A Study in Techno Scarlet

America has always been obsessed with free speech. It is a right given to us through the constitution and often touted and cited, but is it done so correctly? What is the extent of freedom of speech? As America has grown, new ideas and technologies have found their way into our lives. With these ideas and technologies come new challenges in applying the freedoms and rights we hold dear. Just as a toddler learns that the stove is hot when he touches it, America learns how to deal with certain aspects of free speech as a reaction. Then In June of 1917, Charles T. Schenck, the general secretary of the U.S. Socialist Party, believed that the draft was unconstitutional. America was entering World War One at the time and needed soldiers. Schenck believed that the draft that was implemented was 'involuntary servitude' and broke the thirteenth amendment. After passing out 15,000 leaflets outlining his ideas, he was arrested for breaking the Espionage Act which prohibited obstructing...

Horror films, in my opinion, are an art-form, and true mastery over horror requires mastery of all aspects of filmmaking. Every detail, from sound design to lighting, is done to promote a singular effect: to frighten and has to be done precisely, if not the whole movie will fail to achieve its goal. While I may be a little biased about it, I think every filmmaker should try their hand at horror, to hone their craft in the very least. There are three distinct golden eras in horror films, and we are burgeoning on a fourth. Interestingly enough, the golden era of horror has corresponded with major historical times of despair and overall dreariness. The first golden age, the Universal Age, grew out of the great depression, the Hammer Films Age stemmed from the Cold War era, and the Auteur Age stemmed from the Vietnam war. The current golden age comes from the entirely crazy world we live in, the divided, Trump era. Then The first golden age of horror is known as the Universal Era,...

For over a hundred years, horror films have been on the innovative front when it comes to special effects. From flying bats to splatter-gore to animatronics, horror has everything you could think of in terms of special effects. The driving force of horror's innovation is the core of horror itself: to frighten people. While dramas and action films may have used some special effects in their infancy, horror films have always been heavily laden with it. Then The very first horror movie was The Haunted Castle in 1896 made be George Méliès. The film itself is very short--only three minutes long--but it is rife with special effects. Most common in the film was camera tricks to make characters and objects transform and teleport in an instant. However, what made the film more striking was the costumes and makeup, which allows the silent film to tell its tale. Most of the special effects in the early days were costume and makeup based. An early master of makeup was Lon Chaney. Chaney w...

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People will believe anything--facts be damned. In this, the age of information, there are more conspiracies than the truth. We see people crying fake news at anything they don't agree with. People believe the Earth is flat, that President Obama is a Reptilian alien, they believe that we never landed on the moon, and the list goes on. All it takes for someone to believe something is for someone else to believe it too. With the invent of the radio, mass conspiracy and disbelief became more commonplace than ever before. One of the first true radio hoaxes was Orson Welles radio play of The War of The Worlds. In October of 1938, during the prime time for radio broadcasting, a play designed to sound like a news report terrified the nation. Because the play sounded like it was real, some people on the east coast fled their homes in search of safety from what they thought was the end of the world and a Martian invasion. While many people knew it was fake, there were a few (no real record...

Communication is a staple of mankind. Through the ages, humans have discovered new and unique ways of communicating with each other. First, there were grunts and gestures, followed by spoken language--which, in turn, became written language--and eventually we found ways to hear and see each other via radio waves. It all leads us to this day and age, where we have the phenomena known as podcasting. As Andy Zaltzman said in his 2014 TEDxTalk: "[Podcasting] is really the only valid art form left on Earth. By which I mean that it is largely unsullied by money." But how did it get this way? Well, like most things these days, podcasting is a digitally enhanced version of an analog system that was made feasible because of the internet. A podcast is essentially a radio talk show that you can listen to and stream on demand--without having the constraints of time and location. The creation of podcasting is credited to Adam Curry and David Winer. Curry was a former MTV video jockey ...