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PS3 NETWORK IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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IT CAME BACK ON SUNDAY! WHOOO! (kazoo sounds)

Really Interesting

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Women-Who-Fought-in-the-Civil-War.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Pocket-Watch-Reveals-Long-Hidden-Message.html#

And finally the most appaling:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Missing-Bodyguard.html?c=y&page=2

Frank Gehry Pictures

Sorry couldn't fit them on one post very well.

Frank Gehry

                        “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

I know this wasn't on my To Do List of posts, but I watched an animated show called Arthur.(Yes I still watch it. If you know what it is, DON'T JUDGE ME!) For those who do not know what it is, it's basically about an aardvark 3rd grader who has great and funny adventures. Sometimes they have guest appearances and this time they had a man named 'Frank Gehry' .  Read on if you wish to learn more.

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his own house, have become tourist attractions.

He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His parents were Polish Jews. A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would build little cities out of scraps of wood. His use of corrugated steel, chain link fencing, and other materials was partly inspired by spending Saturday mornings at his grandfather's hardware store. He would spend time drawing with his father and his mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes were there," Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything." It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do things. She would push me."  

Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism. Deconstructivism - an architectural movement or style influenced by deconstruction that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a building rather than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design elements (as right angles or grids). Looking at the pictures makes it easier to understand. 

8 Spruce Street, Gehry's titanium and glass tower in New York's lower Manhattan, opening February 2011Gehry is sometimes associated with what is known as the "Los Angeles School," or the "Santa Monica School" of architecture. The appropriateness of this designation and the existence of such a school, however, remains controversial due to the lack of a unifying philosophy or theory. This designation stems from the Los Angeles area's producing a group of the most influential postmodern architects, including such notable Gehry contemporaries as Eric Owen Moss and Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne of Morphosis, as well as the famous schools of architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (co-founded by Mayne), UCLA, and USC where Gehry is a member of the Board of Directors.

Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California ‘funk’ art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and non-traditional media such as clay to make serious art. Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding". However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist, who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting






Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry

 

 
 

Pictures:
 http://annaxandria-storygirl.blogspot.com/2011/02/frank-gehry-pictures.html

 

Weight

Most people know that the force of gravity on an object is weight. Well, if you didn't you know now. I picked a number (actually my brother did), 82, and found what the weight would be on the other planets, and the Sun.

Weight On Earth - On the other planets/stars:

82 pounds - On The Sun 2296 pounds

82 - Mercury- 30.996

82 - Venus- 74.21000000000001

82 - Moon- 13.666666666666666

82 - Mars- 31.078

82 - Jupiter- 207.378

82 - Saturn- 82.492

82 - Uranus- 74.046

82 - Neptune- 89.87200000000001

 

 

Look how close the weights are for Saturn and Neptune. So close to 82!

Cool Tricks

If you know where the Alt button is and where the numbers to your right are, here are some cool tricks to do.

☺ - Alt and 1

☻ - Alt and 2

♥  - Alt and 3

♦ - Alt and 4

♣ - Alt and 5

♠ - Alt and 6

• - Alt and 7

◘ - Alt and 8

○ - Alt and 9

◙ - Alt and 10

♂ - Alt and 11

♀ - Alt and 12

♪ - Alt and 13

♫ - Alt and 14

☼ - Alt and 15

► - Alt and 16

◄ - Alt and 17

↕ - Alt and 18

‼ - Alt and 19

¶ - Alt and 20

§ - Alt and 21

▬ - Alt and 22

↨ - Alt and 23

↑ - Alt and 24

↓ - Alt and 25

→ - Alt and 26

← - Alt and 27

∟ - Alt and 28

↔ - Alt and 29

▲ - Alt and 30

▼ - Alt and 31

 - (it is a space) Alt and 32

! - Alt and 33

"  - Alt and 34

# - Alt and 35

$ - Alt and 36

% - Alt and 37

& - Alt and 38

' - Alt and 39

( - Alt and 40

And this could go on and on and on and on and on........ like

½ - Alt and 171

═ -Alt and 717

≡ - Alt and 752

╞ - Alt and 454

▌- Alt and 989

╚ - Alt and 456

§ - Alt and 789

{ - Alt and 123

σ - Alt and 741

T - Alt and 852

├  - Alt and 963

ƒ - Alt and 159

± - Alt and 753

╖ - Alt and 951

§ - Alt and 794613

Halloween's History

Hi,here is a post on the history of Halloween.

The roots of Halloween can be traced back to a Celtic festival. Ancient Celts believed that on Samhain, or Halloween, the border between the Otherworld, the realm of the dead, and ours was thinner. Releasing spirits, both harmless and harmful, into this world. The Celts honored their ancestors and warded of harmful spirits. This was probably how costumes and masks came. The Celts probably used costumes and masks to pretend they were harmful spirits, protecting them self.
Samhain was also the time for preparing for the winter. The Celts slaughtered the livestock and had bonfires. They through the bones of the slaughtered livestock into the bonfires. Sometimes they made two bonfires and walked with their livestock between them to cleanse them selves.
That's it for now. My source was wikipeadia. Here a link!

Annaxandria

Vacation

Sorry I haven't post for a while. Yesterday we arrived in Des Moine. It was a really long drive. Today we are going to adventure-land. I can't wait.
my dad brought our I-pad, which I am writing on. It is odd to write on so. I will write more when I get home, with pictures.

Girl raises thousands for Gulf birds

I haven't been posting for awhile because there wasn't much to write about. Well *yay* there is one today!
My mom showed me a article on MSNBC about a girl named Olivia Bouler who has already raised thousands for the Gulf birds because of the oil spill in the gulf (Curse you BP!). Olivia draws and paints pictures of birds and gives them away to people who donate to any of several organizations helping wildlife in the Gulf.

I think it's really cool for her to be doing this for this for the birds.It's really amazing how her drawings can sell.Olivia creates her artwork with heavy stock paper, ebony pencil and watercolors. She has sent out an amazing total of about 150 original illustrations so far. Cool right!


 Here's the link to the article. From there you can get to her Facebook page and her art gallery.

Thank You, Thank You,

Thank You, thank you *bowing*. It nothing really.
Anyway thank you Sniper for nominating me!

#1: I love Twilight.
#2: I don't like cats much.
#3: I like Avatar soooo much.
#4: I don't like movies like Bolt and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
#5: I am great at drawing trees.
#6: If I had to have a favorite person in history it would be Leonardo Da Vinci.
#7: I love annoying my brother ( and he loves annoying me, but such is the circle of life).

I nominate
Vienna.

Thanks again Sniper.

Craft website

These websites has the cutest crafts. My mom found them.

http://craftgawker.com/
http://www.craftsbyamanda.com/2010/04/plastic-lid-ladybugs.html

Lego Creations

Lego Pirate

Lego Pirate With Attachment

                                             

Military Base

Eagle

These are all original. I made them all myself (with my brother, fine). I have better pictures that I can put up, just comment yes.