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Probably the Best Thing on the Internet

You might want to turn off the sound when you play.

http://mostawesomestthingever.com/

Promo Short for Black Keys' New Album "Brothers"

Promo for May 18 Release of "Brothers" by The Black Keys
Hear this!

New option for UD student e-mail - News

New option for student e-mail - News

Really Cool Animation Short "GO"

This was done by a friend of mine growing up.  His name is Daniel B. Smith, and he's pretty talented at many different things.

Found these.

Terrible Poetry Jokes.

BY PETER LaVELLE

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A man, a woman, and a blackbird walk into a bar. "Table for one, please," they say.

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Byron walks into a bar. He has sex with everyone in the bar.

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Milton, Homer and Borges walk into a bar. Milton says: "Who the fuck put this bar here?"

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Wordsworth and Coleridge are watching the Lakers game. They can't get service at the crowded bar. Coleridge smiles and says to Wordsworth: "Lager, lager everywhere, and I can't get a drink." Wordsworth says to Coleridge: "I have pleurisy."

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Rimbaud, Bukowski, and Dylan Thomas walk into a bar. They are promptly thrown out.

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A horse walks into a bar where Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound are drinking.

BARTENDER (to horse): Why the long face?

WHITMAN (to everyone): I, too, am a horse.

POUND (to Whitman): Shut the fuck up.

Left footed

Epic Art Fail Hall of Fame


Not everyone gets an "A"


These are the drawings and quizzes that are on the fringe, as in, there's something else going on.  Not immediately classifiable, these drawings are meant to be interesting and funny.  Enjoy.

We were working on portrait drawings.

This is simply disturbing.

Favorite.  It IS a drawing of the statue Augustus of Prima Porta

City in 2 and 3 point perspective.

I just don't know...

Coming Soon...

I am in the midst of listening to some music that I think we all should hear, I will have more on that soon.

The latest issue of Pequod was fantastic and came, as it always seems to, at the perfect time.  With kind and sincere regard to Mr. Neu's outrageous and inflammatory assertion that I judge people based on what they write in The Pequod....I do not deny it.

I baked cookies tonight.

I had a fever last night.

Also, look for in the near future an amazing new thing that I will explain how to use later.

Today in class one of my 9th grader students asked how Chaucer could be so dirty, given that it was written such a long time ago.

cheerily, PB

Texas Stadium Implosion

I'm ridin' on a dolphin!

KINCH - Ziptape (Free Download of an Entire Album)

This album contains remixes, acoustic versions, and unreleased tracks!
Grazie Kinch

Photos from Ed and Adaire's Wedding; New Orleans 2010

I don't know who this is, but it's def my fav

Quote from Fleet Foxes Frontman

"We cannot wait to continue making records, to explore all there is to explore in this vast musical landscape and test ourselves in new ways through song."

- Robin Pecknold

Leisureading

Trying to keep myself busy on Good Friday I decided that I should read some of the newsletters from St. Gregory's Academy.  I ended up falling upon the All Souls Day edition from fall 2009, in which Andrew W. Smith, the resident artist and art instructor at SGA, published the Article "The Artist and the Human Vocation."


Mr. Smith's article is quite good, and I am fascinated by the curriculum he is implementing at SGA.  I truly wish that I could have had an art instructor while I was there.  I instead was given my own studio on the sun porch, and was free to pursue my own artistic devices at my own discretion (which mind you was not very discrete).  Mr. Smith brought to my attention a quite valuable book that I had never known of: Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture.  The author was a Roman architect and contemporary of Virgil.  He prefaces his books to "Imperator Caesar," much like Bacon introduces his New Organum to the King.  I find the preface to be quite clever, and the beginning of the book is full of aphorisms germane to Latin (be as one chasing the substance not the shadow, etc.)  Vitruvius, Mr. Smith argues, "emphasize the importance of a liberal education and lay out the principles upon which good architecture rest."  

Vetruvius' man, the original from which the namesake
Vetruvian Man was taken by Leonardo da Vinci

Vitruvius, Mr. Smith argues, "emphasize[s] the importance of a liberal education and lay[s] out the principles upon which good architecture rest."  


As I began reading a bit of Vitruvius this morning as leisure reading.  I am quite pleased with the book so far, and I believe that I will attempt to infiltrate this into my curriculum at some point next year.  


I do hope, my dearest ones, that your Easter is full of joy (evangelium)!


Earlie in the morning,


Peter Bloch


Andrew Wilson Smith, Resident Artist, Art Instructor  Mr. Smith, a graduate of St. Gregory’s, studied sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Florence Academy of Art, as well as serving apprentices with various sculptors. He has completed a number of commissions, including a bronze fountain piece for the American School in Switzerland, a set of eight herm-portraits for California State University at Stanislaus, and recently a set of seven metopes for the St. Theresa Education Center in Sugar Land, Texas. In addition to his studio work, Mr. Smith has joined the faculty as the art and art history instructor at St. Gregory’s, after having taught art history at Wyoming Catholic College. To learn more about Andrew Wilson Smith and to view his work, please visit his website: www.andrewwilsonsmith.com.