Teen E-dition @ FPL

Wow this is a talented dog.

My dog just howls and spins.

And you know if the old spice guy says it, it’s true.

This is a great parody of the Old Spice commercials, plus it promotes studying in the library!!    And he rides a book cart!!

Teen artists!  Your submissions for the YA Art Contest are due this Thursday by 8 pm.  You’ll have a chance to win gift cards for the Art Supply Warehouse which is a super awesome art stores in Westminster (all artists go there!) so bring it on down.  The theme is Making Waves and you can interpret that theme however you want.  Here is the Young Adult Art Show entry form that you’ll need to submit with your art work.

Here’s the rules:

Young Adult Art Show and Competition Rules

Theme: Making Waves

ELIGIBILITY
You may enter the contest if you are:

• Young Adult: Between the ages of 13 and 19 by June 1, 2010

Here is the AND

• live in Fullerton, CA.,
• or attend school in Fullerton, CA.,
• or work in Fullerton, CA.,
• or have a nonexpired Fullerton Public Library library card.

RULES

• You may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY.
• A completed and signed entry form MUST accompany your piece.
• Write your name on the back of your artwork in the top right corner.
• You may use any medium to draw your picture (e.g. pencil, pen, pastel, watercolor, charcoal, marker, computer design, collage, mixed media, sculpture, etc). Please be advised, drawings in pencil and pen may not scan well and your artwork may not display to its best advantage on the web page.
• You may use any visual art style.
• Any entry that does not follow these rules will be disqualified.
• Should not be larger than 25 inches in any dimension to allow for display space.  (ie, no larger than 25”x25”x25”)

HOW TO ENTER

• Complete an entry form for your artwork.
• Bring your completed and signed entry form and your piece to the Information/Reference Desk at the Main Library of the Fullerton Public Library or the Hunt Branch.
• Because of the possibility of damage, MAILED ENTRIES ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
• The deadline to enter is Thursday July 29, 2010 8pm.

JUDGES’ CRITERIA

• Creativity
• Artistic Ability
• Interpretation of the theme

AWARDS

• Gift Cards to the Art Supply Warehouse are awarded in the following amounts:
  • Young Adults: First Place, $50; Second Place, $25; Third Place, $15, and Teens’ Choice, $15.
• We will announce winners in August and entries will be displayed in the Main Library’s lobby.
  • We may also display scans of entries on the library website http://www.fullertonlibrary.org
  • the library’s teen blog http://www.fullertonlibrary.org/yablog/
  • in the teen newsletter
  • and in other promotional material
• An impartial panel of judges will determine the 1^st through 3^rd place winners.
  • Teens’ Choice will be decided by the Fullerton Public Library’s Teen Advisory Group.  Members of the TAG are eligible to enter the contest; however they will then be unable to vote on the Teens’ Choice winner.

They’re actually really cute and it’s amazing how much you can recognize from just very simple shapes.

Click on the above link for the rest of them, and can you come up with any other ideas to remake a movie poster just using a very simple design element like these??

This is a fun website which is supposed to analyze your writing style and compare you to other famous writers.

When I entered a sample of the novel I’ve been working on forever, I got!

and got the same result when I put in sample from my blog.  Yay!!  I can one day too be a famous horror author!  So go to the website, like put in a couple of paragraphs from your latest essay and see who you get!

Here’s an LA Times blog post about it too.  I guess it’s the new thing to do!

Well this is ballet but they’re having a lot of fun with it.  I saw them perform when I was still in college and I’ve never liked ballet so much.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Not so much…and if you are finding stuff like this and you’re not sure where to check and if it’s true, then you need to go to Snopes.  Snopes is a website dedicated to fact checking internet urban legends, hoaxes, and scams.

Click here for a random urban legend.  (Note some of these may not be appropriate for all ages, be warned!)

But I use the website when I get emails like, don’t use this kind of shampoo b/c it’s got this chemical that they use to degrease ovens and it’ll burn your hair off and I just go and check the validity of that claim.  Sometimes they’re true, sometimes, people are just nuts.  Also, check to see if something is true before you start forwarding it all over the internet!

Bunnies need to be snorgled!!!  So fuzzy!!!  Dude, why are so many weird animal videos from Japan?

Ever wonder why people are such horrible witnesses?

This yahoo article talks about how we selectively pay attention to things.

Watch this video and count how many passes there are by people wearing white shirts only. Not by people in the black shirts.

How many did you count?  I actually have no idea b/c the real point was if you noticed the guy in the gorilla suit walking through, beating his chest and then walking off screen.  I guess most people miss the gorilla b/c they’re so busy paying attention to the white shirt guys!