A good day to #MakeGoodImpressions and #CeramicBoxes with#LinoleumPrints

Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Aaron Sorkin, Writer and Producer.

Get Out Your Handbooks – Page 16!

Ceramics 1: Let’s continue with our boxes!

7.2Ac: Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.
2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Assignment Sheet is in your GOOGLE CLASSROOM (as always) and HERE.

Small Ceramic Box with Lid and Feet:https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/ac/53/09ac53130e34d0e9f1dba42d1262bff1.jpg

This has been a good week of work. We started with drawing out our plants, cutting into our linoleum, and resolving them for printing. We have also worked with creating successful slabs by rolling them out for today. Finally, today we took all of that information and put it all together successfully and you’ve resolved your boxes. What are three things about this process that you initially struggled with but in the end found a sense of success, accomplishment with? Write it out and then share it with your neighbor. Have a great weekend!

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017

#Friday and #Time to #MakeArt

The Earth Withour Art is just Eh. http://www.streetartutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpeg

GET OUT YOUR HANDBOOKS!

Drawing: Outside for ONE MORE DAY!

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 5 – 10 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.!

David Hockney and LANDSCAPE! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfzaBwYRwf8/VJl_dKYmIUI/AAAAAAAASi0/xG5Ryp0gnqk/s1600/h2-1024x802.jpg — David Hockney and LANDSCAPE! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfzaBwYRwf8/VJl_dKYmIUI/AAAAAAAASi0/xG5Ryp0gnqk/s1600/h2-1024×802.jpg

Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

Studio Art 360: Portraits and Glazing and Critiques!

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environment.

How much of your painting have you got covered? What GOALS do you have for the painting today? DO NOT RUSH – Keep an EYE on the LINES and EDGES.

andy_warhol_strangulation — Andy Warhol and HIMSELF: http://artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Andy_Warhol_Strangulation.jpg

Thick and Thin – How are the colors covering the canvas / lines / underdrawing of the the painting

Advanced Drawing: Crit and THEN… PORTRAITS!

2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

When you work on PORTRAITS, what are the aspects of them that you struggle with the most?

Edward Hopper "Hotel by a Railroad" http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/edward-hopper/hotel-by-a-railroad.jpg — Edward Hopper “Hotel by a Railroad” http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/edward-hopper/hotel-by-a-railroad.jpg

What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

Student Works

Edward Hopper Assignment
Frida Kahlo Assignment

AP Studio Art: Portraits – LAST DAY – Crit Monday

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Based on some of your personal artistic habits of mind – what are you working towards to improve your skills and attitude in the art studio? Are you?

8SHoM — Studio Habits of Mind: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0f/49/39/0f493930bf1be63318268722f7c175e4.jpg

What are things that you need to do this weekend to resolve your image?

May 2, 2017May 1, 2017

#APExam #Tuesday – I #HOPE you are ready!

David Hockney's sketchbook unfolded: http://www.hockneypictures.com/images/3-works/2-drawings/90/large/charcoal_closer_canyon_98.jpg

Drawing: Day 3 of being outside – WARM?

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Let’s get rolling and get outside to draw from 5 – 10 feet away. One page and one drawing. That’s the goal.

Once again… What is your feeling about the process of drawing outside with a book that you made and a particular goal of filling it with observational drawings?

Studio Art 360: GLAZE Day 2

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.

What struggles did you have in the glazing of your work yesterday? How can you avoid that today?

DAG Studios Glazing: http://www.dagworks.com/classes/glazing.jpg

How do you feel about the sculpture / artwork as you have now finished glazing it? What do you hope to do with it when you get it back in a week?

Advanced Drawing: Critique of the FIGURE! I’m SO Excited!

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

What are two ideas that you have taken away from this idea of the PROCESS of drawing rather than the idea of the PRODUCT?

Jim Dine's White Bathrobe - What do you THINK? https://assets.louisiana.dk/s3fs-public/louisiana_090704_32_1.jpg — Jim Dine’s White Bathrobe – What do you THINK? https://assets.louisiana.dk/s3fs-public/louisiana_090704_32_1.jpg

What is one skill that you are going to think about, keep in the mind as you move forward as successful and hard looking drawers?

AP Studio Art: EXAM DAY is HERE! I am NERVOUS as I write this POST – 2 haven’t even BEGUN!

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

If you are not taking the exam – you are working on your PORTRAITS or making darn sure your AP Website is up to snuff. This is a GRADE and for some it will be… well… it’s going to require a phone call.

What did you need to do today to move ahead?

March 28, 2017March 27, 2017

#FigureDrawing and #Abstraction and #Concentration and #Ceramics – #ArtInAction

BabyFace Mug - LOVELY and SOFT... https://img1.etsystatic.com/015/0/5150743/il_fullxfull.456773453_65rm.jpg

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Drawing: Kandinsky DEVELOPMENT and PLANNING

1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

How do you relate the sounds and movement in your choice of music to the image that you are creating in your sketchbook? Tomorrow we begin on the larger sheets of paper. Work out the ideas in colored pencil / watercolors.

Complex / Symphonic Composition by Wassily Kandinsky: http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/256.jpg

Simple / Melodic Composition by Wassily Kandinsky: http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/kandinsky/images/several_circles.jpg

What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and SHAPE in the art you were creating?

Studio Art 360: Character Mugs

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design. A: How will you use the experience of working in 3D change the way you work in 2D in the future?

If you could do something in the beginning differently, what are the three things you might change? Why?

DUE END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY.

Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept. A: Looking at yesterday’s mannequin drawings – What did you struggle with in the process, in the final product?

Mannequin Proportions are NOT THAT BAD - Let's compare to the REAL Human Being - Soon Enough. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/01/e8/23/01e8230d743e16b5e95ac03fc316f7d7.jpg — Mannequin Proportions are NOT THAT BAD – Let’s compare to the REAL Human Being – Soon Enough. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/01/e8/23/01e8230d743e16b5e95ac03fc316f7d7.jpg

What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation and proportions?

AP Studio Art: WORK

WHAT’s the Assignment? If you need another 1, 2, or 3 concentration works – this is your assignment (one at the minimum). You will have your WEBSITE updated with 12 concentration works – PERIOD. You will rework your statements and answers to the AP Questions… ALL DUE on MARCH 30 for CRITIQUE & PRESENTATION.

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

To HELP YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND YOUR current concentration, what is the common thread that is chasing through all of your work? What do you SEE? What is the MEANING? Why is this work IMPORTANT? How are you growing in your work?

Working on your BODY of the CONCENTRATION! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3c/27/f5/3c27f5549efb18133ccdf884815d688f.jpg

What do you need to do in order to get your work online and all up to speed? EXPECTATIONS should not be MINE but YOURS.

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016

#End of the #FirstQuarter is upon us. #MissingWork? #GetItDone! MID WEEK #Wednesday or it is a #ZERO!

Paul Klee – http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/senecio-1922-paul-klee.jpg

#28: An idea is only as good as its execution. It is important that you master your medium. Poorly made work will either ruin a good idea or make the lamentable execution itself the subject. Overly finessed technique can mask a lack of content or can smother an image. At the same time, roughness and imprecision has its place in rendering. One can only gauge the need to throw technique away if one has first achieved the mastery of it. Kit White 101 Things I Learned in Art School

IF YOU ARE MIISSING WORK! This is a GENTLE REMINDER to GET YOUR WORK COMPLETED by WEDNESDAY for a GRADE IN THE FIRST QUARTER! If it is not IN BY 3:00 Wednesday – it is a ZERO in the GRADEBOOK!

Studio Art 360: CLAY and Cups and Figures and Animals

Of the different ideas of sculpture we looked at last week – what do you think you might want to do before we begin to research? Animal, Person… Something else living?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f1/be/78/f1be78c369d916ba7305d19a7e0cc39e.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f5/c3/f2/f5c3f2e63c735df6e67d31c672919478.jpg

https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2012/12/19/14/21/artwork-70887_640.jpg

What are three challenges you see translating your researched ideas into the ceramic Sculpture?

Here’s More from MY TRIPS to Milwaukee.

PAINTING: Hallways and Abstraction

Which of the drawings from last week of the hallways were / are successful? Why? Choose your favorite one and describe the success of it.

avondeveningredtreebypietmondrian — Piet Mondrian: Tree – From OBSERVATION… wait for it this week! http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/avond(evening)redtreebypietmondrian.jpg

What about today’s drawing makes for a successful drawing? Three reasons please.

Mondrian Bio: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-mondrian-piet.htm

Drawing: Kandinsky and YOU!

Reflect on LAST WEEK before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? What do you feel you’ll be doing with the materials that are NEW and CHALLENGING to you?

Kandinsky – Composition – What are YOU working with and on? http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/images/works/256.jpg

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!

AP Studio Art: Concentration DUE Monday – 200 Images Too!

What do you hope to learn / communicate in the FIRST THREE works you are presenting (Next Monday we are presenting the PROGRESS of the works and will be using the RUBRIC to EVALUATE ALL THREE in the FORMATIVE end of things)

romainebig1 — Henri Matisse and his body of work. The images are different but have a similar style – use of line, shape, what are you finding in your work as COMMON?http://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/Matisse/images/Romainebig.jpg

What have you accomplished today that sets you up for success? What is the CENTRAL IDEA for your concentration? Sticky Note Exit Ticket.

Body of Work: Henri Matisse: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mati/hd_mati.htm

HERE is the link to the RUBRIC.

Beginning on the FIRST set of 3 works… What is the CENTRAL IDEA behind your concentration? Remember that you need to have a common thread / common theme / CENTRAL IDEA that ties your works together. Work on THIS with me – let’s explore our ideas!

ASSIGNMENT PART 1: 3 concentration works. DUE NOVEMBER 7.

**Assignment Part 2: 200 Images – All On You Own. Due on NOVEMBER 6, 2016 at 11:59PM. You need to use the school based Google Drive: LINK HERE**

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016

Full Moon Trophies are DONE and ready to be WON!

Thank you Brett Roberts (and myself – Brett had the hard part… I had the tedious part) for creating the vessels / trophies that will be given out to the winners of tomorrow night’s FULL MOON FOUR MILER! I will be unable to attend, but the race should be a great one nonetheless. All the best to the racers, the organizers, and the fans. Be aware of the NEW starting spot at St. Thomas Aquinas in Waterford – thanks to all the construction. The monies made from the trophies go to the Waterford Union High School Art Fund which gives students scholarships to attend art school, aids in young artists attending field trips, brings artists and other art world speakers and demonstrators to the classroom, and helps fund other arts projects that might not be covered by other funding. Run well runners! Now… off for my 12 miler I’ll miss tomorrow.

Frank

2016 Full Moon Four Miler
Run / Walk

Full Moon 4 Miler

13TH ANNUAL FULL MOON FOUR MILER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2016
REGISTRATION BEGINS AT 6:30 P.M.
RACE BEGINS AT 8:30 P.M.
2015 RACE RESULTS

The Race

The Annual Full Moon Four Miler event is one of the few nighttime races that begin after sunset in southeast Wisconsin.

Each participant receives a moisture wicking runner shirt (guaranteed to the first 450 participants), a goodie bag, one post party drink ticket and fruit/snacks. Registration, post run party and awards ceremony will be held in the gymnasium of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish School, 302 S. Second Street, Waterford. This year the route has been revised and will be on the east side of the Village due to construction happening just west of Village Hall. Participants and guests are invited to stay and enjoy the food, beverages and music at the post run party.

The Route

Select Map for Route Directions

Awards are given in 13 categories:

14 & under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69 and 70 & over. Special award to overall male and female winners and to the first place male and female master winners.

Registration

You may download our Registration form and mail or walk-in with payment to the Chamber office at 102 E. Main St., Waterford, WI 53185)

You may also scan the QR code below or go to active.com to register online.

Full Moon Four Miler online registration

Registration Fees

$20.00 early registration by June 8

$25.00 June 9 – July 28

$30.00 July 29 – August 6

Full Moon Four Miler Committee:

Bill Czaja, State Farm Insurance – Full Moon Four Miler Chair
Katy Engels, Waterford Area Chamber Of Commerce
Rayana Kaul, St. Thomas Aquinas School
Julie Lobitz, Principal, St. Thomas Aquinas School
Tina Multhauf & Team, Skyline Landscape & Design
Lisa Pochowski, Patriot Financial

We Need Volunteers!

If you are able to help with setup, registration or being a corner guard, please fill out and return theVolunteer Form. Thank you!

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the Chamber office at: (262) 534-5911 orchamber@waterford-wi.org.

Beautiful Waterford, Wisconsin is located approximately 30 minutes Southwest of Milwaukee, 2 hours North of Chicago and 30 minutes West of Racine.

http://www.waterford-wi.org/fm4m_hmmm.html for more (not really – this is all from that site) information.

May 1, 2015April 30, 2015

#SayItAin’tSo – #Friday in the #ArtRoom

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

Goals:

4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
After our AP Test we are going to present an art exhibition in the gallery. We will mount 3 of the BEST works you have remaining. Please think about those works… which of them are you going to use to represent you?

Are you ready for Wednesday – both online and on mounting boards?

Advanced Drawing and Drawing: Karl Borgeson – Ceramic Artist!

Goals:

7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
Looking at Karl Borgeson’s work, history, and ideas may give you WHAT as you move forward as an artist?How might seeing another artist and their work help YOU as an artist?

We will discuss on MONDAY what we saw today.

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

Goals:

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
How are you EMPHASIZING the idea of PRODUCT or YOU as you create this artwork?

How can ART be used to discuss IMPORTANT things in culture? List 3 ways in swich you could use art to communicate ideas.

December 23, 2014December 22, 2014

46 more minutes of #Studio time in the #ArtRoom. How will you use it #WISELY?

“If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.” — Og Mandino

“And even if you don’t succeed… there is NOTHING wrong with failure (just get back and try again – and again – and again…).” – Frank Korb

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE!

What level of stain will happen on your work? I do NOT know for 100%.

Goals:

1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
What lesson do you hope to communicate to your audience as these works get wrapped up? What is the MAIN IDEA behind your sculpture? 3 sentences – FULL SENTENCES!

LAST DAY WITH Ceramics. If there is ONE LESSON you take away from this experience… what would that be?

Painting: Wrap up before break – what will you come back to?

How are you going to face the time of NOT working on your paintings over the break? Perhaps set up a studio of your own at home?

Goals:

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
How are you going to handle being away from these paintings for almost TWO WEEKS? What do you feel about the benefits of taking home your WATERCOLORS and some watercolor paper to create a FEW self-portraits (or of others?)

What have you done well in your painting today? Step back and have a 3 minute CONVERSATION with a classmate (or two) and WRITE OUT SOME THOUGHTS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOKS so when you come back you can look and remember.. Allow some REAL TIME to have a REAL CONVERSATION here. Listen to one another.

AP Studio Art – PAINT and CONCENTRATE!

Ah Bob Ross… focus on the work you have begun and the happy mistakes that will happen along the way.

Goals:

2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
Day two of the week? Why are you working on for the next 46 minutes to SET YOU UP FOR THE BREAK?

What are you taking home?

TODAY – yes – over break – at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 7 is due in Art and Fear Blog. Who’s NOT READING? I know that reading isn’t on the top of your list of things to do in this class. If you read and get the work done OVER BREAK – you will hopefully LEARN SOMETHING and demonstrate that in your posts. PARTIAL CREDIT – but some is better than none.

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

December 11, 2014December 10, 2014

#Mid #Week is #PAST – What #ART are you doing for the #REST of it?

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

All work that you have missing as of RIGHT NOW… will be DUE… DUE… DUE FRIDAY! That’s it – no more days. The end of the semester is coming up fast(?) 4 more weeks… but I cannot wait on ANYMORE late work. (BTW… progress reports go out tomorrow! SURPRISE!)

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

How has he created a sense of SPACE? How did YOU? http://michaeldcommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/75-collage-FAther.jpg

Goals:

7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
What are you NERVOUS about as we venture into the work of clay?

Working with the clay for ONE DAY now… what do you feel you are going to have to do to REALLY make this sculpture work? How are you going to have to balance and budget your time?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

GREAT TEXTURE! How is this different than acrylic? http://dudleyquintard100.blox.pl/resource/oil_painting_texture03.jpg

Goals:

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
What challenges do you see in the use of OIL paint versus Acrylic paint? What advantages do you see in the use of oil over acrylic?

What ideas do you see coming out from others works as you took the 4 minutes to walk around today and see what others are doing? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

SAM FRANCIS! Great BIG artwork! What’s the practice you are taking to COMPLETE your works? New Ideas – same techniques? MONDAY!

Goals:

Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
What problems are you having with the BLOG / WordPress program – uploading? Writing? Maneuvering around the site?

What do you need to do in order to have ALL your work (made so far this year) photographed, edited, and uploaded to the website? Sam Francis Working:

***ASSIGNMENT in ONE WEEK (NEXT Monday) Adventure Image and Still Life FOCUSING ON and being able to SPEAK ABOUT an ELEMENT and PRINCIPLE Specifically… and MONDAY (Change of HEART) – Website is DUE – Statements on your NAME PAGE, 6 Concentration Works Uploaded, How many BREADTH works do you have done? ***

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Thanks for the nod towards my thoughts on communicating with Parents, Students and the WORLD on Teach.Com. I appreciate the recognition.

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014

#Working on #Art in #Studio is different than just being in the space… Let’s get to #WORK!

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

LET’S TALK MISSING WORK…

Studio Art 360 – Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

Romare Bearden and the SOCIAL COMMENTARY of New York City.

Goals:

10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
What do you currently know about using CLAY? Let’s have a brief conversation…

What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL aspect to your collage in communicating your message of BULLYING?

Painting – Drawing and Painting on your canvas! Let’s hang a show too!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Goals:

2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?

Have you decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait?

AP Studio Art – ONLINE and IN CLASS / Out of the Studio Too!

YESTERDAY at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 5 was due in Art and Fear Blog.

Goals:

1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
How have you been able to use the skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG couple of BREADTH works? How are you being interested in the BREADTH work that you are creating?

Knowing that you are working on two breadth works now, what is ONE IDEA for a BREADTH work that YOU feel would be a STRONG IDEA with SKILL Building ideas? (Or what would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

ADVENTURE – This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Aaron Sorkin, Writer and Producer.