Friday, October 24, 2008

Tulina And Soulja Boy's World


This Is A picture Of soulja Boy dont He look young ?




Early Life
Soulja Boy known as DeAndre Cortez Way , was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was born on July 28,1990, and moved to Atlanta Georgia when he turned 7, where he became interested in rap music. At the age of 14, he had moved to Batesville, Mississippi, with his father who provided a recording studio for ways to explore his musical ambitions.

Career
In November 2005, Soulja Boy posted his Songs on the Famous Website of all time , Youtube. After that He started posting his own web pages on youtube and myspace.
In march 2007 , he recorded “crank that” and released his first independent album
Unsigned and still major followed by a low-budget video filmed demonstrating the "Soulja Boy" dance. By the end of may 2007, “crank that (Soulja boy) received its first airplay and soulja boy met up with Mr. Collipark to sign a deal with interscope records. On august 12,2007, the song appeared on the Emmy- award winning HBO series, Entourage, and by September 1st, it topped the billboard hot 100 and hot ring masters chart. In December 9th ,2007, Soulja boy was sued by William (Lyons a.k.a Souljah boy of the Mo thugs) who claims he first created the stage name “souljah boy”. Lyons also recorded a diss song using the “crank that” beat towards soulja boy called “spank that Soulja Boy”. The teen rapper recently inked a deal with Dallas- based company, Yums shoes for a line of his own sneakers called the “block star” and an apparel line.
Soulja boy and T-pain at the hip hop awards 08 '
Tulina's Opinion
I believe that Soulja boy is The Best Down South rapper of all time. His style is real unique and he has his Own type. Who you know that can make such Good music and good dances like him ? Many people think that the dances he make is real stupid, but me I believe I like it because he has his own type of style, and he’s real different from other People. He’s a cute young rapper who has goals for himself. He has a partner in crime who works with him and his rap Arab. When they both create something, it really becomes Off the chart. This is why I had to write a Story about Soulja Boy.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

"Loso's Way" by James Montgomery





The best rap artist in the game right now is John “fabolous” Jackson. He was born November 18th 1977 and grew up in Brevoort projects where he got his name. He blew up with his hit single “I can’t deny it” featuring Nate dogg off his 2001 debut album, ghetto Fabolous, and never looked back. Coming out of the hood he had to do what most people do that are struggling on the streets and want to get money. He sold drugs and made profit with his squad from Breevoort called Street family. His career began in 1988 while he was a senior in high school and was just 3 credits away from graduating. He ended up rapping on the famous DJ clue radio show and got signed to def jam. Fabolous said "I saw it as my shot to shine. But there wasn't really that much time to be nervous. I had been making up some rhymes that afternoon but by the time I got to the studio I forgot one of them. Luckily, I didn't have to battle Noreaga or anything like that. It was like he'd get on a beat and then I'd get on one. I made up the rest of the sh*t on the spot. I took advantage of the opportunity, that's all." You can tell when someone is talented and they’re the truth when they freestyle and forget rhymes but still have the ability to say something that’s fire rapping straight off the head. He has made 4 albums all together in his career so far. In 2001 he made his debut album ghetto fabolous, then returned in 2003 with his sophomore album Street dreams and in the following year he followed up with another album called Real talk. In 2007 he released his next album from nothing to something and it was number one on the billboards Top R&B/Hip hop albums chart. Every time he makes a new album he gets better and better. Coming from the hood he never changed and still remembers where he comes from. Mostly every song he makes he shout outs his street fam. He keeps it real and doesn’t change the way he acts because he’s rich now he still keeps it the way it’s always been even though he’s making millions. Being inspired by jay-z, biggie, tupac and other artist that have got there names off of rapping and keeping it street but still being able to have a large variety of fans of different race has helped him find his swagg and showed him what routes to take. jay-z is about to be a billionare coming from marcy to madison square in just a matter of years! this shows that just because you come from the streets and you make it big that you should have to change up. he made it big by expressing his feelings and talking about his struggles and things he had to deal with gorwing up in the hood. if you keep it real from when you never had anything to when you make it big you'll have fans that could relate to you no matter what because they could relate to you and what you go through. Fabolous made a song on his album From nothin to Somethin that shows that he's still hood and he still remembers where he came from. the name of it is called "Change up" ft akon.

Rich yung clothing:


In 2006 he released his clothing line, Rich yung. He gave the clothing brand the name rich yung not just as a clothing line but as a lifestyle. The lines name represents a lifestyle that many people aspire to live. The clothing line is expensive and is only sold in a limited amount of stores.

Friday, October 10, 2008

A Passion for O'Keefe: A Tiffanny Fraticelly Perspective on an Artist





Georgia O’Keefe
By:: Tiffanny Fraticelly
Class of 2009


Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 18, 1887. In 1905, O'Keeffe attended the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York City to study at the Art Students League in New York20City in 1907-08. After working as a commercial artist in Chicago, she became interested in Oriental design. From 1912 to 1914, she worked as a public school art supervisor in Amarillo, Texas, and then moved back to New York City to attend Columbia, where she took art classes conducted by Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow's system of art20education was rooted in Oriental art themes. In 1916, she was appointed department head of art-teacher training at West Texas State Normal College, where she used Dow's philosophy in her teacher-training. She remained at the college through 1918.
Her Marriage
She met Alfred stieglitz a photographer who influenced her and admired her work but Their relationship became sexual, and in time, Stieglitz left his wife for O'Keeffe, who was 24 years his junior. Their love was deep, but their relationship was often stormy; Stieglitz liked city life, with all its noise and broiling activity, while O'Keeffe loved open space and solitude. Stieglitz's cycle of photographs of her extended arguably is his most lasting work.Married to Stieglitz, the proponent of modernism, O'Keeffe's early style featu red intrinsically abstract subject matter such as details of flowers and architectural motifs. Common tropes in her paintings were enlargements of botanical details. Shew was developing her own distinctive, and distinctively American style, an iconography that includes featuring details of plant forms that would one day embrace bleached bones and New Mexican desert landscapes, all sharply rendered.In 1924, she married Steiglitz. Though Stieglitz masterfully shaped her career, there was resentment as Georgia was the epitome of what was then called "the modern woman,” independent, while her husband, of German Jewish stock, had old time European patriarchal prejudices. He at first tried to control her, until they reached an understanding.
Challenges That happened
Georgia eventually had a nervous breakdown and wound up a sanatorium. But always, there was the art.From 1926 to '29, Georgia painted a cycle of New York City views, but her life's work generally focused on simple buildings rather than skyscrapers. Her paintings further simplified the buildings into an archetypal folk architecture that exuded permanence and tranquility.Georgia’s criticism found symbolism in her work, such as the sexual imagery allegedly found in paintings suc h as "Black Iris". Her botanicals subjects in close-up begged an interpretation focused on their generative capacity, and the possibility inherent in these works generates their force and mystery. Her works were full of energy and exalted life.Georgia began spending time in New Mexico in 1929.
Her like's
She became enthralled with the mesas, Spanish architecture, wooden crucifixes, fauna, and desert terrain. These all became elements in her work, which are characterized by clarity and unity, her subjects exist in their own worlds."I simply paint what I see," she is quoted as saying. Arguably her most famous visual trope, the sun-bleached skull of a cow, were eternalizations of Thanatos, a counterpoint to her early botanical work suffused with Eros. O'Keeffe did not go in for symbolism and argued that the skulls were merely symbols of the desert and of nothing else "To me, they are strangely more living than the animals walking around -- hair, eyes and all, with their tails switching."Georgia bought an old adobe house in New Mexico in 1945 and moved there after Steiglitz's death in 1946. The house became one of her most frequent subjects. Her style simplified details of doors, windows, and walls to where they seemed like unmodified planes of color, an abstractio n In the 1960s, patterns of clouds and landscapes seen from the air..


My favorite art

My favorite art work that she did was the Two Jimson Weeds painted in 1938. She inspires me to draw what I feel and I believe she had such a wonderful gift because painting like her that’s unique and I admire her very much. She died nearly 100-years-old she continued to paint until a few weeks before her death. She died on March 6, 1986.



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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Greatest Commercial of All time?


iO digital cable reggaeton ad
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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Ms. G's Playlist

On of my students introduced me to this website, PLAYLIST, where you can search for basically any song and add it to a virtual playlist. Its free, conveniant and fun..Check out what your teacher listens to!