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FEATURE
Florian Shasky is more than the school librarian
Shasky works with Zarcone every year to assist IB History seniors with their historical investigations and to He metal sculpts in his free time, teach a seminar about advanced reprovides classified texts to IB His- search methodologies. Zarcone said Shasky has a wealth tory students, has traveled and studied around the world, and is known of information. Shasky, who said he has a “housefor being ful” of books, somewhat photos, manureticent scripts, letters about his and other texts, arcane often shares past. Every articles of his student has personal collecchecked tion with stuout a textdents. Shasky, book from an avid reader, him or is currently balhidden a ancing Suzanne cell phone Collin’s young from his adult novel The ea g le-like Hunger Games watch, but and Richard many do Muller’s Physnot know ics for Future that FloFlorian Shasky has taught a metal sculpting Presidents. rian Shasky “I wanted to is much seminar to IB Art for the past two years. find out what more than students are reading and learn more the school librarian. As I sat down and turned on my re- about what they are interested in,” corder, Shasky informed me this was Shasky said. “I’m a curious reader.” Shasky is also a modern and abthe first interview with the press he stract sculptor, art teacher Mozy da has allowed in over 20 years. “I normally don’t go after publicity,” Costa Pinto said. For the past two years Shasky has Shasky said. “I’m very private. I don’t twitter. Unless I’m very cold, and then led a two-day metal sculpting workI tweet.” History teacher Karin Zar- shop for da Costa Pinto’s art class, cone said Shasky is an enigmatic man. in which he also shares his personal By SARINA GROSS Editor-in-Chief
Photos courtesy of Mozy da Costa Pinto
Shasky helps senior David Burt with an art project. supplies and tools with students. “His help and his connection to IB Art, and not just IB Art but also the art department, goes beyond these workshops,” da Costa Pinto said. “He is one of our strongest advocates for art education and art involvement at Sequoia.” Shasky started metal sculpturing when he was nineteen years old and said he has a lot of fun teaching the workshop. “Here are some [pictures] of the metal sculptures that the students made. . . we had them in a case here in the library,” Shasky said with a smile as he showed me the pictures on his
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things depending on the person,” Renkel said. “It could be a place to look at cool pictures or it could be a representation of your dreams.” However, like with most social networking sites, it’s easy to become sucked into Tumblr for hours on end. “It’s a procrastinator’s best friend,” Renkel said. “It’s addicting because
Blackberry. “Arn’t they nice? The students are very talented.” In addition to being a talented metal sculptor, Shasky also has a knack for words. He teaches a seminar on etymology and has a word-of-the-day. Shasky said he tries to pick an unusual word-of-the-day to add to the entertainment of learning new words. Shasky said working with teenagers is a happy challenge. “He treats them like they are adults and like they are sophisticated,” Zarcone said. “He holds them with very high regard. Sometimes the students don’t realize that themselves, but that’s what’s going on.” once you see one picture you like, you scroll down the page to try and find another picture you like.” Despite that, Tumblr can be twisted, tweaked, and designed to suit everyone’s desires whether it be a place to vent your soul or a place to waste time. “Some people say [Tumblr] is just a place to pointlessly re-blog pictures,” Hoke said, “but I actually think it’s a pretty productive way to pass time while pointlessly re-blogging pictures.” Indeed.