"What Remains"

The first time I ever saw "What Remains" Sally Mann freaked me out BIG time, although the second time around I noticed things I hadn't before. Things like the horse with a mask on and when she was talking to her daughter about doing another show of the children her daughter seemed a little uncomfortable.

This time around I also found it interesting that because the escapee died on her property her whole theme of taking photos and view on life/death itself changed. She got so interested in death that she contacted a local testing area of decomposing bodies and recieved permission to take photos...(that's dedicated right there).

Sally Mann is just different, she is a different thinker and therefore unique.
and oddly enough if not for her the images she has taken would be non existent and not be there to provoke the questions that they have.

Learn how to screenprint your own t-shirts

I remember when we painted both sides of the screen, it didn't work out well. This looks super simple and easy to do. Those boys with their howling red eyed wolf shirts are super cute. It'd be neat if we could do something like that. The actual screening process though looks do able and I am super excited to do it in class.

Short Letterpress Documentary (Wonderful)

That letter press is scary, he almost got his hand cut off when putting that paper in there.

It's interesting how there are examples of text that is multicolored, I wonder how they did that, cause they put all the ink on thatt big circle then it gets spread around by that roller so how do you differ which letters get one color and which letters get another.

Fall of Autumn Filmstrip: Letterpress Printing

wow, guide pins, coppers and brasses, inking and printing, chase and furniture, quads, leading, and job cases sounds like fun. Can't wait!!

Design by the Book - Episode 2

I like how the librarian was able to pull interesting books for everyone who came in. I could imagine spending a whole day looking at those books, they all looked so interesting.

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

"Children are not afraid to be wrong", now that I have heard this I can agree and how he says we aree educating people out og their creativity. The only time I have seen a child afraid to be wrong is in school.

I agree with him on the whole we have to change the way kids learn. Why is it that every child is expected to learn in the exact same fashion. Several teachers even go through this on the first day with their class, they hand you a survey that tells you whether you learn through sound, or through vision, or through kinesthetics. If it is proven that people learn better in different ways then why is everyone expected to learn the same? and excel in the same areas like math, english, or sciences?

Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

memo to ms. martin: you showed us this video in class last year.

The point she makes about "genuises" or muses and how in the renaissance there were no more "genuises" and how that is too much for one person is interesting, how she said that it was like a protective wall, if you made something that sucked "everyone knew your genuis was lame".

The first time I saw this video I loved the thunder barreling poem, and how the woman would run into her house to grab her pen and paper to write. I thought that it was such a amusing way to think of your creative process. And the guy in his car hearing a song and trying to remember it and yells at the sky "excuse me do you not see that I am driving?!?! If you come back later I can nuture you, otherwise go bother someone else".

and when she applies the yelling to the sky theory to her own work,
"listen you thing, you and I both know that if this book isn't brillant it is not entirely my fault. If you want this book to be better then you have to show up and do your part of the deal. I would like the record to reflect today that I did my part of the job." Haha.

I think she is such a great puble speaker, her words flow and the stories flow together so nicely. I love the story of the dancer and how at point he jumps through fire and is a "glimpse of god", then wakes up in the morning an realizes what if I never reach this climax in my life again?

by far she is my favorite speaker on our video list and that I have probably seen overall, the thing is I don't know why I like her so much.

Either way OLE! to her.

Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

This guy is a lot more interesting than I thought he would be. His thought process of how comics link to this and that and what not is mind boggeling.

I like how he thinks of himself as an inventor also, and how there are "three types of faith: the unseen, seen, and the possible". That art/comics can appeal to all 5 senses, 6 I guess if you can count imagination? haha, but as the artist you can make the viewer imagine how things feel, smell, or sound.

Art:21 | Kara Walker

I think the silhouettes that she uses in her images works well for her theme because you ae unable to see the expression of the people and there is still an air of mystery.

Art:21 | Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

I like that he says "not everything has to be a photograph" that he doesn't ALWAYS have his camera with him.

Also, that his photos aren't always just photos, that sometimes they are part sculpture or painting.