I have to confess that in my last e-mail I made a few mistakes. OK well 2 mistakes and an omission. So the true confession edition of my weekly email look at SCA – for week 6 starts now.
Correction 1
After long debate, and a fruitless campaign, I was unable to convince Richard Slaven to change his sir name to my suggested “Slavin”, as typed in the last update. I understand how that trying to erase hundreds of years of history and in so changing his family’s lineage is both unfair to the established good name, and irresponsible on my part. I sincerely apologize to both Richard and his family.
Correction 2
Thanks again to JoAnn Purcell for pointing out in her response to the last e-mail, the mistake I made after attending her class. What I meant to say in my last e-mail was “add the complimentary colour to make it darker, ie. Add yellow to purple or green to red to darken its value instead of adding black.” I have arranged to attend an extra colour class in the future to work out my understanding complimentary colours.
Omission from last week
Thanks to Paul Shecter for reminding me that I did attend a meeting with his latest clients for the GRA class – Design For Social Change. In addition to the major project underway for TAVIS, the class, along with a large group of CAB students, under the guidance of Janet Symmons is developing the research for the next BIG SCA wide project for Traffic safety. Both Paul and Donna Saccutelli will the lead the GRA class and steer the involvement from a large group of SCA programs with the clients. Keep an eye out for upcoming updates and requests for meetings.
Budget!
Jed emerged from a darkened office, victories in a cents (like the play on words there?)… It looks like what he has been able to submit to the powers, is a budget only slightly lower then last year and that was a tremendous feat… considering that most every expense for SCA went up. He was able to move some software purchases to the remainder of this year. We will see what happens over the next few weeks when it is all reviewed with the entire budget.
In Class
This week I dropped in on Phillip Woolf’s 1st semester – AFD – life drawing class and I have the sketchpad to prove it. I have always appreciated the skill in being able to create a beautiful picture from a blank piece of paper, but having had the chance to try it in this environment myself, my appreciation is even greater. YES, Phillip did the best work in my sketchpad, while he used it to demonstrate the techniques of form and structure, but I have a couple of pages in there that I am a little proud of. Look for them on eBay one day or at least my office wall. Feel free to drop in and take a look. Thanks again to Phillip for inviting me. Next week, a Jim Zubkavich animation class!
Print Shop
The SCA print shop prices are going to be slashed!!! We encourage all faculty to pass the word onto the students that the prices are being reduced so please look for more information on this coming from Anna next week.
NHL stars??
I love sharing happy family news from SCA and this week JoAnn Purcell told me about a special moment her children Luc and Madeleine had playing timbits hockey between periods at a Leaf’s game last week. It would seem that Luc scored the only goal and was interviewed on the Jumbo-tron during a break in action. Look for both of the hockey stars to be featured in an upcoming “You Tube” video. Ric, the proud father and a talented filmmaker, had the whole thing covered in HD, from multiple angles, and should be putting together a feature real soon!
In closing
After getting my 3rd request on Facebook for doing “25 random things about me” list, I was thinking if I just had to narrow it down to 1 thing what would that be and I came up with this.
I was a science fair nerd in school and 25 years ago this week, my thoughts where on the upcoming Gordon A. Brown science fair. My best friend at the time and myself put together a plan to develop a “fuel efficient” car. We used the word “hybrid” before it was cool to use it! Our car had an electric drive system that was powered by a large battery array that was charged by both solar panels and a small propane engine that powered a generator. We build a small model of what the car would look like that had a working electric motor and solar panel but no engine (we couldn’t find one that was only 3 inches long!). We placed 1st at our school, 1st place for the board wide science fair and then represented East York at the provincial science fair. In the end, with Marc Garneau (the first Canadian in space) giving us our award, we placed 3rd in our division.
So what does it mean to you? I think we all need to remember where we have been, be proud of what we have accomplished, and remember to share it with others so now its your turn. Take a moment, and jot down something interesting about yourself and send it to me… I would love to share it with others in upcoming confessions e-mails.
Thanks! 6 down and 8 to go.
Jim