Author: Sarah Heuer
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Art Boner: Metro Transit GIFs by Ben Lanksy
Welcome to the new (possibly recurring) Tangential Feature: Art Boner. The Tangential currently has a raging Art Boner for the Metro Transit Animated Portraits series by local photographer Ben Lanksy, 2010 University of Minnesota graduate with a BFA in Photography. Here is just a glimpse of the awesomeness (you can find tons more here): A…
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The 10 Most Unflattering Pictures of Myself
Date: August 2006 Location: Dive bar in Fairmont, MN Notes: Inevitable future skin cancer brought to you by my summer as a lifeguard. If you have met me in the last three years you likely will not recognize the person in this photograph, not because I look any more composed than this on average (in…
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Anatomy and Variety of Hugs
Sympathy Hug. As one may expect, this occurs when one individual hugs another to express feelings of sympathy, empathy, mutual sadness, or even pity. The hug lasts between fifteen and nine hundred seconds depending on the manner in which the hug recipient reacts. Shorter hugs will be elicited in situations where the recipient appreciates the…
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Rap Collectives Re-Imagined
Monday evening marked the first ever jam sesh of The Tangential’s answer to Das Racist, tentatively entitled Das Politically Correct (or, alternately, Das White Guilt). After working together to pen our first hit single Combination Barnes&Noble and Whole Foods…