The Fox's Findings

I had a surprisingly hard time with this one. While it is easy to identify “dark matter” moments whenever happen upon them (hell since reading Sofer’s article, I feel I see them everywhere), it was hard for me to sit and think of one, especially one that related to Emily’s specific prompt. However, after following Emily’s lead a bit and narrowing my brainstorm to horror movies that I have seen, one particular example springs to mind. David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is a horror movie that essentially cashes in on the inherent spookiness of dark matter. The premise is at once straightforward and confusing: “something” (a monster, a ghost, a curse? Who knows? Mitchell’s film provides no explanation) is killing teenagers in a small, American town. The curse is passed from one teen to another through sex. To avoid getting killed, a character must have sex with another character to pass the killing curse/ghost/being on to another person.       ...

Every year across our country, American teenagers attend their high school proms. According to every teen movie ever made, prom night is to be full of debauchery. Alcohol assisted antics are expected. Virginities are to be forfeited. In short: it’s supposed to be a night to remember.             Yet all too many American high-school students remember their proms for a different reason. The mix of alcohol, drugs, and general teenage recklessness is a nasty combination in reality and “ according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), for the past several years during prom weekend, approximately 300 teens have died in alcohol-related car accidents.” The NHTSA goes further, saying, “one in three children under the age of 21 who died in the alcohol-related accidents died during prom and graduation season.” Even typing out this statistics, I’m a little shocked. (Statistics pulled from "Prom, De...

So I’m sitting here trying to figure out what the heck to write about this week with so many ideas bopping around in my head. I’m watching the videos Dreá so kindly provided for us and I was taken aback by the number of hip-hop dance videos that are recommended to me on YouTube (looks like I may have a bit of addiction). So I took a break from my vigorous brainstorming to watch a few and that’s when it hit me: dance choreography seems to me to be the perfect example of a copy of a copy of a copy.             The set up for so many of these videos is as follows: the first round of dancers usually includes the choreographer performing their original choreography. For the video above Alexander Chung is the gentleman in the tan, plaid shirt on the left. I like to think of this first performance as the presentation of the moves, the first iteration. Yet Chung is still putting his own interpretation behind his own moves. He is no...