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...series is one of many examples that suggest the potential discourse between the arts and the sciences.Similarly, Amanda Means uses her photographs to aestheticize subject matter generally thought to reside only in the scientific realm. “Looking at Leaves” ended Feb. 8. The black and white photographs of the exhibit are products of scientific inquiry into the properties of leaves. Using her media, Means has enhanced nature to render it more visually striking; some of these dramatic and haunting photographs show leaves enlarged to the point of being unrecognizable. She also incorporated her subject matter into...
...only one preparing for a place in the limelight—she ran the HoCo with future Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. In her role as the Director of Public Liaison for Obama, Tchen will oversee the “front door to the White House,” according to the administration’s Web site, something for which her undergraduates provided early preparation. In addition to serving as HoCo chair, Tchen, a sociology concentrator, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and edited the Arts section of The Harvard Independent. She also pursued...
...search of an alternate route. On our first attempt we overheard a displeased Samuel L. Jackson working his cell phone over his own inability to make it through the barricade. At least we weren’t the only ones. Eventually, after a three-mile detour, around the White House and parade route, we made the six blocks along Constitution Avenue and reached the purple ticket entry gate. The time was 10:00 am, and 1st street was a mob scene. Thousands of people—white, black, Hispanic; political professionals and church hat-donning locals beside families from Alaska?...
...responsibility” is not a word that comes to mind when one thinks of Pepsi.In response to a recent two to five percent drop in sales across different PepsiCo. properties, the Pepsi cans, bottles, and advertisements with which we are all familiar have been redesigned. The original white tilde has shifted into a sort of off-kilter, swirling “smile,” the size of which differs between Pepsi products. “A smile will characterize brand Pepsi, while a grin is used for Diet Pepsi and a laugh is used for Pepsi...
Andre the Giant, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Flavor Flav, Noam Chomsky, and the dollar bill have one thing in common: at different points in time they have all been made into a Shepard Fairey image. A street artist whose mixture of black, red, white, and, most recently, blue in stylized swaths makes his images instantly recognizable to the initiated, Fairey has peppered the walls of buildings, electrical boxes, and street signs for the past 20 years with stickers and posters. The text accompanying the images dares the observer to “obey,” seeking to prompt passersby...