Blog Assignment #16 1/31-2/4

This week you will sketch something different for each day of the week. Below are the themes for each day. All sketches may incorporate color:

Monday: Joy, elation, jubilation
Tuesday: Dramatic, sad, solemn
Wednesday: Fear, terror, horror
Thursday: Surreal, whimsical
Friday: Your choice

You will turn in a sketch for each day/theme and also answer the following questions in the blog:

1. What symbols do you feel represent each of the moods/themes and why?
2. Share a time/scene in your life that best reflects ONE of these moods/themes.

15 points!

Attention!! Reminder!!

Acceptable options for Multimedia Lab:

1.   Work on current projects

2.   Blog work

3.   Sketching

4.   Polishing past projects

5.   Researching colleges

6.   Ask teacher for task

Unacceptable options for Multimedia Lab:

1.   Socializing

2.   Homework


3. Web-surfing


4. Computer game playing


5. Reading (non-digital media related material)

Blog Assignment #15: Week of 1/24-1/28 2011

Felice Varini: Optical Illusion

Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques.

Please watch these clips about his installations: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVNs2xIzdY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0iD0JgUbH4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsd9OKDfmOA

and look at these photos:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/felice_varinis_town-sized_illusion.html

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe in your own words how you think Varini creates these illusions.

2. Do you think this is art? Explain.

3. Find another artist that creates illusions.

 a. Describe their process in your own words.

 b. Copy and Paste a link to their work (photo, website, video etc)


BLOG DUE at 3:30 on Friday 1/28/11 - Ms. W

Blog Assignment #14: Week of 1/3-1/7 2011

Happy New Year CoSA Digital Media!! This blog assignment is due on Friday, Jan. 7 by 3:30 pm.


1. Describe how you utilize your artistic ability as a TOOL in your life. How does it enhance your life and the lives around you?

2. Discuss the next step in your artistic skill set. What do you hope it involves and what do you want to achieve next?

3. Describe the type of art you'd like to create once you are in the "real world". What would your dream project be?