Feb 28, 2007
Enjoying the artic blast
During the last artic blast in Ohio, heavy snow was kind of pain in the neck for me but a lot of fun for Luke. He could make a snowman for the first time in his life.
Best Baby Breakdancer in the World!
I posted Luke's dancing in the room before. However, I found the following video in the web and this baby is more amazing!!!!
Enjoy!!
Enjoy!!
Flare Up
Can you see that Luke is clenching his fists in this paiting? He was told to stamp pine cone on the paper but what I see more is his hand.
Flare Up (2006) by Luke
Watercolor using Pine Cone on paper
Introducing “IT’S HIP HOP, BABY!” video
Since I showed you my boy dancing, today I will introduce a brand new video with a new pedagogical concept. Read the following their press release.
“It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” is an innovative new preschool video that features traditional songs spiced up with fresh beats and rhythms, encouraging children to explore music, language and sounds. Created especially for children ages 2 and older, the catchy music of “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” can be enjoyed by the whole family.
“It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” includes original songs, as well as the classics we all know and love – “ABCs,” “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” – but on this video the music has a trendy, dance-worthy beat with a fun, positive message. It promotes the joys of learning ABC’s, animals, body parts, colors and numbers through captivating musical performances that sound like today’s hottest hip hop tracks. “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” also features real children, not actors, showing kid-friendly movements that help develop listening skills and the ability to follow simple directions.
Dr. Lisa Thornton MD, pediatrician and host of “Health Corner” on Lifetime Television says, “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” is 22 minutes of programming I would recommend for any child.”
Through the “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” interactive website, parents across the country are giving this video an A+ rating. Grace Harris, mother of three children in Chicago, IL says, “My kids are obsessed with “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” my youngest said “Hip Hop Baby” a least a hundred times yesterday.” Domenica Catelli from Houston Texas writes, “My niece, Emma, who is 2 ½ got her copy and she LOVES IT! The first day she watched the video 4 times in a row! She spins and dances while she’s watching it.”
“It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” educates children in a fun and exciting way. The “It’s Hip Hop, Baby!” DVD is now available exclusively online at www.itshiphopbaby.com.
Purple Sea
He especially likes purple just like I do. Following image was created by blowing colors on the paper.
Purple Sea (2006)
by Luke
Water color on paper
Community Festival Kids Art Space
Community Festival (est. 1972), "The Party with a Purpose," is anall-volunteer staffed celebration of Columbus's local arts, cultural,and politically active community. If you've never been, plan onchecking it out JUNE 22, 23, & 24, 2007 in Gooddale Park.
If you have been, or want to jump in head first (which I highlyrecommend - volunteering is, afterall, party of the fun) you mighttry working in the Kids Art Space. This year, the organizers arelooking for students to plan and orchestrate a collaborativeprojects kids can work on throughout the weekend - a puppetshow, paper mache X, a mural on canvas.
If you'd like to learn more and get involved, please email me and Iwill be in touch with further information.
Check out http://www.comfest.com for more...
If you have been, or want to jump in head first (which I highlyrecommend - volunteering is, afterall, party of the fun) you mighttry working in the Kids Art Space. This year, the organizers arelooking for students to plan and orchestrate a collaborativeprojects kids can work on throughout the weekend - a puppetshow, paper mache X, a mural on canvas.
If you'd like to learn more and get involved, please email me and Iwill be in touch with further information.
Check out http://www.comfest.com for more...
Toot!! Toot!!
Luke is so into Thomas and friends. Among the engines, Henry the No.3 engine is his favorite. I happen to buy as many wooden engines as I can and he has all the main roll(?) engines right now. Among the engines, Henry the No. 3 engine is his favorite. He even get to sleep after Henry lie down on his pillow.
Interesting thing is thta I am also enjoying play with those engines these days and sometimes I am more concentrate on building the tracks than he does.
It is also very interesting how this toy was created. The official website of Thomas & Friends introduces the brief history of it. Thomas the Tank Engine first appeared in 1946, when stories about him were published in The Railway Series by the Reverend W.V. Awdry. He actually began to write the story to show it to his son. Now he is considered to be the most widely-known fictional locomotive in the world and the Thomas & Friends became a big player in the toy industry.
Click next image to visit the official website of Thomas & Friends.
Interesting thing is thta I am also enjoying play with those engines these days and sometimes I am more concentrate on building the tracks than he does.
It is also very interesting how this toy was created. The official website of Thomas & Friends introduces the brief history of it. Thomas the Tank Engine first appeared in 1946, when stories about him were published in The Railway Series by the Reverend W.V. Awdry. He actually began to write the story to show it to his son. Now he is considered to be the most widely-known fictional locomotive in the world and the Thomas & Friends became a big player in the toy industry.
Click next image to visit the official website of Thomas & Friends.
Dangerous?? Illegal??
A Korean car maker, Hyundai pulled its spot commercial titled "Restless" after the Advertising Standards Bureau(ASB) of Australia banned it. As you see, this ad shows a baby snatching the keys to a car and riding it. Along the way, he picks up a girl who happens to be hitching to the beach. He surfs and she watches.
What adorable toddlers and how creative the ad is. However, ASB argues that the ad shows illegal activity and may entice youngsters into copycat behavior.
What?
As you have already experienced, kids love to pretend that they are adults. But they are not as stupid as those adults think. They know they are pretending.
Not to mention, kids’ cautiousness, even if a kid did copy that behavior he wouldn't be able to reach the pedals. And she wouldn't be able to write "west coast" on the cardboard. Moreover, is there nothing else on TV that shows illegal stuff?
Another good example showing how creativity is being killed by stubborn adults.
Feb 22, 2007
Childhood Regained: An Interdisciplinary Conference
The Following conference will be very interesting especially for those who are interested in the early childhood arts education.
Childhood Regained: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Organized by The Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute with support from the Pumpkin and Heimbold Foundations and the Pratt Institute.
Monday, March 12 & Tuesday, March 13 2007; 8:30am to 5pm each day.
The idea of this conference is to begin with the child in order to create a generative, expansive place to consider the questions:
Who is the child?
What do we know about childhood today?
What do we need to know?
How can we know it?
If we were to explore just a few of the many dimensions of childhood; record and consider our observations--what might schooling and its curriculum look like? What would need to change? How well does the No Child Left Behind legislation serve this emerging portrait of the child in today’s society? What new possibilities would education offer the child? What role would the teacher play?
To register online: http://my.pratt.edu and click on Instant Enrollment. In the box labeled Course Code Number, enter the code ADMIN 001 257 or enter key words: conference, and select the appropriate course number, then click SUBMIT. Enter the required contact information.
http://my.pratt.edu
To register by phone: please call 718 636 3637.
Conference fee: $250 per person.
Lunch will be provided.
Schedule
MARCH 12
Introduction: Making Childhood Visible, A Conversation in Two Parts — Amy Brook Snider and Barbara Danish
The Child: As Image Maker — Vea Vecchi (with Leslie Morrow, Translator)
The Child: As Learner/Thinker — Kieran Egan
“My Own Backyard to Play In,” The Short Films of Children at play by Tony Schwartz (Moderated by Forrest Gray)
The Child: As Play Maker — Jane Katch
The Child: As Story Teller — Patricia Cooper
Charge to the Audience — Barbara Danish
MARCH 13
Reflections — Barbara Danish, Amy Brook Snider, and Breakout Groups
Interdisciplinary Breakout Meetings: What is the emerging picture of childhood that we have gotten from the previous day? What has inspired us? What do we want to add to this picture?
The Child: In Society — Eric Cooper
Presentation of Documentation — Brigid McGinn, David Kelly, and Art & Design Education students.
Town Meeting: Let us consider this picture in the context of current educational policy and practice. Where would we want to go from here? What do we hope will happen?
Organized by The Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute with support from the Pumpkin and Heimbold Foundations and the Pratt Institute.
More information and a downloadable brochure can be found at:
http://www.pratt.edu/art_design_education-ug
Childhood Regained: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Organized by The Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute with support from the Pumpkin and Heimbold Foundations and the Pratt Institute.
Monday, March 12 & Tuesday, March 13 2007; 8:30am to 5pm each day.
The idea of this conference is to begin with the child in order to create a generative, expansive place to consider the questions:
Who is the child?
What do we know about childhood today?
What do we need to know?
How can we know it?
If we were to explore just a few of the many dimensions of childhood; record and consider our observations--what might schooling and its curriculum look like? What would need to change? How well does the No Child Left Behind legislation serve this emerging portrait of the child in today’s society? What new possibilities would education offer the child? What role would the teacher play?
To register online: http://my.pratt.edu and click on Instant Enrollment. In the box labeled Course Code Number, enter the code ADMIN 001 257 or enter key words: conference, and select the appropriate course number, then click SUBMIT. Enter the required contact information.
http://my.pratt.edu
To register by phone: please call 718 636 3637.
Conference fee: $250 per person.
Lunch will be provided.
Schedule
MARCH 12
Introduction: Making Childhood Visible, A Conversation in Two Parts — Amy Brook Snider and Barbara Danish
The Child: As Image Maker — Vea Vecchi (with Leslie Morrow, Translator)
The Child: As Learner/Thinker — Kieran Egan
“My Own Backyard to Play In,” The Short Films of Children at play by Tony Schwartz (Moderated by Forrest Gray)
The Child: As Play Maker — Jane Katch
The Child: As Story Teller — Patricia Cooper
Charge to the Audience — Barbara Danish
MARCH 13
Reflections — Barbara Danish, Amy Brook Snider, and Breakout Groups
Interdisciplinary Breakout Meetings: What is the emerging picture of childhood that we have gotten from the previous day? What has inspired us? What do we want to add to this picture?
The Child: In Society — Eric Cooper
Presentation of Documentation — Brigid McGinn, David Kelly, and Art & Design Education students.
Town Meeting: Let us consider this picture in the context of current educational policy and practice. Where would we want to go from here? What do we hope will happen?
Organized by The Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute with support from the Pumpkin and Heimbold Foundations and the Pratt Institute.
More information and a downloadable brochure can be found at:
http://www.pratt.edu/art
Feb 21, 2007
Searching for the Creativity - My Statement as an Artist
Is artist a job? Is artist an occupation? Is artist a profession?
Actually, there seems to be many artists who want their being artists as professionalism. In general, professionalism is understood as “the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood.” Historically, the concept of profession began with the works of medicine, theology and law. The artist has begun to be recognized as a profession when certain curriculums for the artists were developed in the university level.
However, I am still very skeptical about the idea that artist is a profession. For me, professionalism is a self-defined power elitism or as organized exclusivity along guild lines, much in the sense that George Bernard Shaw characterized all professions as “conspiracies against the laity.”Greenwood introduced 5 general attributes or indicators of a profession. Among them, “a set of knowledge” comes first. Here I find a problem with the idea that artist is a profession. In the arts, the focus is not on a set of knowledge but on the creativity!!!! The creativity is not exclusively possessed by a few “professional” people.
In a certain point of view, the process of the professionalization (the level of individuals) is pretty similar to that of the institutionalization (the level of organizations). However, as I mentioned before, I believe that the institutions are composed not only of arts organizations but also of individual artists, critics and audiences.
Therefore, again, as being artists, (more specifically, as an arts administrator or a researcher in this field) I believe that I am certainly within the artworld. And because I believe the arts should be for everyone by everyone and because I believe that the core of the arts is creativity, I believe that searching for the creativity within this world will be my mission. As you see, it may be all about the belief. It makes sense because I believe artist is a calling not a profession.
Thus, for the first task of searching for the creativity, I am now searching for the creativity in my son’s works here.
Actually, there seems to be many artists who want their being artists as professionalism. In general, professionalism is understood as “the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood.” Historically, the concept of profession began with the works of medicine, theology and law. The artist has begun to be recognized as a profession when certain curriculums for the artists were developed in the university level.
However, I am still very skeptical about the idea that artist is a profession. For me, professionalism is a self-defined power elitism or as organized exclusivity along guild lines, much in the sense that George Bernard Shaw characterized all professions as “conspiracies against the laity.”Greenwood introduced 5 general attributes or indicators of a profession. Among them, “a set of knowledge” comes first. Here I find a problem with the idea that artist is a profession. In the arts, the focus is not on a set of knowledge but on the creativity!!!! The creativity is not exclusively possessed by a few “professional” people.
In a certain point of view, the process of the professionalization (the level of individuals) is pretty similar to that of the institutionalization (the level of organizations). However, as I mentioned before, I believe that the institutions are composed not only of arts organizations but also of individual artists, critics and audiences.
Therefore, again, as being artists, (more specifically, as an arts administrator or a researcher in this field) I believe that I am certainly within the artworld. And because I believe the arts should be for everyone by everyone and because I believe that the core of the arts is creativity, I believe that searching for the creativity within this world will be my mission. As you see, it may be all about the belief. It makes sense because I believe artist is a calling not a profession.
Thus, for the first task of searching for the creativity, I am now searching for the creativity in my son’s works here.
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