Wednesday, June 6, 2007

"People don't have the decency to die at the age of 60 anymore" - Mr. DiPardo "Those Bastards!!" - Charlie "Detention." - Mr. D ^^From history class yesterday. ^___^ I did my Child Studies Presentation today. ^^ I think I did pretty well. I talked really fast though... I had also completly finished my English paper and presentatin. I do the pres. next week. I also found out from my Guidance Counsilor that I'm in the top 12% of my class. And my GPA is a 3.25 ... an A according to her ... (In reality a 89.6758) ^^ Which is awesome. ^_^ Last year I was 64/551 which is pretty spiffy. Books of the day: My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews. One of my favorites. ^_^ It's about a girl who ... well... its hard to describe. But it has a traumatic secret, tons of lies, and murder. ¢¾ A must read. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter. What happens when a girl who goes to school to be a spy falls in love? Her and her friends do a full background check and stalk him. A very fun book that I bought a while ago, everyone who likes a good teen book should read it. Heh. I have fun pushing my books on you guys. All of my friends don't read a lot, and tend to tune me out. >< signing off,

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Book for the Day: "Montana Sky" by Nora Roberts. It's a story of romance, of sister ship, and a serial killer. Again, warnings for strong language, and some adult situations (but not strong or many). It's a very good book. I'm currently reading it now. And the second book of the day is: "Memoirs of a Geisha" I don't care if you've already seen the movie, the book is ten times better, and the movie cut out a bunch of stuff. Read it. ^^ And now for my history paper: Paragraph one.... The United States in World War II: Right or Wrong? The United States had always kept their noses out of foreign affairs since the times of George Washington. But in the early twentieth century they happened to have a string of bad luck and the blame was placed on certain presidents. President Wilson was tricked into allowing us to be drawn into World War I; President Harding had major corruption in the office during his time, President Coolidge did as little as possible and was dubbed ¡®Silent¡¯ by his followers; and Hoover happened to become President six-months prior to the stock market crash and the Great Depression. The only president we have to question was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He came up with a dozen and a half different programs to try to pull the United States out of the Depression, but President Roosevelt was also the one that had decided to bring us into World War II, against our Foreign Acts Policy. Was he right to get the United States involved in a European War, or was he correct in doing so? In my opinion, I believe the United States was correct in entering the War, but for a terrible cost. and that's all I have ... out of 6-10 pages. And it was due last Friday. ^^ A Demain! signing off,

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Short post, and its going to be on a book. You should all read "Daring to Dream" by Nora Roberts. Really. It's a pretty good book. I didn't think I would like Roberts until my friend made me read her. So I'm going to do the same and tell you all to read it. But it is not for the pre-pebucent. ^_^ If your in middle school, or nineth grade and haven't quite reached maturity yet (I don't mean to offend anyone, but I know a lot of people like this) you should read "Fast girls, Smart guys" by Stephie Davis. It's a really funny book, and by the term 'fast' they literally mean fast - she's on the track team. ^^ but it's a cute book. I'll post more tomorrow. ^^ random pickings from my book shelf. you might even get a BSC book. Ah...remember those days? *snicker* Baby-Sitters Club ... for those guys of you out there. bon Soir! signing off,

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Sunday, June 3, 2007

heheh...Sammy just took her SAT's yesterday morning. >< The reading and grammer was easy, and the math insulted my intelligance. I can't wait to get my results. ^^ Four new wallpapers and an e-card were approved too! you should go and check them out. please comment and vote. signing off,

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Nothing much has happened. Almost finished my English paper. ^^ I'm going to post it up now. In the midst of the warring country of France, a small group of artists go together and unknowingly changed the art world with Impressionistic art. In the late 1860’s to the 1880’s, four painters started what would later become known as Impressionism - Claude Monet, Frédérick Bazille, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. These four brilliant men, still students at the time, broke away from the regular Salon work, and working with Edouard Manet developed this art form which was not accepted at the time. Impressionism started during the Franco-Prussian War, in which Emperor Napoleon III was rebuilding Paris. The Académie des beaux-arts, or the Academy of Fine Arts, took over what was acceptable art. The only acceptable art at the time was those depicting Historical acts, Biblical themes, or Portraits in the French Style. French art was dominated by the Académie, where they regulated what kinds of art, what it should look like, and where you are allowed to paint. All artists were expected to go to the Académie to learn the “correct” way to paint. Impressionism was based almost solely on landscapes and still lives, which were unacceptable at the time. Using broad, uneven strokes were also the way of the Impressionists. They tried to capture the feeling, the atmosphere, of the moment in time that they’re painting. Painting en plein-air, out of doors, helped them do this. This technique was drastically looked down upon, as the Académie stated that you must paint in a studio. These simple habits of the Impressionists soon brought about even more changes in the late 1800’s. With new little boutiques and other resting areas arising in Paris, Monet, Sisley, Bazille, and Renoir met more frequently to discuss they’re failures in the Salon de Paris, ran by the Académie. Emperor Napoleon III allowed these artists whose works were rejected time and time again to showcase them in their own Salon. They set up the Salon des Refusés, or the Salon of the Refused. Originally opened up with the quartet, the Salon eventually grew to have a diverse bunch of artists, including Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, and Armand Guillaumin. This Salon had four exhibitions in the 1800’s, in ’63, ’74, ‘75, and 1886. In the exhibit of ’74, Monet submitted a piece called Impression, Sunrise, which was how the group got they’re name. Louis Leroy, a comic and newspaper writer, poked fun at the Salon, using Monet’s work, stating that it was just an impression of a seascape, and that wallpaper in its beginnings are more finished. His description fits quite well, because Impressionists did just that. They tried to get just the right impression of the moment. But Leroy’s comment was one of the milder ones that they received. “In newspaper cartoons, pregnant women were warned not to enter an Impressionist art exhibition because of the danger of a miscarriage” (YannisStavrou). The camera had just came out a few years before, and many of these artists thought that “painting needed to be rescued from competition with the camera” (Janson, Kerman, 174). Because of this, the Impressionist art was set up almost like a photograph, very candid. The subjects range from a view of a church, to seascapes, to even ladies combing their hair after a bath. Most of their work, however was done out of doors, which is a whole new approach that was looked down upon severely. All work done previously was done in the studio. Even if it was done out of doors, it was finished up in the studio. But in Impressionism, it is important that “not only that the painter study the subject carefully out of doors, but that notations be made of the subject at different hours of the day” (Châtelet, 15). This can be seen in Monet’s series of haystacks, churches, and his final works of the Japanese gardens at his house. “At their time, Impressionist works appeared to be so outrageously modern, that it took their contemporaries more than thirty years to finally admit them – if not to like them” (Impressionniste). By looking at paintings such as “By the Sea” by Renoir, “A Woman Ironing” by Degas, or “The Sainte-Victoire Mountain” by Cezanne it is impossible to tell that they are from the same movement as the styles differ from each other. But all of the artists had similar techniques that they used. Besides painting en plein-air, the group used short, fast strokes in wet paint. Doing this caused the viewer to see the trail of the paintbrush and helped them to see the emotion that they were trying to portray. This effect also makes the artists able to play with the light more, because these unusual brush strokes make the painting ‘3-D’. Impressionists also used only unmixed, or pure, colors. All of the mixing was done on the canvas, or even no mixing at all. For no mixing, they would play with the eyes, putting dots of blue and dots of yellow next to each other so the eyes would see green. The group also brushed away the idea of drawing on the board first, working from the darkest tones to the lightest ones, and creating a sense of ‘volume’ in their subjects. These were simple, but revolutionary changes in the art world. Contemporary artists, those approved by the Salon, looked down upon the Impressionistic movement, along with the public. But this contempt did not stop them. With the opening of the Salon des Refusés more and more people came to see their work. Although many of the people who came scorned them, they met other fellow artists and would work with them for the next Salon. But other than all that, nothings happened. Although, I'm about to no longer have a little sister. She came into my room and took my blankets while I was sleeping. I woke up around 3 and was FREEZING! GRR... signing off,

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

On intern here... alas, my days of intern are ending. I only have until next friday. Breauna said she's going to bring me in a bunch of books, because she always sees me coming in with them. ^^ I love reading ♥ ♥ I wish it wasn't ending so soon. My last day of school is the 15th (for me at least, I'm going on vacation. School really gets out the 20th). And the teachers are piling on the work. I still have my history paper to write. Due on Friday. 10 pages on whether America was justified in joining the war in WWI. Which I don't think it was. Alas, this is going to be fun to do. T-T My posts have been getting longer lately, and I wonder why that is. Possibly it's my minds attempt to keep the school days going on as long as possible in my memories. *sigh* Oh yes, I love my new theme. Hehe. Happy girl eating watermelon, and my username URESHIINOSUIKA. It fits! For those that just scroll over my profile to get to this post at the bottom, Ureshiinosuika is Happy Watermelon. Or happy of the watermelon.... Ureshii no suika. Heeh. ^^ I'm going to be doing more seasonal wallpapers because I just downloaded a bunch of new brushes for spring, summer, winter, and fall. And I'm going to do colors/birthstones too. 'Cause I'm a dork like that. But be watchful for more wallpapers being added to my portfolio! I'll keep you updated as always! ~Ureshiinosuika A beintot! signing off,

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Monday, May 28, 2007

"I'm going to kill you, and you, and you. I'll break your neck, I like you, you're dead" - Michael after 'Stacey's Mom' came on(see below). Haven't been on all weekend because I've been out. Sorry guys. But prom was sooo much fun. ^^ They have this on going joke about Michael's mom, so they requested Stacey's mom, and at one point, everyone that was there screamed out "MICHAEL'S MOM HAS GOT IT GOING ON!" during the chorus. It was hillarous. ^^ The after party was fun too. I have never seen two boys more amusing than David and Dustin. They were watching the bug zapper, about two feet away from it. We were cracking up because they got sticks and were pushing the bugs into the light and blowing them in. Kelsey has them on film. XP We got to bed around 4 in the morning, and me and my stupid self woke up at 6:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. >< So I woke Michael up with me, and we stayed up and watched the sun. ^^ We got back to the city at noon, and I went to sleep until 7:30. My mom thought I was dead. And no post yesterday, because I went to a cook out with Michael. We were at his uncle Timmy's, and we watched a bunch of movies (The breakup and Forrest Gump) and his cousin Meghan pawned me at air hockey. And that was pretty much my weekend. I made a new wallpaper too. ^^ Yay! hehehe. See you around! Hope you have a nice memorial day. signing off,

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Prom Tonight! ^^ yay! I took the day out of school to get ready. And i feel like I belong in a disney movie. *laughs* I'll post up some pictures tomorrow or sunday. We're camping out at dezeray's house tonight, so i can't get to a computer. PS: Good news for my mom. No "hanky-panky" (how she put it yesterday) because Sam got her . Lol. Bon Soir! signing off,

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

"Why are you in here?" "Armed Robbery ... assult and battery ... attempted murder, twice..." "Me? I'm here because I wouldn't go to work." - In History today, Mr. D recounting his time in prison during the Teacher's Strike of '75. I've got my first paragraph finished for my Impressionism paper. In the midsts of the warring country of France, a small group of artists go together and unknowingly changed the art world with their Impressionistic art. In the late 1860’s to the 1880’s, four painters started what would later become known as Impressionsim - Claude Monet, Frédérick Bazille, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. These four brilliant men, still students at the time, broke away from the regular Salon work, and working with Edouard Manet developed this form which was not excepted accepted at the time. On a sadder note, Steven and I have learned not to jinx ourselves becaues Karma bites. During the fire drill, Steven and I were telling Danielle that our History teacher never gives us any work. Well, as soon as we come back in he assigns us a paper. A ten page paper. On whether America was justified in entering WWII or not. Karma sucks. Ah well, see you around!! (2 more days till prom!! Yay!) signing off,

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

dropped ze dress off to get hemmed this morning. Was almost late for school because of it. ^^() Thank you kyofanatic13 for commenting my wallpapers. ^^ You always do. And favorite them! I appriciate it! ^__________^ ¢¾¢¾ I'll visit during Intern. When they're out for recess. P.S: My sister made supper last night, and I had never been so excited to sit down to eat. A demain!! signing off,

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