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  2021-03-31

  Pandemic Object: My Movie Ticket

  My pandemic object is a picture of the first movie ticket after the lockdowns of March 2020. Godzilla vs. Kong was meant to release in May 2020, but due to rewrites and the pandemic, it was pushed to November 2020 then to March 2021. Since the Godzilla franchise is my favorite movie franchise, it was only fitting that this was the first movie in theaters in a pandemic world. My dad, brother, and I traveled to the more comfortable Queensgate theater in Richland, Washington on the movie's premiere night. While I found the movie had some pacing issues and missing plot elements, I think that people needed an action-packed, fun monster movie to escape to. Two giant monsters fighting and destroying cities can be easier to deal with because we know it is not real, but they are tangible, we see the monsters. COVID is the opposite, it is real, but also an unseen threat without certain technologies. Godzilla and Kong have human characteristics we can identify with while COVID feels inhuman and impersonal. This is just something that I have noticed.
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  2020-10-25

  Anti-mask monsters

  A comic strip about Covid-19
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  2020-10-25

  Halloween signs

  A comic strip about Covid-19
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  2021-04-16

  Junji Ito Reacts to Online Horror Artists

  Junji Ito, a Japanese master of Horror, reacts to online artists' work on an online interview being his usually quirky, few-worded self. Even midst a pandemic, all arts, even horror, are deeply loved, beloved, and shared as a facet of our culture.
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  2020-03-10

  A Letter from Wuhan (from a child)

  The video tells the story of how a Wuhan child thinks about what's going on with the Coronavirus pandemic. His father is a policeman and his mother is a doctor. His grandparents told him there is a monster called Coronavirus and his parents are fighting it. There is so much news about COVID-19, but this video is important because it shows a child's perspective of what his parents are doing and how they are saving other people.
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  2020-03-03

  Strange dreams and things in quarantine. Go away big [invisible] monster!

  That there is a big monster among us, yet not visible to the human eye.