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Attack of the tagger
Someone is spray-painting graffiti all over Cedar Valley and it is up to fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, also known as Shredderman, to expose the vandal.
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“One more fine technician for the Dream Factory”? George Lucas’s Early Film Career, 1964–1971
This essay traces George Lucas’s development as a filmmaker from his arrival at film school in 1964 to the 1971 release of his first feature THX 1138. It follows his decision, also in 1971 but prior to the release of THX, to commit to a semi-autobiographical project about teenagers that would eventually become American Graffiti (1973). I discuss the thematic and stylistic characteristics of Lucas’s early film work in the context of his shifting outlook on his career, his professional networks, box-office trends, and transformative changes in the American film industry.
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Come dark
The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then coach Clint Scott is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he apparently began work on a section of wall outside the girls' locker room at the high school--a project that was clearly, and dramatically, interrupted.
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You're welcome, universe
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a \"mainstream\" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the 'burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off-- and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.
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Tagged
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
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The Momentum of Pynchon's Secret Formula: Gravity’s Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Fiction
Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) sports three equations in mathematical notation, and the second of these has puzzled readers for 45 years: is Pynchon’s Second Equation real or made up? And what role does it have for interpretations of Gravity’s Rainbow? In this paper, we draw on scientific documents and material from the archive of the German Museum, Munich (Deutsches Museum München) to establish the plausibility of the equation and determine its source. Based on our findings, we examine further instances of Pynchon's working with previously unidentified scientific sources, and reconsider the role of the Second Equation in Gravity’s Rainbow in terms of its relations to power and control, the life path of the 'main' character Tyrone Slothrop, and the novel's perspective on the ethical potentials of mathematics and physics.
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My life as a ninja
Derek Fallon and his friends decide to become ninjas, which helps when they begin to investigate who is painting minotaurs on walls around town.
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