totally random...

ummm, never mind….

The school board has blocked Tumblr. Way to go.

Reflection 1

You will be keeping this photo blog for your Creative Photography Class.

Think about the term “blog.” Describe what this means to you.

Upload a photo you recently took in your photo class, and add a caption and describe what the photo is about and how it relates to the assignment you took it for.

Then, you need to follow me so you can comment and post with the rest of the class. Follow “polymathic” (that’s my user name.) You will also be following the rest of the students in this class. List will be posted next time.

Ah, High school students…

Since my Photography students appear very interested in Tumblr, and not very interested in class, I have decided that they will Tumbl…for class! This will be a fun experiment. For Quarter 3, my Creative Photo 1 students will try their hand at photo-blogging.  We’ll see how it goes.

List myself….

I am, therefore I am. Hard to gather myself up and tell people what I’m about, so I thought I would try a list….

musician (classical piano, voice)

artist (this could read like a resume… let’s focus on sculpture, jewelry, and mixed-media. I studied to be an art teacher, so I have worked in almost every art medium there is- except welding, that I haven’t done…yet)

geek (CSS, html, wordpress theming, a bit of flash, a lot of Photoshop, video production, and a serious and life-threatening addiction to technology)

intellectual (I read. A LOT.)

Things I know enough about to shake a stick at: horses, sailing, swimming, weight-lifting, karate, dogs, cats, sea-shells, anatomy, biology, chemistry, physics, fishing, mixing concrete, Italy, Ireland, Pirates, leather, rubber, map-making, crafting, crochet, hand-sewing, cocktails, SEO, Star Wars, Star Trek, current movie events, Playstation 3, Wii, Noir, firearms, electronics, Zumba, Portland, Upstate NY, Boston, cake decoration, digital scrapbooking, world religions, art history, real-old-fashioned-dark-room-photography,

Things I don’t care about so I can’t shake a stick at them: politics, organized religion, names of actors, authors, and band members (favorites make an impression- but not one which includes their names- unless it’s Johnny Depp),

Things I want or need to know more about: navigation by stars, deep-sea fishing, large boat sailing (including heeling over which scares the beejezuz out of me), Latin dance, Swing dance, playing violin/fiddle,

and I’m sure I’ll be back to these lists in the future.

on being a polymath…

Who is way too fond of ellipses, and knows an awful lot about an awful lot…

It creates focus problems. It is not ADD. It makes you wish Leonardo were still alive, so you could have a cup o’ tea.

pol·y·math [ póllee màth ] (pluralpol·y·maths)

noun Definition: somebody with wide-ranging knowledge: somebody with knowledge of many subjects

[Early 17th century. < Greek polumathēs“somebody with much learning” <manthanein “learn”]
pol·y·math·ic [ pòllee máthik] adjective