Dan Mitchell: Home Page Pictures 2005

Welcome to my primary web site at De Anza College.

If you would like to know more about the courses I teach, click on the Intro to Music and/or Electronic Music links and visit the web sites for the respective classes. You may also contact me directly with questions - contact info is found in the sidebar on the right side of this page. (Email is the best method until about a week before classes start in late September.) Full information about admission and registration is found at the De Anza College web site.

I hope to see you in one of my classes this fall!

Home Page Pictures 2005

Occasionally I put my photographs on my home page. Copies of these pictures are archived on this page. (Photographs are copyright Dan Mitchell. You may link to this page but you may not use these photographs in any other way without advance permission from Dan Mitchell.)

I also post photography at several other web sites. (The following links are not in any way connected with De Anza College.)

December 23, 2005

Winter Oaks. Almaden Quicksilver Park. December 23, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

December 14, 2005

De Anza instructor Roger Letson. Vocal jazz concert. December 9, 2005.

Vocal Jazz. December 9, 2005.

De Anza Chorale. December 11, 2005.

De Anza Women's Chorus. December 11, 2005.

De Anza Vintage Singers. December 11, 2005.

6:00 Daddios Band. December 14, 2005.

8:00 Daddios Band. December 14, 2005.

(All images © copyright Dan Mitchell.)

November 26, 2005

Autumn Leaves. Almaden Quicksilver Park. November 25, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

November 6, 2005

El Capitan and Merced River. Yosemite National Park. October 30, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

October 23, 2005

Oaks, Grass, and Fog. Almaden Quicksilver Park. October 22, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

September 19, 2005

Near Parker Pass. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

September 4, 2005

Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

August 22, 2005

Mt. Winchell. Sierra Nevada. August 13, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

August 9, 2005

Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra Nevada. Bishop, California. August 6, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.

July 4, 2005

Golden Gate Bridge. July 3, 2005. Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.

May 31, 2005

Sunset, Conway Summit, Eastern Sierra. May 27, 2005. Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.

May 24, 2005

El Capitan. Yosemite National Park. May 21, 2005. Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.

April 19, 2005

Mission Peak Hills and Santa Clara Valley. April 16,2005. Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.

April 11, 2005

Panamint Valley. Death Valley National Park. March 28, 2005. Photo copyright Dan Mitchell.

March 18, 2005

March 5, 2005

February 19, 2005

Rocks and Trees. Castle Rock State Park. February 20, 2005.

January 24, 2005

Oaks and new grass on the New Almaden Trail near Webb Canyon at Almaden Quicksilver Park. January 22, 2005.

January 1, 2004

Santa Clara Valley with San Francisco in the far distance. New Years Day 2005.

Recent Posts From My Other Sites

Music 1

	Spring 2008 Grades Posted. Spring 2008 grades are now available via links at the grades page. Thank you for taking my class this quarter and best wishes as you continue on to more classes, transfer, and/or work or other objectives. Have a great summer!

	Movies and Music: A Lesson. If you need convincing that the choice of music has a profound effect on how you experience the visual imagery of movies, take a look at this: (A bit of context here.)

	One More Discussion Topic - the LAST ONE - Has Been Posted. Week 11 Topic - Spring 2008 has been posted. See the topic for a note about the deadline for this one.


Source: Music 1; Updated: 6/30/2008.

Electronic Music

	FALL 2008 ELECTRONIC MUSIC CLASSES. The fall 2008 term begins soon at De Anza College - and now is the time to begin taking care of your admissions and registration if you want to enroll. You can do all of this online at the De Anza College web site. Electronic Music Classes for Fall 2008 The De Anza College Music Department offers a two-course sequence of electronic music classes. The classes are open to all De Anza College students - no, you do not need to be a "music major" to take them. These classes are designed to get you up to speed with electronic music hardware and software including synths, drum machines, sampling, sound design and so forth. The focus is on learning general principles and techniques that you can apply in any style of music and on different platforms and products - and you'll do this largely by creating musical projects at one of the music workstations in our electronic music classroom. This fall we offer two sections of our Introduction to Electronic Music class and one section of our Intermediate Electronic Music class. Most students will want to start with the Intro class, though if you have some significant background you may be able to go straight into the Intermediate class. (Contact me by email for more information.) Introduction to Electronic Music - Music 51 Two sections are offered - sign up for either one: MW at 12:30-2:10, or Friday at 10:30-1:50 After spending the first week quickly getting up to speed using Garage Band (easy program, but there's more to it than you might think...) we move quickly to a professional audio environment, Logic Pro 8. Along the way you'll learn most basic techniques in this program, you'll create a number of small projects and one full end-of-term project, and you'll learn about different types of music that have been made using electronic media. Intermediate Electronic Music - Music 8 We offer one section of this course: TTh at 12:30-2:10 This course continues and builds upon the Intro course and focuses on sound design, sampling, and synthesis using the Reason application and the many powerful plugins found in Logic Pro. We integrate the two programs via ReWire as well. Questions? There is more information in both sidebars on this page, and you can also take a look at course resources posted on this web site. Email me if you want more information or if you have questions about either course: mitchelldan@deanza.edu. See you in September!

	Spring 2008 Course Grades Posted. I have posted final course grades for both the Music 8 and Music 51 classes. After logging in at the web site you should be able to see links to the two reports in the Resources section of the sidebar at the left side of the page. Have a great summer - and I'm looking forward to seeing many of your (and perhaps some of your friends!) in the fall 2008 electronic music classes!

	Open Lab Update - Thursday, June 26. The Electronic Music Lab will be open today (Thursday, June 26) for perhaps as long as about two hours starting around noon. Times are not precise since we are on the final exam schedule this week, but come at about that time if you want time for some last-minute work on your project.


Source: Electronic Music; Updated: 12:31PM PST.

Quotes

	Kurt Vonnegut "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com)

	George Carlin "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com)

	Samuel Johnson "There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." [Quotes of the Day] - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com)


Source: The Quote File; Updated: 7:56AM PST.