Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

The Art of Light Painting

Light painting doesn’t use any sort of brush, paint or otherwise, contrary to what the name might suggest.  Light painting is a form of photography where the world is your canvas, any source of light is your paint-filled brush, and a camera is your stage.  Essentially, a light painting is […]

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Katherine Johnson, A Space Race Hero

February 1962. NASA Langley Research Center.  The sounds of clacking typewriters, mumbling mathematicians and engineers, and scribbling pens fill the ears of astronaut John Glenn. Days away from leaving Earth in a space shuttle on the Friendship 7 mission, he paces the floor, anxious. A network of international tracking stations […]

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Mapping Out the Maze

To the untrained eye, a maze will look like an incoherent jumble of paths.  This is not an accurate way of seeing these puzzles, however; mazes may contain a bonanza of unique, defined sections with different qualities, all of which confuse and misdirect the unwary mind. Last month’s article began […]

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Oliver!

The musical Oliver was originally based off the 1838 book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens. Performed everywhere from small high schools and middle schools to Broadway, this musical has won over six Academy awards. The main character of the musical, Oliver, starts out his life malnourished in a neglected […]