Category Archives: Art

Academic Aesthetic Podcast 44

Click to play or download.My 44th podcast is a recording of my presentation on Creative Commons that I gave back in November. I included my presentation slides (Not PowerPoint – I made them in OpenOffice) as artwork in the mp3 file.

Show Notes:

Archive.org

Creative Commons

“Crowd” Picture

Flickr.com Creative Commons

Free Culture (the book)

Google Advanced Search

Lessig.org

OurMedia.org

PodSafe Audio

Yahoo! Creative Commons Search

Yotophoto.com

Oh, and don’t forget to put a pin in my Frappr Map!

Podcast 38: Audience and Creative Commons

Click to play or download.My 38th podcast is a few days late, due to some technical difficulties. My computer feels better now.


Show Notes:

  1. Whenever you use a form of media, you must NEVER forget your audience.
  2. Where do you go to find media released under a Creative Commons License?Yahoo! Creative Commons
    CreativeCommons.org
    OurMedia.org
    Archive.org
    Flickr.com
    Yotophoto.com
    PodSafe Audio
  3. Academic Aesthetic Forum: Yes, no, maybe so?

Podcast 36: My Copying

Click to play or download.My 36th podcast is, for a change, not about the Art Club.


Show Notes:I’ve been working my way through Lawrence Lessig‘s book, Free Culture. It’s a good read, even though it was written by a lawyer.

After the book plug, I spend the rest of the podcast talking about my views and experiences with copying throughout my life. A lot of the skill I’ve acquired as an artist is due to the fact that I’ve copied a lot of the artists that came before me. That’s one of the reasons why Creative Commons licenses are so cool. Without giving up what we own, we let future generations learn by copying what we’ve done and building on it.

[EDIT: There seems to have been a problem with Ourmedia.org posting the audio file. I think it’s fixed now, though.]

Red Cross Posters

redcross13Every now and then (Ok, more often than that…) I feel the need to show off what my students can do. Recently I did a lesson with my 5th graders that involved making posters for the Red Cross. I uploaded several of them to my Flickr account, and thought I would dedicate a blog entry to them as well. Enjoy!

Oh, and don’t forget to donate to the Red Cross. The outpouring of funds has been wonderful, but they’re not done down there yet.

Podcast 32: Books, Clubs, and Conferences

Click to play or download.32 is just like 42, except there’s not as much of it.


Show Notes:

  1. The local Labor Day Festival’s PTA book fair left me with a ton of hardcovers. Why? Can you say Altered Books? Mwa-haha!
  2. Art Club notices have gone out, we’re starting the last week of September.
  3. Looks like I’ll be presenting at a tech conference. I’m looking forward to it.
  4. I’d like a new theme song. Anyone have a good one I may use?

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Podcast 30: Good Web Page Design

Click to play or download.30 is wordy, but I’ve summarized it below.


In this episode I give tips for how to make a good web site or PowerPoint. I go on for a bit, but it all boils down to this:1. Decide exactly what your website is about. (Example: Mine is about art, education, and technology.)

2. When adding anything, ask if it will support or get in the way of that content.

It sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how many things you can add to a page that you really shouldn’t add.

WebPagesThatSuck.com – a great site that teaches good web page design through bad design. They also have a book and a sequel.

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Podcast 27: 3 Conference Sessions

Click to play or download.Ok, so I did get lost on the way home today, but
I finally got my 27th podcast uploaded
.


Show Notes:Steve Dembo set up a moodle page for me to play with! Boo-Ya!

On to the sessions!

Session 1:

Keith Haring

Session 2:

Crayola Dream MakersFred the bug says “hi.”

Session 3:

National Museum of the American Indian … I think I got the name wrong for this one when I was recording …

A different session:

I didn’t actually get to attend this session, but I got to see some cool sculptures that were made with clothes hangers, wood, elmer’s glue, and water based paint. (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3)

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Podcast 25: Open Source Art

Click to play or download.25th podcast! Only 75 more to go and I’ll be celebrating my 100th podcast!


Show Notes:

  • This podcast is a really short one where I consider the potential of a classroom lesson involving “open source art.”
  • I was inspired to do this podcast while listening to another very good podcast.
  • I wasn’t thinking of it at the time, but there are already collaborative drawing lessons that I can take for a spin. The most popular is called “magnificent corpse,” where three people draw a person without looking at what the other people have drawn.
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