Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
2.25.2011
An idea that has already produced more carbon than a Swede.
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On a completely different note, there are 10 months 'till Christmas.
2.24.2011
Name dropping. Does it work if it's in the future?
I grew up with this guy, so I'm pretty biased...the wrong way. You know how it works--you're harder on your family than almost anyone else. And yet I still think he did a great cover of a song I'm quite fond of (I like Cohen's version, but I think Rufus Wainwright's is my favorite).
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2.19.2011
Pretty much the best high school EVER.
I spent most of my high school career at Tacoma School of the Arts (more affectionately and conveniently known as SOTA). You apply in the spring of freshman year and start as a sophomore. (Your first semester, you're referred to as a "froshmore.")
I didn't take AP or Running Start classes, but that was okay. SOTA didn't deprive me of an education, but rather, it taught me what it means to have an education.
All of the regular classes (math, Spanish, etc.) are taught, but they not only offer lots of art classes, they give you eight periods (block schedule) to take everything you need/want. To break that down, if you were to take all of your core classes (math, science, history, and english), Spanish, and health/PE (which, incidentally, can be gained through dance classes) every semester you'd still have room to take two art classes. It's a pretty good deal.
One of the things I really enjoyed about SOTA was the way they handled the humanities. Instead of breaking up english and history, they combined them and taught humanities twice as often--in other words, you had humanities every day instead of every other. Have you ever tried to study the Odyssey without the religious and political background?
The other unique thing they do with the humanities is combine all three years, and then they rotate year to year. For example, my friends who didn't go to SOTA studied ancient cultures sophomore year, then world civilizations, and American civ their senior year, but my classes were civ, world, ancient. The students a year behind me would have studied (in this order) world, ancient, civ. What this really meant was that the sophomores were in class with seniors, which pushed them to think about the material at a higher level. The teachers push you harder, as well, so much so that even in the honors program in college, I'm writing fewer (albeit longer) essays than I was at SOTA.
And then there are all of the arts classes. Just of the top of my head, these are some of the art classes that were offered when I went there:
-creative writing
-acting
-lighting design
-hip-hop
-modern dance
-choreography
-ballet
-orchestra
-choir
-songwriting
-photography
-graphic design
-video
-drawing
-sculpture
...you get the idea.
Some of the teachers are full-time, and others are local artists that teach one or two classes.
No matter what class you're in, though, they try to connect them. We studied poverty through theatre, based dances on Greek myths, made instruments in physics, combined the life drawing and anatomy classes, discussed current political events in graphic design...the list goes on and on.
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I didn't take AP or Running Start classes, but that was okay. SOTA didn't deprive me of an education, but rather, it taught me what it means to have an education.
All of the regular classes (math, Spanish, etc.) are taught, but they not only offer lots of art classes, they give you eight periods (block schedule) to take everything you need/want. To break that down, if you were to take all of your core classes (math, science, history, and english), Spanish, and health/PE (which, incidentally, can be gained through dance classes) every semester you'd still have room to take two art classes. It's a pretty good deal.
One of the things I really enjoyed about SOTA was the way they handled the humanities. Instead of breaking up english and history, they combined them and taught humanities twice as often--in other words, you had humanities every day instead of every other. Have you ever tried to study the Odyssey without the religious and political background?
The other unique thing they do with the humanities is combine all three years, and then they rotate year to year. For example, my friends who didn't go to SOTA studied ancient cultures sophomore year, then world civilizations, and American civ their senior year, but my classes were civ, world, ancient. The students a year behind me would have studied (in this order) world, ancient, civ. What this really meant was that the sophomores were in class with seniors, which pushed them to think about the material at a higher level. The teachers push you harder, as well, so much so that even in the honors program in college, I'm writing fewer (albeit longer) essays than I was at SOTA.
And then there are all of the arts classes. Just of the top of my head, these are some of the art classes that were offered when I went there:
-creative writing
-acting
-lighting design
-hip-hop
-modern dance
-choreography
-ballet
-orchestra
-choir
-songwriting
-photography
-graphic design
-video
-drawing
-sculpture
...you get the idea.
Some of the teachers are full-time, and others are local artists that teach one or two classes.
No matter what class you're in, though, they try to connect them. We studied poverty through theatre, based dances on Greek myths, made instruments in physics, combined the life drawing and anatomy classes, discussed current political events in graphic design...the list goes on and on.
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11.19.2010
Books that are not Harry Potter.
I had lots of ideas for today.
And then they vanished into the mist with this video.
I love the Green brothers. They can usually keep me close to death with laughter, and Hank's newest song is no exception. It's even better than "Ranavalona" (which I enjoy primarily because of her name).
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11.15.2010
Paper Moons
Someone please tell me that this isn't the most involved (with the possible exception of OK GO) music video just about ever.
Paper R2D2!
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11.09.2010
Even bank robbers dance.
As proven by this lovely video, starring Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Music by She & Him.
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11.08.2010
PLUS
Several weeks ago, I talked a substantial bit about Butch Walker.
Several weeks ago, I did not have access to youtube.
This has changed, so here they are:
And, of course, "You Belong With Me" (the song starts just at the three minute mark)
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11.07.2010
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