Sophia Shen | Sunset Media Wave

Word’s out: the heat wave has ended! Summer is over, and the looming start of school prompted me to haul ass and finish my song. With this post, I’m..

Heat Wave

Heat Wave: Baby Steps

For any guitar player, developing callouses on your fingers is a rite of passage. For me, up until a few weeks ago, it was an inhibitor, the pain de..

Heat Wave

Heat Wave: Deconstruction

Fine, I’ll admit it – my original track isn’t completely self-made… but neither are most songs out there. The main goal of the global art communit..

Heat Wave

Heat Wave: Let’s get this bread!

Music is bread for the soul.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you have come across beautiful music at least once in your life. Music..

Fiction to Fanart

Fiction to Fanart: Fangirl

Above are Levi (left) and Cath (right) from Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell opens on main character Cath trying to find her way ..

Fiction to Fanart

Fiction to Fanart: I’ll Give You The Sun

Above are Noah(left) and Jude (right), the main characters from Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun

I’ll Give You The Sun is full of plot twists a..

Fiction to Fanart

Fiction to Fanart: You Know Me Well

Above are Violet (with, haha, violet hair) and Kate, from Nina Lacour and David Levithan’s book, You Know Me Well.

You Know Me Well focuses in on..

Fiction to Fanart

Fiction To Fanart: Intro

All my life, I’ve loved to read. I’ve blown through countless novels from mystery to fantasy, and each new book introduces a world of people, places..