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6.27.2009
This stunning 3D animation from China features students with water-filled heads enslaved by hideous monsters that live off the stress of the students.
Water Brain Complete Edition（16：9） from Johann.Poo on Vimeo.
Will this video echo in your head the next time you give an assignment?
Link Via 88 Bar.
6.25.2009
If you're doing any research in arts education, Issuelab has a great resource. Their new Art Education Close Up page is searchable database of papers available online.
6.21.2009
6.18.2009
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6.16.2009
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
6.15.2009
If you ever doubted the artistic possibilities of the Lego Brick, then you must never have seen the Brick Films (that's animations made in Lego) of Kris Fontez's classes. That should be inspiration enough for you to break out the cameras and your old lego collection (or at least dig them out over the summer in advance of next year). However, if you just can't get enough from the brick film genre, check out these clever lego-adaptions of scenes from famous movies.
I particularly like this one:
6.13.2009
If you hadn't guessed, our annual 'summer slow down' has started a few weeks early this year. If you can imagine all the normal fuss with the end of school year, compounded with the hassle of trying to get around the newly rebuilt great firewall of china- it was just too much. I have a brief reprieve though; in the states I'm able to experience the internet in its 'pristine' uncensored form. I used this opportunity to add a bunch of new blogs to our Art Education Blogroll - an increasingly annoying task in China with both blogger and Ning blocked.
Here are our recently added blogs:
Art 24/7: A new blog by one the teachers who worked on the Rotoball project. Her students did a rotoscoped claymation. Double the animation goodness!
Media Arts Education: Detailing the intersection of art, media, and technology at the High School and University levels.
Lori Stevens Artist: Art, Education, Books, and misc. potpourri.
Bella Fiore: Flowers, photos, Italy, politics... and some art education as well!
Wonderbrooks: A blog about the mind of an elementary art teacher.
6.08.2009
Here's another excellent advocacy piece on for Art Education, this time from actor Stephen Weber, who writes:Officially marginalized in our schools and practically vestigial in the anatomy of our systems of education and business, art---its creation and enjoyment---is in need of rediscovery and reapplication within those systems. Without art as a functioning, practical and living concept, the ideas upon which our society has of late built itself are brittle and disposable and have the briefest of shelf-lives.
Art is the connective tissue between our brains, bodies and souls, giving character to blandness, hope to hollowness. Without art the overseers of the failed approach toward sustaining a national economy or a healthy, thriving workforce are themselves slaves to souless corporate conceptualizing which in theory is meant to supply humanity with the means to attain happiness but which in reality prevents that from ever happening.
Recently: Michelle Obama and Quincy Jones.
6.01.2009
Structure of the Sun -Paper Craft
Here's a little crafty gift for that special science teacher in your life.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
