Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Answers to the Hunt

1.) Bandon I think although he sings tenor not bass
2.) Ej
3.) Anthony
4.) Kelly
5.) Aubrey
6.) Tenae
7.) Savanah
8.) Nathanial
9.) Ed
10.) Brooke

Friday, October 26, 2012

Monet

    The book I am currently reading is entitled "Monet". It is about Claude Monet (pronounced Mow Nay) the impressionist artist in the mid to late 1800's. You may know some of his work or at least one, I will post a picture soon. Monet was born in Paris in November on the 14 in 1840. His mother was known for her beauty and singing voice, she passed away when Claude was 17. Realations with his father were not of the greatest and seemed to worsen after his mother had passed. Claude Monet studied along side a proffesional painter and began to leaves schooling. His father was reluctant to allow him to leave school but Claude did and moved in with his aunt who was also a painter. The rest of the book is mostly technical criticing of his art and finding why he chose the colors he did and cut out the pieces of paintings he did.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Edgar Allen Poe

    Upon exploration of Mr. Poe's life I had stumbled on (or forced upon it was an assignment after all) a few facts that you may find interesting. Poe's life began at the end of his mother and father's. His mother passed on December 8 of 1811, his father had apperantlty passed within a few days. Poe had gone to school and excelled however despite concentrating on schooling he was also very physically fit he swam against heavy tides for 6 or 7 miles up the James River. Poe had foreshadowed his future when he was younger, he had mastered even the most complex works in the Latin language. He wrote his first two lined poem in 1824 however it was never published. before joining the army he had inheirited a large sum of money and baught a mansion for his family in Richmond. The remainder of his life seemed to be as usual and you should know it from school.

            The End

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Things about me

1-    I love shooting sports
2-    I sometimes enjoy creating art
2.5- It is mostly risky subjects
3-    I drive a truck
4-    I hunt and fish
5-    I like pasta
6-    I wish I did more street art, mostly political street art
7-    I am afraid telling my views, they are not contemporary
8-    I like different music and art, I like Tool, Nine inch nails and the art that follows
9-    I play guitar
10-  Very little I dislike more than religion
The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.
Within it's walls the strangest partners met,
And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind.
For, once within, corporeal fact could find
A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt
Built there in your little microcosm- which yet
Had hugest tasks to it's small self assigned

Dead men can live there, converse with stars;
Equater speaks with pole, night with day:
Spirit dissolves the world's material bars-
A million isolations burn away
The Universe can live and work and plan,
At last made God within the mind of man.

                                             -Julian Huxley

Friday, October 5, 2012

Fight Club

       I had just finished the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Upon closing the book I stared off into the room, not seeing the wall at all but replaying the final scenes of the novel wishing it to continue. However it never did, untill I saw the room around myself and found that the novel was in fact continuing, only not on pages of paper in black type. I was the end and beyond of the book. To say Fight Club changed my life is sadly untrue however it helped me realize myself and what I was trying to explain through my actions in life. Mr. Palahniuk described the philosohy of myself and others in a way that was not only very intertaining but in a way that was touching and guiding. Ofcourse I had agreed with his philosophies of life before I had even heard of the novel, but it still managed to shead light on the areas I did not quite understand about myself. My time reading it was filled with emotion and excitement. Excitement was because of this book was one I could agree with. Unlike others it wasn't almost there, or nearly perfect I found this book to be an extension of me. I would recomend this book to any open minded person and anyone who can comfortably question morals. Of course you could read it if you were a fundamentalist christain, I just don't want to here you complain. Anyone who has read this and is in agreement would feel like they may know me on a level that others who have not read this may not understand.

               Drew