Thursday, May 16, 2013

Art City Eagles

I work with some pretty hilarious and amazing people.  We usually do some sort of dance or skit for our end of the year talent show, but this year I had a different idea.  I thought it would be awesome to do a faculty lip dub.  Then, the next night I was sitting in Costa Vida and heard the song Without You but David Guerra and Usher.  My mind started thinking of how amazing summer is going to be without students.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I love my students, but man I am ready for summer.  Ready for sleeping in, working out at anytime except for 5:30 am, eating lunch later that 11:30 am and using the restroom whenever I like, it is heaven.  The song was perfect.  That night, I bought the song, mapped out some ideas with Shoni, the next day we were filming!  It was pretty high tech.  I scotch-taped my digital camera to a wheelie cart and ran around the halls of the school dancing with some of my best friends.  It turned out amazing, if I do say so myself.

Art City Elementary Lip Dub 2013 from McKell Murdock on Vimeo.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Cursive

Remember how cool personal blogs used to be?  Yeah, me neither.  It is a dying art, kind of like cursive.  I only perfected my cursive writing (well.... made it readable) when I found out I had to teach it to my students.  Now I pretend like it is kind of important.  Maybe I should try to bring blogging back.  Maybe not.