10th annual Congo/ Lammers Hoops Tournament
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Pinhole Photography Spring 2014
What is Pinhole Photography?
The Pinhole Camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole – (a pin sized hole in the side of the camera) a light-proof box and a shutter door that is used manually. The students can make them out of just about anything, but we generally use the large oatmeal containers to make our own pinhole cameras. (the oats make pretty good cookies!) The one below was built by Henry Chandler in the spring of 2013.
.The objective of this project is to learn the photography process using a pinhole camera. To be responsible with the darkroom privileges, and helpful with taking care of equipment and chemicals. To take at least 6 excellent A range photos, or 3 excellent photos at home or 1 excellent photo on World wide pinhole day.
http://www.pinholeday.org/
Other links that will help with this project
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/
http://www.abelardomorell.net/
http://www.camera-obscura-lucida-shop.com/CameraObscura.php
Monday, November 4, 2013
Back Stage/Tech Crew
Rules and Conduct
1. Be responsible and helpful
2. Bring cloths you don't mind getting paint on...
3. Be sure that you get picked up at the ending time!
4. read the script and know the story....
We can only have 6-8 Tech Crew back stage so the official backstage crew will be determined by:
1. Days in attendance helping to make props and working on set pieces.
2. Experience working back stage, (trustworthy, dependable and responsible)
3. 8th grade-7th grade-6th grade (seniority)
*We will start with making Props, and Painting the backdrop
Schedule for November 2013
Wednesday Nov. 20th 3:30-4:30 (Room #11)
Thursday Nov. 21 3:30-4:30 (Room #11)
Schedule for December 2013
Monday Dec. 2nd 3:30-5 (TBA)
Tuesday Dec. 3rd 3:30-5
Wednesday Dec 4th 3:30-5
Thursday Dec. 5th 3:30-5
Monday Dec. 9th 3:30-5
Tuesday Dec. 10th 3:30-5
Wednesday Dec. 11th 3:30-5
Thursday Dec. 12th 3:30-5
January TBA
Probably Monday-Thursday
February will be the same as Cast and Crew
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Mr. Congo is Back to School...
The 6th Grade is presently working on Cartoon Cards, and will be starting the tree painting project soon.
The 7th grade just started the metamorphosis animation project.
The 8th graders have started photography. learning how to take photos with film, process the film and enlarge their negatives.
The 8th grade also did a drawing from life activity. The students took turns (if they wanted too) modeling for the class. The students had 5 minutes to capture their gesture with india ink on newsprint. This leads into their next studio project "Modern Painting".
Here is an example of a time lapse video we worked on during exploratory.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
June 23,
2013
Mike
Congleton
1. Call
to Worship
2. Song:
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
3.
Reading:
“It was at this point that Bilbo
stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did the tremendous
things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the
real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in
wait” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
4.
Timanous Prayer
5. Song:
Knocking on Heavens Door
6. The
Talk:
“Now it is a strange thing, but things
that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about and
not much to listen to; While things that are uncomfortable palpitating and even
gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a good deal of telling” J.R.R.
Tolkien, The Hobbit
What does this mean? It means, that we
should have the courage to try new things, to go out the door and dare to
follow our dreams. We have started a new
summer at Camp Timanous, We have left our comfortable homes in hopes of a great
adventure. So now that we are here at Camp it’s time to have that great summer.
Not many people can say that they had
an epic adventure staying at home. We have made that step and NOW is the time
to have that epic adventure! We are
embarking on this summer adventure together.
S/V Camp Timanous and the ocean before
us is this very summer of 2013. Like any sailing crew some are more
experienced, some are brand new, and some get sea sick….BUT we are all in it
together. An ocean of adventure stands before us waiting for us to navigate
it’s vast potential.
Many years ago when I got my first art
teaching position, my wife LG and I lived on an island. We couldn’t afford to buy a house and there
were plenty of comfortable apartment options to rent. We could stay in the
apartment under the calypso singer, or the condo in the clouds over looking the
cruise ships going in and out of the harbor, or there were also places right on
the beach. Instead of these excellent
options we decided with encouragement from our friends that we would buy a
sailboat to live on. We were not expert
sailors or even good ones, in fact I hadn’t done much sailing since Sailing the
winabout with Al Ryder back in my aides year at camp. But we found the courage to buy a 30 ft S2
sloop….and we made it our home. It was
very difficult at first in fact it was difficult throughout the 3 years we
lived on it. It was a very humbling to
admit to everyone whose help we needed, to tell them that I didn’t know how….I
didn’t know how to navigate the 30 ft boat to the fuel dock, or charge the
batteries, or run the refrigerator without using up all the batteries, or
priming the diesel engine when it stalled out or ran out of fuel, or tie more than
3 knots,….and the list goes on. But we learned, and we had some good times on
board our ship. Once when we were out sailing and charging our engine (the iron
jib) the engine stalled out…and would not start again. Now it is difficult
enough to navigate through the harbor with the use of the engine…but without it,
seemed impossible….We had no choice, so we found the courage and the confidence
to sail our beloved vessel through the crowded anchorage and onto our mooring
without the use of the iron jib. There are many stories like this and many
people helped us along the way but the times I’ll remember the most and retell
maybe even exaggerate are the scary and uncomfortable ones.
Your time here at Camp is an
opportunity to try new things, go sailing, or kayaking, or climb to the top of
the wall, or overcome your fear of the dark waters of lanes 5 and 6 on main
dock…. Your adventure might be swimming in Panther Pond At this moment you have
come to a crossroads…one way leads down to a comforting place that is familiar,
another is a new road that might lead to vast opportunities for adventure, and
the potential is limitless. Take the road
that leads you to adventure and new discoveries. I promise you’ll have better
stories to tell.
And now
for our last song we will sing The Weight, in honor of Jack the Dog who passed
away in November of 2012.
7. Song:
The Weight
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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