The best album covers reveal something about the records they decorate. But graphic designer Simon C. Page, who has made sleeves for artists including Ministry of Sound and the Crystal Method, takes that connection even further with a series he calls Musically Inspired Album Covers. “This year I have been asked to create more and more album covers, which I love doing, but I noticed that the ones which I wanted to work on most were the ones where I had been inspired or moved by the music.”
Love how they are still calling them ' album covers'!
Posting from Cale Birk, Principal of South Kamloops Secondary School
"It is not uncommon for me to read comments on Twitter that characterize school administrators as a group who need to get more in touch with 21st century learning. Whether it is a comment about how senior administration is blocking specific online..."
In 2007, Russian underwater photographer Alexander Semenov graduated from Lomonosov’s Moscow State University in the department of Zoology. He specialized in the study of invertebrate animals, with an emphasis on squid brains.
The usual mantra is to 'try harder'. Trying harder is impossible when you're already trying as hard as you can. But you can always try different.
Years ago, I was creating trivia questions for a product we built for Prodigy. We had a 99% accuracy rate in doing the questions. Which was great, except there were 1800 questions in a batch, which meant 18 wrong each time, which was totally and completely unacceptable. These were honest mistakes, made by smart people working as hard as they could.
No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't do better than 99%. So we switched our system completely and did it in a totally different way. Same number of people, same number of hours, 100% accuracy.
If it's not working, harder might not be the answer.
An innovative resource designed to cultivate 21st century fluencies, while fostering engagement and adventure in the learning experience. This resource is the collaborative effort of a group of experienced educators and entrepreneurs who have united to share their experience and ideas, and create a project geared toward making learning relevant to life in our new digital age. Our purpose is to develop exceptional resources to assist in transforming learning to be relevant to life in the 21st Century.
Tony Gurr's great blog allthingslearning talks about 5 Fluencies-skills for the 21st century. He differentiates between literacy and fluency ..."We call them fluencies and not skills because we believe this level of proficiency—not just literacy, but fluency—should be the goal when we are teaching students the basic skills that are essential for functioning in life." Read on!
Created by artist Chris Burden, Metropolis II is a complex, large-scale kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city. The armature of the piece is constructed of steel beams, forming an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of eighteen roadways, including a six-lane freeway, train tracks, and hundreds of buildings. 1,100 miniature toy cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour on the specially designed plastic roadways. Every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulates through the sculpture.Chris Burden is a leading international artist who works and lives in Los Angeles. Over the past forty years, Burden has produced a multitude of assemblages, installations, scientific models, and kinetic and static sculptures.
Filling up the waning hours of the school year with meaningful, helpful lessons can be a challenge. Never fear, EduDemic is to the rescue. They’ve come up with dozens of lessons, trips, and creative ways to engage students from elementary school to high school. The links below are mostly to PDFs that you can easily print out and distribute to your fellow teachers.
Teachers are discovering the value of imparting media-literacy skills, from critical analysis of news programs, commercials, and films to basic design and video-production techniques.
Critical-thinking skills -- and fluency in multimedia production -- are integral to media literacy.
Our objectives are to create multimedia tools and programs that connect kids to the environment, to other kids, and to actions they can take to manage natural resources wisely; we also provide professional development to teachers to ensure that they have the knowledge, skills, and resources to support kids in making these connections.
Joseph Herscher was born in New York. Raised in New Zealand. Living in Brooklyn. The son of a professional jazz pianist from New Zealand and klezmer musician from New York.
With a passion for problem solving and a need to be creative, Joseph divides his time between making kinetic art and designing user-interfaces for iPhone, iPad and web apps at 9MMedia.
Joseph specializes in making Rube Goldberg machines, which have been viewed by millions of people worldwide. He’s led Rube Goldberg workshops in Brooklyn, Boston and Venice, and lectured at Parsons The New School For Design in New York.
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A beautiful video about Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore that’s been tucked away in Michael Seidenberg’s apartment on the Upper East Side ever since the rent for his original retail space in Brooklyn was quadrupled. “I wouldn’t have thought I want to have a bookshop in a location no one knows about.” But Brazen says it’s a continuation of being the kind of bookseller he wants to be—not on the street, not at book fairs, but inside, the shelves lined with first editions, knickknacks, and, one hopes, a cat.
San Francisco Bay Area photographer Robert Buelteman has been making images for over 20 years. This work, Through The Green Fuse, was made through an elaborate practice of camerless photography involving electrical pulses and hand-painting. Some images can take up to 150 attempts to get right.
Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes "the Interpreter" - a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories. Less romantic, perhaps, than Gone With the Wind, the Interpreter may help to explain our species' profound relationship with storytelling.
Their mission is to help people remember all their favorite things. Wouldn't it be great if all those wonderful things you've seen on the internet were all in one place? Well you can make it happen with Juxtapost! You can also find people with similar tastes and start discovering new things you might never have seen or thought of. Invite family and friends and start sharing those ideas you see while you surf the web.
A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. Filmmakers had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden's studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled.
Content curation has become a hot topic in 2012. Corrine Weisgerber, an associate professor at St. Edwards University, has an excellent presentation on content curation. She differentiates content curation from content aggregation--content aggregation can be automated but content curation requires the human touch for finding, evaluating and contextualizing information.
This compelling series by Parisian photographer Alain Delorme was taken in Shanghai and shows the troubled commute of Chinese delivery riders, who stack their bikes to the sky with the goods that they’re ferrying around. Unless, of course, it was all photoshopped. Wink wink.
The question around how to best implement technology in schools, but more importantly, how we, as educators, share best practices and turn our discussions into action will be ongoing. The key is to continue to be creative and keep carving.
Want a super easy way to get rid of all the junk on a YouTube page? Oh sure, I know you can use QuietTube. But sometimes, you just need to show the video and don’t want to mess with any other tools. Watch this 17 second video and share this trick with other teachers.
In a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color.
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