3
February

Finally Going Back to School

to schools that become Oregon Green Schools or move up to merit or ...I found the best grants to apply for when I was looking for some information about how I could get help paying for my tuition to go back to school. For the last fifteen years, I have stayed at home to take care of my family, but now that all of my kids are getting older and are busy with their own things, I have time that I just do not know what to do with.

I thought that it might be time to go to school for something that I enjoy and that I would like to do for the rest of my life. I knew when I was in high school that I wanted to go to art school or photography school, but I married my husband just a year after I graduated from high school. He was finishing up his four years in college.

One year after we were married, I had our first child. From that point on, the things that I did were no longer for myself. I worked to take care of my family’s every need and stayed busy doing things for them all of the time.

They are now all so busy with sports, school and work that they do not need me for much of anything. I told my husband years ago that I wanted to go back to school when the kids did not need me anymore. He told me back then that it was fine with him. Now that it is time for me to go back to school, he says that we do not have the money.

I told him that if I could find a way to pay for it that I would go back and then I would be able to earn a living and help pay for the things that his job change left us unable to pay for. Thanks to the grants that I found, I will be attending school in just a few short months.

15
January

I Needed Some Tutoring Help

Taking the UMAT test is important for anyone wanting to become a doctor or dentist. If you don’t successfully pass it, then you cannot even begin to study in the field that you had your heart set on. Since I decided I wanted to become a doctor a couple of years ago, I have been preparing myself for the UMAT. I have taken a few different practice tests, but I was not satisfied with my results. I was not satisfied at all with my results and I knew that I would need to get some umat tutoring to get better prepared.

I had talked with one of my teachers because I didn’t know what to do, and she is the one who suggested that I look into getting tutored. Read the rest of this entry »

5
April

High School Art Stars – Brianna, Nicholas & Rebekah

Each year the Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts awards $15,000 in scholarships to Bay Area high school juniors and seniors to help fund their higher education in the arts. Scholarships were awarded based on academic achievement and talent in the areas of theater, dance, literature, visual arts, instrumental and vocal music.

Listen to Brianna Sparklin sing, Nicholas Smart play the piano and admire some of Rebekah Kirkman’s artwork. In this video you will see three of the recipients of this year’s scholarship program.

Vocal Music: Brianna Sparklin – East Bay High School
Visual Arts: Rebekah Kirkman – Seminole High School
Instrumental Music: Nicholas Smart – Tarpon Springs High School

Duration : 0:7:10

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5
April

Squeeze – Hourglass (1987)

This is the promo music video for the 1987 top 20 U.S. pop hit single “Hourglass” by the British rock band Squeeze. The single peaked at No. 15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late 1987, and was the group’s highest-charting hit in the States.

Duration : 0:3:6

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5
April

創造力 Panamericana School of Art and Design: How far does your creativity go?

Panamericana School of Art and Design: How far does your creativity go?

Duration : 0:1:33

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5
April

John Wheatley College

John Wheatley College Glasgow, Video clip of the Easterhouse and new East End Campus.

http://www.jwheatley.ac.uk

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Duration : 0:1:35

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5
April

Anthem College – An Eye for Graphic Design

Anthem College is part of the Anthem Education Group. Anthem Education Group (AEG) is a nationwide family of schools and colleges that provides career focused training and education programs at accredited institutions throughout the United States and online. AEG offers hands-on, real-world education that prepares students for rewarding, long-term careers in fields such as business, criminal justice, health care, technology and graphic design. Anthem Education Group operates 23 schools in 14 states as well as online and offers masters, bachelors and associates degrees as well as diplomas. The Anthem Education Group family of schools, which has been providing quality post-secondary education for more than a century, includes Anthem College, Anthem College Online, Anthem Institute, The Bryman School of Arizona, Morrison University, Allied College and High-Tech Institute. For more information, visit www.anthem.edu. NOTE: Not all programs are available at all locations.

Duration : 0:0:32

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5
April

2005 Platt College San Diego TV Commercial

Art Director: Adrienne Humphreys
Production Company: Focalscape, Inc. — San Diego
Composer: David Helpling at DHM Music Design
Voice Over: Jon Jenkins
Student Content: Devon Hassett, Don Maybitium, Gema Terrones, Karin Von Kluegl and Marlon Hall

Awards:

2005 Telly Awards
(Honoring outstanding local, regional and cable television commercials and programs & the finest video and film production)
Finalist (Gold) Art Direction
Finalist (Gold) Editing
Finalist (Gold) Use of Graphics
Finalist (Gold) Special Effects
Finalist (Gold) Use of Animation
Finalist (Gold) Use of Music
Finalist (Gold) Schools/Colleges/Universities

2005 Davey Awards
(Honoring the creative excellence of smaller agencies and companies worldwide)
Winner (Gold) Art Direction
Winner (Silver) Editing
Winner (Silver) Use of Graphics
Winner (Gold) Special Effects

Duration : 0:0:30

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5
April

Simon Schama – 2009 National Book Festival

Professor and history author Simon Schama appears at the National Book Festival.

Speaker Biography: Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He taught history at Cambridge and Oxford universities and art history and history at Harvard before coming to Columbia. His books have been translated into 15 languages and include “Patriots and Liberators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813″ (1977), “The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age” (1987), “Rembrandt’s Eyes” (1999) and “The Power of Art” (2007), which was also an eight-part series on PBS. His books have won the Wolfson Award for History, the W.H Smith Prize for Literature; the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Nonfiction. His new book is “The American Future: A History” (2009), which is also the title of his four-part BBC documentary.

Duration : 0:27:49

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5
April

Dirt (Art Institute of Atlanta 2009)

Created by Creative Eye @ Art Institute of Atlanta in 2009 as part of Campus MovieFest, the worlds largest student film festival. Dirt is the story of quite possibly the worst break up in history. The story follows Jacob and his friend Cole as they realize what a properly motivated and sufficiently PO’d woman is capable of.

Duration : 0:5:46

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