If you’ve been on Facebook lately (which obviously you have if you’re here) you know that there’s a battle going on right now… for Cooper City High Prom King & Queen 2010. (Full disclosure, I’ve been asked to make a post about this.)
So we’ve got two groups/fan pages going down here:
In light of todays walkout/fire alarm chaos at Cooper City High to protest SB6, I’ve realized how often CCHS gets involved in school-wide protests/pointless mayhem … and I love it.
Let’s look back shall we?
Freshman year, in 2005, we had three white powder scares causing lockdowns and a police/biohazard team response.
Sophomore year, in 2006, all conga lines were banned from CCHS after the excessive and hilarious A Lunch conga.
Junior year, in 2007, the Senior class president was arrested and expelled for changing grades.
Senior year, in 2008, we had the ID Scandal that sent half the school to Saturday School for switching ID pictures.
What a place.
Miss you Cooper <3 Post other things that have happened!
PS. There is a pink Cadillac parked outside of the building.
PPS. Seriously, here is the Facebook page for stopping SB6.
Above is Taylor Slingerland’s Color Slideshow Project for Photography at CCHS, and when I saw it, not only was I amazed (clearly I’m a sucker for photography), but I knew immediately that Taylor had to be this month’s awesome person.
(Yeah, I’m turning Awesome People into a monthly thing. Sling gets February.)
When Pichardo, the CTV officers and I were choosing people to enter CTV in 2008, Pichardo raved about this kid Taylor Slingerland in his TV1 class. We watched his music video project and my first response was “I don’t want this annoying sophomore in CTV.”
It took until I graduated, but that “annoying sophomore” eventually became one of my best friends.
His photography and film skills are ridiculous and I want him to come to NYU. While he did actually apply here, he also applied to 983 other schools and claims he probably won’t be coming to New York. I’m keeping my hopes up though because A.Katz and I really want him around.
For more Slingerland Photography, check out his Flickr here.
If you’re also a sucker for photography like me, check out the Color Slideshow Projects of Julie Weintraub (here) and Jon Cohen (here) because they are both awesome, as well.
One last thing is that Taylor hates nicknames, so I say we all post some creative nicknames in the comments and I’ll have a poll for the best one next week. Just for you Sling ;)
A lot of people ask me why I go back to CCHS so much. I graduated the year before last, I’m no longer a part of CTV, and I don’t even technically live in the state of Florida anymore. But I don’t care what people say because if I can show up at 9, have absolutely no work required of me, take pictures and learn the ukulele in CTV, go to both lunches, have story time in yearbook, advertise for deandagati.com, and watch CTV at the end of the day all in a place where I get to see people that I don’t get to see for the majority of the year, then I think I’m gunna do it.
Welllllll it’s January 4th. FSU? Back to school. UF? Back to school. Luckily I’m a loser and have 82 thousand high school friends. But wait, they’re back in school too! So where does that leave me? Sleeping till 2:30 every day, yo.
So far 2010 has been nothing special. However, I did have my first Menchies experience with Chelsea and Erin the other day, so that was awesome. And according to their website, they are putting one in New York City later this year! Wooooo.
Right now I’m currently sitting in the waiting room of Gunther Mazda in Fort Lauderdale while they fix my air conditioning. My life is so exciting.
I’ve got this script that’s due tomorrow in Dramatic & Visual Writing that I’ve had my entire trip home to work on, 8 full days, and other than a quick brainstorming sesh with Maxie last night, I haven’t done any of it. While it may not be the best case scenario in terms of school, life, and my future, it can only mean one thing: this was an amazing trip home.
Often when I come home, I give into laziness and sleep for like 23 hours a day and lie around my house for the other 1. While that’s great and all, I managed to avoid it this time. (That’s what Winter Break’s for, right?!) I saw so many people, even made some new friends, and really lived it up SoFla style (except for not at all since I didn’t even go to the beach). Aventura Mall in Miami, bonfires at Monica’s house, reunion visits to CCHS, hiding from Brody’s step dad, and 87 trips to Starbucks made these last 8 days pretty great.
In just a couple of hours I’m heading to the airport to fly back up to NYC where it will be a brisk 35 degrees when I land (I didn’t bring a jacket with me…) and the work can start piling up again. Luckily, there are only 3 weeks until the semester is over and I’ll be home for Christmas!
Apparently my website is getting viewed lately by more than just my friends. I’ve recently discovered that it’s being seen by CCHS teachers like Ms. Harding, distant family members, friends of my parents, and even… my parents. Creepy as that is, I just want to say a quick Happy Birthday to my dad and Happy Thanksgiving to everybody else!
One of the best parts about redesigning deandagati.com was that I got to re-watch all of my old videos. This one is definitely one of my favorites …and most depressing. Click below to watch.
Anytime you go to CTV’s website, cchsctv.com, you’re first shown a simple welcome page with a little Cowboy on it that you have to click enter to get past. When I designed that website 3 years ago, I made that welcome page to show CTV-related announcements and school spirit. They don’t ever update the page anymore, but I recently found a folder full of graphics that I had made during Senior year for the homepage. It was pretty cool to look through them, so if you want to too, click “read more” (there’s 30 of them!).
Okay. I know what you’re going to say. “Dean, you graduated from high school already. Move on.” Well, I’m working on that… but for now I’ve redesigned the CTV Specials page (cchsctv.com/specials)!! It now includes much more from both the senior classes of 2008 (the best) and 2009 (almost as good but not quite). All of the musicals and senior finales are available on this page as well as Best of CTV 2008 and even some of CTV’s live webcasts.
The alumni page (cchsctv.com/alumni) has also been redesigned. In fact, everyone has been deleted from it… so if you want to be back on, send me an e-mail. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean.
One more thing. All of the episodes of CTV from the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year that have always said “Video unavailable” if you tried to play them, are all online now. So go to the video page (cchsctv.com/video), scroll all the way down, and check out some CTV classics.
That’s all.
Have a good last few days of summer!
…unless you go to NYU, then you can have a good last few weeks of summer ;)
