• Beautiful Remakes of Star Wars Posters

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According to Scientific American, creativity is enhanced with increased interaction between the right and left brain. In a recent experiment, participants who followed a dot across a screen back and fourth from left to right (in order to increase communication between hemispheres) were more creative than those who did not.

Hey fellow Mac Users! Here's a nice christmas gift for you - For the next 10 days, Hidden is free. This tracking software allows you to track your computer with google maps if it gets stolen. Enjoy!

Here are a couple of great stop motion videos - both very different, in style and content. These would be excellent examples of how much variety you could get out of a lesson in stop motion animation.

Donn Kenn creates these amazing monster drawings on post it notes. Post it notes.

Post it notes!

So I've got accounts on both Vimeo and YouTube, and have a slight feeling of dissatisfaction to have my videos spread out over two sites. I'm not sure why this is, since organization isn't exactly one of my defining characteristics, but I like having all of my stuff in one place. However, the more I use Vimeo, the more I like it. Aside from its classier feel, it can do just about everything that YouTube can.

Congratulations to The Teaching Palette and Fugleflicks, two art education sites that grabbed second runner up awards in their respective categories. This is a great showing for art compared to previous years. Congrats also to the other nine art related nominees as well! Next year its Art for the Win!

Back when I started this blog almost six years ago, I came across this fantastic spoof trailer for The Shining, which I suggested would be a great lesson for talking about the power of editing. I finally used it as a project for my IB Film One class this year, and love the results!

A few of the students haven't uploaded their trailers yet, but here's the first few. If you're curious about what The Game would look like as a love story, or the horror film Amelie, have a look. You'll also see a trailer for a film about crazed obsession (Meshes of the Afternoon), Kurasawa's Horror Masterpiece, Stray Dogs, and the story of a man who takes a stand against cruelty to living-impared humans, Shaun of the Dead.



Here's a link to the playlist on youtube.