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Could we have a better motto than "Live Out Loud?" jeanne

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Created: October 19, 2006
Latest Update: October 26, 2006
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• The Live Out Loud Doll from our Guelph World

  

  Guelph World is a fantasy world of love, peace, fairness, and justice for all, cats, dogs, spiders, and all other living things included.We have been using it for inspiration for several semesters now. jeanane

  Detailed instructiions and models for the Live out Loud Doll can be found at Live Out Loud. Kids love to hang up strigs of dolls, pumpkins, skeletons, old trucks. Just be sure you enlist them to make one of their own with you. MAKING ART involves us in thinking about the world as we see it. Making the choices that come with the creation of our own art involves us in critiquing the choices of others, without the affect of a hostile confrontation.

• Religion, philosophy, and politics within our present social context.

  

  The Peace of the Christian Icon or the Bomb-Protected Dash from Fear of the Other?

  You'll find all the components of this piece on Instructions for Fish/Bomb Card No. 2. You can add and subtract pieces as you wish, size them as you wish, color them as you wish, texturize them with newspapers, stamps, sharpies, whatever. Notice how iconology permeates our culture. Be aware of the visual. Share iconology and ideology as one of the skills of community-building and social and political issue dialog you are learning.

• News Visuals of Culture

  
  Robert Neubecker for the LA Times.

  We borrowed this wonderful example from the Los Angles Times, Sunday, October 22, 2006.. Robert Neubecker used many of the techniques we've been exploring to give our work a professional edge without formal art studio study.Check out the variety of marks he makes in the thought bubbles. Lots of musical notes - the i-pods? - an art student, music inspiring her to tell her friend about her idea for a new project: (@@@)? - a robot dancing to postmodern notes, digitalized cards and manual instructions? - an artist lost in the inspiration of music for his latest projects? - a business man, juggling a couple of negotiations in the background, talking to his wife in the foreground with his music tying it all together? - the green outsider, marching to his own tunes, worrying the formulae for his inventions - a poor dear teen-ager, bathed in black, suffering the throws of Gothic depression with even her bubble depressed: Little Black One Note, but with dark music to lift her back to the normative stream of life? - a child dancing happily to his own exuberant tune, one bubble filled with the swirl of life before him? - and a typical college student, her music following as she ponders the physics lecture that just won't sort itself out into an intelligible language yet; the orange writing of the physics bubble shows some of the confusion of the teen ager's black morass. Look at it's edges.

  What a wonderful world of inspiration for those of you who like to write poems or tell stories. Here, Robert Neubecker offers you an entire cast of characters. And that's just my off-th-wall description of them. You tell us who they are, and Neubecker's drawing to start a dialog on who we are today who make up our neighborhoods.

   

  Public Works Art Exhibit
  Onelia's Triangle Piece for the Exhibit

  

  Onelia's Triangles
  Believe It. Own It. Series 1

   

  Public Works Art Exhibit
  Onelia's Triangle Piece for the Exhibit

  

  Onelia's Triangles
  Believe It. Own It. Series 1

  Note the difference placement makes, and the difference made by deepening the blacks. jeanne

   

  Public Works Art Exhibit
  Onelia's Professionals Piece for the Exhibit

  

  Onelia's Professionals
  Believe It. Own It. Series 1

  If you're going to do the text in handwriting, try using some of the fancy stuff I put in the word, "professionals." That will gloss over minor inconsistencies you can't get by hand. jeanne

   

  Public Works Art Exhibit
  Taking Just What You Need

  

  Technology's False Needs
  Believe It. Own It. Series 1

  See Surfing For Life. My need to draw what I was seeing is what I call the "making of art," not as a commodity, not as a museum piece, but as a guide to seeing, to expressing that which remains unarticulated. When I started to draw, I had nothing particular in mind. But as I added the spear in the Paint program, I realized that I needed more triangles, more spears. And as I continued to add more less obtrusive triangles, I realized that this drawing meant to me the dangers we face when technology becomes more than a tool and takes over our humanity.(American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn By Hans (EDT) Achterhuis.)

   

  Public Works Art Exhibit
  The Luxor's Pyramid

  

  The Luxor's Pyramid
  from which I took the inspiration for our pyramid box. jeanne
  Pyramid Box Instructions

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