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Tuesday, 2.4.14
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Photographer captures the bug life Brooke Rowe T ec S ta f f
Imagine if your history professor was secretly a racecar driver, or that your accounting professor was also a talented opera singer and musical composer. Though it’s easy to think about the unlikeliness that someone successful and trained in one area could be skilled in another, it is more common than you would think. ECU’s Division of Health Sciences campus discovered a way to show that someone’s profession does not define or limit him or her from pursuing their passions outside of their careers. Art as Avocation, a series of exhibits, have been put on display on the fourth floor of the Laupus Library since Jan. 2012 to emphasize the artistic works of the Division of Health Sciences faculty, staff and students. Tomorrow’s opening reception at 4:30 p.m. celebrates the most recent exhibition “Downeast Bugs, Birds, and Butterflies,” a gallery of up-close wildlife photography from a retired ECU professor. Jerry Lotterhos, who taught in the department of addiction and rehabilitation, demonstrates his love for nature and appreciation of being outdoors through vibrant photographs. “It started way back when I was really interested in wild life,” said Lotterhos. “I love the outdoors and had done some photography and I’d gotten involved in the wildlife in North Carolina.”
After retiring, Lotterhos began a serious pursuit of wild life photography around 2003, and enjoys spending his time exploring the natural beauty of the Eastern wild life in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Lotterhos emphasized the importance of truly understanding wildlife photography as a process and as “a fascinating reality,” and taking the time to get close and observe what is right in front of you. After constantly observing nature, he really took an interest in photographing creatures with wings including dragonflies, birds, bald eagles and butterflies, which he referred to as “God’s flying flowers.” “I love wild life and being outdoors, and I enjoy the hunt to the critters in the wild,” said Lotterhos. “It’s almost a spiritual thing for me, it’s how I get my soul nourished in a way.” Using his Canon 7D, Lotterhos keeps a photo journal online and constantly seeks out the perfect photo opportunities in places, including his favorite local park, River Park North, and several fish ponds around Pitt County. “One of my favorite birds is the eagle because they are such regal and beautiful birds, are on the top of the food chain and are dominant,” said Lotterhos. “There are quite a few in Pitt because several people I know own fish ponds.” Lotterhos’ online photo journal, www. downeastcritterpix.com, documents many adventures his passion has taken him on, from his back yard to national wild life refugees. Though most of his time is spent Nicole Agresto I the east carolinian
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Jerru Lotterhos, retired professor emeritus from the department of addictions and rehabilitation studies, speaks about his latest gallery show "Downeast Bugs, Birds, and Butterflies."
MOVIE REVIEW
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"That Awkward Moment" raked in $9.01 million in revenue opening weekend. The film was directed by Tom Gormican, who also directed "Movie 43" (2013) and "Save the Date" (2013).
New release brings an 'awkward moment' Jessica McGettigan T E C S ta f f
For such a good looking cast “That Awkward Moment” was surprisingly ugly. Not to be mistaken, there are definitely several humorous moments and it never hurts to see Zac Efron with his shirt off. This bromance tried too hard to be funny at some points in the movie, for example when Mikey, played by Michael B. Jordan, accidentally used Daniel’s, played by Miles Teller, self tanner. It seemed a little far fetched and unrealistic that the palest person in the cast would be using self tanner at all. “That Awkward Moment” seemed to be more of a guy’s movie rather than a chick flick. There were many points in the movie where it was difficult to follow the jokes they were making and a lot of the script was forced humor.
The movie appears to try and give insight on anyone who might be questioning what a group of twenty something guys say and do when they are together, almost like a younger male version of “Sex and the City”. However, it makes you wish that you never questioned what goes on behind closed doors. The movie starts out with Mikey getting dumped by his wife, and in the midst of his crumbling marriage his two roommates dump on him for trying to take comfort in the form of chocolate ice cream. Snatching the ice cream away Jason, played by Zac Efron, and Daniel buy some beer and drink their troubles away. Parts of the movie were particularly embarrassing to watch, not because they were too risqué butbecause the script was so poorly written that it was sad to have to watch the talented male leads have to perform talentless scenes. It couldn’t have been more predictable from the beginning
that this bromance rom-com would end with at least one of the characters falling in love, let alone two. However, it was almost cute in a way how sneakily the three roommates tried to hide their feelings for their love interests from one another, which was probably the most realistic part of the whole movie. The appropriately titled “That Awkward Moment” certainly speaks for itself. Overall the movie was cute and something that would be entertaining for a rainy Netflix day.
Grade: C This writer can be contacted at arts@theeastcarolinian.com.