. So with my movie ready to come out this week, you have to keep up appearances...
Animators gave themselves a challenge when dreaming up a film starring robots and machinery. Metal lacks the plasticity that characterizes truly innovative CGI animation (think of the inflatable frog in Shrek). Instead, the animated humor relies on dismemberment as outmoded robots fall apart, giving the entire cartoon an air of morbidity...
...time, maintains a strict grid structure for a layout, and simplified, "cute" characters, the Nick Mag comics explode with a variety of visual styles. Craig Thompson's "Juanita and Clem" strip takes the reader's eye on a roundabout, tour of the entire page as Clem, a frog-like creature in a purple suit, searches for water to pour over Juanita's flowers. Scott McCloud, who's seminal book "Understanding Comics" attempts to define comics and how we read them, contributes a two page strip on how comics can be about anything and take many forms. It's an empowering...