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What We IT Wednesday Amy Hruby Trends; Rope - As the daughter of a sailor, my style sense has always had nautical leanings, so when I noticed that ropes were becoming popular this spring I became veiy excited. I'm seeing ropes as neck lace chains, charms, earrings, belts, coasters, rugs, and even blankets— they’re even.'where! One of my fii- vorite brands bringing back the rope trend is Vamoose. A small jeweliy’ store founded by United Kingdom design Kathiyn Blackmore (theva- moose.etsy.com), vamoose offers knotted rope bracelets and neck laces in gorgeous shades of cream and blush that make rope quite a romantic accessory. A runner-up for ‘rope trend supporter’ is Anthro- pologie. They offer a varieri' of knot ted rope necklaces and a ferv home accessories (think lamps and even doorknobs) that bring rope into more aspects of your life. Of course, you can always buy a length of rope from Home Depot and find ways to create \ our own rope accessories! Horribly Nerdy Mo\ie-Musi- cals: Repo! The Genetic Opera - Normally in this column I stick to fairly basic things to love—mu sic, movies, books, clothes—you know, girly stuff. However, I do date a rather nerdy boy, and he introduces me to a whole culture that exi.sts quite beyond my girly lifestv’le. While I still cannot enjoy a day spent glued to an Xbox control ler, some of his favorite things stick with me: enter Repo! The Genetic Opera. This movie-musical has the same general plot as the recently re leased Repo Men: an uber-company loans organs to people in need and when those people cannot pay their bills, repo men are sent to take the organs back. The diiference is that in this version, Alexa Vega (from Spy Kids!) is a terribly ill girl, Paris Hilton (in her only fitting role ever) is a plastic-surgeiy obsessed bimbo that keeps getting new faces; there’s no Jude Law to fabulously mop up the gore. Coined a “Rocky-Hori'or meets Bladerunner rock opera/ movie musical.” this movie isn’t for the faint of heart or purely main stream movie-goers, but if you’re into nerdy musicals with pseudo dark tvrists, you’ll love Repo! Have ideas for things you’d- like to see featured in this col: umn? Email them to hrubyr " ame@meredith.edu. Student Art Show Preview Kristen Gallagher, Staff Writer On March 24th and 25th, Meredith art students helped others across campus register and hang their art work for the Annual Juried Student Art Show. Set to open on Sunday, April 18 with a reception in the Johnson Hall Rotunda, this year’s show will be juried by John Coffey. Coffey is the Deputy Director for Art and the Curator for American and Modern Art at the North Caro lina Museum of Art, which will be opening in April. Walking the first floor halls of the Gaddy-Hamrick Art Build ing, students, staff, and faculty can get a glimpse of what the show will be like. Over one hundred works of art were registered by Meredith students on Wednesday and Thursday. This show is quite unique in the fact that all students may enter up to four works, mean ing that the show is not just for Art majors. The show, in addition to being hung up on campus, has award opportunities: the Best in Show Award, ten Honorable Mention Awards, the Faculty Pur chase Award, the Rebecca Clover Memorial Award, the Louise Ruth Award, and Campus Choice Awards vrill all be given out. The process involved bringing work into the art build ing, registering and deciding sale price and insurance price, com pleting a release form, and vol unteering time to work the show; these steps are all very important in building skills not only for art majors, but also for other students who may wish to exhibit art on the side in the future. Once all the works for the show are selected, students will need to frame works that are chosen and hang them in the Rotunda - two skills also necessary to an art career. Gracing the halls were works that represented several media. Ceramic sculptures, \vall hangings, and vessels represented the clay studio while large-scale wood structures and metal as semblages continued the sculpture theme. Charcoal, pencil and pastel drawings, acrylic and mixed media paintings, digital art and photog raphy, graphic design work, and block prints and linocuts all repre sented the two-dimensional ‘side of art.’ On Wednesday, I registered and entered two works of art, and worked the registration table for an hour on Thursday. I spoke with Katie Mabe, an art major and Ju nior here at Meredith, who helped to organize the registration and show. Katie discussed changes in the' rules, such as the fact that while works in a series were once allowed to be entered and judged separately, the must now be en tered as one entry, and be counted as “all or nothing” if selected for the show. Faculty are also allowed to select student works that “they Advertise Here! Email herald@meredith.edu strongly believe should be en tered.” The show will open with a reception and awards ceremony on April iSthat 2:00 p.m. in the Rotunda, and will stay open until June 2nd. Works selected as Campus Choices will be hung in Belk Dining Hall on that day and those works will remain on display until April 11, 2011. So be looking forward to seeing some new art on campus, and congratulate those students at the opening!
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