PUMPKIN

this is a pumpkin!!

This lovely week of October

I learned how to use the cameras! Yessss. I also got a little more savvy at FCP. Something that I didn't like about this week was the fact that my seaworld thing kept being all glitchy. But in the end it worked out. What I liked about this week: JOSIAH LEMING OMG. Sarah knows. I saw him yesterday. Almost cried joy tears. I can't even begin to explain what a talented musician he is. His voice, for one thing, is extroardinary. And then his crazy skills on keys. He's just really different from most musicians I know now. But anyways! Yes, I went to see him yesterday at Mohawk Place. My life is 1/2 complete. I wish I was that good of a musician :(

What I want to learn, in reaction to this Josiah spiel, is how to become a better song writer. I can't stand hearing the same song over and over by the same pop acoustic artist about love and lust and all that [BEEP].

It'll happen someday.

Marina and the Diamonds

She's so awesome. I wish I could be weird and pretty and have a deep voice all at once, but I think that combination of traits is reserved for her.



Best line: Hollywood infected your brain, you wanted kissing in the rain. Living in a movie scene, puking American dreams.

This is so awkward looking

The epitome of devotion

Unfortunately, my fan-dom only goes so far.

mmm

This week sucked. So did last week.
So basically I learned FCP this week. I'm super excited to do stuff on it. Stuff that's not sea world. I want to learn motion! And how to dougie, but Jenni taught me the jist of that today. I also wanna learn how to successfully be a vegetarian. Not just stop eating meat and eat salad all the time and then quit being a vegetarian, cause if I make an attempt I'd rather continue with it. (But I can't do that for another few months anyways.) I loved The Cove. Supersize Me was cool too, but not quite as cool. What I didnt like about this week was the sub. Filters=not a prime day at boces. AND sea world. Frickin hate sea world.

GUYS. THIS IS MY MOMS DESKTOP

I didn't realize until just now that she had a picture with a ONCE FREE DOLPHIN WHOSE FAMILY WAS SLAUGHTERED IN TAIJI as her background.
Ric would be so disappointed in me. </3

fantastic

HOH HOH

Buy me this for christmas.

$11.99 and IN STOCK. Click through to order ;)

TO MS LICATA

I have a new topic I wanna do for my documentary!

It's that time again.

Thisss week: I learned how to use Audacity and Garageband (as did all of you, ha). It's cool making a story with only sound, but sometimes the story gets a little blurred without a visual. I want to learn what specific things mean within Audacity/Garageband (Filters and stuff), AND how to make the sandwich that I posted earlier. Something that frustrated me was the lack of sounds I could find to imply people talking. There was not any sort of grunting that could serve as talking anywhere that I could find, so I just settled with distorting actual talking until it sounds ridiculous and unrealistic. What made me happy this week was the lack of school stuff. No school Monday, not going to (home)school Friday, and minimal stuff to do for the three days in between. I <3 senior year.

I also watched V for Vendetta yesterday. It was homework-ish for my government class, and it was really good :)

Anyone have a deep fryer?

..corn flake crusted fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. oh lord

This is just something cool I read somewhere.

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

4 minutes later:

The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:

A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:

The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

The questions raised:

*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

*Do we stop to appreciate it?

*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…

How many other things are we missing?

NEED THESE

LOL

I'm not particularly sure why I find this so funny. Every. Time. "Noooo"

subway!

THIS WEEKS NEWS:

SO, this week I learned that NCCC is sort of awesome compared to what it's reputation is (or at least the reputation I've heard). I really didn't want to do a two-years-at-NCCC thing, but figured I really should because it's such a money saver, but now that I've actually toured there/seen the programs I'd be in, I definitely want to take the classes in January. Not that I'm definitely GOING to, I just definitely WANT to. I want to learn video, like...now, haha. I'm so excited about this documentary thing, but I can't think of anything significant enough to do it on quite yet. I liked the LCTV field trip today. It's definitely cool to know that you can volunteer there for resumes and experience and stuff. There's not much I didn't like about this week, just homeschool! :)

Also, my mom just walked in and told me what SHE learned today: when a pot-belly pig likes you, it pees.

Don't ask questions. Just watch.

In response to Sarah's smartboard post:

Smartboards freak me out! It makes me feel like things are getting too futuristic when people ditch chalk boards and now have giant computer screens in school and stuff. Not like any of the (NT) teachers know how to use any kind of technology anyways. But it frequently reminds me of: this.

..everything is chrome..

weekly comments

This week hasn't been significant at all. Just another week, I guess. I'm really excited that I learned about merging visible layers into a brand new layer (option, merge visible). That saves me a whoooole lot of new copies/flattening. I would like to learn the basics of audacity/garage band, because I'm starting my script but I'm not so sure how to go about the program. With time. In the end I liked my worth1000 project and the way it turned out, but I sort of wish I would have chosen something different. Two things I didn't like about this week were: 1) That horrible, obnoxious sex ed guy 2) The unfairness of my place of employment/how informal they are. They forced my friend Melissa to resign. NOT COOL.

Reulf

Just a cool video :)
Reulf