Studio Art: Paper Bead Bracelets

In Studio Art we are completing our Paper Bead Bracelets today some of which will be auctioned off for charity.  Here's a look at some of the finished bracelets from the period 7 class today which are looking pretty terrific.  After you've completed two bracelets initial one of the beads on each and hand them in for a grade!

Art Honor Society: Spring Field Trip to Chelsea NYC

The Art Honor Society will soon be embarking on our Spring Field Trip to Chelsea NYC to see the new Whitney Museum, NY galleries, walk the high line, and have lunch at Chelsea Market on May 22, 2015.  Today we will talk about the trip and our upcoming induction ceremony as well as the doodle4nf charity doodles.

Advanced Media: Television Pilots

In Advanced Media we just completed presenting our Television Research project so we will now be working on our Television Pilots.  We will be using Kevin Bisch's story cheat sheet (in the assignment drive) and writing out the basic premise followed by a character description list and the Bisch answers.  The pilot pitch is due on Thursday and the research quiz will be on Friday.

INFOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE: Algae Biofuel

The Department of Energy recently issued an infographic challenge and two of our art and science classmates. Rose Kong and Emily Peterson took up the challenge of illustrating Algae Biofuel in the infographic above which was chosen as one of the top 50.  It's a great marriage of science and design for a good educational cause!

Studio Art: Origami Boxes Due

Today in Studio Art we will complete our Origami Box project with a handmade paper and recycled paper box due at the beginning of class.



We will be starting the next project which is creating paper beads and making 2 bracelets with them.  Below is the paper bead tutorial which we will be using:

Extra Credit: Looking into Smithtown’s Past & Young Arts

Today is the final day to submit work to Looking into Smithtown’s Past so make sure you email your entries if you haven't already and cc me for extra credit!  You must include 5 selfies (1 each from locations listed in the information below) and a final photograph or drawing which will be entry.  A number of Smithtown East students should be represented because it's a Smithtown centered project!

Entry Deadline: April 24, 2015

Exhibition Dates May 23 – June 16 at the Mills Pond House Gallery.

Cash prizes will be awarded:  $500 for 1st Place, $350 for 2nd Place, and $150 for 3rd Place. Winning entries will be featured in Smithtown News.

For more information see STAC's website here: Looking into Smithtown’s Past

The Young Arts contest just opened up for this year so any non-senior students can begin to enter.  Each year, there are approximately 11,000 applications to YoungArts from 15-18 year old (or grades 10-12) artists, and from these, approximately 800 winners are selected.  To date, YoungArts has honored more than 20,000 alumni, including Doug Aitken, Josh Groban, Jenji Kohan, Desmond Richardson and Kerry Washington, with over $12 million in monetary awards; facilitated in excess of $60 million in college scholarship opportunities in the past two years; and enabled its participants to work with master teachers who are among the most distinguished artists in the world, such as Marina Abramović, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Zaha Hadid, Robert Redford and Bruce Weber.

Studio Art: Origami Box Instructions

In Studio Art our first Origami Box with handmade paper is due today so here is a refresher on how to fold it.  Use the video Instructions step by step if you'd like.  The second box is going to use recycled paper that is decorated and is due at the beginning of class on Moday.

AP Art: Pow Wow Hawaii Art

POW! WOW! Hawaii 2015 from POW! WOW! Hawaii on Vimeo.

I wanted to share this great recap of this year's Pow Wow Hawaii art event.  Every February, artists from all over the world travel to the island of Oahu, Hawaii for this an amazing festival which features many of the artists we've talked about in AP Art this year such as Daleast and Tristan Eaton (who's mural is pictured below).

Advanced Media: TV Production Research Project

In Advanced Media we just finished learning about the duties of a showrunner and before we begin actually producing some television we are going to work on a short TV Production Research Project.  Each student chose a television show to research and will create a 6 page slideshow with the following information:

1: Show, runing dates, head staff, & image
2: Data & Numbers- budget, ratings, historical finances
3: Showrunner-Head writer & Production Style
4: Critical Reception & Awards
5: Production Process & Where it stands now

I created a demo available online using MADMEN as an example that can be used as a template, the final project is due Thursday.

Studio Art: Paper Art

In Studio Art we will begin our sculpture unit with some paper craft.  We will be creating 4 increasingly complex Paper Art projects beginning with a simple 3 dimensional origami project and culminating with paper jewelry, vases, and masks show above and below.

Talks With Teachers: 25 Tips for Teachers

The Talks With Teachers podcast recently released a terrific collection of the best 25 tips from the 70 episodes of Season One and I was honored to be included in the collection with the quote above from my episode (#52).  Another Smithtown colleague Dan McCabe, vice principal at Accompsett Middle School, was also included and his quote is below.  The collection is currently free on the TWT website linked above so check it out!

Advanced Media: The Showrunner

In Advanced Media we are learning about television and show runners as we will follow the process of creating a television show from scratch to the first pilot.  Each student will create an original idea for a television show and pitch it in this process and we will work as a network to choose some to develop into pilots.  Additionally next week each student will choose a television show to research and present discussing how they were created and broke as well as how they run in terms of staff and development.

Here's a relative story about The Walking Dead's first show runner Frank Darabont and how he disappeared after the first season: Hollywood Reporter

Studio Art: Introduction to Sculpture

In Studio Art we will begin the 4th quarter with an introduction to sculpture and some of the necessary terminology.  We will go over the basic types of sculpture that we'll work on (additive, reductive, kinetic, and land art) and we'll have a short quiz on the terms on Friday.

Advanced Media: Contests

Here are two great extra credit opportunities.  The Third Coast Short Doc challenge is a short 2-3 minute audio contest (of which I was a finalist two years ago btw) and the Lighthouse Film Festival is a free chance at submitting a film into a local festival.  I'll give extra credit for entering both or either and I'll be available during media art club to aid you in anyway possible- may the force be with you!

The Third Coast Festival is having their annual ShortDocs Challenge which comes with a set of rules inspired by a creative partner. For 2015 that's the Studs Terkel Radio Archive from the WFMT Radio Network.  

Your radio story must:

- be two to three minutes in length
- be titled with a question that begins with one of the five Ws (who, what, when, where or why)
- contain the question "And what happened then?"- include a shout of silence or a cry of laughter

The deadline for submitting your ShortDoc is 11:59pm CT on Tue, April 14th.

INCENTIVES 

- Five winning ShortDocs will be featured at the 2015 Third Coast FilmlessFestival (TCFF), in fall 2015 in Chicago (dates tbd).

- Eight finalists will receive a free pass to the TCFF.

- Top submissions will be featured on Third Coast’s Re:sound and podcast, presented on PRX Remix, and at Third Coast listening events in Chicago and beyond.

- All participants receive a free one-year SoundCloud Pro account.

- All submissions are archived permanently on this site, and all producers are added to the Third Coast Producer Index.

The Lighthouse Film Festival invited us to enter student films from this year free of charge by May 1.  The New Jersey festival is on the shore, take a look here for more information: lighthousefilmfestival.org/submit.

Deadline to submit is MAY 1!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Please mail submissions to one of the addresses listed below.

                        

Lighthouse International Film Festival, Student Submissions: 104 Fairview Ave. Beach Haven NJ 08008 http://www.lighthousefilmfestival.org/:

Attn:  Katie Prince                          

111 Winding Ridge Rd

White Plains NY 10603                    

Please submit all film submissions on DVD or flashdrive, playable in a DVD player or Computer.

Be sure to include your contact information.  We will let you know that we've received it and contact you once your film has been reviewed.

Student Filmmakers, whose films are accepted, will receive 1 VIP ALL ACCESS PASS and 1 VIP ALL ACCESS PASS for a Parent/Guardian/Family Member. 

VIP All Access holders are the first to be granted access to theatres for the best seats in the house; this pass will permit you admission to all public film screenings, festival events and Breakfast with Filmmakers on Saturday andSunday morning.  Only All Access Pass Holders will be able to attend the Breakfast with Filmmakers events.

In addition, one of our Professional Award-winning filmmakers will attend the Student Film Screenings, view the students’ films, and participate in the Q&A afterward.

Long Island's Best art show at Heckscher Museum

Congratulations to Rosalie Zack who's photograph was included in the 2015 Long Island's Best art show at Heckscher Museum.  Long Island's Best challenges students in grades 9 through 12 from across Nassau and Suffolk Counties to choose a work of art in the Museum as the starting point for their own creative exploration.  54 public and private schools submitted students' artwork for jurying.  311 student entries were received and Curator Lisa Chalif selected 80 for display in the galleries.