Culture- Bridgette

1- Fawn Veerasunthorn is a story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios who, along with the majority of her peers, have an instagram not only posting her work, but watercolor pieces, and most importantly her comic strips she posts about her everyday life. I've been following her well over 2 years now, and have seen a lot of her adventures drawn in a comical yet meaningful way.

2-That Dragon, Cancer.
This is a game that follows the true story about a young boy having to battle cancer in the point of view of his parents. While one uses religion in hope of his son surviving, the other uses doubt and faces the undeniable truth. The depiction of how this mother and father, who developed the game, depict the narrative to tell the story is very powerful and meaningful. If you like to play, go to http://www.thatdragoncancer.com/#home where it tells the full story of how its made, and where you can pay for the game ($10) where you can support the developers personally AND BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING PAID THROUGH OTHER GAME WEBSITES, ALWAYS ALWAYS SUPPORT THE CREATORS!!!

I discovered this game back on my 21 birthday when I was waiting for my parents while they do errands. I was home alone, trying to find something to watch, and this came up. This was the first time I was introduced to let's play videos. The video lasted for an hour, and it was an emotional roller coaster. The parents tackled everything about death and religion, to the point that they think they're were being punished or have done something sinful for the son to suffer. I don't wanna spoil to much, cause I REALLY want you guys to play. If you can't, look up a let's play from Markiplier, who was the first youtuber I was introduced. If you can't afford to pay it, please donate at least a $1 on their page. This game was an inspiration for me to work on concept design for game development

3-Music City Mystique- Windows to The Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSaQSUcAgE&t=122s
This is a program based on an independent WGI (winter guard international) group from Tennessee. It's essentially a professional indoor drumline group of 16-21 year olds competing across the south west/east side of the U.S. Every year, a total of forty groups or more go to Ohio for the championships. These groups do get sponsored by big percussion brands, or even Nike and Adidas sponsor their brands. I've heard about this group my sophomore year in high school when I was playing snare in marching band. A lot of my percussion teachers perform with MCM. The group is the oldest yet most successful percussion group in WGI history. In this show, one of my instructors even performed in it. You might not be able to spot him because of the quality, but he is the blonde one playing in the front ensemble on the marimba. This show recieved high praised in the championships, even most downloads in watching the show (over 500,000 downloads). A lot of WGI shows are either trying to express a message or are considered artistic in their story telling. The show is about the different personalities and what we see in ourselves through other's eyes. The play different varations in what kind of sounds they can produce in the front ensemble while at the same time pushing the boundaries of what the battery can do visually. Other shows that I highly recommend in watching, and I love as well is their 2017 show, The Hand of Man, based on a painting of man kind destoring the planet earth, this was another all time favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVKz_SVrc and RCC, a different group from California, who also express thier performance of saving trees but in a light hearted way in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyQQGC5U9Sg (skip to 1:00) my favorite part is 6:10, play it until the end.