Have you ever had vertigo? Or that strange sensation when you stand up too quickly and your head spins? Or been on a boat for an extended period of time and when you step back on land, you can’t shake the sensation that the ground is moving underneath you? Those…

A brief visual analysis — Wole Lagunju’s mixed media painting Ibeji Dolls and Spirits is a visually arresting, riotous exploration of traditional African symbols and forms. Lagunju makes excellent use of color, pattern, and texture, among other methods, to bring this large scale work to life, exploring themes of impermanence and perpetuity. Line is an…

A Brief Biography — Konstantin Stanislavki is perhaps the most influential acting teacher who ever lived. With a career spanning over half a century, Stanislavski taught, worked with, and influenced many of the great actors and acting teachers of the 20th century. …

A little research paper on a classic favorite of mine. Named after the Didot family, famous as printers and type producers, the typeface is based on a collection of related types developed from 1784–1811 by Firmin Didot. Firmin cut the letters and cast them as type in Paris, and his…

My History of Film to 1960 class views and informally responds to a feature length film every week. Here’s a recent response. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —…