K-pop — a rising music genre that utilizes sound and styles all over the world, incorporating not only auditory, but visual, cinematic, thematic, and literary elements into music heard by people all around the world. The main points of K-pop include unique lyrics with meanings that may reference previous
FGM is defined by the World Health Organization as any procedure that intentionally alters or causes injury to the female genital organ for non-medical reasons. Female Genital Mutilation is a criminal act performed on young women in 29 countries of Africa and the Middle East. Most of the countries around
In our current technologic age, a variety of video sharing platforms are gaining predominance, such as YouTube or TikTok. Videos posted can be relating to news, music videos, vlogs, beauty tutorials or even stranger: ASMR. Before, they were known as kinks, now it is called ASMR or autonomous
A class of mine had a project called reverse consumption. The idea of the project was to buy a product, mess with it somehow, and put it back on the shelf. When the semester first started, I bought a bunch of puzzles with my roommate and decided that I could
Netflix’s You, released September 9, 2018, follows the story of Joe, a bookstore manager, who falls in love with one of his customers at first sight. While obviously smart and passionate about books and his work, Joe is rather plain. Unassuming. Some would even say “average.” And the viewer quickly
In this Netflix film, LA Originals explores the rise to fame of Chicano artists Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol as they cemented their art in LA culture. Mister Cartoon started out as a graffiti artist that tagged the streets of LA and worked his way into tattooing. Meanwhile, Estevan was
The year 2020 has had a strange start. From Kobe Bryant’s unexpected death to Netflix’s true crime documentary, “Tiger King” becoming a national sensation. While both seem to have absolutely nothing in common, they both have ignited a media frenzy. Kobe Bryant was a predominant basketball player who passed away
The 1971 album “What’s Going On” released by the Motown Record singer Marvin Gaye. A album that was almost not released by Motown due to its heavily political nature. As Motown at the time was all releasing feel good dance songs that could be heard in night clubs across the
Anonymous activist art collective, Indecline, made headlines with a series of illegal art displays. In the summer of 2016, amidst the presidential campaign, the unidentified artists erected a 6-foot-5 clay and silicone sculpture depicting a naked Donald Trump on the streets of San Francisco. The sculpture elicited a sensational reaction
Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer, recently rolled out on Netflix which tells the story of Luka Magnotta of Canada, cat killer turned murderer. It all began when Magnotta circulated videos of himself on the web killing cats while hiding his identity. A group of what Netflix called