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Two fascinating blogs I found recently:
- A British couple, taking a two-year bicycle trip from England to the tip of South Africa, recording the sounds they encounter listentoafrica.com/
- A fellow who travels the southern edge of the Sahara Desert recording local music sahelsounds.com/
Terrific work. Makes you want to grab your passport.
- Gary Deckard
I was in an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in LA this summer showcasing Kokeshi dolls. It made the news: youtube.com/watch?v=N4kVk402JnI
My kokeshi is the Siamese cat one. Here's some links as well:
kokeshi-from-folk-art-to-art-toy.html
latdamuseum.org/kokeshi.html
janmstore.com/cuko201.html
- Macoe Swett
Here's a link for a blog I started for AIO/P Faculty - would love for folks to join in! rmasi.blogspot.com/
- Robin Masi
Here’s a tidbit for the newsletter:
I was recently invited to present a lecture on my pinhole photography and scannography work at SUNY College of New Paltz in New Paltz, NY. Here’s a link to a video of the lecture for anyone who is interested in watching: imsnp.mediasite.com
- Margaret Helthaler
Here is my photo, design and computer science blog http://shankswickedresources.blogspot.com/
- Christine J Shanks
CALL FOR ARTISTS: The End?
The Mayan calendar anticipates that the world will end on Dec 22 2012. Its coming up! Brace yourselves for the end! Or, at least, make some art about it. Make, find, compose or generate something that speaks to what needs to happen, be said, repaired, experienced and/or put forth between now and the end of the world. Your work may be any size, any medium, and any message, that can be legally mailed. You may also submit digital audio/visual material, in jpg, mp3 or mpeg which will be displayed onscreen. Files should be compressed before emailing.
All work received will be exhibited in the next Big Bang!
Our next group exhibition will be Saturday 27 March 2010.
Studio Big Bang
82 rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris.
The exhibition will include an area devoted to the mail art project. All mail art will be exhibited and all participants will be listed in the program. Artwork will not be returned to the artists, although you can arrange to pick it up. Artists who participate will receive a jpg of the final installation.
Please mail your work before March 10, 2009 to:
Big Bang c/o Hannah Judson
1 avenue Gallieni
77590 Chartrettes
France
Check us out at www.BigBangArts.com <http://www.BigBangArts.com>
Include your name, hometown and email address and anything you wish to say about your work. Email me with any questions: hjudson@hotmail.com
-Hannah Judson
I have good news for the newsletter! I was honored as the November Artist of the Month at the Venice Art Center, the largest community art center on Florida's Gulf Coast. They offer classes, galleries, a gift shop and a cafe. I have work on display in their shop and have been asked to teach Furniture Design classes in the Winter.
- Jeanette Moore, ASFD
Fun book signing at the United Way Book Fest in October, Syracuse, NY. After the books signing, dinner at Coleman's Irish Pub with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Here is a picture (click image above) of the leprechaun entrance to the restaurant. - Anne Catharine Blake |
Other news! This year I have an Illustration, "The Cat at the Tree of Life Door" in the Society of Illustrators 20th Members Show-- Exhibit: Dec 2-31, New York, NY. TO see details click the image above. |
Gayle F. Hendricks, adjunct AIOP is doodling. My colleagues who watch me doodle thru meetings have encouraged me to save my doodles rather than recycle them into oragami or snowflakes. They say they have interesting pattens. The result of these conversations is a doodling blog: doodlingmydaysaway Some are good, others bad, and some okay. I'm attempting one a day, but so far that hasn't happened. Hopefully by the new year. - Gayle F. Hendricks |  v |
Below: An ugly brown patch. Placed in the right context. Voila. To the right, figure drawing (click to enlarge). -Joe Podlesnik |
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Here is my submission for the newsletter, if you can use it. - Beverly Dennis Note from JP: This is an entertaining narrative on a kitchen remodel - and Beverly, I sympathize. My own (ongoing) challenge is concrete (as in driveways, steps, etc) and finding a balance between licensed (costly?) and unlicensed (questionable) contractors. My experience is that Design can often be more about politics, diplomacy, and a good contract than Art. |
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Here are three of my acrylic paintings that you may be interested in for the newsletter. Titles: |
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Here's a recipe I used to use in my restaurant for the holidays... | |
News from Lisa L. Cyr: The Artist’s Magazine online blog has an interview posted about my work and most recent book project tentatively entitled Experimental Painting which is set for release in the summer of 2011. Check it out! My book entitled Art Revolution hit the stores running in July 2009. In less than a month and a half, it has almost sold out of the first printing! The book has also been on the Nielsen BookScan’s Top Fifty Bestseller list for the past eight weeks in the art category of adult non-fiction. On the online talk show called SiDEBAR: Comics, Art & Pop Culture, they recommend to their listeners Art Revolution as one of the must have books of the year! | |
Humor
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:
- Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
- Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
- Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
- esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
- Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
- Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
- Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
- Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
- Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
- Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline..
- Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
- Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
- Pokemon, n.. A Rastafarian proctologist.
- Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
- Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
- Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
How to know when you've made her angry...
Top 10 ways to tell the economy is bad:
- I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
- I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"
- CEOs are now playing miniature golf.
- If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
- Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
- McDonalds is selling the “1/4 ouncer”.
- Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
- A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
- Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
- The Mafia is laying off judges.
Caption - Time: Some people have too much of it...
Interactive Map of Newspapers
Just put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the newspaper headlines pop up...
Double click and the page gets larger....you can read the entire paper
on some if you click on the right place.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left side of Germany will
pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of course). AND, this site
changes every day with the publication of new editions of the paper.
Teaching
Hey people!
Here are my resources I share with the students and faculty. I also havemore information in the FND134 week 3 lecture area.
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Photographing your artwork
- Ellyn Norris
This morning I made a game out of the vocabulary for the week.
Background: I look through the online lecture and select a vocabulary
list for each week. I post the list at the beginning of the week and
encourage students to use these words in their comments for the week.
Of course the vocabulary also relates directly to the assignments.
Game: Here is a game out of assignment/vocabulary relationships to
calm student worries over fast gesture drawings.
Thinking, seeing, and drawing quickly has many professional
applications such as capturing visual ideas in meetings with clients
and teams. Learn to enjoy quick sketches. In this class your quick
drawings are not finished art works, they are warm ups. The one
minute poses are to get your eye and drawing muscles warmed up. The
10, 15 minute poses are for you to set a personal goal.
** Play the One Drawing One Goal Game**
For each pose, set only one of these goals to yourself by saying:
In this pose I am going to work on proportion.
In this pose I am going to work on value and shading.
In this pose I am going to work on contour.
In this pose I am going to try using my eraser as a drawing tool.
In this pose I am going give my model an abstract value in the
background and see if I can get more depth into my drawing.
This is a good pose to concentrate on movement.
In this pose I am going to work on volume and mass - see page 18-19 in BFDT.
In this pose I am going to work on foreshortening.
With a clear goal in mind for short poses you will not be
disappointed, you will be doing focused drawing to practice one
specific aspect of life drawing.
Eventually you will be able to naturally put them all together - but
for now - concentrate on playing with one skill at a time.
When you post the drawing tell us your specific goal for that drawing! Onward!
MORE...
I found a way to post actual images into the message board. Have
other instructors been doing this in the new platform? Can students
do it too?
THE ILLUMINATED REPLY THREAD
Here's how I get an actual jpg into an assignment thread. I'm sure
there are other methods. Let's share them.
I have a Google account and use Google documents. In Google documents
I keep my class notes for each week. You can upload images into an
open Google doc via the Insert drop down menu> select Image. Once the
image is converted into a Google doc you can cut a whole chunk of text
plus image from the Google doc and paste it directly into the reply
box in the thread...and the image appears directly in the thread.
For example when explaining about a student's use of value, I can post
the image of the student work, an image of a value scale for visual
comparison, plus my comments on using value to achieve a sense of the
volume of a muscle.
The illustrated comment is a very direct method of illustrating a
visual point and I am collecting and creating a number of images to
use to illustrate points that come up routinely in class.
Any other tips on the new platform are most welcome.
- Honoria Starbuck, Ph.D.
Problem Letter Templates PDF by Bob Koons (Former FT Faculty)
49 letter templates This is a GREAT resource and covers situations from plagiarism to flaming. Approx 1.75 MB PDF download
Photoblogs
A cactus field/farm outside of Ramona, San Diego. We were on our way to photograph streambeds in Black Canyon as models for our own streambed being constructed in the backyard for drainage. I assume these are being grown for nopales. To learn more about nopales click on the image. - JP
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