10/2 Comment on blogs

Avery (7/2 Sound), I love your sound piece. The sounds tell stories and take me on the path. The crisp sound from keys serves as indicator for approaching home. So many layers, quiet a journey.

Dahye(Impact 25) I really like the idea of personalized exhibition in the virtual world. It gives people a chance to view all their favorites at once. I can totally see it being used in the art classroom. Teachers can select art pieces which serve for the learning theme and interact with them by clicking on the images to get more detailed information. Very creative ideas and big potential for educational application.

Katherine (10/2 2D) The animal selection presents their unique feature: the big horn! Some good stories can come out of them. The color on the wood is so random but fun. For the cutting, the figures look very clear to me. I think it is a good idea to engrave the image twice to allow the cuts go deeper.

Regina (8/1 Stop Motion): I like the way you demonstrated mixed color effect through stop-motion, it is simple but effective. I can total see it being used in children art classroom to help them learn colors. The color motions are much easier to attract kids’ attention than still images, and it also can better assist kids to remember the before and after color effect.

Seung (10/2 2D) Cute key chain! The color and the wording both serve the purpose of reminding people " don't forget bring your keys!" Because it cuts through, it is interesting to find out letter O becomes a big hole. I saw you were playing around with the font in Illustrator. How did you make your mind to choose this fount over the others?

Wei (8/1 Stop Motion): Very cute design. The monkey avatar fits perfectly in the fun theme. I can see parents using this short demo to show their kids how each instrument sounds like. There is also a lot of potential to extend the demo to a full tutorial to teach kids how to play certain kind of instrument. The interactive elements also add gamification theme to the learning process. I am sure kids would love to play with it.

ZhenZhen (9/1 - Computation - Glitch Algorithm) I really like these pieces, there are very inspiring. It is interesting to see art images being manipulated in a heavy tech savvy way. I like the way you interpreted the image as bunch of data dots. The artificial error added a lot of funky flavor to the original art piece, very bold. You should create a collection by using this technique.

Takeaways: As the semester approach to the end, it is helpful to look back and see how far we get from the beginning. I enjoyed to see peers’ work and cool ideas, a lot of them are very inspiring. I also see a lot of educational applications through the creating process. Design for a purpose, I think the mission for art educators is not only create visually appealing art pieces, but also teach students how to express their creative ideas and empower medium to delivery their messages.