TftF 106: Auto Tune Our History

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Martin Luther King Sings on YouTube - MLK's I have a dream speech turned into a song using a little editing and autotune. (via zefrank & buzzfeed) I am not totally sure how educational this is, but I think anything that turns an important historical moment into a media snack is an idea worth discussing.

This podcast is more of a test for tommorrow's podcast interview with the cmdln! Feel free to check out the video stream on Ustream.tv. I didn't get the youtube video to work during the recording, but they worked fine afterward while broadcasting (which I should have seen coming).

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Teaching for the Future 101 – Flannery Brothers, Fundreds, and Compujunk

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Former guest and friend of the show Dan Flannery is a grand prize winner in the John Lennon Song Contest, which means he is one of two songs that are vying for the prize in the Childrens Music Category. Dan has created all of the music for this podcast and I want our community to help support him back.  Please go to www.jlsc.com/vote.

To sweeten the deal Dan is running a contest through his own site http://www.FlanneryBrothers.com,where you can win the custom album art for their next album by voting in the contest. Win a custom art prerelease of our CD if you vote 4 our song every day & email him when you do www.jlsc.com/vote  flannerybrothers@gmail.com.

Super Flannery Brothers - http://media.www.mainecampus.com/media/storage/paper322/news/2009/04/06/Style/Super.Flannery.Brothers-3698091.shtml

You can also follow Dan on twitter: http://twitter.com/FlanneryBros

Kinder Art.com Mel Chins Fundred Dollar Bills - http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/fundred.shtml Help bring awareness and support to students in NOLA by creating your one Fundred Dollar Bill with your students.

Repurposing our Tech Junk Due to a personal computer melt down in my own home I have been thinking a lot about how to make old computers salvageable for educational purposes. I read Making due with Compujunk - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/making_do_with_compujunk.html and I decided to experiment wit Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com on my old Dell machine to see how schools could use open source and old hardware to put computers in the hands of students.

Additional Resource -
Wired How-To Wiki - How-To Opitimize a Fresh Ubuntu Installation http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_A_Fresh_Ubuntu_Installation

Next Week: Im going to be interviewing comic artist, podcaster, and teaching artist Jerzy Drozd this week. We talk about visual literacy, comics in the classroom, and how teachers can use comic book making to turn their students from consumers into creators. Find out more about Jerzy from the links bellow.
http://mlatcomics.com/krc/
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/

If you want to contribute links, stories, ideas or comments you can leave me a message on any of the sites bellow.
http://delicious.com/teachingforthefuture
http://www.twitter.com/davelamorte
http://www.teachingforthefuture.com

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T.A.L.O.N. paper cut and colored pencil. 12″x10″. 2009.

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Talon. paper cut and colored pencil. 12"x10"

This is a cut paper and colored pencil project that I started at the end of last year. The T.A.L.O.N. is a robot that I’ve been following since I heard about it in college because of it’s possible use as a robotic soldier. I created a wooden version of the robot, but unfortunately I cannot find any documentation of the sculpture. I think that today the T.A.L.O.N. is not being used as a bomb defusing robot. Not mine, the real T.A.L.O.N., because my version was made of scrap wood and treads tied together with string.

I’ve been trying to work on my drafting skills and experiment with mixing drawing and cut paper. I’m not sure how successful this project turned out to be but I really like the collaged text and area at the bottom right.

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Boxes No. 2. paper cut. 17″x11″. 2009.

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Boxes No. 2. paper cut. 17"x11". 2009.

This post and this project could have also been entitled “Taking Creative Chances”, but that sounds too bloggy or like something who would describe themselves as a “social media expert” would say. Because of some of the stuff my friend Chris has been writing about on his site I have been thinking a lot about how to push myself in different creative directions.  This is another cut paper project based on another patterned piece called Boxes (Boxes. paper cut. 10″x12″. 2008.). Using tight geometric forms of my own fruition is pretty new to me, but I am still experimenting. And as with any experiment this may lead to something interesting or it may lead completely no where.

I am still not yet comfortable doing such tight and fussy artwork. I am constantly checking my angels and my edges to make sure I am not straying too far from the original pattern as I go along.

Related Posts:
Boxes. paper cut. 10″x12″. 2008.
Think in Curves - Chris Brogan.com

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Boxes. paper cut. 10″x12″. 2008.

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Boxes. paper cut. 10″x12″. 2008.

This was originally created right after the Night of 1,000 Drawings. I was going to make this the background for another drawing, but I liked it so much that I wanted to share it.

I know there are a lot of artists (particularly painters) who think it is lazy to use geometric forms in abstract/nonobjective art, but I am starting to “they” are just haters. I’m no Sol LeWitt, but I’m going to keep using this pattern to see where it eventually takes me.

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Night of 1,000 Drawings Recap

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The Night of 1,000 Drawings at Artists Space was an amazing event and I had a lot of fun. One of my drawings, Tiger, sold at the show with all of the profits going to Artists Space. I left a half an hour before the show ended, but I am almost certain Stars and stars will be sent back to me. I want to thank the good people at Artists Space, those people who attended the event, and of course to all of the other artists that participated.

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Kills Flu. paper cut and colored pencil. 10″x12″. 2008.

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Kills Flu. paper cut and colored pencil. 10"x12". 2008.

This is one of the first of a series of works that explore the use of patterns and figurative work. This pattern originally surfaced in a previous painting/collage I did called The Battle of Nassau County. I tried to avoid all of the issues I had while working on Bear by using colored pencil and pen to do the drawing.

As a teacher I have been thinking a lot about how to avoid getting sick. Particularly I have been thinking about the flu and the wider fear of newer and more dangerous strains of the flu. To try to protect themselves and their students a lot of teachers have these containers of wipes in their classrooms. In an effort not to advertise for the makers of the wipes I decided to only include a section of the text on the canister. I kept this text in particular to clearly illustrate the importance of the flu to this piece.

I also tried to break from the strict star patterns by creating a partial outline of the canister with cut paper.

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