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there are weekly & monthly assignments here in which you can particpate as well as opportunities for feedback from other pros on your work

thinking maps can be very useful tools for organizing information in different ways in order to making connections between parts & bits easier to see & describe-these work with visual information as well as written. try them out & see how they work for YOU

what is punk rock? Punk fashion can be applied to numerous areas including jewelry, hairstyles, cosmetics, and clothing. The punk style has been influenced by a variety of subcultures and has, in turn, influenced many as well. The fashion is widely used as a manner of self-expression.

Americans have played baseball almost as long as they have been Americans. Lewis and Clark played catch during their trek to the Pacific, and men organized the first game just outside of Brooklyn as congress debated a fugitive slave law. The game quickly grabbed the nation, and game scores dotted newspapers beside news of Sherman's march through Georgia. This article talks about the history and myths of baseball throughout history.

This is a great article. If you read it, you would have a new perspective on baseball. I challenge you to earn 25 bonus points on this assignment by reading this article and sharing it with the class. You MUST tell us what stood out to YOU and if this article changed your original opinion of baseball.

Join the Rochester Mini Maker Faire crew for an interactive, hands-on experience. Light Graffiti returns and audience participation is needed to make it amazing. Make LED Throwies and add to the graffiti street art project by throwing these little lights onto their giant canvas. It's a community effort that's fun for all ages! You'll want to stop back and see it all night long as it grows and morphs into a kaleidoscope.

Join the Rochester Mini Maker Faire crew for an interactive, hands-on experience. Light Graffiti returns and audience participation is needed to make it amazing. Make LED Throwies and add to the graffiti street art project by throwing these little lights onto their giant canvas. It's a community effort that's fun for all ages! You'll want to stop back and see it all night long as it grows and morphs into a kaleidoscope.

Something as simple as a night game changed baseball.

Baseball during WWII and how it acted as a bridge for the cultures and provided common ground. many professional players careers were interrupted so they could serve in the war.

Good advice from Rockie's coach as he gives a young Phillies fan some life advice. :-)

Anyone who plays baseball and wants to achieve as much of their potential as possible should be looking for every possible way to get an edge on the competition. While most baseball players focus on boosting their strength, hand eye coordination and speed, a few have adopted alternative and unconventional techniques.

Some new cool facts! I think the fact about the cost of a baseball ticket in 1920 is interesting. That is really cheap. I think it's a cool fact that shows the evolution of baseball as a sport.

always feeling tired??? consider reading this...

Thanks for the advice, maybe I wont be so tired now.

very interesting, i need a lot more sleep.. i try as hard as i can but i think i need to go to bed a lot earlier

What I suggest we watch if we do end up watching a movie. It is a Wes Anderson film so as expected it is visually beautiful in its camera work, and its his only animated work so not only is it beautiful but also animation, so it fits the class really well. We could always just watch Studio ghibli or something if no one likes this but thats just animation (beautiful animation) but no camera stuff

Thieven' Stephen uses things like cinderblocks and patterns already existing on the mural surface like a building to act as a grid. He is part of Wall Therapy which is a cool rochester based project of urban murals artists.

Cool examples of type as image. 

This 9 minuted presentation talks about creative thinking as a basic capacity of all us based on confidence.

The Joop Swart Masterclass The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since 1994 and has established itself as one of the most prestigious events of its kind. Its goal is to bring together some of the most experienced individuals in photojournalism with 12 young, promising photographers to share and pass on their knowledge and experience. Top of photography The first decade of the masterclass has shown that its participants are destined to be the best of the best. Our objective is to help them progress on the road toward professional maturity in terms of both theory and practice. The Joop Swart Masterclass is named after World Press Photo's late chairman, who was a passionate supporter of young photographic talent.

The ancient Egyptian writing system, hieroglyphics, was advanced by 3100 B.C.E. The complex system included numbers and an alphabet as well as other symbols. None of the achievements of the remarkable ancient Egyptian civilization would have been possible without the Nile River. There is always a connection between landscape and how a people develop.

wayne martin belger makes sculptural pinhole cameras that are each designed to be conceptually & aesthetically related to the project for which he will be using them

So I know this is not about baseball it just sort of popped up as an ad I accidentally clicked on but this is something important to a lot of people and I personally feel that they deserve this award so go to this link to sign a petition so they can be honored

 This last week I discussed George Sheehan's theory of defense and character in conjunction with The Odyssey , Homer's classic. Today I'd like to extend that discussion with another book on defense, Chad Harbach's THE ART OF FIELDING . Baseball has its human universals, and the best baseball novelists sometimes use classic novels as referents to anchor their works.