Despite the way Baby Boomers and Generation X talk about TikTok, this innovative app encourages people from all careers and demographics to create videos that others can enjoy. Its ability to encourage creativity, widen the audience of an artist’s work, and expand user’s exposure to different ways of life, trains of thought, and definitions of...
The latest Professional Artist Series exhibit hosted by Hillsdale’s Fine Arts department, “Propaganda Posters of WWII,” opened Friday, Jan. 14 and features pieces on loan from the Detroit Historical Museum. According to the hillsdaleart.org website, visual advertising was the best way to reach large numbers of people before television became popular. During World War II,...
A motion hearing in the case of Dylan Lee Jones, accused of a fatal August hit-and-run, was delayed until Jan. 27 after Circuit Court Judge Sara Lisznyai rescheduled the hearing. Kimm Burger, defense attorney for the 24-year-old Jones, said the motion hearing was supposed to decide whether a witness would be allowed to testify in...
All year long you make and break promises to yourself: I’ll start going to the gym, I’ll stop saving my essays until the night before, I’ll finally eat healthy. On New Year’s, though, these aren’t just promises, they are dedications to improve yourself, resolutions to be better. That is, until February rolls around. This year,...
TikTok has an iron grip on cultural trends, fashions, and nearly every industry. What started as a silly app filled with lip-syncing clips and dances has evolved into a platform that praises alien-like beauty standards, shortens people’s attention spans to that of mice, and further propels culture into an insatiable and superficial mess. Social media...