The higher the nor-
malcy becomes, the more se-
vere the tragedy.
from the Clandestine Samurai.
worth stealing.
7 years ago
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Eternal Student, Teacher and Specialist in Potpourri
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Artists Who Draw
For Teachers (and students too!)
- A New Personal Hero: Kathleen Crocetti
- A. Pintura: Art Detective
- Age of the Great Khan, Painting and Calligraphy in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
- American Visionary Art Museum- Outsider ART!!
- Art and a Little Song
- Art and Ideas Factory: Quandaries for Art Students
- Art Ed 2.0 Annex
- Art Glossary of Many Sorts
- Art History in a Nutshell
- Art House Coop: Ideas Galore
- Art in the News: Stay Current with N.Y. Times
- Aztec Dieties: A Fascinating Interactive
- Blue Lobster: Dawn Pederson provides SO much for the graphic arts teacher, and for me, too.
- Cardboard Art
- Colorful Words, Literally
- Cyber Jackson Pollock
- Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Online
- Drawing Anatomy Tutorial
- Francisco Goya Lesson
- German and Austrian Expressionism
- Glogster- Artsy One Page Presentations, Sorta.
- Gustav Klimt. Extraordinary Site
- Image Search- In Reverse. Brilliant!
- In This House
- John-Michel Basquiat: Street to Studio
- Learn about the Renaissance
- Make Movies: Xtranormal
- Me, Again. Finally, for random classroom ideas and lesson... Just beginning.
- MoMA: The Red Studio
- Mr. Picasso Head
- My Own Art Program
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Random Interactives
- Random Interactives 2
- S M I T H S
- Shawn Belanger: Artist Exemplar... Must See!
- Smart History: Online Timeline Worth Time!
- The Art of Buddism
- The Art Story: Modern Artists in Focus
- The Caves of Lascaux
- The Exquisite Corpse
- The Girl Effect
- The Muse Awards: Absolutely Incredible Online Art Ed
- The Singh Twins
- the Warhol
- Typography Design.
- Women in Art: How Many Can You Name?
- WorldImages: More Than a Lifetime Worth
- WW2 Combat Artists Bring the War Home
Advocacy in Art and Education
- California Art Education Association
- Art Education: Let the Kids Be Heard
- Arts Education Partnership: The Best of Research and Advocacy
- Claymation: Creature Comforts. Art is....
- Custom Cartoons with Xtranormal
- Elliot Eisner: Ten Lessons the Arts Teach. I want to memorize these.
- Elliot Eisner: What Education Can Learn from the Arts
- Ken Robinson: TED Conference. Do Schools Kill Creativity? By FAR the Most Powerful Statement for Art Education. Period.
- Thanks Dr. Cris Guenter! So Much of What an Art Teacher Could Want.
- The Importance of Art- Wonderful Quotes
- Thinking Outside of the Box. YouTube.
- Tom Chapin Sings a Song to Us
- Wikio: Top Site for News and BLOGS! Search "Art"
Exciting Sites in the Arts
- Jason Alexander. Painter.
- Chiyomi Longo
- Baruj Salinas
- Sage Vaughn
- Michael Schultheis
- Will Mentor: Only Two
- Sophie Jodoin
- Inez Storer
- Sharon Booma
- Claudia Marseille
- Adam Shaw
- Squeak Carnwath
- Urban Art
- Michael Keck
- Harry Gruenert
- Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne
- Caitlin Schwerin: Our Local Success Story
- Michael Cutlip
- Kiki Smith
- Jens Dierks
- Mark Khaisman: Art from Packing Tape
Education Sites I Follow and Read
- Art Journal Blog
- ArtEd 2.0: Art Ed Community
- ASCD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Bata Shoe Museum
- California Art Education Assoc.
- Cool Tools for Schools: A Wiki
- Democracy & Education
- Education at the Getty
- Edutopia: Get Lost in Here
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco YES!
- L.A. County Museum of Art
- L.A. MOMA: Current Exhibitions
- Lots of Art Blogs at Alltop
- MERLOT: Education Online Community
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Nat'l Art Education Association
- Nat'l Soc. for Education in Art and Design- England
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- School Arts Magazine
- SFMOMA: Currently Showing
- The Onion on Education
- Visual Thinking
AND More Stuff. We All Need More Stuff.
- 1000 Journal: MOMA
- Blogs on Wordpress with Art tags
- BOOST Your Creativity
- Creative Commons: on copyright and license
- Cyber Business Cards. Gotta Have One.
- Design of the Future. Yanko Design
- Floating Lemons
- Gazillions of Flickr Photos in the Galaxy
- HUGE Texture Surfaces for FREE
- Joe Cartoon. Sick but oh so clever.
- Maps and Charts. Love 'em.
- Me and My Bicycle
- Most Creative Resumes, or How to Get a Job
- Poppytalk, Handmade and Design
- The Best of Business Card Design
- The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch
- Today in Art, and Other Messes
- Toxel: Design Ideas and Tech Concepts
- Urban Installations
- Wimp: Best Videos on the Web
- Zefrank: When you have WAY too much time....
Currently and Recently Reading, Reading, Reading.....
- Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald. Wonderful.
- Just Kids by Patti Smith. See Post.
- East is East by T.C. Boyle. Enjoying a LoT
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Existentialism in the fifties? Wow.
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
- The Gathering by Anne Enright.
- The Moviegoer by Percy Walker. Existential Dispair. Great Read.
- Game Control by Lionel Shriver. Chilling and thoughtful.
- A Frolic of His Own by Gaddis
- Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis. Brilliant.
- The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.
- The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. WWII Paris.
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Wonderful.
- The Reliable Wife by Goolrick. About DESPAIR.
- You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon.
- The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber. Smart fluff.
- The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LLosa.
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson. The BEST!
- Lightning Field by Dana Spiotta
- Divisadero. Very Michael Ondaatje.
- The Imperfectionists by Rachman. Good writing.
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. Quirky as hell. Needs lots of suspension of disbelief.
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. Great (of all the stupid) dog story.. For Hamletophiles
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. Meh.
- Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. Fantastic, enlightening must-read.
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Reading about Japan in Japan. Great read; need someone to talk to.
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham. Ten on a ten scale! Goes to Sock Knocking!
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Loving it.
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. An 1850's mystery by the first writer of detective stories. Just finished. FUN!
- Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina. A new look at Germany Nazi era from the eyes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Great.
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. Goes straight to Best Books List below.
- A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee. Beautiful and Understated.
- The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Hands down page turner. This book is a must read for every American concerned about the state of ALL of our schools.
Books that Knocked MY SOCKS Off!
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Art and the Creation of Mind by Elliot Eisner
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Cormac McCarthy. Every Book
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Going After Cacciato by Tim OBrien
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
- Postmodernism for Teachers by Linn
- Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Help by Katherine Stockett
- The Hours by Michael Cunnigham
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Woman Who Walked Into Walls by Roddy Doyle
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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Your fish always cut off part of the post... I can't read what Samurai said! Of course it could just be my iBook, which some PC users I know blame for the formatting problem.
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