Teach.Travel.Find.Design

All of the posts below are from my 515 blog.  Fellow Ed students, if you need project ideas, scroll down!

This video shows the original lesson plan and inspiration for the technofied lesson plan on creating Abstract Art inspired by Jasper Johns. Happy Summer!

I used footage and photographs from my trip to Italy last summer which was both a historical trip and family reunion. I wanted to inspire others to check out a new country and to investigate their own culture and history. I had some difficulties layering the audio so it's still a work in progress but I learned so much from this project.

I believe we talked about holograms in the beginning of class and I thought this was too cool. It was like seeing a ghost. According to this article in the Wall Street Journal Rapper's De-Light:  Tupac's 'Hologram' May Go on Tour http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304818404577348243109842490.html it is not technically a hologram but a 2-D image. Either way, I found it impressive. You can watch the actual performance on Pitchfork.com, I was going to imbed the video but decided against it due to extremely explicit language. Tupac's performance begins around 16:37. My friends and I used to attend the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival every year and every year there was a surprise of some sort but nothing like this. I can't imagine what the crowd was thinking!!!

I chose two photographs to edit further. For the first photograph, I manipulated the exposure, increased the temperature and saturation, and used the neon special effect while changing the colors. For the second, I played around with exposure and temperature but I also increased the shadow and added the posterize special effect. I like the second photo better than it's original. The original had boring colors and the effects I chose for the new photo remind me of Andy Warhol.

In this folder, I edited 5 photos using Picnik to enhance the photographs.

In this project, we took photos of a handheld object and then played around with photo-editing with the goal of manipulating two photographs into art.  I chose a heart-shaped rock that my friend Annie had given me during my last visit to see her in Los Angeles.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of my favorite places to visit when I return home to Ohio. I was just home last month and I was bummed that I didn't have time to check out the new exhibits (Lady Gaga's Meat Dress was there). The structure was designed by I. M. Pei who also designed the steel and glass pyramid for the Louvre in Paris as well as the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. When I return home, it is mandatory that we at least drive past the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because I find the structure aesthetically appealing and the museum holds so much wonderful history of Rock and Roll.  Here's a link to the tour: Google Earth Tour - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

From Ashtabula, OH to Missoula, MT I am originally from Ashtabula, Ohio. It is located about an hour northeast of Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie. The word "Ashtabula" means "River of Many Fish" in the Iroquois language. You may have heard of Ashtabula if you're a Bob Dylan fan; he mentions it in his song "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go". If you love poetry, Carl Sandburg wrote a poem titled "Crossing Ohio when Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula".

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