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For their newest EP, The Whether Channel continues the story of an ordinary skeleton, Skully, and his imaginary stick figure friend, Ted.
Skully and Ted are the fictional characters that the band’s latest EP “Skully and Ted’s Bogus Journey” centers around. The characters are inspired by the “Bill and Ted” movies, a series of science fiction films in which two teenagers time travel though they are not very intelligent.
In the previous EP “Skully and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” the music is more upbeat with stories about Skully a 9-to-5 skeleton who is bored with his job and Ted. The two characters go and take on the world through various adventures that are detailed in the music. The skeleton is currently the band’s mascot.
How 1 SU sophomore created an online bag shop to promote Wayúu art
Chenze Chen | Staff Photographer
When Camila Tirado visited Colombia in December, she saw people toting around colorful woven Wayúu bags. A month later, Tirado started her own business selling them.
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While visiting a friend in December in Bogotá, Colombia, Camila Tirado saw people wearing Wayúu bags colorful handmade crocheted bags woven by an Indigenous tribe that resides in a region of Colombia and Venezuela called La Guajira.
Little did the Syracuse University sophomore know the trip would result in her starting her own business in January. Tirado, who is from Tijuana, Mexico, is now the founder of Wayúu Bags Shop, a small business in which she sells Wayúu bags for about $50.
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Walking in the large exhibition room at the Everson Museum of Art, Japanese ceramic artworks are arranged in different glass cases, hung on walls and lined along shelves. Panels on the history of Japanese ceramics art through many movements lead the audience through the “Floating Bridge” exhibition.
Jason Jose, an exhibition visitor, said the atmosphere feels like walking through history.
The exhibition focuses particularly on two eras of Japanese ceramics arts: the postmodern Sōdeisha movement a liberating era of Japanese ceramic art that adhered to certain traditions and the contemporary era, where artists show defiance toward tradition. The exhibition aims to showcase the transition between these two periods.
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Allison Baker doesn’t hesitate to compare her artwork to the interior of a ‘90s Taco Bell. As the artist and educator sees it, the Mexican fast-food chain’s dining room represents a “very particular intersection of class and aesthetic,” and encapsulates the tone she is always striving for in her work.
“It’s like when you think about the cartoons from the ‘90s, they were super gross,” said Baker, who lives in Minneapolis. “They were really cute and sort of twee, but disgusting and kind of vile.”
That aesthetic is on full display in Baker’s latest exhibit, “Laundry / Landscapes,” which is currently showing at Syracuse University’s Random Access Gallery through Friday. It’s a combination of large “soft sculpture” pieces constructed out of various fabrics, and a series of paper collages made from a material called Color-aid.