Good morning folks! The Vocab Word for today is TEPID (\i-NEK-suh-ruh-bul\) adj. Meaning: Moderately warm; lukewarm. Ex. “At the Claremont Louge you can watch women drop it like its tepid.” Or to be biblical “So then because thou art tepid, and neith...er cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Feel free 2 construct ur own sentences using tepid, good(e) times!
Highly detailed painting by David Jon Kassan. Even though an artist may have talent, it requires a lot of practice and hard work to be a really good artist.
Excerpt of the Artist’s Statement:
My work is a way of meditation, a way of slowing down time though the careful observation of overlooked slices of my environment. It is the subtlety of emotion in my acquaintances that inhabit the aforementioned environment which intrigues me. My paintings strive for reality, a chance to mimic life in both scale and complexity. The viewer is given an eye level perspective of the subject. A view that is unbiased and in its most raw condition. It is my intent to control the medium of oil paint so that it is not part of the viewer to subject equation. The image stands alone without evidence of the artist.
Melanie Fiona is releasing her debut album entitled The Bridge in 2009 on Universal Records.
Give It To Me Right along with Bang Bang, Monday Morning, Please Don’t Go (Cry Baby), Ay Yo, Walk On By, You Stop My Heart, Johnny, Sad Songs, Priceless, It Kills Me, Teach Him and G.A.M.
Should be a strong album with her radio friendly hit single Give It To Me Right.
Francoise Nielly
is my second pallette knife painter...if you know me as an artist, you know I love color and texture...he encompasses them both. Then my favorite thing to do portraiture! Wow.
Please check out his work at http://www.francoise-nielly.com/
Leonid Afremov, the artist, was born in city of Vitebsk, , in 1955. Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich & Kandinsky. Leonid Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978 and is one of the elite members.
Words from Leonidafremov
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different mood, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
Currently my art is being collected all over the world. There are many pleased collectors in USA, Israel, Italy, France, England, Spain, Norvay, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. Presently it is just enough to type my name in an internet search engine to discover the value and magnificence of my Art.
Please Check out his work at http://leonidafremov.deviantart.com/
Okay I have decided to start collecting Inspiration and Cool pieces by other artists...The first is...Linnea Strid 26 year old painter from Sweden Her water project paintings are amazing and Photorealism at it's best...WOW!
~linneastrid
Please Check out her work... http://linneastrid.deviantart.com/
Discography
* 1993: Parental Advisory - Ghetto Street Funk
* 1994: Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
* 1994: Joi - Pendulum Vibe
* 1995: Goodie Mob - Soul Food
* 1996: Society of Soul - Brainchild
* 1996: Outkast - ATLiens
* 1996: Mista - Mista
* 1996: Joi - Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome
* 1998: Witchdoctor - A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual
* 1998: Goodie Mob - Still Standing
* 1998: Outkast - Aquemini
* 1998: Lil' Will - Better Days
* 1998: Parental Advisory - Straight No Chase
* 1998: Sleepy's Theme - The Vinyl Room
* 1999: Cool Breeze - East Point's Greatest Hits
* 1999: Goodie Mob - World Party
* 2000: Parental Advisory - My Life, Your Entertainment
* 2000: Outkast - Stankonia
* 2000: Witchdoctor - 9th Wonder of the World
* 2000: Bubba Sparxxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights
* 2001: Dungeon Family - Even in Darkness
* 2001: Backbone - Concrete Law
* 2001: Slimm Cutta Calhoun - The Skinny
* 2001: OutKast - Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast
* 2002: The Calhouns - Made In The Dirty South
* 2002: Joi - Star Kitty's Revenge
* 2002: Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
* 2002: Khujo Goodie - The Man Not the Dawg
* 2002: Supa Nate - Still On Da Grind
* 2003: Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
* 2003: Big Gipp - Mutant Mindframe
* 2003: Roscoe - Roscoe Philaphornia
* 2003: Da Connect - Dungeon Family 2nd Generation
* 2003: Goodie Mob - Dirty South Classics
* 2003: Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
* 2003: Killer Mike with Grind Time Rap Gang - Dat Crack Mixtape
* 2003: Killer Mike - Monster Mixtape
* 2003: Killer Mike - Monster
* 2004: Bubba Sparxxx & The Mudd Katz - New South Mixtape
* 2004: Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
* 2004: Killer Mike - The Killer Mixtape
* 2004: Sleepy Brown - Phunk-O-Naut (unreleased)
* 2004: Goodie Mob - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
* 2005: The Lumberjacks - Livin' Life as Lumberjacks
* 2005: Goodie Mob - Nuttin But That G
* 2005: Big Boi & Purple Ribbon All-Stars - Got Purp? Vol. 1,2
* 2005: Witchdoctor - Gumbo Cookin' Mixtape
* 2006: Dungeon Family - Do U Speak Dungeoneze Mixtape
* 2006: Bubba Sparxxx - The Charm
* 2006: Cee-Lo - Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine
* 2006: Witchdoctor - King Of The Beasts
* 2006: Joi - Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb
* 2006: Sleepy Brown - Mr. Brown
* 2006: Outkast - Idlewild
* 2006: Roscoe - I Luv Cali
* 2006: Gnarls Barkley (Cee-Lo & DJ Danger Mouse) - St. Elsewhere
* 2006: Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind Vol. 1
* 2006: Big Boi & DJ Ideal - Da Bottom Vol. 7
* 2007: Khujo Goodie - Mercury (album)
* 2007: Killer Mike - Ghetto Extraordinary (unreleased)
* 2007: Witchdoctor - The Diary Of An American Witchdoctor
* 2007: Big Gipp & Ali - Kinfolk
* 2007: Janelle Monae - Metropolis - Suite I of IV - The Chase
* 2007: Bruno Brinks - Gwop-N-Cush
* 2007: Andre 3000 - Class Of 3000 OST Vol. 1
* 2007: Andre 3000 - Whole Foods Mixtape
* 2007: Malachi - Workaholic Vol. 1,2
* 2007: KED - GangLeader... Vol. 1,2
* 2007: Bubba Sparxxx - Survive Til Ya Thrive Mixtape
* 2008: Gnarls Barkley (Cee-Lo & DJ Danger Mouse) - The Odd Couple
* 2008: Killer Mike- I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind II
Members of the Dungeon Family
1st generation
* Organized Noize
o Rico Wade
o Sleepy Brown
o Ray Murray
* OutKast
o Andre 3000
o Big Boi
* Earthtone III
o Andre 3000
o Big Boi
o Mr. DJ
* Goodie Mob
o Big Gipp
o T-Mo
o Cee-Lo
o Khujo
* Parental Advisory
o Mello
o K.P.
o Big Reese
* The Lumberjacks
o T-Mo
o Khujo
* Society of Soul
o Sleepy Brown
o Roni
o Big Rube
o Ray
o Rico
* Joi
* Witchdoctor
* Backbone
* Cool Breeze
* Lil' Will
* Duke Roald Zilla
* Sifu Terrence Walker
2nd generation
* Slimm Cutta Calhoun & The Calhouns
* Killer Mike
* Konkrete
o C-Bone
o Lil' Brotha
o Supa Nate
* Da Connect
o ChamDon
o G-Rock
o C-Smooth
o Blvd. International
o Infinique
o Meathead
o Rico Wade
* Dungeon East
o KED
o Mill Gates
o J. Pesci
o C Syck
o Ray Murray
o Jawz Of Life
* Purple Ribbon All Stars
o Big Boi
o Danjai
o Konkrete
o Vonnegutt
o Sleepy Brown
o Bubba Sparxxx
o Rock D
o Scar
o Big Gee
* Sniper Unit
* Roscoe
* Kilo
* Brino Binks
* Malachi
* Anthony C. Brown (Actor)
There was a lot of reasons this was the biggest moment that Music gave to Michael Jackson...I think we owe music a lot of what makes us happy and Michael was Music. Michael is what we all love so much about Creativity...I love music and in saying that I know Michael is smiling about this one.
VMA Outburst (Poem For Kayne West)
Fuck their sledgehammer roars
the judgment plastered to the
corkboard of their gavel eyes
Fuck their snap shows and glitter
What they call an outburst
is what you call cracking the white horse
Flipping the well worn stereo type on its back
And revealing your wall mirror skin to the rednecks
This is not because of Obama, is it Kayne?
This is because your chest was
made of riots and boycotts
mishaps and pigeonholes
May they never forget
What a blackman in the limelight should be
Obnoxiously beautiful
Insanely correct
Fuck their glamorous awards
And their crooked draws
Your heart was woven out of thunder, boy
Out of smoke signals and underground railroads
Pride made of cotton plants and “I don’t give a fuck”
Shoulders creaking of Jim Crow South
This is not youtube click slash
Daily News front page fuckery
This one’s for the pools, motherfuckers
For bus seats and school classes
for the gasoline, churches and water fountain
when they hiss and roar
when they grawl and rumble
it sounds like Montgomery don’t it?
Sound like 1955 and refuge
Call the dogs, cocksuckers
their boo’s
Just a resurrected sound of yard whips cracking across
our great grandmothers flesh
it’s your fuel isn’t Mr. West
the leverage you needed to say
fuck their carpets
And there uncomfortable grins
I say what I feel
Shrug my shoulders
Like my ears can hear
The rusty legs of a switching table
scratching on the floor of the universe
Walk off and do not look back
For there is no mercy
or remorse
For killing everything they never gave us
by Brook Yung
http://brookyung.blogspot.com/
Crazy. Just a few weeks ago a small debate broke out on Twitter about why Slaughterhouse (Joe Buddens, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce the 5'9) has an MC from every part of the country except the South, and how Killer Mike would have been the ordeal candidate for the Southern slot. Well...I guess you can say its happened.
Mike just got added to the Slaughterhouse show as well as the homies Senor Kaos, Small Eyez and Stanza. Keep your eyes open and keep coming around these parts as I will be giving away tickets to this show. Stay tuned.
Pres. Obama delivered a national address to students across the country to talk to them about the importance of education. He spoke to a group of students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA.
Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama
Back to School Event
Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009
The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.
I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.
I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."
So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.
Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility.
I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.
But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.
Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.
And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what that’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in.
So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I’m not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.
Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.
I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer – hundreds of extra hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he’s headed to college this fall.
And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.
Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.
That’s why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education – and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.
Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
No one’s born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve got to practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor – and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?
Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Good morning folks! The Vocab Word for today is COMMINUTE (\KAH-muh-noot\) verb. Meaning : to reduce to minute particles : pulverize. Ex: “If 61 yr old Roger Stephens would have even motioned like he was going to slap my child in that Wal Mart I woul...d have used my fist to COMMINUTE his face. Feel free 2 construct ur own sentences using COMMINUTE, good(e) times!
Good morning folks! The Vocab Word for today is FRACTIOUS (\FRAK-shus\) adj. Meaning : tending to be troublesome : unruly: quarrelsome. Ex: “I’m basically a nice guy but I found out the hard way many moons ago, @ The Gunners Inn club in Lawton Ok, th...at lots of people, loud music & Long Island Iced Tea makes me somewhat Fractious.”Feel free 2 construct ur own sentences using FRACTIOUS, good(e) times!