http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_book
How can you transform something negative into something positive? Why not start with an old textbook that you despise? How can you take that negative emotion and transform it into something positive??? This is the task this week for the current Seeing Sideways students! Check their posts next week to see what they come up with!
The power of transformation can be seen here in this Art21 video from PBS:
Transformation: Art21
For some ideas of what other people have done, check out some of these links:
http://pinterest.com/lindaslinks/book-sculptures-altered-books/
google search on "deconstructed books art"
http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/
http://pinterest.com/lesliesmitty/altered-books/
http://gomakesomething.com/category/ht/ab/
Watch a video about it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qkiocvx7FQ
Let's think for a moment about how to think about covers and first impressions, and how to tell a story... This Ted Talk is odd, but helpful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0KxNeLp1E
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Irony, your name is ironic
Ironic that this was on my Facebook page today, because one of the assignments I just posted for BOTH of my summer classes is about expectations of the course... Hmmmm.....
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