Crowley's Creatives

 Here is a list of the assignments from this semester 1. Thinking Differently Assignment 2. Social Justice Art 3. Photo Assignment  4. Meet my advisor essay 5. Book Review Photo essay 6. Blackout Poetry 7. Putting it all together! We will get together on Zoom next week and show some of our art and talk about how to put together your final portfolio.  Meanwhile, here is how I put together my last art piece. 

 LOVE to Do the Blackout Poetry  Here is one guide to look at and one perspective.  Here is a link to e-blackout.   This is the one I'm going to work on today. This looks fancy and is easy. (I think)

First, what did you think of Chris Temple?   You are going to make some art about something that you feel is important:  How do you know what you care about? Think back to when you either rejected "the story" or you adopted a new story.  What are the things that make you cry?  What are the things that make you angry?  What are you doing when you feel most like yourself?  Take a look at some of the answers  Social justice issues can be delineated into two categories, although they are often co-dependent: Inter-Social Treatment and Unequal Government Regulation. Inter-Social Treatment  involves the treatment of a group(s) of other people based on personally-held biases and prejudices. These prejudices most often manifest in sociological categories such as: Race Gender Age Sexual Orientation Religion Nationality Education Mental or Physical Ability Unequal Government Regulation  involves laws and regulations that purposefully or otherwise c...

                                                              Chris Temple Start here in this order:  This is Chris Temple's film company                                                               Here is a quick bio You can use this worksheet to get to know Chris and his projects.  Here is his Youtube Channel. Great stuff here.  This is the movie he is coming to talk about on Thursday.   You can watch the movie here.  

  Every Picture Tells a Story  As human beings, we naturally search for narratives within pictures. When we see an image, we respond with our own subjectivity, values, and experience. Photography is a powerful tool in the hands of a campaigner. We identify strongly with photographic images because we see a close representation of what we assume to be the reality. However, photography is the selective framing of an event. In one brief moment, the photographer edits both space and time. An understanding of photography can help us to make our own images, and help us make them persuasive to the viewer.  The composition of the image is crucial to its meaning. In this case the subject is a shrouded body. We assume that the body is a dead one and we invent reasons why the subject might have died. The body might have fallen from the building in the background. Alternatively, the rocks in the foreground might have crushed the body. The subject might have drowned in the nearby sea ...

1.  My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea IMDB 2. People interested in media who want to go to CFC and March Madness 3. Choosing a book - how is it going?   In case you missed it you should  watch the replay  of  Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough . He speaks about confronting ideas that may be counter to what you believe - and why it is important to grapple with them.  Here is an interesting article about writing that talks about changing your ideas.  George Carlin can help us with thinking about words and what they mean.  Time to puke Write a list of all the things you believe in - the things you know are true. Social, Political, Cultural, Spiritual, Environmental, Personal.  Just Puke Mind mapping