Photography

Perhaps at some point you've done an exquisite corpse lesson with your students.

Perhaps its a bit of meaningless nostalgia for childhood toys, or Creature of the Black Lagoon - or both, but I've always wanted to do a project using View-Master slides. A few years ago, I even did some research to discover that you can indeed get custom made reels.

I spent some time today investigating all of the great stuff at PSDTuts - the site that has quickly become my number one stop for photoshop resources on the web.

You may have noticed an overabundance of Obama photography posts here this year. While I do intend this blog to be more of a 'pu pu platter' of art education links, I do find myself looking for more photo links this year now that I'm teaching photography for the first time in eight years (and in case you were wondering, no one actually sells 'pu pu platters' in China).

Why do I always just stumble across great examples after the lesson is finished? I love this Exploding Teddy Bear found on the CR Blog. That would have been great for our split second project... although I try to encourage my students to think around explosives...

We're going into the darkroom today... to work on some digital photos. Actually, we're using the darkroom to do some light painting. I posted a few light painting links before, and just found this great video. Its getting me pretty inspired to make some of my own light painted photographs:

I was listening to podcast of Terry Gross' Fresh Air yesterday, and there's a great bit in her interview with author and editor Charles Ardai. Ardai's home grown publishing company has singlehandedly resurrected the pulp crime fiction genre. In this interview, he spends a good deal of time talking about the process of collaborating with painters to get a good retro-pulp cover.

That's the number of photos a National Geographic photographer estimated they took on a six to eight week assignment. Not feeling to guilty about the number of photos I'm asking of my Advanced Photography students anymore....

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