Liz Charasidis

Posted on 2013/10/24 by

Bootcamp: Tree Map, Murder, and Mayhem in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

  It looks like a tree, but I meant for it to be a map. I wanted to map out Titus’ destructive decline in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Titus Andronicus is my favourite Shakespeare play. The murder and mayhem is unrelenting and shocking. The first time I read the play I kept going back and forth Read More

Posted on 2013/10/10 by

Carpentry, Networks, and Munchkin Cthulhu

Munchkin Cthulhu is a game designed by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic. The game is based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Ian Bogost writes, “One form of carpentry involves constructing artifacts that illustrate the perspective of objects” (109), so if Lovecraft’s written works can be considered the “object,” then the card game Read More

Posted on 2013/09/11 by

Probe: Newspapers

  GAZETTE CARTOON Pascal, August 29, 2013  Newspapers are a joy to read, and the resulting dirty fingertips, blackened by the ink that bleeds off the newsprint, simply adds to the experience. The newspaper is the place where one can find editorial cartoons, among many other things. What other art form can take such a fearful Read More