Are you an addict?

December 7th, Wednesday you need to have your 12 breadth photos selected. You need to put them on a disk or on a jump drive. We will be creating your breadth websites. So exciting.

December 9th, Friday

Seniors - need to select 8 photos for your Scholastic photography portfolios. These images need to be a body of work, with some sort of theme. All the images need to feel like they are from the same person. Avoid vacation pictures.

Juniors - need to select at least 2 images to enter into the Scholastic Art Awards. Some of you have already done this.

Please leave a comment where you tell me what method you use to remember things. For example, I have a new thing on my iphone called Reminders. I'm obsessed with this new feature. It really helps me to remember all the little things.

Draw a Stick Man

This is fun. Be patient and enjoy the process. Ms. McB

----------------------------------------------------------------- This is cool, watch what happens after you draw your stick man http://www.drawastickman.com/

It's your turn

For the last three months I have been blogging about everything from inspiring artists, mind games, unicorns and photography club. Now it's your turn. Your blog comment for this week is to find something art related to blog about.

It could be an artists that inspires you, something related to your concentration, an interesting article about the arts, a museum that you like and why, or other blogs or websites that you find interesting (art related)

Make a comment just like you would before except you will write a little about what you found and provide the link.

What is interesting to you?

Body Worlds and The Brain

Has anyone seen this exhibit yet?

http://www.omsi.edu/bodyworlds

How do they do it? Where do they get the bodies from? Do you consider this art or a form of art? This is the information on the official BodyWorlds site regarding where the bodies come from.

Body Donation for Plastination
All anatomical specimens on display in the BODY WORLDS exhibitions are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lifetime that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons. Many donors underscore that by donating their body, they want to be useful to others even after their death. Their selfless donations allow us to gain unique insights into human bodies, which have thus far been reserved for physicians at best. Therefore, we wish to thank the living and deceased body donors.

Did you know there is an Institute of Plastination? One reason they created the Institute is because, "The complexity and work involved in preparing these specimens far exceeds the capacity of most interested institutes. Preparing a technically correct, whole-body plastinate does, after all, require 1000 to 1500 man-hours." 1500 hours, that's crazy.

Thoughts? Is it art?