<p>I asked around and now know that “crap” was correct, not clap for when I meant crap, which is never plural, or it become some card game, and clap could be some nasty STD, but crap is more suitable for these kind of crap.
why, then, no dictionary has it in it ?
or are they (kids under 21 mostly) kidding me?</p>
<p>Antlers? My D would be all over that dumpster!. This is the child (19) who dragged home a dead coyote she found in the woods, in the pouring rain. Then she thought about rabies and panicked. She wasn’t at risk, but was bummed when I called animal control to come and get the body. She wanted to soft taxidermy it (whatever that means) and keep the skull. Where can you see Triplets of Belleville - sounds right up her alley.</p>
<p>NETFLIX…has everything. We saw “Triplets” years ago on the big screen but we are in a big town so we get everything and no animation gets by us. Triplets was ordered through Netflix for reviewing. It is worth seeing and very entertaining in its quirky way.</p>
<p>they were made out of armature wire wrapped up with bandage and gesso or paper mache -ed, not zoologically or natural historically correct in anyway.</p>
<p>i re-read what i wrote periodically to see what i did wrong and how could i have said it better, etc.
i noticed that it sounded as if only non ny-er is doing outreach, only ghetto kids are doing saturday program.
if anyone wants to know, they are both done saturdays, one is called outreach (selective), the other is called saturday programs (less selective).
as a rule, saturday programs are for only nyc public school deprived kids, while outreach is for everyone if you are in right age/ grade level - public, home schooled, private, parochial, suburb, as long as pass the review.
there are fuzzy areas so do not give up and try if you really want to, see what happens. some kids continue after finishing high school for prepping one more go at cooper.</p>
<p>New development!
The word “crap” is listed with definition, usage, origin in my humongous Oxford American dictionary that is on the broken stool and usually piled up with my kid’s clothes and books. Now I remember why I bought this in the first place, I needed to look up the word “ rave” (what’ma mean he wanna do? where?) and this is the only one that listed needed definition out of the entire dictionary section in the store.
Lesson learned; do not depend on the dictionary tools of word nor handy one that over 47 million copies sold! over 75.000 definitions - of course you all’d know that.
American language is deeeppp</p>
<p>most of my hometest dealt with the influence of technology and the internet on sexuality. so for my sketchbook i kept a log in microsoft word of all the research i did during the course of my hometest (reference photos, quotes, names, dates, ideas, thoughts, etc) which ended up being 30 pages long or so. i just hit print and bound the papers together and there you go! there’s my sketchbook</p>
<p>but really, a sketchbook doesn’t even need to have sketches, just needs to show thought process. i hardly draw, so why would my sketchbook be mostly drawn? i and many of my other friends’ sketchbooks are more like journals or data logs</p>
<p>have you seen Daniel Johnston’s sketch book or Kurt Cobain’s journal? do you think Cooper would have taken them?
that’s what I meant soul, it doesn’t matter what skill/ the medium used were.
You can draw so well if you wanted to, that is sort of shame you didn’t use your fabulous hands.</p>
<p>i have not seen either of their sketchbooks or journals so i don’t know</p>
<p>i disagree though. i used my hands for my artwork, why do i need to use it in my sketchbook? i use my sketchbook to organize my thoughts. some people do that by drawing, i do it by writing</p>
<p>shoot I forgot those guys are your dad’s age. sigh. do you at least know who they are/ heard their names?</p>
<p>of course i know who they are, i have just never seen their sketchbooks</p>
<p>try and see, johnston’s book is now (after all these years) in museum shop or fancy art bookstore, Kurt’s one is this big coffeetable book you can take out from the library
though something tells me you won’t like them at all…</p>
<p>i’ve been searching but can’t find them, why would i not like them? could you explain? you are being very vague</p>
<p>see the cover design, that should be enuff.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Daniel Johnston (9780847832309): Philippe Vergne, Jad Fair, Harvey Pekar, Daniel Johnston: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Johnston-Philippe-Vergne/dp/0847832309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268794912&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Johnston-Philippe-Vergne/dp/0847832309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268794912&sr=1-1)</p>
<p>this is Kurt’s. now he could have been some artist/poet if he or his mom knew any better, then I guess he is not singing crying nor dead… or would he? just that it kills me I bet he never even heard of Cooper.
[Amazon.com:</a> KURT COBAIN JOURNALS: Kurt Cobain: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/KURT-COBAIN-JOURNALS-Kurt-Cobain/dp/B001VE0QOO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268794858&sr=1-2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/KURT-COBAIN-JOURNALS-Kurt-Cobain/dp/B001VE0QOO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268794858&sr=1-2)</p>
<p>you have it in your head that i have something against illustration or painting when i completely don’t. just because i am not an illustrator doesn’t mean i do not like illustration. no, daniel johnston probably wouldn’t have gotten in, but that’s because cooper union specifically says that it is not a school for illustration. it would be as pointless as if i applied to WashU with my portfolio (the rep actually laughed and asked why i even bothered to show him). i’m not talking down to anything, but art schools are not clearly better than others, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. cooper union’s strength is in its contemporary fine arts and conceptual art, not in its traditional painting or illustration.</p>
<p>no. you missed the point. why some Dia bigshot is backing up messed up captain America and mutant frog on school notebook pages with kiddie markers done by certified nuts who does not care anything about illustration nor contemporary fine arts but god, Satan and his college sweet heart?
Does it bother you or excite you?
art is art is art, no snob good bad ugly but love and life which is often sad.</p>
<p>you obviously don’t know much about my views on art… you’ve come to a lot of premature conclusions about me</p>
<p>now you are making me sad-er. I won’t get about 7/8th of what’s in Whitney Biennial I will never “get” you once you are no longer college hopeful. There will be another chair and TV and hair and sex thing. keep growing, as good ol Jon said “don’t let Cooper get you”</p>
<p>so in order to diffuse tensions here…I was following ya’lls back and forth on this Johnston fellow…so googled and ituned and listened and then brought him up as conversation starter in the car with S. Oh thank you ValterG and B and D for having this lively discussion!!! I was catapulted to coolness and, yes, he looked at me with disbelief. Loves the music and the weird doodles/sketches and had not shared this interest with Mom because clearly she could never appreciate this stuff since she worships Joshua Bell and his strad. I was honest and said that I have the most superficial of knowledge of Mr. Johnston–powered by the web, amazon.com, and itunes but he dragged out some books and is burning a cd as I type. What have you done? I have no opinion as to whether he would make it to Cooper but I agree he is a most unlikely candidate for WUSTL…</p>