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Almost White: Aestheticizing Asian Americans

Almost white. The history of Asian Americans in the Western perspective is a confusing one, full of contradictions and U-turns. Nowhere is…

11 min readMay 11, 2023

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Almost White: Aestheticizing Asian Americans

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Catcher Calma Salazar

Titans in Creation: An Ugly Depiction of Power’s Corruptive Nature

Titans have stood tall in human mythology and storytelling for centuries, illustrated and imagined as humans magnified: physically and…

10 min readMay 11, 2023

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Titans in Creation: An Ugly Depiction of Power’s Corruptive Nature

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Catcher Calma Salazar

The Reconciliation of Doomerism and Rational Optimism in Everything Everywhere All at Once

How the recent multiverse movie uses Stoicism to bridge generational gaps in a time when it’s needed most

7 min readMay 4, 2022

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The Reconciliation of Doomerism and Rational Optimism in Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Catcher Calma Salazar

A Look at Ginkgo Bioworks, The Leonardo Da Vinci of a Synthetic Biology Renaissance

How Ginkgo Bioworks’s unique business model is reminiscent of Leonardo’s interdisciplinary approach

8 min readApr 13, 2022

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A Look at Ginkgo Bioworks, The Leonardo Da Vinci of a Synthetic Biology Renaissance

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Catcher Calma Salazar

Kanye West as a character in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

How Kanye West’s life and The French Dispatch’s stories show the dynamic relationship between loneliness and creating

11 min readMar 18, 2022

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Kanye West as a character in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

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Catcher Calma Salazar

For Takashi Murakami and KAWS, appearances (kinda) deceive. And that’s okay.

How mainstream-ification has morphed the iconography of KAWS and Takashi Murakami while allowing them to better communicate their messages.

7 min readFeb 8, 2022

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For Takashi Murakami and KAWS, appearances (kinda) deceive. And that’s okay.

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Catcher Calma Salazar

The Concept of Knowledge in Relation to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets

Walking back to the Metro station from my second visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, I couldn’t stop thinking of that…

6 min readJan 26, 2022

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The Concept of Knowledge in Relation to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets

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Catcher Calma Salazar

The falling star of Succession, Kendall Roy: A fusion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Dostoyevsky’s…

What keeps your eyes glued to the screen of your laptop as you watch the latest episode of Succession? Is it Roman Roy’s matador-esque…

14 min readJan 16, 2022

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The falling star of Succession, Kendall Roy: A fusion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Dostoyevsky’s…

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Catcher Calma Salazar

Catcher Calma Salazar

Learning about biology (CRISPR, synbio, immuno-oncology) and mediums of art (movies, music, paintings, books). Trying to think deeper by making connections.

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