Browse Items (235 total)

This sculpture, featured within the NC Museum of Art, is called “The Kiss” and was created in 1889 by Auguste Rodin. The sculpture captures a man and a woman passionately kissing in the nude which highlights their sensuality and the realness of their…

A fake palm tree, complete with coconuts, seen at Coco Bongo on Hillsborough Street. Lights flash along its leaves, clearly visible during dinner hours. The stark contrast between the bright leaves, matte plastic coconuts and strange, furry head…

The Rothko Chapel was constructed in 1971, at the height of artist Mark Rothko's fame. Rothko was one of the first and only minimalist abstract artists, and certainly the most successful. His work is extraordinary from a rhetoric of design…

The Technology Tower at Talley Student Union surrounds a staircase and an elevator-- it serves no special purpose beyond being an entrance to the building. It is meant to serve as a tribute to the the nature of NC State as a STEM school,…

This is a really interesting piece of filmography from the perspective of motion. This YouTube comedy series moves at an exceptionally rapid pace which is deliberately off-putting to viewers. Every shot is a still frame, and most of the time the…

This is a page from the Technician 100th anniversary book highlighting headlines in the newspaper’s history which make readers do a double take, either because they’re funny, intriguing or just exceptionally blunt. This is an interesting feature…

NC State's student newspaper, Technician, is an online-first publication. It used to be print-first, then cut printing costs again and again over the years until it now only runs only once per week. However, news doesn't only occur once per week;…

Despite its lack of a head or arms, this sculpture of the winged goddess of victory is one of the most famous sculptures in the world. As such, it is a part of most people's visual vocabularies.
Interestingly, though, Nike, being a winged woman,…

Chris Hondros was a legendary photojournalist who was killed on the front lines of the Libyan Civil War in 2011. He shot dozens, if not hundreds of photos of active war zones, particularly in the middle east, and his photography made it possible for…

This graphic by Visual Capitalist breaks down every part inside of an iphone and identifies where in the world it was manufactured. It answers the question, "How much has Apple outsourced its production?" which was a poignant topic back when this…