Photographers from today's lecture

We learned about a few photographers today in my photo 3 class. Diane Arbus, Loretta Lux and Micheal Disfarmer.

Diane Arbus

Loretta Lux

Micheal Disfarmer

First, Diane Arbus. She is one of the most famous photographers, in the style that she would seek out things that "weren't normal" and photograph it. In the way of this we, as a viewer, are able to stare as long as we want without feeling awkward.

One of the most famous images of her is of the twins. This set of twins was also what gave the director of The Shining the idea of the repeated twins because they were not in the original book, but added to add to the "creep" factor. 

You've seen this, I know it..

Charles Dickens Birthday!

I think in art it is important for several cross-curriculum topics within each art lesson. Many schools are now requiring integration and collaboration between art teachers and the fellow subject teachers, so with this while I am in school I try to integrate other subjects into my art lessons. So today I decided to brainstorm some on the fact that it is Charles Dicken's birthday!!

Everyone has heard of A Christmas Carol and even other stories like Oliver Twist by the infamous writer. So after a quick google search I came across an interesting integration that a ballet company has done for the schools that come see their A Christmas Carol shows.

The Ulster Ballet Company has a simple lesson plan for schools.

After skimming the lesson plan I thought of a simple way to bring literature, performance and art together. The lesson plan discusses the idea of performance with the piece but not only could students group up and perform a part of the book, they can create the costumes with it. With some brown paper bags, masks, yarn, and anything else they can come up with their own "stage" and do a short performance. This would also help with some social skills with working with each other, something every art class should have at least one project on.

But in my Pinterest search of Charles Dickens I came across this LOVELY design by Rachel Walsh. 

Rachel created this altered book to explain a Kindle to Charles Dickens. I think it is genius!

So today, how would you include Charles Dickens in an art lesson plan?

Pinterest

So most people today have heard of Pinterest. What some people may not know is the beauty of organization and the things that are even on the website.

What is Pinterest? Simply, a virtual pin board. A simple example is a girl planning her wedding, typically she would buy all the magazines, tear out her favorite pages, then put them in a notebook. Imagine that online. She could browse her favorite websites and "pin" her favorites to her board. Or if she does magazines, simply snap a picture & upload it (no need for annoying notebooks when you can just get it on your phone/computer!)

There is another reason I love Pinterest... the unlimited knowledge of education materials. You can just search "Art Lessons" and find so many different ideas.  Here are some examples of my boards that I use to organize some education stuff as well as some other useful things.

 

 

Really and truly you can use Pinterest for anything. People use it for clothing and style, wedding planning, home redecorating, cute animals, anything. 

Some tips for using Pinterest:

1. If you pin from a blog, make sure you click the blog post first. If you pin from the main page, eventually it will be harder to find the pin. But if you pin from the blog post you will always be able to find it.
2. Keep your pins organized. I find that I will organize mine once every couple of weeks because one board may become so big that I decided to divid it into different things "Like I would put sewing stuff under DIY but eventually made my own Sewing board"
3. Have fun! And find anything you want. I seem to find pins I love then go to the blog and love it too.

So please, if you haven't started, you must. Then make sure to follow me!

35mm film

One thing I wish would stay around (or maybe not so I can be one who excels in it...) Either way it is something you do not see often. Usually it's "Oh nice camera, can I see the picture?" Umm.. no.. once I get it developed you can totally see it but not till then.

So last night I took the time to go to the photo lab and finally develop all the rolls I needed to develop, including two for my current photo project "Permissions".

7 rolls of film in those canisters. Only took an hour...

But I had 2 rolls of film for the current project then some random rolls that I had taken since last semester. But of the rolls, these were my favorite.