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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. ...