Marty is:

a) driving to work
b) listening to Howard Stern
c) stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
d) all of the above



A new day is dawning on a new school year! (Feel free to play your favorite driving music as you enjoy my ride to work.)


-Marty

Summer Project Clearance!! Post #1

As the summer continues to wind down, way beyond last weekend's Labor Day celebrations, I have much to finish in the way of "project-based" work. Of course, all hopes were to get a lot more of this work done than I actually did. Oh well, there's always next summer! But for now, here's Summer Project Clearance Post #1:

The collage of crumpled Rolling Stone covers (above) is inspired by the work my Media Arts students did last year while investigating the artistry of Stephen J. Shanabrook's series entitled Paper Surgery. Wild stuff, sure, but really, really great examples of mixing up the message in today's media saturated world. Or maybe it's just a lot of fun to wrinkle up Keith Richard's face more than it already is! And for that matter DiCaprio...and Perry, and Gaga, and Jay-Z and more to come! You can check out the untouched versions of the covers here.

-Marty

104 Days of Summer Vacation...

I am not quite sure how Phineas & Ferb tally up their days off during summer break, needless to say whatever the final count...all good things must come to an end! Boo hoo, the summer's over and the school year's just begun. Anna has her first day of Kindergarten today and I, along with other Hun School teachers, will continue to participate in the "soft opening" to the school year, which really-o and truly-o begins next week. So, in honor of a great summer...here's the "title sequence" to Anna's favorite Disney Channel cartoon (and, I might add, one of the BEST written shows on TV (and that includes Mad Men!!)), "Phineas & Ferb":



p.s. I will still add an entry or two on the blog since the official end of summer doesn't come till September 21st!

-Marty


Video Addendum:

Since the following event, covered in this latest video post, happened during Labor Day Weekend I must upload it on this page! So sue me!! I'm only three days behind in my video uploads! Enjoy the car ride vidage:

Check That One Off...

...the summer to-do list [mine] AND the bucket list [my dad's]!!



A month ago my father, age 83 and a Philadelphian all his life, told me when we made plans to see the newly restored "The Gross Clinic" by Thomas Eakins that he has never been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. INCREDIBLE, I thought. So, not only would we take in the highly revered work of Philadelphia's famous 19th century artist, but we would also make an attempt to knock out a few exhibitions in the venerable old building up the steps that Rocky made so famous.

The following video excerpts were shot [mostly] with the permission of the museum staff. Thank you to anyone who had to put up with my dad for any exchange that took longer than him saying, "You know this is my first visit to the museum and I've lived here all my life!"

A New School Year, A New Hope

After a full afternoon of back-to-school meetings this past Thursday, the School held it's annual "kick off" picnic for staff and family...always a wonderful social event. Afterwards Ang, Anna and I stayed overnight in New Hope at Porches Bed & Breakfast. One more visit (in four years maybe) will make it a tradition!!

Before heading home, we headed down the Delaware River to visit the Yardley Zoo (aka Jim & Kay's home) complete with old friend, Lizardo...




...and new friend Willie (pictured below with Jim & Anna). The pup is appropriately named after one of Mr. Willie Nelson's songs.

WELCOME BACK, HUN SCHOOL TEACHERS!!

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-Marty