Just 3.3% of boys high school basketball players eventually play at the Division I level. Just 1.2% of these Division I players go on to play professionally. So what about the majority of people who do not play in
college or professionally? I can’t speak for everybody, but a viable solution for
most is to play pickup basketball. Yes, pickup basketball—- competitive, yet
meaningless, unnecessarily heated, yet just as fun as an organized game.

Pulling focus on Ariana Hoshino
While other students were typing up their essays, a then thirteen-year-old Ariana Hoshino was bent over a stop motion animation of "Flowers for Algernon". With her mom’s old still-life camera, Hoshino was coaxing movement out of still images and stories out of clay. ...