“February 29, marks leap day, a day that’s added to the month of February almost every four years—that is, every leap year—to keep the modern calendar in line with the celestial cycles that frame it…” Read the rest of the article about Leap Year from the National Geographic News. Back issues of National Geographic are in [...]
Each year DCAD holds opens houses, “Preview Day,” for prospective students and their families to experience what the College can offer. Preview Days are scheduled for the fall and spring. The 2012 Spring Preview Day will take place Saturday, March 3, 2012, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with lunch provided. Call 302.622.8000 ext. 118 for [...]
When: Tonight, Tuesday, February 28th 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Where: The Saville student center What do I bring?: yourself friends poems free verse paper and pen to compose on the spot ears for listening mouth and lungs for slamming hands for clapping fingers for snapping (Image of Ebon Heath with his [...]
Reviewed by DCAD student Nicholas Whittaker Hunting Houses by Todd Hido is an amazing book that is full of pictures about houses. Hido goes around and shoots pictures of these houses at the golden hour or later. The golden hour is sun set that is the best time to take a photograph. And then he [...]
(a.k.a. Hannah Mulligan) Listen to the sound of ducks and other birds for free online from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology (http://www.birds.cornell.edu).
One of the perks of being a student at DCAD is the various opportunities we are given to present our work to the public. Personally, I have taken part in several of these gallery shows including the annual Student Show, the Arts Gala at the World Cafe Live in Wilmington and the Nature Inspired Art [...]
Brilliant in color and golden in hue, Victory shall be for us tonight. It shall glide and dance in a glass most beautiful, brilliant and shimmering, Bubbling and frothy, And though he shall be with me, I shall be with you. For I, “I owe this to you,” I shall say. The one through which [...]
Flaming Lips – Do You Realize T-shirt Video created out of love, shared in the DCAD Library, and recorded for posterity. http://youtu.be/A6MHZK4OXxQ ”14 shirts. 1 kid. to mushc time on my hands” Listen to the song again and read the lyrics below the video still: http://youtu.be/mkl5ZyVMOME (as uploaded and transcibed by CuppyCakePr0ducti0ns) Do You Realize – that you [...]
(Post continued from Boccaccio help for Writing & Literature II: http://dcadlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/giovanni-boccaccios-1313-1375-decameron/) Bubonic plague… Pneumonic plague… Septicemic plague: “Plague is a severe and potentially deadly bacterial infection.” (PubMed Health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001622) “The disease struck and killed people with terrible speed. The Italian writer Boccaccio said its victims often ‘ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their [...]
“If Love were free from jealousie, I know no Lady living, Could have lesse heart-greeving, Or live so happily as I.” Look up these Subject Headings using a Browse Search in the DCAD Library catalog: BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI, 1313-1375. DECAMERONE. BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI, 1313-1375.–STUDY AND TEACHING. Black Death–England–Fiction. Disease Outbreaks–history. Plague–Europe–History–Fiction. Plague–history. Storytelling–Fiction. PQ4272 .E5 A357 1977 [...]
