I was born in Brooklyn and at the age of 3 moved to Flushing, Queens.
I went to St. Nicholas of Tolentine for 8 years then Francis Lewis HS. I Worked for Radio Shack and Lafayatte Radio Electronics. I started DJaying at Queens collage and other NYC night clubs.
I worked for a fire alarm company for 17 years then swiched to the computer industry I never looked back.
I still work in the computer information technology arena.
I worked for Firecom, Krobra Micro, The Dalton School, HBO, MZ Berger, The New York Philharmonic, The New School University, Young and Rubicam and I now work for LimitedBrands - Victoria Secret Beauty.
I was one of New York’s top DJ’s in a few clubs. I still have over 2000 albums. All from the late 70’s to the early 90’s.
My turntable of choice is the Technics 1100 turntable. Urie Mixer
I was sent to Nikon School of Photography by my HS because of my talents in photography.
My passions are Photography, Mountain Biking and technology I use this to capture things in a different perspective and a point of view not seen before.
If you have a passion for photography or Mountain Biking check this out.
Meetup is the best way to network with people with a common intrest.
Here are a few quotes that I like...
Our
Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles
of A Course in Miracles
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not
our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all
meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let
our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others.”
"Be the photographer that people hire because of the way you think, not because you're a guy with a camera."
"Success is not about the photographer with the best equipment, it's about the photographer who can think. Thinking photographers don't take pictures, they make images."
"The cameras, lenses, film, lights, props, models -- they're all ingredients, available to everyone. It's how you mix them that makes the difference."
- Jack Reznicki (Studio & Commercial Photography)
FUHGET ABOUDIT
(forget about it)
What I hear I forget
What I see I remember
What I experience I understand
"Just as all creations are one with the universe, we too be one with
each other" Stevie Wonder"
"If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the backs of those who have
gone before us" (African Proverb)
"Yes if you can't be a pine on the hill, be a shrub in the valley, but be
the best little shrub on the side of the road - be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway be a trail.
If you can't be a sun be a star.
It isn't by size that you win or fail - be the best at whatever you are."
Dr Martin Luther King.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every once in awhile, during our short stay on earth, we meet very special
people.
A person that is very easy to love.
A person we never, ever forget, even if we only know them for a short time.
Knowing them makes our stay here a better time, and a better place to be.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think
Socrates
Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught. Winston Churchill
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do.
Goethe
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
John
Powell
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Learning is not a spectator sport.
D.
Blocher
For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivated.
To be motivated, they must become interested. And they become interested
when they are actively working on projects which they can relate to their
values and goals in life.
Gus
Tuberville, President, William Penn College
The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered
or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in
experience.
Carl
Rogers
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(b.
1926). Television documentary, BBC1, 6 Feb. 1992.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first
syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry
David Thoreau
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which
they can learn.
Albert
Einstein
The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach bid you to enter the house
of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
Kahlil
Gilbran, Syrian symbolist poet and painter
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply
meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested
in the event.
Edward
Gibbon "Memoirs of my Life" (1796)
Retention is best when the learner is involved.
Edward
Scannell, director, University Conference Bureau, Arizona
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman,
he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman,
whatever he knows is bad for him.
Oscar
Wilde, "Lord Fermor, in The
Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is
nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark
Twain "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
It takes two to speak the truth,--one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry
David Thoreau
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived
of fundamental learning, of those who have been
kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items
that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective
skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning
that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself,
can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental
learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole
function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a
category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of enquiry, from
philosophy.
John
Berger, British author, critic.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing
with new eyes.
Marcel
Proust, French novelist
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires
William
Arthur Ward
The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.
John
Holt
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.
F. Skinner
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar
Wilde "The
Decay of Lying"
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio
Paz
The road to wisdom?
Well,
it's plain and simple
Thanks for stopping by
Digerati \dij-er-ät-é\ n.
People interested in digital revolution. (digital + literati)
Reference to a vague cloud of people seen to be knowledgeable, hip, or in-the-know in regards to digital revolution.
Yours truly,
Derrick James Tempro
