Inspiration: Photos of Pablo Picasso

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Scholastic Roleplaying:If Thoreau's parents asked him to leave Walden Pond and "settle down"

Dearest Mother and Father, I am completely stunned at your suggestion of me to “come home and settle down”. All my life you have supported me in my endeavors, and I did not count my stay at Walden to be an exception. I strongly advise you to rethink your request with the interests of all parties involved. There are many legitimate reasons why I should be allowed to stay at Walden Pond for the current time. 1. As you know, my decision to create a cabin at Walden Pond and to stay there was a mission of self discovery. You have always told me that I was destined for great possibilities and I wish to achieve those possibilities and to make you proud of you son. However, how do you expect me to know what I should participate in if you do not allow me the appropriate amount of time to discover who exactly it is that is undertaking this endeavor of life? I do not wish to go into life without direction or confirmation of what I believe in. 2. You also know that I moved to Walden Pond to discover the meaning of a simplistic life close to nature and void of all excess. I have seen too many examples of vulgar human waste in this life and wish to expose to each individual what life can truly be. How am I to express my writing to this world on the fullness and truth of living a life radically pure of human baseness if I am forced to reenter the very society which so drove me to seclusion by disgust? I cannot stomach the ignorance of civilization so close to me and write of the benefit of living a life so opposite of it simultaneously. 3. Finally you must know my dear parents, that if you force your son to return home at the current time, than it would be no son that returns to you. It would be a garish, empty shell of a son; with all the body but no spirit or sense of affection. For I am in such felicity here among my current companions of water and sky that I cannot presently leave them without opening in my soul a chasm so deep as to rip out the very sense of gratification and joyfulness that it houses. As your son I cannot find it in me, even as I am of age, to pointedly refuse you my companionship if you insist upon it, but as the human that I am, I cannot put on a pretense of happiness or comfort if you make me leave Walden Pond. You may say that it is in best interest for me now to “settle down”, but I say to you- to settle is to die! What if Leonardo da Vinci had settled with being a bastard son or Shakespeare with being a glove maker? What if Jesus had settled with being the son of a carpenter? I will not settle, because I will not die. I will not place the great gift of insight that God has bestowed upon man to petty tasks and ledgers. I will not conform to the foolishly ritualistic demands upon a man’s life. I cannot settle, because I have so much more to accomplish here….. In great affection and obvious passion, Henry David Thoreau Your Son

Shelbfucious say.....

Question the ordinary, accept the extrodinary.

English paper excerpt

There are people out there waiting. There are children out there crying. There is a need in this world. Orphaned children weep in Africa. Desperate people work in Eastern Europe. Hopeless teens bleed in America. There is an outcry of the nations searching for those who are strong enough to speak of liberation, people who are bold enough to condemn oppression, people who are brave enough to stand with a declaration. I ask you, will you stand for something of will you fall along with everything?

Wish upon a Star.

So disney got smart and classy when they commissioned Annie Leibovitz (uh hello!) to create the "Disney Dream Portrait Series." The series uses famous stars and portrays them in classic disney scenes. Disney was the last thing that I'd ever consider stylish, but these portraits obviously are. I'd rooting for Paul Bettany as Robin Hood! Tell me what you think."Where Every Cinderella Story Comes True." Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella"Where You're The Fairest Of Them All." Rachel Weisz as Snow White"Where Dreams Run Free." Jessica Biel as Pocahontas "Where You're Always The King Of The Court." Roger Federer as King Arthur"Where You Never Have To Grow Up." Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan, Gisele Bundchen as Wendy, and Tina Fey as Tinker Bell "Where Imagination Saves The Day." David Beckham as Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty "Where The Magic Begins."Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy form Pinocchio, and Abigial Breslin as Fira from Disney Fairies."Where A Whole New World Awaits." Jennifer Lopez as Jasmine, Marc Anthony as Alladin"Where Wonderland Is Your Destiny."Beyonce as Alice, Lyle Lovett as the March Hare, Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter. "Where Your Every Wish Is Our Command." Whoopie Goldberg as the Genie.

Cherries or Nonsense

Not gonna lie, that's what went through my head when I finally figured out what Bing was. so when I see a company name that I have never heard of before appear at least 3 consecutive times in my life where it previously never existed, i think Some company is suddenly getting a lot of recoginition and power and pretty fast. As odd as that may seem that's what I think, so then of course I get the usual references of "branding of the Beast" and "World-dominating Mega-Companies" going through my head. This may make no sense, but roll with it. Well Bing appeared out of nowhere. It was some very vague commercial on TV. Vague enought to make me curious.Then it appeared next to my homepage search engine. Also odd. When I went to it's page, it included some sort of search and a very large, very interactive picture of a coastal town. It also was very vague, lacking description. Well, 3's a charm, or a warning when apocalyptic companies are involved. So I decided to check it out. Bing is a search engine. It is supposed to give big daddy Google a run for his money. designed to be prettier and more convenient than Google (if possible), it's also created to give more direct search results. So will I now not google world anomalies, but instead "bing" them? An that's where I came to the all-important decision; do I support a search engine that has the name of an oriental cherry, or one that could be an excerpt from a nonsensical poem?VS