Peer Blog Review

This is really late.

A. How did you decide which blogs to review?
B. Why did you select the individual postings to comment on?
C. How could you use a Blog in your classroom as a communication tool? If not, why not?

A) Im not concerned at all about the length of a blog posting. It's all about getting the idea and point across. If I do that in 2 sentences then thats my blog. If I need to write an essay then that's that.

B) I did it at random really. It's easy for me to have an opinion.

C) Well this is a pretty good example of a way blogs can be used in the classroom. Also, it's a good way to assign homework and not have to deal with the clutter of paper. 

Links to my comments

http://arteducationmm.blogspot.com/2010/03/aed-398-photo-album-principles-and.html?showComment=1272318952951#c7682150716385293172

http://hallea53.blogspot.com/2010/03/self-portrait.html?showComment=1272319233909#c5597050486932602346

http://pamrubel.blogspot.com/2010/03/self-portriat-what-i-want-to-portray.html?showComment=1272319483266#c3665150227175138979

Self-Portrait Inspiration and Technical / Creative Resources

 Part 1:
What is a self-portrait?
          A self-portrait is a way to express who you are via an artistic media.
What are the distinctive things that make me "me"?
          I like art and sports, not a lot of people of either side can say that. I'm very personable.
How do I want people to see me?
         As someone who can be funny and serious at the right time, to be taken serious and be funny
How can I express my many different sides?
         It's not something you think about, it's just something you do.
How can I reinvent myself for various purposes or times in my life?
        I don't think I ever want to reinvent myself, i'd rather have different abilities that I can use at the right time.
How am I changing from day to day or year to year?
       Constantly growing, learning what to do and what not to do.
Who do I want to become?
       I am who I want to become, from this it's just smoothing out the rough edges.
Part 2:

           the first image is Duane Michals, the second is Matthew Barney. The first is an example of double exposure, I love this process and I've used it before for self-portraits. It's a great way to express an "out of body" experience, or a spiritual state. Matthew Barney has been able to create the world he sees in his head, into art. Being able to create these characters and scenarios is a major influence to me because i have alot of different images in my head but sometimes I just dont know how to create them, Barney has broken that barrier. 

Part 3:
I don't feel the need for an online resource for this project, I know a lot about self-portraits, im a former photography major and I feel I have a very strong grasp on the topic.

Reflection Post on Photobucket project

 I've considered myself a photographer since 2005, I very easily knew how to translate and demonstrate the elements and principles of art in photography. I used the examples you provided for minimal assistance, specifically in determining the differences between movement and rhythm, and harmony and texture, which I can see being somewhat of the same thing in certain situations. Creatively I wanted to use both models and still-life subjects, both have their own way to conveying the element/principle im trying to show.

Online Resource for Logo

I have two websites for this project.

1) http://abduzeedo.com/

2) http://www.logoorange.com/

I've been following Abduzeedo for a while, the site has a lot of really cool art work and inspiration and things like that. They have tutorials about logo design that I found helpful. The other site I found in a google search, there isn't much on learning how to create a logo, but just seeing a lot of different examples, I found that to be very helpful in seeing what was successful and what of my ideas were not being used.

Adobe Illustrator

       I know nothing about Adobe lllustrator. So these videos were very helpful. They were all simple intro tutorials that helped me understand the basics, I don't have illustrator on my computer, it would be nice to have it so I could do, right now, what the tutorials are teaching. I had illustrator at my old college and when i opened it to see what it was I just thought it was another photoshop, so what was the point, I thought they both did the same thing, but after seeing what all the tools do and their secondary uses, I was shocked i've never considered using this program and becoming skillful at it.
      I liked the guy who did the first few tutorials, Matt I think his name was. He was very good at getting his point across, talking slow enough, and his voice wasn't annoying, so that helped.

Online Resource for Lesson Plan

http://712educators.about.com/od/lessonplans/ht/lessonplans.htm

I couldn't find a lesson plan that specifically helped me with the format for the buff state lesson plan that we needed to fill out. This site helped me get my ideas in place to fill out the specific format. The site offered good suggestions on how to prepare to make a lesson plan and how to get your ideas straightened out so I could put them on paper.

Online Resource for Powerpoint

I figure powerpoint to be pretty easy, pick a template, throw some pictures in there, type some information, boom, you have a powerpoint. But this site I came across, really opened up the possibilities of what a good powerpoint presentation can do. But this one page in particular helped. Instead of cramming a bunch of points on one page, spread it out. This way you give yourself and the viewer time to elaborate on the point and it makes the importance of the point stand out more.