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...Inspired by the success of Japanese horror, other moviemakers around Asia have also embraced the genre. Most of the resulting films are ghost tales that overlay rustic superstitions onto a canvas of urban, middle-class life. They're populated by loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings...
...group recently traveled to the Canadian-American club in Watertown for a night of Boston Urban Ceilidh (KAY-lee). This style of Gaelic music and dance is a mixture of the modern and the traditional. Juxtaposing bagpipes and fiddles with electric guitars, the rock-influenced music places an emphasis on traditional tunes that are easy to dance to. In much the same way, the Harvard Celtic Club blends traditional folklore with modern interpretation, making an especially rich milieu of Gaelic history and culture accessible for everyone in the Harvard community...
Even for the few Yalies who do manage to contain their disappointment or even channel it into something positive—paint by numbers or whatever else they study over there—learning is difficult when you’re surrounded by urban wasteland. No one can study to the best of his abilities when he must fear for his life whenever he ventures out of his dorm. And who can fault sexually frustrated youth for being distracted by the plethora of five-dollar prostitutes who roam the city of New Haven (Might we suggest a stronger work study...
Behind the savvy design and implementation of the YellowArrow project lies a trio of Columbia grads and their mastermind leader. Christopher Allen, Brian House and Jesse Shapins were good friends during college. Shapins took his degree in urban studies and went to Berlin to start an arts group focused on seeing cities in a new, more perceptive way. House, with a background in computer science and interactive art projects, headed to Sweden for an intermedia graduate program, while Allen set off for Brooklyn to work with Michael Counts and the arts institution called Gale Gates...
...genius” by The New York Times, Counts supported the proposal to create an installation on an even larger scale: an entire city or even the world. Allen called together his friends, and YellowArrow was born. With their varied expertise in artistic expression, urban environments and computer science, they form a dynamic trio ready to produce perhaps the largest art project ever attempted...