Pollack Blurb

Click the picture below to open the Pollack blurb in a new window.  I'm mainly interested in what Pollack says about his own work.

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Homework reading...

Here's the link for "The Importance of Being Hated" by Chuck Klosterman. He's funny. Pay special attention to his sense of style and how he goes about explaining his concepts.

Music Geek

I would have to say that I am a music geek. Usually people would wait for songs to come out on the radio or something, but I sit and wait for them to leak on the internet. When I say leak, it means when a producer or dj puts the rapper or singer's music out before he or she wants it to be out. I go to blog sites to find the latest scoop on new music, and I stay up all night waiting for that one song, just so I can say I heard it first. I probably don't hear them first anyway, but hey I'm not going to change my mindset now. I guess you can call me the "Steve Erkel" of music. I don't just listen to hip hop or R&B music, its sort of a variety. My ipod is full of music that people haven't even heard yet, but I will be glad to share. I love music, because it is a form of expression. It has alot of emotion in it, and I'm an expressive guy, I guess. So what I'm a music geek tell the world.

What I am "geeky" at

I was in yearbook my junior and senior year of high school and would have to say that's what I was "geeky" at. I always found myself running around school getting quotes for the yearbook or taking pictures. My senior year I fully dedicated myself to yearbook as editor-in-chief. I don't think I enjoyed the class as much as I did the year before since I wasn't writing as much copy, but I had to make sure everyone else was doing what they needed to be doing. I remember there were plenty of days I would stay after school until 7:00 and even one time until 8:30. We would get our work done before a big deadline and entertained ourselves at the same time. I truly enjoyed being in yearbook and I loved everything about it. I felt like a huge nerd when the book came out reading everything and pointing out all the mistakes that we made or things we did well. I could tell you every small mistake or big mistake in our yearbooks the past two years that students who didn't take the class or maybe were even in the class didn't notice. My computer skills were better after the class from working on word, Adobe Indesign. and even photoshop a few times. Every summer before the class started we would go to yearbook camp. I would tell people were I was going for the weekend and they would find it funny asking me if it was anything like band camp. I didn't care whether they found it funny or not because I knew when I went I would enjoy myself and learn a lot from all the different workshops.

Music

I will admit that there are many things that make me a geek. Just recently my friends have started to notice how geeky I truly am. In the 90's and early 2000's everyone was into pop music. NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, and other artists were quite the craze. Well, most people grew up and moved on to more mature music and other artists became popular. I however never stopped loving these groups. Almost everyday I need to rock out to some oldschool music. Whether I am in the car or in my room NSYNC, Britney Spears, O Town, or Mariah Carey will be blaring from the speakers of my computer. The most recently played songs on my iTunes contains songs like Gone, I Want it That Way, All the Small Things, I Want You Back, and many more. I try to cover up my secret obsession with songs by artists such as Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, and others. Listening to the pop songs is very geeky, I know. However, I konw that I'm not the only one still listening to these songs. If I play a song in front of others everyone knows the words. By the time the chorus starts almost everyone else listening starts to sing along. Don't deny it, you know you all love some oldschool pop songs too!

I am a Geek for Sports and Music

I do not necessarily like to watch sports on TV or in the stands, I have to play them. I love to be outside and run around in the grass or dirt, whichever. Feeling the breeze on my face and the sun on my skin, is so relaxing. The strategy of all different kinds of sports is the fun and entertaining part. I love football for the aggression and the grass stains. Also trying to decide which play is best for any situation is fun too. I LOVE softball, because I played it in high school and middle school, and I know the rules and object of the game the best. It is fun to hit a neon yellow ball as hard as you can and see how far it goes, then run as fast as your legs can carry you. Soccer it just plain fun, tiring, and has a lot of tricks and turns. it is always really exciting when you finally get a rainbow kick or a bicycle kick for the first time! Tennis is an great workout and an easy way to get a tan. It is fun to try and get and ace past your opponet.

Music is my other passion. I cannot sing very well, and I cannot play an instrument, but I am drawn the echo of the sound waves that turn out to be a great song. I like pretty much anythign and everything, Broadway, rap, country, folk, rock and classic rock, oldies, opera. That is everything I think. i have songs on my ipod by artists that no one has ever heard of. The funny thing about my ipod is whenever people are listening to it, atleast 5 times they say, "oh my god I love this song", or "wow I forgot about that song." I am nerdy enough about songs that if I hear one in a resturant or in a commercial, i wirte down the lyrics and look it up.

I love sports and music they actually coordinate pretty well too. Normally I listen to my favorite song of the moment before playing a game to get me in the right mood to do well.

What am I geeked out about???

What am I geeked out about??? I have so many things that come to mind it’s so hard to pick just one. I must say since it’s that time of year I will say FOOTBALL. I love the game and of course I’m a Carolina Panther fan. I started watching football when I was about 10 years old. My parents were 49er fans and I followed their lead. I remember watching Joe Montana, one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game. I remember having a little crush on him because he looked cute in his uniform. When Joe got hurt it broke my heart. I remember like it was yesterday, the 49er were playing the Giants, who was not playing very nice. Joe got hit many times but that last time ended his career with the 49er. He tried to come back after healing but he was not the same. So you should know how I feel about the Giants, I hate them with a passion along with the Cowboys, but that’s another story.
I have a new team now, 49ers will be my #1 team forever but you know I have to pull for my home team. My favorite player with the Panthers is Steven Smith (Smitty). This man is awesome to watch and Sunday was a prime example of why. This man can make plays happen on the field. Smith is so small compared to the other players but he packs a mean punch. I call him the Mugsy Bogues of football. I also like Muhsin Muhammad who also showed his butt off Sunday against the Falcons. Carolina has two great wide receivers but the quarterback is another story. Jack Dalhomme is one of my least favorite players on the team. He needs to go play for the Giants; this shows how much he means to me. If Carolina would invest in Brady or one of the Manning boys we might have a few Super Bowl rings.
The love that I have for football has rubbed off on my boys. I have a 10 year old who’s about 5’6” and weighs 155lbs and he plays football for the Finley Road Falcons. He plays nose guard on defense and left guard on offence. He says he wants to be a professional football player when he grows up. I also have a 6 year old who is just a little old thing and he thinks he’s the best one on the field when they play football in the neighborhood; he’s not old enough to play for a team yet. I always comes home and tells me how he be juking the boys out and scoring all the touchdowns in the game. Next year he will be old enough to play and I’m looking forward to seeing him get knocked on his butt a few times.
Football is an interesting sport; it keeps my attention and is the only sport I can sit down and watch all day long. I don’t know to many women who can sit and watch football all day long, my husband is a very lucky man. He will never hear me tell him to turn the TV when football is on, I don’t care if it’s college or professional I can watch it all day. Below is the websites for my favorite teams, 49ers and Panthers.
http://www.sf49ers.com/home.php
http://www.panthers.com/IntroPage1.aspx

GEEKED OVER SHOES

I have an extreme obsession with shoes. I actually own 136 pairs. Yes, I've actually counted. I recently gave away 96 pairs of shoes only so I could replenish my stock. Let's just say I made a young girl ecstatic that day! My shoes consist of many varieties and mostly have heels. I'm vertically challenged! However, I have options for all types of weather and seasons. The most expensive pair only cost me $140.00. That was a bargain! And bargain is my middle name. I am always in search of a deal. That is why I own so many. I continue to find great deals so the purchases are a must. :) I hate to say that I have regretfully passed my passion onto my son and now I suffer from the same. My purchases for myself have become fewer and far between because my son needs, wants, JUST HAS TO HAVE lots of shoes. We compromise and take turns. I feel as if our shoes define our personality in ways. My son has to wear uniforms to school. He and the children are dressed the same everyday with the exception of their shoes. The only individuality that separates them from the rest. So, I allow him to have more than one pair for school versus my school days of one pair were for school only. His shoes describe him. Shoes make statements and tell you things about a person. Not only do they take you places, they tell you where you've been.

So, if I ever go bankrupt, it will be because I overindulged while shoe shopping.

Check out www.shoemetro.com for some great Ebay deals. :)

Geeked up on SPONGEBOB

I am the biggest Spongebob fanatic in the world. My room back home is Spongebob all around. I have a huge stuffed spongebob in my dorm room now along with his bestfriend gary. I wake up and watch spongebob then my roommate wakes up and looks over at me laughing wondering why im still watching spongebob. My bed spread is spongebob, i have the slippers with his face on it. I think he is the best animation in the world. For my graduation party, My bestfriend got me a spongebob ice cream cake and I actually took lots of pictures of it before I cut it.. We have every episode there is out there its ridiculous I know. I know the word sto almost every episode lol. It is by far my favorite tv show in the world. The Mall of America in Minnesota has an amusement park in it called nickelodian universe and there are spongebob rides there that I just love to get on. If I could, I would just watch it all day everyday.

Shoes Galore!!

I am the biggest geek about shoes! Any kind of shoe all kinds of shoes! i can find something cute about the ugliest shoe you can find!!! well not that geeky about shoes but its pretty close. Although I love love love all types of shoes, my favorite are sneakers!!! I like the old school hip hop meets skaterboy look!!! Just lots of weird colors and styles...i want to go shopping now! Anyways I love shoes sooo much that I have shoes with nothing to wear with them. I go to the mall a lot..well i did before i came to this very nice, beautiful, really really expensive school...but everytime I went shopping i would buy two to three pair of shoes and nothing to wear with it. so now i am stuck with all these shoes!! and i cant sell them because i have become emotionally attached to all of my sneakers and their boxes!!! I love chucks (that's converse), pastries, vans, guess, timberland, adidas, and nikes! When I was younger or before I got a job and my parents were paying for my school clothes, I would only get one pair of shoes and all the other kids at school would have three different pairs for the whole week. No matter what color I was wearing on top, I always wore my blue and white nikes! When i got that first paycheck, i went crazy buying. There it is..J'AIME LES CHAUSSURES!

I am a Clothing geek

Despite how absolutely pointless it is I know a lot about clothes. I am a sure it will not really do anything for me in my life and I am sure that I have not had the slightest care about my appearance, how ever I know a lot about fashion. Most of it is gobbly gook. However I know a lot of new and up coming designers such as Hamish Morrow who is still in his first decade of being a profit making designer. Of course I know the classic designers too, like Missoni. Missoni is known for their intricate pattern work, however since a new generation of the Missoni family is taking over new ideas are starting to get into play. Such as their new perfume. I love the history of the designers. The way that Christian Louboutin got his trade mark red soles is because after completing his first pair of heels he thought they needed something extra. So he grabbed his secretaries red nail polish and painted the bottom red. Now everyone copies him and he became a successful and famous shoe designer. I just get so interested in what is always going on. There are always new shapes and colors and patterns to be seen. It never gets boring. When I find my self being bored I will pick up a magazine and just dissect it. I will look at every word and every picture. There is just so much stuff that I love wrapped up in this nice little package called design.

What I am Geeky About!!

If I had to choose one thing that I am geeky about besides art, movies, the internet, and RPs, it would be books. I am completely obsessed with reading books. My interests lie more in the gothic type stories, such as vampires or werewolves. Pretty much any type of urban fantasy fiction will catch my eye, though. Some of my favorite authors include Stephanie Meyer, Garth Nix, Libba Bray, Laurell K. Hamilton, Tamora Pierce, and Gail Carson Levine. Each of these authors has written series that I just fell in love with at the beginning and could not put the book down. Most of the books that I read by them are ones that I will re-read over and over, and still enjoy the book as if it is the first time I am reading it. When I am done reading a book, I sometimes research for illustrations of scenes or of characters to see how others picture them. If I do not do that, I will end up sketching how I think they should look in my own book. Essentially, that is what I am studying to become: an Illustrator. Reading sparks the passion in me to pursue such a tedious career. When I find a new book, I am on a natural high. I get more excited about good books than I do going to a fair or a concert. It is almost sad but so very true. Sadly, I had to leave most of my books at home. I went through and picked out the ones I knew I could not come to college without. For example, I could not come without Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series or Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy. Currently, I am working my way through Garth Nix’s Sabriel trilogy for possibly the fourth time. It has been years since I last re-read the books so I decided to read them again. Books are my passion and I eventually want to write my own novels.

What I am geeky about

I would have to say that because of who I am and how I work that there is not really one thing in particular that I am geeky about. I like a challenge, almost any and everything that puts forth a challenge I have to try. But if I had to choose my favorite thing to do it would have to be rock climbing. When I was younger, I lived in Massachusetts, tons of mountains. This is where I first learned how to rock climb. All growing up I climbed over literally pretty much everything that I could or was allowed to. But my friends lived up in the mountains, like you looked out their back door and there they were. Well I went to spend the weekend with them and my friend's older brother was going rock climbing and asked if we wanted to go. I was hesitant at first but once I started I couldn't get enough. So needless to say I was over their house alot after that. Once I moved to Charleston, where there are no mountains, I was upset because I thought that I was never going to be able to rock climb again. But thats not the case. I met a friend and was invited to her birthday party and guess what it entailed, yup rock climbing. I was exstatic, I had found a place where I could climb. Almost every weekend after that I was at this store climbing the wall. Though it was not as good as the real thing it was still fun. I had continued to go to this store but not as often up until I moved on to campus. I have seen the climbing wall here but I have yet to try it out. I will get there eventually though.

NPR Story

http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=39318&topessays=2&start=0

This story was about a teenager who has dyslexia. When he was in elementary school he was not able to be in a regular public school so he was transferred to a specialty school for language processing disorders and there he learned how to read. But the story starts off talking about how he can solve a rubiks cube, and in the end he compares the challenge of figuring out the rubiks cube to his challenge with dyslexia

My obsession

My true love or passion would have to be racing just like the other two in our class. I am addicted to motors and speed. I race dirt bikes every Sunday in North Carolina and it is my drug. I have so much fun doing it and I don’t think I will ever get bored with it. I am just now getting into cars and I love mine. I own a 2003 Saab 93 convertible. I don’t know much about cars like I do with dirt bikes but I am definitely trying to learn as much as I can. I really wish there was an auto mechanics course here so I could learn as much as possible. If anyone can show me a thing or two, I will be glad to pay attention and learn. I love going fast because it is my idea of an adrenaline rush. If flying through trees and through the air on a dirt bike is not a rush for you then I don’t know what would be. So I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a geek but more of a motor head. My dad was the person that got me into dirt bikes because he raced as a child and now he is reliving his youth through me and I can’t thank him enough.

Video Games!

I would have to say that I am geeky about video games but not all just some. Play me in the Super Mario Carts or Super Mario Brawl and Melee and I am pretty good. I play RPGs and have played all the Final Fantasy games. I also have played and beaten a lot of the metroids. I like to play the old arcade games and I'm pretty good at those to. I would like to think that i can pick up any game by just playing it once or twice but i do not know. I am also pretty good at strategy games and many other types but I would have to say that I am well rounded in my video gaming. I also like to play online because although playing against computers is fun nothing can be the same as playing against another person. It gets boring beating the computer over and over again but when you play a person everything changes because a person can be unpredictable and can do thing that computers would never do. So if I can get the chance to play against a person it would a whole lot better than playing the computer. So as you can see I am quite the geek when it comes to video games.

What am I a geek about?

After my last blog entry I believe the answer to this question should be obvious. If my favorite artist is J.K. Rowling, then I have to say that I am geeky about Harry Potter. I know, it doesn't seem right for me to use nearly the same subject for two blog entries, but it is positively the one thing that I am most geeky about. I have not read the series only once, or twice, or three times even. I have read all seven of them at least four times, the earlier books I read a few more times than the later ones. I think I have read HP and The Sorcerer's Stone about eight times without skipping a word or a page. I know these books like the alphabet.
If you were to grab a HP book, open it up and flip to a random page, and say the first few words of a sentence in the middle of the page, I can sometimes finish the sentence almost word for word. And if I can't do that, I can at least tell you exactly what is happening in the scene. It is actually a bit ridiculous, I admit, but you must know that I started reading them when I was about 10 years old and I had to wait year after year for the series to finish being published. I was 20 before the last book came out, so the story stuck with me through an entire decade. Hence my obsession. But at least I can say that I am not the only one. Why else would Rowling be richer even than the British Royal Crown?!?!

Car nut

LaTesha, you are one who shares my same passion. For I am a speed freak/geek aslo. I love burning the tires off of any rear-wheel drive car or truck. I love to drift around the apex. I love the spool up turbos and hear the shap blow-off valve or hear the whine of a supercharger resonate my soul. I love fast cars. I have owned an '86 Monte Carlo with a 350 and a '90 nissan 240sx. Last week I got in a street-race driving my friends '06 mazdaspeed 3 against a srt-4 neon and two volkswagon jetta vr4's. The Neon was a tie but I creamed the Jettas. I challenge you to a race, LaTesha, any day! Wow, I just saw a frickin' Ferrari as I was typing this! And a '03 Supercharged Mustang Cobra SVT! A fifth-gen camaro roared by my window that sounded like it had a nasty cam' in it! NICE!

Pino

Italian artist, Pino Daeni, paints the human figure with an array of vibrant colors and intense highlights. His works are painted manily in the mediterrainian were he grew up. He was trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan’s Academy of Brera and has established himself as a great painter in the United States. Being a painter myself, Pino influeces and inspires alot f my major paintings. Although I focus more on the face, I still try to use his methods and techniques to create beautiful art.

Nezabyte

Racing Geek

This was a hard blog for me to do because I couldn’t think of anything that I’m a geek about that isn’t quiet normal. I did come to a conclusion that I’m a geek about racing. Being that I’m a female, I love racing! Back at home my friends and I race four wheelers, dirt bikes, cars, motorcycles every Saturday and Sunday. And of course, I’m the only girl. It doesn’t bother me being the only girl at the race track and the only girl beating dudes in racing! I’ve been to races ever since I was nine years old. I started racing a year and a half ago. In all I’ve won six races. I’m proud of my six wins because people from every part of my area with really nice cars and motors come to the track to set up races. I know most of the techniques in racing and I’m always learning something new. At first my parents didn’t like the idea of me going to races or racing because it is really dangerous. When they saw figured out that I loved racing they began to accept it. I understand the risks that I’m taking with racing but I find it being something that releases a lot of stress. I have my personal four wheeler and dirt bike. My goal is to have a race car built only for the track! Many may say I’m crazy but now I can say that I’m a geek for racing!