Nov. 12, 2010 I The Clarion
Arts & Life
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Preview: 'The Walking Dead'
By John M. Climer/Alex McCracken
Editor in Chief / Staff Writer
AMC’s new series, “The
Walking Dead,” premiered
with a bang; actually, several
bangs. Frank Darabont,
director of The Shawshank
Redemption, carries his big
screen excellence over to
the AMC network to make
a zombie apocalypse series
centered on interpersonal
drama.
Recently, the zombie
apocalypse genre has been
monopolized more by large budget film productions, but AMC has
stripped the film industry of its strangle-hold on this genre with “The
Walking Dead.”
The series focuses on Sheriff Rick Grimes, who is wounded in the line
of duty pre-apocalypse and awakens alone, confused and startled in a
hospital bed, post-apocalypse.
While this theme appeared in the cult hit “28 Days Later,” “The Walking
Dead” establishes its own original storyline when Grimes immediately
wonders out of the abandoned hospital to discover hundreds of dead bodies,
and in the next scene, that his wife and child have disappeared.
The storyline of the series is compellingly driven by succinct dialogue,
amazing special effects, relatable characters and back-to-back scenes of
hair raising brushes with the undead.
To avoid spoiling the pilot episode, weT1 go no further, except to say that
Grimes takes out on a mission to find and save his family and if the entire
series is as great as the first episode, AMC will be setting a new standard
in the zombie apocalypse genre with “The Walking Dead.”
Baby Ruth Bars
from Chef Boy-ar-Dave
Average Cost of Meal: $10 - $15
Time of Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Serving Size: 10 or more
Ingredients:
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of light corn syrup
• 1 % cups of crunchy peanut butter
• 4 cups of Special K cereal or Rice Krispies
• 6 oz butterscotch morsels
• 6 oz chocolate chip morsels
Instructions:
• In a medium sized pot boil 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup
of light corn syrup.
• Remove from heat.
• Add the peanut butter and cereal and mix well.
• Press the mixture into a 9 x 13 Pyrex pan.
• Melt the butterscotch and chocolate morsels and
pour over the top of the mixture.
• Place in the fridge for at least 1 hour to set.
• Cut into squares and serve.
Man, Fire, and Iron: BCs annual iron pour
By Jacob Liske
Staff Writer
On the eve of Halloween, man, fire and iron
converged at Brevard College to do the annual
iron pour This is no small undertaking — a
group of about ten to fifteen people is needed
to make the production go smooth.
Casting from iron into molds is something
that has been done for thousands of years and is
still practiced today. It is truly a dying art form
and has been banned from other surrounding
campuses such as Western Carolina and
UNC-A.
The process of melting iron is one of simple
complexity. There is a large furnace like
sculpture that is referred to as a copula. Inside
of the copula is a large amount of coke, which
is a larger version of charcoal. Adding about
seven pounds every few minutes helps to super
charge the heating of the copula.
Once the copula is at about 2800 degrees
Fahrenheit it’s time to add charges of iron into
the copula. The first tap is when the first molds
are cast. This is thick iron, due to the fact that
it has not been heated as much as the following
taps will be.
The molds that are cast into are referred to as
sand molds. These molds are high grade blasting
sand and they are then mixed with a special
blend of resins and other chemicals that help to
ram the sand around the shape that will be cast.
Once the sand hardens and the shape is removed
from the mold, it is ready to cast.
It is a very intriguing and fun process, but it
is also dangerous. There is a high risk of injury
associated with iron pours.
This last iron pour at BC welcomed many
visitors from Appalachian State University
and other friends of the Brevard College Art
department. With no real major injuries this year
the pour was a definite success.
A lot of the cast iron pieces that were cast this
semester will be used in the sculpture that will
be making an appearance around the art building
coming up at the end of this semester
If anyone is interested in attending the next
iron pour as a spectator, there will probably be
another this spring. It is a definite experience that
one is sure to remember and a truly dying art
form in this world that we live in today.