Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Social Network - Prescreening Thoughts

It was inspiring, in fact, the most inspiring movie I've ever seen. But the end was bleak. What needed to change was that at the end of the credits, his friend request should be approved.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

application

I am in Library West at UF and Gustavo Rivera (a tutor at the downtown Sante Fe Blount Tutoring Lab and that works for the Academic Foundation) showed me a sheet with info about this program. He told me that you are looking for teachers for this program, and I am very interested because I'm a born teacher at heart!

Here are the classes I'd love to teach/help teach and why:::

Astronomy: I got an A in Introduction to Stars & Galaxies when I took it 3 years ago here at UF, and I love the subject material.

Biology Bliss: I got an A in AP Biology back in 2000 as a freshman in High School. Biology is easy and fun!

Book Club: I am an avid reader and I can talk about books all day!

Creative Writing: I have attached a short story of mine, "Glass Traps Open & Close." I love love love to write.

Drums, Drums, Drums: I can drum for hours!

Garage Band Music: I have made my own music using Intua Beatmaker for iPhone (attached v4 preview.wav) using loops, samples, my voice, and rhythms, and I can play the keyboard, so I'd love to help out here. Here is a link to some of my favorite of my own sequences mixed together:http://soundcloud.com/fonling/preview5

Karma Kidz: I've done yoga on several occations, and although I don't know much by heart (I remember downward dog!) I know I've got the flexibility and form to be of help here.

Logic & Debate: I did Policy Debate and Lincoln Douglas debate in high school. I was the Most Valuable Varsity Debator at Lake Brantley High School under Rob Carraway, and I love, love, love debate! I taught younger kids how to *think* in terms of value debate and I know I can be of great help here.

Maniacle Math: I tutored pre-calculus, I went up to Linear Algebra here at UF, my algebra skills are stellar, I can teach math like nobody's business! Helping kids understand the logic of math is all about good examples, in my own humble opinion, and that means imagination! I can no doubt help out a ton here.

Modern Dance: I'm a dancer with the local Gainesville band Oh, Fortuna. I love to dance and make up movements to match music. Here's a video of us performing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHO-_I7_ug

Pencil Drawing: I've been drawing since childhood. I especially loved The Draw Squad! (with Mark Kissler) a television program that taught kids how to draw in 3D. I have been recently going through a book he put out and redrawing all the examples in it. I love to draw in pencil and I'd love to help out here.

Philosophy 101: "How do you know who your friends are? Can computers think? Can you think about nothing at all?" I'd love to hear the kinds of things kids would have to say on these subjects, and I'm confident that I could help regulate a discussion among kids so that every idea is heard and answers are allowed to develop.

Photoshop Fun: Here's the one I'm most interested in. I've been teaching myself Photoshop for the past 2 years by taking leaves off the ground, scanning them, and then turning them into digital art. Photoshop is the most fun I can have! I've attached some of my better works, but I actually have hundreds (fon.picturepush.com). I would love love love LOVE to teach Photoshop Fun because fun is exactly what photoshop is all about to me!

Piano: I learned, as a child, to read music. I've forgotten that (but I can learn again quickly) but I've never forgotten how to play the Can-Can, and a handful of other songs. With a little brushing up, I'd be up to snuff to help out here.

Sculpture: This is just pure fun and imagination with a dash of technique and procedure. I can help the kids do clay, paster of paris, and papier mache all day!

Sensational Science: I was largly science minded all through high school and at UF. I majored in physics, then nuclear engineering, and then computer engineering. I think scientifically and can gently help kids slow down and state a hypothisis and ask them the right questions to help them find a way they'd like to test it. This would be a blast.

Shutter Bug: I do digital photography, not film, but I've got 100 photo albums on my facebook, and I've been an avid photographer for the past 4 years. I'm glad to read that "students will be allowed the freedom of artistic expression through the lens." I've attached one of my fav photos that I took this year "DSC02984 Rubber Bend."

Soccer: I played club soccer for years as a kid and some in high school and college with friends. I love to play; I've got all the basic skills, and above all: I know when to pass!

Spanish in the USA: I went up to Spanish 3 in high school, took one class at UF, and went to Santigo, Chile for a week in 2006. I'd need to brush up, but I know I could handle a beginner's class in spanish... and my accent is quite good. I've got the pronounciation down.

Theater for Everyone: I love to act and sing. I've acted in a handful of my friend's videos, so I know I'd enjoy helping out here.

Wild Ones: I love animals and I'm always eco-minded. I could certainly help the more timid ones face the animals and help maintain an atmosphere of respect for nature, the animals, and our environment.

-Bjørn Halden Parramoure

P.S. Let me know how to apply properly! :-)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dedicated to the girls I made uncomfortable

Boughs of memory trees weighed low with snowy regrets
What's said is said but I'm caught in last week; ashamed, I flee from the thought.
I'm so sorry I asked to kiss you passionately or tint your tits white with my facepaint...
NOT!!!
I'm FON, the Pan, a satyr unsated in deed, a dandy daring you to your knees
This lust here's neither need nor greed
just unshot seed and without you, babe, I'll be blue

Bluebell pistil's sway where you stand planted akimbo, haughty eyes askance
Send me crawling back up the walls to dance alone in my spartan room, so blue, blue
Flower mouthed queen's crystal-slipperless feet twisting up my sheets
I'll lay you down hard on my napsack and lap long at your lap, lap, lap

To go down with you sideways
Take you down sideways
Let's go down sideways

Un-don your panoply
I'll play you operatically
Make you cream dessert
coconuts & mirth

I'm taking off your gloves
Causing you to swear and swerve
Don't throw a conniption fit
as I delect your hors d'œuvre
I'm putting laughter on the Ritz
Eat your snatch with crackers, bitch

I see you in your springtime best; your inhibition's needless
Trade in your deepest reservations for a Masters Suite with me, yes?
Table for two, all-you-can-eat carnal delight
A ticket to ride dressless & restless all night
We're careful: we don't separate the consequences from the sequins, right?
My rubber-sex-suit's like my dance shoes: snug and pearly white

You're gonna wonder if I've got seven tongues, each hotter
And hotter
hotter, hotter, hotter, hotter

Heave into you
Glowing heavy breaths
Heaven flow unloading
Cleave unto me, breasts
Heave, ho, heave

But what if precaution fails
Wouldn't that be a disaster?
Nope, I'll never make a babe be a bastard.
I'll say with a grin, "Keep it," and "Hope for twins!"
Teach 'em everything I know
How to swing on swings and how to sing
Jump ropes, throw stones so they skip
I'll teach the kids to flush their shit
I'll take painstaking measures to transfer to them treasures like compassion, fascination, elation and hate-negation

And if you leave in the morning light
My skin still aglow from the night
I won't feel alright but that's part of life
Strap some stomp boots on my feet
Scan leaves, film trees, and breathe
Leave you a message, no words, I'll just hum
As I stride on in step to the beat of my drum

Sunday, February 14, 2010

A Birthday Poem for my Dad!

Happy happy birthday
I hope you're feeling great
Cos not so very long ago
And on this very date
You came into Being
You came onto this Earth
You've done a great job so far
So for what it's worth
I wish you happy birthday
With all my doggone heart
I'll love you to the ending
As I did from the start

Saturday, February 13, 2010