oung Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, generally discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan s life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her...

CRAIG NELSON emphasizes logical order while drawing. He compares his drawing process to focusing a photograph. He builds layers of soft lines and swatches of tone then rapidly sharpens his subject with crisp edges and bold darks.You see Craig Nelson translate angles from his source photo to his paper, as he looks for reference points to guide him. He completes a gentle outline of his subject then dusts in a layer of tone.

Beautiful, positive images, related to the theme of the video, are presented much like a slideshow, while text of various related statements and suggestions flashes ever so quickly, imprinting the ideas on your subconscious mind, almost effortlessly. You don t need to be concerned with reading the text; in fact, it works better if you don t consciously pay attention to it. Meanwhile, the soundtracks, with relaxing nature sounds, empowering music, or a dynamic blend of both, conceal subliminal audio of the same suggestions, that you will probably not consciously hear