Edscape Conference 2012

 

Edscape Conference 2012- How to Go Global: Connecting and Motivating American, Japanese, & Pakistani Students Online Tim Needles October 13, 2012- New Milford High School

 

Since Fall 2011, my students and I have been participating in the Going Global Social Network run by the Japan Society which has connected my students to classrooms throughout the United States, Japan, and Pakistan. It has been particularly successful in creating connections across disciplines, sparking interest in world affairs, and engaging all students.

 

Going Global Projects:

 

What's My Sentence: An idea taken from Dan Pink's terrific book Drive modified for the classroom which asks students to write in one sentence what they accomplished 30 years from now.

 

 

It works both as a motivational tool and as an icebreaker in the Going Global project plus it's interesting to see the similarities and differences in students goals across cultures.

Favorite Foods: An icebreaker which asks students to share their favorite foods, recipes for those dishes, and expands to ask their favorite foods around holidays.

Everyone loves food so it's an easy introduction that can be approached from different angles depending on the class subject. I did it with my photography class as you can see above (most delicious project ever), the cultural differences are evident immediately as you can see in the comparison with the photo below.

 

 

What is Beauty: A project that asks students to think about what beauty means to them and create an image in any media then share it explaining what makes it beautiful.

The project was a success in that the work the class did was strong and they had a virtual audience to share and discuss it with which helped them understand what they were doing a bit better.  It also gave a glimpse into some of the different values of the cultures as a whole as well as the individual students as you can see from the comparison with the photo below from a Japanese student.
 

 

Technology In The Classroom:

Instagram and Statigram

SKYPE in the Classroom

 

You Tube



Smartboard

Wikipedia

Twitter

Best Practices:

The art of the hashtag-
#NeedlesClass

Creative ideas that spread outside the classroom-
Inside Out
Inspiration! 
PSA's
Senbazuru

Freeware-
Photoshop.com
Go Animate
Blogger
Visual.ly

Merge your outside activities with the classroom-
Short & Sweet NYC
Chewy Donuts
Publications
 

AP Art: Friday Artday

Today's theme for both the fine and media art students is "School Spirit" and the work should be pulled from life meaning that the fine art students should go out and actually draw in the hallways today along with the media students who will taking pictures and video for our Smithtown East MSG Varsity page!

Special Guest: Alexia Anastasio

Wednesday we had special guest speaker actress and director Alexia Anastasio visit the media arts classes and the Media Art Honor Society and talk about her work on projects such as Boardwalk Empire and Bored To Death as well as her feature length documentary on Oscar winning animator Bill Plympton titled Adventures in Plymptoons.

Media Art Honor Society: Hamptons Film Festival

Members of Smithtown East's Media Art Honor Society volunteered at the 20th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival this week in East Hampton and Sag Harbor and in addition to helping out with the festival students had an opportunity to see some of next year's upcoming movies and meet a few well-known actors and directors such as: Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane, Toby Jones, and Liev Schreiber who is pictured above with club officers Clay and Gabby.

Studio Art: Charcoal Drawing

Today we are going to complete our charcoal grid drawing from the picture above that we began last week so after your pencil sketch is complete you can begin shading with the compressed charcoal. Also remember to study the drawing vocabulary terms for Friday's quiz!

Special Guest: Alexia Anastasio

Today in media art class and in the Media Art Honor Society we are welcoming a special guest speaker, artist and director Alexia Anastasio.  Alexia most recently released a documentary on the Oscar-winning animator Bill Plympton titled Adventures in Plymptoons! which was a Tribeca Film Institute Recipient and recently screened at The Museum of Modern Art and Savannah International Animation Festival.  Alexia will speak a bit about her film and how she because a director as well as taking questions from the class so come prepared!

AP Art: Pose

Here's a great short video from Known Gallery showing street artist Pose working on pieces for the upcoming Sanrio show this Saturday, its always great to see an artist at work!

Studio Art: Grid Drawing

In Studio Art class we will be working on creating a Grid Drawings for the next two weeks and above is a quick demonstration of how it works.  The first drawing will be a self-portrait in charcoal and the second will be a portrait of you choice in pencil.  The trick is not too rush, be patient and think of the features as shapes when doing the initial drawing!

AP Art: Antediluvian

The theme of this week's piece is Antediluvian meaning literally 'before the flood' but it may be interpretted literally or descriptivly to mean extremely old.  Above is a short video on an antediluvian city, Atlantis, that you may take as an inspiration.

AP Art: Friday Artday

AP Art it's Friday Artday again this week we'll be focusing on using texture in our work (regardless of wether its media or fine art work) and below are this weeks themes:

Fine Art:

Mirror   SUGGESTED BY Jonas Anderson "I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five." ~ Steven Wright * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *       Media: Black & White   SUGGESTED BY Josh Johnson "The eye should learn to listen before it looks." ~ Robert Frank

AP Art: The Colleges Are Coming!

Our first college visits of the year will be on Tuesday October 23rd with Savannah College of Art & Design and November 1 with the Hartford Art School and I'm in the process of scheduleing a few more in November. We've had a number of students attend both of these schools and really enjoy their experience so it should be great to hear a little bit about their program!

Additionally, the National Portfolio Day events are coming up with dates at: Hartford on Sat, Nov 3, Purchase on Sat, Nov 17, and NYC at the Javitz Center on Sun, Nov 18

Media Art: Spotlight Films The Sessions

This week the Media Art Honor Society will be once again volunteering at the Hamptons Film Festival along with the festival I will be doing interviews with the cast, director, and producer of one of the Spotlight Films The Sessions starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes (and which was amazing btw).

AP Art: Reinterpreting Historic Subject Matter

In AP Art this week we will be exploring subject matter and themes in art history that has been interpreted by a number of different well known artists.  Religious and mythical subjects like Madonna and Child and the Birth of Venus have been regular subject for hundreds of years but even in modern times Picasso reinterpreted Matisse as well as Lichtenstein had his version of an abstract expressionist painting.  This week each student will be asked to choose a subject that artists have explored and to create their own interpretation of it and in doing so you may change the context of the original in order to create new meaning.

Studio Art: Drawing

This week we will be focusing on drawing techniques as well as learning the drawing terminology that we'll be using in the unit.  After going over the basic types of shading and how to use a grid to transfer the image we will draw the classic car above in our sketchbooks using a grid and the shading techniques.

Media Arts: Storyboarding

In film and animation creating storyboards is always one of the first and most vital steps in making a film work (and in saving time and money) and it's something that we will be doing as a class before each big project.  Storyboards are basically like comic books that show what will be filmed in order to plan filming and it allows directors and animators to work out decisions on the page rather than in the middle of filming which would be chaotic.  Here's a link to a terrific Vimeo film school lesson on storyboarding with some more information and examples to aid you in creating your first storyboard for this week's pixilation and below is an example from a student in class.

Media Arts: Stop Motion Animation

We are begining our Stop Motion Animation unit in Media Arts class this week ao take another look at Bang Yao Liu's amazing post-it note animation 'Deadline' above then take a peek at the making of video below to get an idea of how much work goes into an animation of this quality.  Each member of the class will be creating a short 1-3 minute stop motion clip that will be able to synch together to create a larger film so remember to be creative and make sure the camera is steady when you are filmming.  The film isdue on Monday!

AP Art: Friday Artday

It's Friday again so we will begin with the following fine and media art assignments (the example above is from Katie in Studio in Art class):

This week’s Illustration Friday topic is: Book

This week’s Photo topic is from Going Global: Create your own 4 picture photo collage of your personality. Comment on other students’ pictures.

Shanti Peace Poster Contest

Here are the top 6 entries from Smithtown High School East's submissions for this years Shanti Peace Poster Contest so congrats to Clay, Alli, Carissa, Brianne. Gabby, and Meagan and best of luck as the contest moves on!  Thanks also to the many students that participated we had some wonderful entries this year!

AP/Media Art: Hashtags

We will be using a variety of digital media in Media Arts class and the best way to stay organized and submit work digitally is by using the hashtag #NeedlesClass in Instagram and Twitter. For my AP Art students we are going to use the hashtag #NeedlesAPClass for future postings.

This week we are continuing work on our Going Global project and now that everyone has uploaded their "What's Your Sentence?" images we will be creating a short stop motion animation with everyone's result as well as logging on and commenting of the sentances from students elsewhere in the US, in Pakistan, and Japan.

Media Art Honor Society: Hamptons Film Festival

Media Art Honor Society will once again be volunteering at the Hampton's Film Festival and all the volunteer forms should be faxed ASAP if they haven't been already. This year has a terrific lineup of films and events and expected to attend are guest such as: Alec Baldwin, Melissa Leo, Nathan Lane, Alan Cumming, Sienna Miller, Justin Long, Richard Gere, Stevie Nicks and one of my favorites Mike Nichols as well as the Hampton regulars such as: Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Speilberg, Billy Joel, and Howard Stern.

AP Art: Yayoi Kusama and the essence of texture and pattern in art

This week in AP Art we will be exploring  texture and pattern in art and it's fitting to begin by looking at the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in our segue from the Japan Society project.  Kusama is an astoundingly original artist who brushed up against many movements but never was formally part of them.  Her work is known for the creative use of dots and other pattern but it makes more sense when you look at her body of work as a whole beginning with the poisoned plants after the atomic bomb into her textural abstracted "nets".  Her retrospective is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of Art in NY until September 30 along with her installation "Fireflies On The Water" and I would highly recommend it! If you happen to see it you may also want to swing by Louis Vuitton in Midtown or SoHo where some of her pieces are also on display and her collaborations are being sold.

Educate NY Now

I joined fellow teachers, parents, and students yesterday for the non-partisan Educate NY Now! rally at the Suffolk County Offices to support funding for education for Long Island schools and students.  I was great to see local parents and students joining in to support education!

AP Art: Friday Artday

    jj_editor_lizpe's selection from #JJ Green and White challenge (credits below)

 

Fridays in AP Art always begin with a thematic focus so today's themes are listed below along with the creative group they derived from Illustration Friday and JoshJohnson's Photo Forum.  You will have 15-20 minutes to create a piece in the theme below and remember to try to find a creative and unique solution!

Fine Art- Illustration Friday: "Crooked"
Illustrate the adjective \ˈkru̇-kəd\ -not straight or dishonest

Media- @JoshJohnson:  "Green and White"
Take a photo emphasizsing the two colors
 

                                  photo credits:     

Row 1 @laura @timneedles @paularoo

Row 2:@cosy64 @wil_d @pernicioustwit

Row 3. @agfineartist @twinsoulphotography @ydoom30

Media Arts: Going Global- Our town

Today we will continue working on the Going Global project and in Media Arts class we will work on arranging the photographs that we've taken of our town and local sights in Photoshop and then posting them to the social network to show the students in Japan and Pakistan what our community is like.  Above is a great photo Don took last week of the St. James General Store which, aside from being a popular local landmark, is the U.S.'s oldest continuously operational general store.

Going Global Week

Throughout this abbreviated 3 day week we will be focusing on our first Going Global project and today we will begin by looking at the culture and environment of our cooperative classes in Tokyo, Japan.  This video above from ANA airlines gives a good look at some of the major sights in the city but when I was there I also really loved the Roppongi Art Triangle and the Shibuya area (especially the Starbucks overlooking the crossing). In your interested in more information National Geographic also has a terrific website on Japan.

First Nine Days

Here's my Instagram photo diary from the first nine days of school, I cant believe haw fast everything went! I'd like to wish everyone a happy holiday as we head into the four day weekend!!

AP Art: What's Your Sentence?

 This week we started our first Going Global project with the Dan Pink "What's Your Sentence?" assignment in which students are asked to imagine what goals they would like to achive in their lifetime then write it in the future as if they've completed it.  Here are two examples from Clay (above) and Brianne (below).

Media Arts Class: Stop Motion Animation

In Mr. Needles media arts classes we have been learning the basics of stop-motion animation and the classes each created a short, introductory animation as an example.  We shot over 150 images in the last week and the film clocks in at just under one minute long right now, take a look at what we have so far above!

Art & Media Art Honor Society

Yesterday we had our first Art & Media Art Honor Society meeting of the school year and we welcomed a number of new members.  Our next meeting will be Wednesday September 19 at 2pm and we will continue to work on ideas for Safe Halloween, the Going Global project, and our volunteering at the Hampton's Film Festival.  Welcome to all our new members!

Art and Media Art Honor Society Meeting

The first meeting of the Art Honor Society and the Media Art Honor Society will be this today after school in Mr. Needles room 161 at 2pm.  We will be discussing some of the events that we'll be participating in this year, notably:

• Volunteering at the Hampton's Film Festival on October 6-7
• Building our Safe Halloween "Haunted Museum"
• Our fall field trip to New York City and our spring trip to the Hamptons
• Our ongoing "Going Global" project with the Japan Society
• Our college and alumni visits as well as SKYPE in the classroom
• The MSG Varsity program and website

All are welcome, our future meeting dates will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays, see you then!

Remembering September 11

It's been 11 years since the tragic events on September 11, 2001 and we will be watching a series of short animations created by NPR's StoryCorps along with animators the Rauch Brothers which show some of the personal stories from that day. 

We will also be viewing a video clip from my trip to Hiroshima, Japan where I heard Mr. Tsugio Ito speak about surviving the atomic bomb where he lost his brother to leukimia and losing his son in the World Trade Center on 9/11 .

Studio Art: Shanti Peace Poster Contest

This week we will be working on the Shanti Peace Poster Contest which promotes the concept of peace while celebrating Mohandas Gandhi's birthday.  The posters can be done in any media and can use text but need to be on 8 1/2" x 11" paper.  Above is one of Smithtown East's previous winners, Aidi Wang, from 2009.

Media Art: Stop Motion Animation

This week in media arts class we will be creating short stop-motion animation films of the class as an introduction to the basics of film making.  Here's a terrific example of a creative stop-motion by the PEZ (aka Adam Pesapane) who used over 1500 images during the course of 6 weeks to create the short. He is now working on his first feature film but check out some of his other film on his You Tube page.

Illustration Friday

Every Friday throughout the first quarter we will spend the first 15 minutes of class drawing in in Mr.Needles fine art classes and we will use the terrific art blog Illustration Friday for inspiration and theme. This week's theme was "Identical" and here are a few of the results from the AP Studio Art class.

This week's theme is: Imagination

Going Global 2012

This year Mr. Needles classes will be participating in a global project with students from Japan, Pakistan, and the U.S. in which we will simultaneously work on a collaborative lesson.  The project is sponsored by the Japan Society and is entitled Going Global.  Before we begin the project we will learn a little bit about the culture of the students that we will be working with including how to say hello and introduce yourself so above is a simple video that teaches us how to say hello in Japanese and below are the phrases we will use:

Good Afternoon - Konnichiwa
How do you do (nice to meet you) - Hajimemashite, dozo yoroshiku

Thank You - Arigatou (casual) gozaimasu (formal)
Excuse me, I'm sorry - Sumimasen
Goodbye - Sayounara

Additionally, below is a short piece on the popular Japanese inspired company Tokidoki ("sometimes" in Japanese) which is very popular both in New York and in Japan as well as Europe that well speak about in class as part of one of our projects.

Welcome!

Today's the first day of classes so I'd like to welcome everyone and give you some basic information about some of the tools well be using in classes this year!  Below are the Semester 1 classes with links to some of the websites and blogs we'll be using in class:

AP Studio Art:
Wiki- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement_Studio_Art
College Board- http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_studioart.html
Artnet- http://www.artnet.com/?gclid=CKW4_bj4m7ICFYFo4Aod61UAag
Drawn- http://blog.drawn.ca/
Japan Society- http://www.japansociety.org/
Going Global- http://goglobalsns.org/
You Tube- http://www.youtube.com/user/TimNeedles
MSG Varsity- http://www.msgvarsity.com/long-island/smithtown-east

Studio in Art:
Google Art Project- http://www.googleartproject.com/
Illustration Friday- http://illustrationfriday.com/
Going Global- http://goglobalsns.org/
You Tube- http://www.youtube.com/user/TimNeedles
MSG Varsity- http://www.msgvarsity.com/long-island/smithtown-east


Studio in Media:
IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/
SKYPE in the classroom- http://education.skype.com/users/16980-tim-needles
Going Global- http://goglobalsns.org/
Short & Sweet NYC- http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/author/tim-needles/
You Tube- http://www.youtube.com/user/TimNeedles
Statigram- http://statigr.am/
MSG Varsity- http://www.msgvarsity.com/long-island/smithtown-east

Contests:
Young Arts- http://www.youngarts.org/
LI Best- http://www.heckscher.org/pages.php?which_page=education_high_school
Scholastic- http://www.artandwriting.org/

22 Days of Summer

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacation and staying creative but remember last week the first four AP summer assignments were due last week and I've seen some great result such as Clay's self portrait without a face shown above. There's just 22 days left until school begins so make sure you are on top of finishing the rest of the summer assignments and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all came up with.  Additionally, I have still not recieved all of them from everyone so make sure you send them in so I can take a look!

Summer Assignments:

All assignments can be done in any medium, technique and style you desire but should be 2-Dimensional work (flat) not 3-Dimensional (sculpture) work in any media that is 18”x24” or smaller and should be entirely original (do not use other people’s pictures, characters, or content in any way).

Part I: Breadth Assignments:

(these 4 assignments should be sent to me via email, instagram, flickr, ect by August for feedback as they will count towards your 1st Quarter grade)

1. Self Portrait (without showing your face)- The important thing here is to reveal something about yourself without using your face. In fact, you need not use any part of your body at all in this assignment. Instead, you are challenged to portray who you are in some alternative way. What image can you create or invent that would tell us something about you - your personality, your interests, your character, your inclinations, your talents, your passions, your obsessions, your desires, your needs, your likes and dislikes, your essence?

2. Noir- Read the definition below and create a work that has a theme of noir in some way.
(adjective French: Black; noting the black numbers in roulette or the film noir style which incorporates deep shadows and a grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair.)

3. Song- Illustrate a song of your choice. Do NOT incorporate the lyrics into the work but instead illustrate the words or feelings or music itself! The theme is open to your own interpretation.

4. Chronicle- Take a part of your life whether it is a single 24 hour day or a week or a class period and make an art piece representing that period of time. You can incorporate text or leave it abstract but be creative and do not simply document, make it creative.

Part II: Concentration Assignments:

Create 10 works in a theme of your choice in a medium that you want to work with for the AP test (pencil, photography, mixed media, ect.). Examples from the past include "A Day In The Life", "A Reinterpretation of the Past through Steam technology", and "Perspectives of the Brooklyn Bridge" so it's really wide open but if you want to run your idea past me before you begin I'd love to hear it. Here's a link to the College Board website which has information about the test with examples of Concentration pieces that have scored well in the past: AP: Studio Art

Part III: Shanti Peace Poster

Create a 8"x10' poster for the Shanti Peace Poster Contest, the theme is peace and you are free to use quotes from Ghandi and/or Martin Luther King if you wish. Here's a link to the three winning Smithtown designs from last year's contest: 2011 Peace Poster

School's Out

Today is the last day of school so I thought I would end by sharing some of the final watercolor assignment in painting class as a tree is symbolic for life and growth among other things.  Above are three paintings by Taylor,  Sabrina, and Brenna from the art courtyard outside my classroom.

Congratulations to all the seniors who graduated yesterday and best of luck in the future and to all my students I remind you to go forward with an open mind and remember that "everyday in another opportunity to be creative"!

Starting off with a SCAD Summer

Next week I'll be heading down to Savannah, GA to participate in some of the SCAD Summer art workshops along with some of my students.  I'm looking forward to spending the week being creative with drawing classes outdoors, children's book illustration, storyboarding, and figure drawing among others. The campus is pretty amazing, here are a few photos from my trip there last year.

Advanced Film: "Throw It Back" trailer

Here's the completed trailer for the short film Throw It Back which stars and was produced by Mr. Needles, the Advanced Film class, and the Media Art Honor Society as well as cameos by Smithtown East Staff like Mr. Lynch and some of the security team.  Look out for the full film which will be out this summer and will be submitted into a few local film festivals!

Longhouse Reserve Student Annual V Awards

Congratulations to AP Art student Kyle Stroveglia for winning first place in the drawing category at this year's Longhouse Reserve Student Annual.  His piece is below, a marker drawing of Fly's Eye Dome designed by Buckminster Fuller and he received his award at the Longhouse this week in a ceremony which featured Longhouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen, a internationally known textile designer and art collector, and Selena Rothwell, the Education Committee Chair.  Kyle's a senior and will soon be heading off to Boston for college so it's a great way to go out!

Kyle's winning piece: "Fly's Eye Dome"

Longhouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen

Kyle receiving his award from Selena Rothwell

Art Room 161 was Fascination Award nominated for 2012's Most Fascinating Art Teacher blog

I found out today that Art Room 161 was nominated for a Fascination Award as 2012's Most Fascinating Art Teacher blog!  While I have never heard of the Fascination Awards it's always nice to be nominated for an award that includes the term "most fascinating" so thanks to all the parents, teachers, and especially students who use the blog and interact daily!

Japan Society: Japanese Art Deco

I stopped by The Japan Society to check out their show on Japanese Art Deco before it closed and found the work pretty fascinating! There was a variety of media ranging from textiles to posters to housewares to cigarette packages which merged the deco design with Japanese style making for some pretty interesting results. After studying both Art Deco and Japanese culture in AP Art & Painting it's definitely something worth checking out, at least on the web!

Congratulations AP Art class of 2011-2012

Today is the last day of classes so I just wanted to say congratulations to this year's Smithtown East AP Art class and thanks to all of you who put in the time and worked so hard!  Remember to stay creative and stay in touch! Best of luck in the future!

Photography: Light Painting

In photography class our third experimental technique is long exposure light painting using iPhones and a DSLR camera.  This is a group assignment but each student must submit their own image by Thursday, here are some of my favorites so far from Brianna, Mckenna, and Nicole above and w Kim and Jenna below.

RIP Ray Bradbury

Science-fiction legend Ray Bradbury passed away earlier today at the age of 91 and here's a short video of the author best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 speaking about himself and where his creativity and interest in books came from.  Here'a a link to his obituary in the L.A. Times

Photography: Double Exposures

 In photography we are working on some experimental, creative techniques this week and we will begin by creating double and triple exposures.  You can intentionally expose images more than once in the camera or afterwards using Photoshop.  When you're making multiple exposures you should also think about which images you are combining and you can make the final piece thematic, random and comedic, or create a photo illustration which makes a more specific point.  Here are three great examples from Jenna (above)< Kim (below), and Melanie (bottom), terrific work!

Film History: 1990's

As we look at the recent history of film and television in the 1990's it's a bit easier to contextualize the social and historical factors around films.  In television we talked about the major series such as: Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Friends, and we watched the "Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure" episode of Cheers which came to an end in 1993.  The film are watching is one of my favorites,  Lasse Hallström's 1993 drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape starring  Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, and Leonardo DiCaprio.  Below are the three questions to answer on your reaction paper which is due on Wednesday:

The town of Endora is, in a sense, a major character in the film and there are a few distinct parts of the town that seem to serve an important symbolic purpose such as the water tower, the grocery stores, and even the town's name itself.  Discuss why and how these elements work in the film and what their symbolic meanings are.

The cast of the film is pretty amazing from the stars like Depp & DiCaprio to the supporting actors like John C. Reilly & Crispin Glover so it's not a surprise that the performances are terrific too but putting the major characters aside choose three supporting actors and talk about what their purpose in the film is, what do they represent? If you removed them what would be lost?

Finally, what is the theme or moral of the film, what's it trying to say?  Give evidence from the film to support your ideas

AP Art 2012-2013 Class Meeting

There will be a short class meeting for students enrolled in AP Art next year to discuss the summer assignments, summer course options and contests, and to answer any questions that arise.  Above is an example from Meagan of her "self portrait without a face" assignment which is listed below on the blog,  See you all Wednesday!

Photography: Grunge Filters

This week in class we are learning how to create our own photo filters and first we'll be creating grunge filters using images of wrecked type, scratches. grime, grit, and coffee spills along with some advanced Photoshop tools so make sure you take an image that would work well weathered and followed the same steps in the demonstration I did in class in order to create a good set of filters.  The grunge image is due at the beginning of class of Monday but above are three great examples that were turned early by Jenna, Matt, and Sarah, nice work!