a little less ambitious than the previous one:
1. learn to play an instrument or try to develop some other kind of “talent”.
2. learn to cook.
it’s so relaxing to be out of school, back on the couch in the sleepy suburbs and watching the closing ceremonies of the olympics.
What they don’t teach you in art school is never, ever to tell people you wanted to be an artist. Just so you know, for the rest of your life, people will torture you by saying how you used to love to draw when you were young. You used to love to paint.
— From DIARY, a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. (via jonnagj) (via doubledaybooks)
9 days, 3 projects + 1 exam left till freedom!!!!
so not in the mood for doing structural calculations now.
![thedailywhat:
Letter Of Note of the Day: In 1939, William Patrick Hitler fled Nazi Germany to join relatives in the U.S. He attempted to enlist with the U.S. Armed Forces, but was rejected because of his uncle — Adolf Hitler.
Finally, in 1942, he penned an eloquent plea to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to let him join the Allied cause. Here’s an excerpt:
I am the nephew and only descendant of the ill-famed Chancellor and Leader of Germany who today so despotically seeks to enslave the free and Christian peoples of the globe. …
I am one of many, but I can render service to this great cause and I have a life to give that it may, with the help of all, triumph in the end. …
As to my integrity, Mr. President, I can only say that it is a matter of record and it compares somewhat to the foresighted spirit with which you, by every ingenuity known to statecraft, wrested from the American Congress those weapons which are today the Nation’s great defense in this crisis. I can also reflect that in a time of great complacency and ignorance I tried to do those things which as a Christian I knew to be right. As a fugitive from the Gestapo I warned France through the press that Hitler would invade her that year. The people of England I warned by the same means that the so-called “solution” of Munich was a myth that would bring terrible consequences. On my arrival in America I at once informed the press that Hitler would loose his Frankenstein on civilization that year. Although nobody paid any attention to what I said, I continued to lecture and write in America. Now the time for writing and talking has passed and I am mindful only of the great debt my mother and I owe to the United States. More than anything else I would like to see active combat as soon as possible and thereby be accepted by my friends and comrades as one of them in this great struggle for liberty.
The rest of the letter is equally stunning.
The letter, by the way, made it to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who eventually cleared Hitler for service. He joined the Navy in 1944 and was discharged after an injury in 1947. He died in 1987.
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Letter Of Note of the Day: In 1939, William Patrick Hitler fled Nazi Germany to join relatives in the U.S. He attempted to enlist with the U.S. Armed Forces, but was rejected because of his uncle — Adolf Hitler.
Finally, in 1942, he penned an eloquent plea to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to let him join the Allied cause. Here’s an excerpt:
I am the nephew and only descendant of the ill-famed Chancellor and Leader of Germany who today so despotically seeks to enslave the free and Christian peoples of the globe. …
I am one of many, but I can render service to this great cause and I have a life to give that it may, with the help of all, triumph in the end. …
As to my integrity, Mr. President, I can only say that it is a matter of record and it compares somewhat to the foresighted spirit with which you, by every ingenuity known to statecraft, wrested from the American Congress those weapons which are today the Nation’s great defense in this crisis. I can also reflect that in a time of great complacency and ignorance I tried to do those things which as a Christian I knew to be right. As a fugitive from the Gestapo I warned France through the press that Hitler would invade her that year. The people of England I warned by the same means that the so-called “solution” of Munich was a myth that would bring terrible consequences. On my arrival in America I at once informed the press that Hitler would loose his Frankenstein on civilization that year. Although nobody paid any attention to what I said, I continued to lecture and write in America. Now the time for writing and talking has passed and I am mindful only of the great debt my mother and I owe to the United States. More than anything else I would like to see active combat as soon as possible and thereby be accepted by my friends and comrades as one of them in this great struggle for liberty.
The rest of the letter is equally stunning.
The letter, by the way, made it to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who eventually cleared Hitler for service. He joined the Navy in 1944 and was discharged after an injury in 1947. He died in 1987.
-half the costumes are constructed from mylar, with modular components.
-props are all laser cut
-the art direction team is twice the size of the cast
-the “stage” is site-specific to the extreme.
-the plot makes absolutely no sense.
but hey, it all worked out semi-okay in the end:
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/community/article/1411472—athr-sets-stage-for-ulimate-3-d-theatre
full costume of the green knight, from our class’ production of Athru. (designed and constructed in two days….)
he looks ridiculous because the helmet is designed to fall off upon impact; and the top of the head is actually the neck level of the character.
also the armour and helmet light up in the dark (when it actually looks slightly menacing).
i only realized after that he looks like the knights who say ni from monty python.
So it’s fine to be sad about our melting polar ice caps, and about how sad that makes the planet—but remember to be glad as well, because of all that the oil we’re finding there is letting you do, now and far into the future!
