What Would You Choose?

                                                                    Freeze Frame
My best Contemporary Sport choice would be when The Kentucky Wild Cats Basket Ball Team  won the NCAA Championship. The year was March 12, 1998 the coach was Tubby Smith and they won the national title with the score of  Kentucky 78-over Utah 69. Kentucky  won the victory on March 30, 1998 at the Alamondome in Texas. They had played a total of 63 games that season. Kentucky beat Utah that March and if I could freeze frame one moment it would be when Wayne Turner #5 made the buzzard shot and made Kentucky score 78!!. This shot was beautiful he was open and took the shot allowing Kentucky to be in the lead. This would have to be my contemporary sport freeze frame. Kentucky has won the Championship a total of seven years 1948  ,  1949 ,   1951 ,  1958  ,  1978 ,  1996 , and in 1998. 

It has been four years since a win. COME ON KENTUCKY I NEED A NEW FREEZE FRAME!!!!

Austin Minton

How "Place" Shapes Our Way of Thinking

                                        


                                                              The Place I Grew Up

My place isn't in the crowded city, or near a beach or even near a village.My home is in the country.I live on farmland. My Grandfather bought this land before I was even born. Then when when my Dad got married to my mom he sold them land for one Dollar? My parents later build a house on this land.We still live here today and this is were I have grown up.I love where we live it is so peaceful and calm.The night time is my favorite time. You can always see the stars in the night sky.  Now thats something you don't see in city. I love how when in the summer everything is green and if you look out across the field, sometimes it might catch your eye because it looks blue.This reminds me why they call Kentucky the Bluegrass state. I love the sound of the crickets in the evening just before night fall and in the early morning you can open up your windows and hear the birds singing I enjoy our huge garden every year It is a lot of work , but man it is good eaten..I love the blue sky and no tall skyscrapers. I love the Fall because the trees paint a colorful picture all around us.The leaves begin to fall and me and my sister use to love to build a mountain of leaves and jump in them.I love the winter because all the leaves have fallen off the tress and now they are bare and you can see through the woods ,then the snow comes and it is beautiful.The only foot prints is ours.We love to go outside and build a snowman. oh and we have awesome hills in the back field for riding a our sleds.My grandfather and father recently bought all the land around us.The purpose was so that no one else can ever build close to us.We don't want the expansion of the city or people around us to move in.We like that we have privacy and peace. So you see I live in what I call God country and I don't ever want to leave.

Austin Minton

1-2/ Blog Watching a Dance

                                                            

                            Watching a Dance 

While watching this film with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” I discovered how the force of elegant this dance looked and romantic. They look weightless to me. It’s almost look like there floating. The time and space is flawless. Fred is the choreographer and Ginger is following his lead. This is an artistic dance. They both express their graceful passionate feeling, then all the sudden the force and energy changes the tone of the music and dancing becomes more intense. The space between them changes with the level and direction is a different pace; it did change the mood and tone to fun and upbeat. 

Then the rhythm would change again going right back into the first sound of soft and elegance. There seem to be a pattern on this video, the mood of the music and dancing would change up and down with the time of the beat and tempo. You would be watching and the place in my mind would be relaxed and then it would change my mood. I would want to start tapping my feet. Each time it would set a different mood and performance, not just for the performers but for the audience as well. I really enjoyed this video.

Austin Minton

Personal Experience

                                                              My Personal Experience

                                                                       Lion King

My personal experience with theater would be when I went to see my sister star in her role in “The Lion King”

There was a live audience. She played the role of a bird. I have watched the original "Lion King" on television. and DVD a million times! Watching this play onstage was entirely different from the movie screen. The theater was a different reflection. The curtains would open and you would see a different scene every time. The different settings would appear and you would have to watch out the scene to know where the setting was.The acts went along with the same story line in" Lion King" The performance was really neat. You would be drawn into the performance. There was exciting music in every scene. Some one the students even sang in this play.You could tell when they were singing that they had drawn themselves into that scene and was going to that place and time in their mind. Like a story book. The costumes were amazing. The costumes were a work of Art and you could see all the hard work that the students and teachers had put into the whole performance.

 The curtains would close and every time it opened you would get excited to know what’s behind it. To me watching this production on theater was most interesting, the students really made the play come to life. It was funny, better drama, and conflict you had a conflict with the Protagonist and Antagonist. The purpose was to have fun and bring this movie to real life.I was so proud of my little sister.She was so excited and I'm glad that I had this personal experience because it made me look at theater in a whole new light. I LOVE IT!!

Austin Minton

Blog Portfolio

                                                                        A Short Play

Scene

(The camera focuses on Jonathan Strode’s son and his friend running down the quiet street of Alpine. They come across the abandoned Banjo house)

Tommy Strode- (staring at the house) what are we doing here are parents told us not to be around here.

Charlie Macomb- (with attitude) I just want to see this place before we go over your house. 

Tommy Strode-(Tommy turns around towards Charlie) but Charlie were going to get in trouble besides do you know who lives there?

Charlie Macomb-(ignored) who?

Tommy Strode- (shaking Charlie’s shoulders) The Boogeyman! 

Charlie Macomb- (pushes away Tommy) geez you’re a real pain! There’s no such thing.

Tommy Strode-(high pitched) it’s true. My daddy’s moms meet the Boogeyman once! With her two eyes

!

Charlie Macomb- (in sing song) ah baloney! There’s no Boogeyman and I’ll prove it.

(Charlie steps forward to the steps)

Tommy Strode- What are you doing?!

Charlie Macomb-(turning around) I’m going to prove to you that there is no Boogeyman so that you can stop whining like a little baby.

Tommy Strode-(waving his hands yelling) NO! NO DON’T DO THE BOOGEYMAN WILL GET YOU!!

(As Tommy says this he walks toward up the stairs and toward the door)

Charlie Macomb-(teasing and yelling) hey Tommy! Look! (Changes into creepy voice) I’M THE BOOGEYMAN!!! (Growls and roars) 

Tommy Strode- (worried) please get down from there! Please!

(Charlie walks down the stairs and goes toward Tommy)

Charlie Macomb- see there’s no Boogeyman

(They walk away from the house. The camera focuses on a shadowy figure at the houses window then walks away)

The end 

Austin Minton 

Unit 1- Introduction. "Appreciating the Arts" By Austin Minton

Hi my name is Austin,

 Welcome to my Blog. This is my third year doing home school. and my first Blog. I was born on December 24,1996. I am 15 years old. I live in a small community in called Wingfeild in Kentucky. My family and I are Missionary Baptists and we try to live each day serving the Lord. My Dad is a engineer at Sun Products and is a preacher as well. My Mom set up her own cleaning business and is my teacher for life.I think she has the most important job. I have a little sister named Hanna.I feel very close to my family. I like to spend time with my Dad we go hunting together and we usually cut and stack wood on weekends.I like to help my mom around the house.She usually gives me chores to do.I love to pick at my little sister, she is an easy target, but the truth be told Hanna is the one who lives to taunt me. I have two grandparents who live right next door.They are both very important people in my life as well.I try to go visit them everyday.  We have two dogs.One is a lab named Jade and the other is a Yorkie named Briley. We live a pretty simple life.
  My hobbies include writing, telling stories, drawing, swimming, exercising, and spending time with my friends/ family and oh and I like telling jokes. I have always wanted to be a writer or an artist. I have been trying to learn my own style of drawling.I can draw anything,but I haven't really found my trade mark yet. I just keep my options open. I used to be in public school I didn't really like public school. It was so boring and my parents didn't feel like I was reaching my full potential in our school district.Then we  decided to try being Home schooled and we enjoyed it a lot. I enjoy being a part of Bavel and I have learned something new each and every year. I hope you enjoyed learning a little about me!!

-Austin Minton

“Unit 2 Elements of Music Assignment 2 Blogging my Experiences”

My personal experience with music happened when one day my Grandparents bought a piano that could play different songs. I listened to “Mozart’s Moonlight Sonata” and I got obsessed with this song and the melody. I wanted to learn how to play this song so badly. It made me feel calm, and when I listen to it I could almost fall asleep. This song also had sadness to it to.

 This was important to me because I could connect with this song. When I would listen to the melodies and rhythm I could connect with from within and I would have these emotions. Sometimes it would make me feel emotional and still. I am very familiar with Mozart’s work, but this piece is to this day my favorite element of music. Later I learned to play this melody on the piano and I’m pretty good with the starting point. I haven’t gotten thus far yet, but every once in a while I will play this song for my own entertainment. It has a slow, calming tempo with a medium chord to the sound. Learning how to play the first melody of this song has really given me a different look at the musician. I could see how when Mozart was playing, it must have just sent him into a whole other world and mind set. I definitely have a respect for his work. It is not only a key to me, but I see it “Art”. When a song can take you to a different setting in your mind and you can paint your own picture from this beat, to me that is a master peace.

Austin Minton