Adriana Hinojosa, 8th Period, The World Has Lost a Legend, David Bowie

Last night I got a phone call from my brother at 1:06 AM. I picked up and all he told me was, "David Bowie is dead." At that moment I became just as shocked as he and a ton of thoughts flooded into my mind. First of all, I realized that I was living in history. Obviously I was living in the present when I found out but I knew this would  be a pivotal moment in history and Bowie's death is just one of many deaths of the greats to come. I live in a time right now where I'll see many of the greatest artists leave. Jimmy Page, Robert DeNiro, Elton John, Jack Nicholson, and those are only a few. This is why history is so fascinating. To think it was someone's present at one time is insane and really makes us recognize history as important/relevant. 
When I chose to write about this as my current event I was afraid it wasn't "important" enough but pop culture, art, forms an enormous part of history and of my life. I know of a lot of older people especially who prefer not to get involved with the current pop culture but I think it is so important to be well rounded when it comes to current events. Just because it is something we enjoy doesn't mean it is not important. This summer a girl who was in a film program at NYU and in the same dorm building as I, said she had never heard of Martin Scorscese. That's absurd. 
Seeing news like this about Bowie really makes me realize that this is why we study art, so that we may give the following generations a reason to love art and to want to create it. Proud to be a Pegasus. 

This was the photo David Bowie's son posted on twitter when he announced his father's death for the rest of us. He died peacefully in his sleep after an 18 month battle with cancer.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-david-bowie-music-legend-has-died-at-age-of-69/