COLORS AND MOODS

It's important to remember the importance of colors. Whether you're choosing colors for a design project, your wedding, or rooms in your house, color has a "profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically." With that being said, keep in mind the effects colors have on people (on you!) and the emotional associations humans have with certain colors, so that you create the right mood with your next project. 

JUL & MAT MUSIC PAINTING

Jul & Mat Music Painting

Great music and great colors...Jul & Mat Music Painting video is funky and creative. The hands continuously paint a blank canvas aligning to the song's beats. It makes you a little dizzy from staring at it, but it's fun to watch...curious to see what will happen next and how it will end.  

D'BLOGALA

d'blogala

It's funny how I ran into this blog... In her 3rd grade English class, my 9-year old step-sister wrote a poem about slavery. I was so impressed by her poem, I started browsing the web for children's writing books. I feel like I have to foster her talent! I stumbled across Doodle Diary: Art Journaling For Girls. It "combines images with words and art journaling techniques." Although it's not all writing, it will expose her to other art forms. Dawn DeVries Sokol's is the author and her blog, d'blogala, is just a collection design work and art journaling, but I think it's worth following... It's always good to have creative influences around you when brainstorming and working on a project. 

SPIDER-MAN ON BROADWAY

Spider-Man On Broadway

Is anyone planning to attend the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark show on  Broadway? I certainly am. I grew up watching the Spider-Man cartoon, so I'll be there. The show opens December 8th. It's been reported that Spider-Man will be flying across the audience, leaping and hopping all over the place displaying amazing visuals, sounds, and the power of technology. But I bet you don't know how much the budget is: $400 BILLION, I repeat, $400 BILLION. With a budget like that, this show better be groundbreaking. It's the most expensive Broadway show in history. Read more about the show in the article titled, A Web And A Prayer written by Jesse Greene

TSA's CONTROVERSIAL AIRPORT SCREENING PROCEDURES

TSA S&M
New York magazine, December 6, 2010 issue

New York magazine's editorial cartoons are hilarious. How do you feel about the Transportation Security Administration's new screening procedures? I feel like this, if it's going to protect the lives of human beings, I'm all for the new system. Sometimes I think people just want to be against something. I mean, we all know what a half naked body looks like, we've seen it on TV hundreds, even thousands of times. So if it's okay on TV, why wouldn't it be okay in this situation? TSA's not even saving the scans. 

SHOW & TELL SOMETHING INTERESTING

The Return of "Get Your Way On"

The satire never ends... Take a look at this comic strip. It pokes fun at the most controversial topics discussed in politics today: the war, the current administration, and the planned building of a mosque near ground zero. But should these topics be turned into jokes? 

SHOW & TELL A SHORT VIDEO

Meet Me In The Basement 

By Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie rock band  

In response to the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, the fourth meeting where the G-20 heads of government discussed the global financial system and the world economy, Broken Social Scene produced this short video, Meet Me in the Basement. The video is interesting because it brings to light (in one form) all of the chaos happening in the world today, from politics to changes in civilization. There is no constant narrative, but the few phrases – hate, love, protestors clash with a vengeance, you’re doing it wrong, riots and protestors, pop culture and Christianity, crime scene, etcetera – that do pop up carry strong messages. The images and footage in Meet Me in the Basement show events that have recently happened around the world and what’s going on in the world today – from 9/11 to Justin Beiber to Michael Jackson’s transformation to rioters and protestors to a starving black child in a third world country.

Talk about influence on society. I found this review of the video online: “The new Broken Social Scene video is a pastiche of shocking news footage and ugly still photos that basically amounts to the same "We are Rome before the fall! The world is ending!" gist you've seen projected on wall space at too many college art shows. But the editing is so expertly crisp and the song itself so propulsive and engaging that by the end, you find yourself ready to sign up for the revolution.”