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Meet Emily Cervone
My name is Emily Cervone and I’m a sophomore newbie at the Creativity Exploratory. After multiple advising appointments I found myself in the professional writing major and eventually visiting this...
View ArticleFor All You Germaphobes Out There
If bathroom floors, door knobs, and shaking hands grosses you out because of the inevitable transmission of germs, than this new invention may be for you! It’s called “PhoneSoap.” We all know how dirty...
View ArticleSundance film festival turns 30
One of the most iconic film festivals of all time expected to draw upwards of 45,000 people this year turned a particularly young age for the amount of impact it has had on the world. For the past...
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Thirty years of innovation
Last Friday, Apple celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Mac. On January 24, 1984, Apple released its very first personal computer, the Macintosh 128K, which looked something like this: The computer...
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Keep an eye out!
There are quite a few exciting things happening on and off campus in the East Lansing/Lansing area this week. Let’s name them off: 1. The Art Education majors’ opening reception/art show. This...
View ArticleFacebook turns 10!
CNN coverage of the 10th anniversary of Facebook. It’s hard to believe ten years have already gone by since Facebook was born. To mark the anniversary, Facebook has set up A Look Back, which creates...
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A new take on photorealist painting
Forget oil, watercolor, and acrylic paintings, there’s a new mode of painting taking the stage. I know what you’re thinking: that’s a nice photograph of Morgan Freeman, right? WRONG. This stunning...
View ArticleHip-Hop Throwback
I was browsing my Facebook page when I came across an interesting Buzzfeed post about the evolution of hip-hop. We are all familiar with the Evolution of Dance video by Judson Laipply (you’re not? Then...
View ArticleGoogle, check-in, hashtag: destroying the adventure
One day, I will tell my grandkids what the world was like without technology and they will drop their jaws in awe. There was a time when people didn’t try to capture experiences with their cell phones,...
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MSU Undergraduate Fine Arts Exhibition
This March, (SCENE) Metrospace is partnering with the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design to bring the Undergraduate Fine Arts Exhibition off campus for the first time. The Undergraduate...
View ArticleDrive:Michigan Motion
Check out the video (directed, produced, and edited by ME) below to learn more about Drive:Michigan and how the CE is telling the story of Michigan this summer! So, where should we go? Who can tell us...
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A look at women of color and the Academy Awards
The 2014 Oscars made for some truly memorable moments—and I’m not only referring to Ellen Degeneres’ most retweeted picture of all time. Lupita Nyong’o took home the award for Best Supporting Actress...
View ArticleLocal happenings 3/10–3/21
Welcome back, Spartans! Spring Break might be over, but the semester will be gone before you know it! (37 school days, but who’s counting?) With the warm weather slowly but surely coming into sight, it...
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SXSW
Last year around this time I heard of a cool, what I thought was new, music festival happening in Texas, as my twitter feed was dotted with mentions of something called SXSW, or South by Southwest....
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2004 Fashion Statements
It’s hard to believe that only ten years ago: The Incredibles, The Notebook, and Mean Girls were all new releases Hey Ya! by the Outcasts, Burn by Usher, and This Love by Maroon 5 were all at the top...
View ArticleFonts matter?
There are thousands of government workers. Many have great degrees, are intelligent, very capable of problem solving and good representatives of the country. However, somehow they were outsmarted by a...
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Using Innovation to Better Your Community
It was spring break for my university two weeks ago, and I spent my break in Kansas City, MO on an Alternative Spring Break trip. When I was trying to come up with an idea for this blog post on...
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Where Are They Now?
How many of the faces below do you recognize? Now, how many of them have you heard about within the last 5 years? Not many, right? Some of these iconic 90′s child stars have had more success than...
View ArticleAs my first semester at the CE comes to a close…
I am not exaggerating when I say that this is the best job I have ever had. I am so happy that I randomly stumbled upon the call for applicants to the Creativity Exploratory back in December. Over the...
View ArticleAs I Leave the CE
I’m graduating in a few days, so I’ve been doing a great deal of reflection about my time at MSU. What did I do, what didn’t I do, how have I grown? Questions like that buzz through my brain. It’s...
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