Hi, guys. It’s been a real pleasure to make our way through this semester together. While we were watching Contagion I was reminded of these two posts from last semester that commented on the film and the science behind it. In a comment on the first of those posts, I made a few observations and […]
Read More →Archive for May, 2015
The Empty Child
Hi everyone! I apologize that I’m putting up a post so late, but these finals have been the most stressful yet! What I plan to do after finishing is watching old episodes of Doctor Who. For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s a British science fiction television show that celebrated its 50th anniversary last […]
Read More →Quotes, Book Trailer, Whitehead, Review, Zombies
As we end our class with the novel,Zone One, I found some interesting and significant quotes from the book that we can contemplate on. Here is the 1min video clip that you can view to see these quotes. While I was looking at these quotes, I was reminded of one of the lines in the last […]
Read More →The Zombies Within Ourselves: Welcome to Our Age of Technology
When we were talking today about us resembling zombies, I remembered this video which kind of proves the point. It is an animated satire of us looking as zombies when we are locked within the world of smartphones. It is funny so check it out. 😀 P.S. I have my fingers crossed for the embed […]
Read More →Pentagon Has a plan to stop zombie apocalypse
After reading Zone one at 12 am, it suddenly hit me. What if zombies were a real thing? What will we do then? While 99.999999999% of the people have no idea what to do if a zombie apocalypse was to happen, luckily the US pentagon has a plan- as always. Us Military is perhaps one […]
Read More →Already gone
Colson Whitehead, in the clip above, namechecks a useful list of zombie flicks and post-apocalyptic scenarios set in New York that hover in the margins of his novel Zone One. But his zombies have more mundane counterparts in the contemporary city. “It’s not hard for New Yorkers to picture zombies,” Whitehead is quoted in the […]
Read More →Interview with Charles Burns & Black Hole Movie!
Hi guys! For this post, I prepared two things: an interview with Charles Burns and a Black Hole Movie! 🙂 Did you know that Charles Burns is very interested in mutations? There were reasons why he was inspired by mutations. Also, remember that this comic book is quite rich with symbols? In this interview, Burns […]
Read More →What is a Black Hole?
At the beginning of our last class, we tried to summarise what a black hole is and how it is formed. Much to the astronomers’ and physicists’ frustration, we could not fully comprehend the phenomenon of the black hole. It is necessary to understand how a black hole works and therefore, it is only right […]
Read More →Teenage Brains: Temporarily Out of Service
During our class discussions, we have come to the conclusion that there are not many adults in the story. The author had focused on the world of teenagers. This is probably because adolescents are known to take chances and sometimes irrationally take decisions. The characters continuously take chances and try new drugs without thinking of […]
Read More →Drugs, Body Fluids, and an Unearthly STD
“I froze. I can’t explain what happened. It was like a deja vu trip or something…a premonition. I felt like I was looking into the future…and the future looked really messed up. I was looking at a hole…a black hole and as I looked, the hole opened up…and I could feel myself falling forward, tumbling […]
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