Studio Art, Friday, Period Four, Week Four

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve passed around a handout as today's class started, and said, "A photograph is made, traditionally, by the process of capturing the light passing through the lens of a camera on a piece of light-sensitive film in a negative, or reversed, image, which is then developed with chemicals to produce an image of whatever was photographed. Digital photography has recently become the more popular medium and involves pixels. I'm really the wrong person to talk to about that." A lot. "Now, I handwavily asked everyone who has one to bring their camera today. If you don't have one, I have these single use cameras," and since anyone needing one might not know how they worked, he explained that briefly, too.

"Your assignment today is interactive, I want you to work together to take photographs of your classmates. You may interpret that in any way you choose so long as your works are within the bounds of good taste. You can take portraits, action shots, whatever. You also have homework: next week I want you to bring in ten photographs with some artistic merit you've taken and developed, had developed, or printed during the week. You can get started now."

How to Win Friends and Influence People, Friday Period 4

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Glinda beamed at everyone as they entered the classroom. Today's snack was mocha-chip muffins and a choice of chai or hot chocolate. "Welcome, welcome," she said, as seats were taken, "to yet another class. I trust you're all enjoying the semester thus far. Now today, we are going to discuss the first half of the twelve ways to win someone over to your ideas and thought process. -You will want to take notes on this.
( Cut for Glinda being long-winded today )

Library [09/25]

[furnaceface]

Jonothon was in a particularly good mood yet again when he opened the library today. The plans he'd had with Jean and Didi last night had gone far, far differently than he'd expected they might. And he was so not complaining.

At all. Ever. Wow.

He did his routine check to make certain that the books on Démon's reading list were all in stock, and then he settled down with a copy of Le Morte d'Arthur, possibly just to pass the time before his shift let up and he could meet up with Didi, or possibly just so that he could amuse himself with inside jokes about beards. The world may never know.

[OCD on the way up!]

Humorous History: Friday, Period 1, Class 4

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When everyone was in the room, Jim walked over to close the door. "Morning. I hope you all had fun with your teddy bears this week. If you haven't handwavily gotten a picture of them doing something cool yet, make sure you do that before the end of the day. It's a very serious assignment and could have a huge impact on your grade." Jim wasn't sure he could say that any more sarcastically.

"Anyway, this week we're going to be watching a movie. Amadeus is the story of the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his constant childlike behavior, public displays of a really crude sense of humor, and his hacky, evil, bitter, murderous rival Antonio Salieri. The only problem is, most of what happens in the movie is completely untrue. And that's fine; it's based on a play that was only loosely based on Mozart's life and neither version of Amadeus really cared about historical accuracy. The problem - and the reason why it's funny - is that a lot of people try to take it as the truth."

"Here's something I got from a completely reputable source on the internet," Jim said, handing out a handout printed from a Geocities page. "It goes into a little more detail about what's wrong than I'm going to because it's movie time." Jim flicked the lights off and turned to the camera guy. "No bootlegging."

Fandom HIgh Time Meeting; Journalism Room. Friday [ 09/24 ].

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In lieu of a meeting, there was a big sign posted on the door to the journalism classroom:

Great Paper Again, Guys! I owe you donuts.

Meeting Canceled This Week for Family Emergency.

Get back with me next week about next issue. Thanks!

-C.S.-


[[ RL = kill = no meeting this week ]]

Engineering Math, Period 2, 25 Sep '09

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Handouts were set out along the workbenches that filled today's classroom. "Wood, lumber or timber," Mohinder started, hand resting on a length of two-by-four as he spoke. "Certainly one of the earliest construction materials, if less popular now. Softwoods are found from coniferous trees, and can misleadingly be stronger, more dense than some deciduous hardwoods."

Mohinder went through the pointed out the examples of different cuts of timber, demonstrating a few simple tools - hammer, saw, plane and chisel among before handing out instructions, saying, "Once you're familiar with the tools and materials, I want you start working on one of these designs."

[OCD is here!]