The Morgan Library and Museum in NYC

Education Fun,

This is one of my favorite New York City Museums...
It is located in the former residence of J.P. Morgan and houses his world class collection of arts and books (manuscripts, letters, documents, etc).  To be inside the splendor of this residence is to travel to a magical world of places and times, and to be able to see up-close and personal actual hand-written and hand-drawn pages from some of the greatest artists and writers... well, it still boggles my mind...  :-)

hand-written and hand-drawn pages by William Blake... viewing them as if the Man is sitting next to me... Phew...

Here is the online link:
http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp

and if you ever visit New York City, this Library and Museum is unforgettable...

phineas8888 / Allen

  

Red Cloth Dance video at youtube...

Dear Family and Friends, I have watched this Fantastic wordless video (3 minutes long) about 10 times now... and have posted the link at my teachers online group... suggesting that every classroom in America and the World... watch this video... :-) I'll be quiet now and let the video speak for itself...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_40B9m4tI&feature=player_embedded

 Happy Merry Peace Love,

Allen aka: phineas8888

NYC Subway Puppetry: UrbanZ Arts... Cool...

Education Fun,

Life of young performance artists gets down into the New York City Subway...  :-)

You gotta be up for adventure and some "tough audiences" when you're new and young and dedicated to your art...

Their busking sign said something like ...  ? "My Plastic Bag Toy"...? (I could not read it well from the video...) 

Obviously the young woman is a skilled ballerina and puppeteer with an ingenious new technique of
puppet-manipulation... and to create such emotion and specialized ballet movements... with a plain white plastic bag...and her body... that transcends the UrbanZ Subway Setting...
is "fantastical phantasm"  Supreme!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FKBwTnfmRQ&NR=1

Maybe she will get some media attention, well-deserved...

You saw it first here: on phineas8888 "Education Fun"... :-)
Cool... Totally Cool...

Happy...

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Nova-Ember: Star & Fire: 24, 2010

Education Fun: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Posted on 11/24/2010 6:40pm

Dear Educators,
It is the evening before Thanksgiving: Nova-Ember: Star & Fire:
24, 2010...

and I just checked-in at my "Astronomy Picture of the Day" routine at: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

and Wow: "Flowing Auroras: Time-Lapse Photographs Over Norway"
by Tor Even Mathisen

It is an HD video with quiet music and whispered singing...

This tells you why the "Ancients" and the "Native Cultures" knew that Nature is alive and holy...

I can't make this stuff up; this is our Sky speaking...

Presented courtesy of our government: nasa.gov

No drugs needed; show this to your students if you wish...

Giving thanks to you all here at Edutopia.org

Allen Berg

Picasso Painting in a Museum: Mother and Child

Education Fun,

My friend was in Europe recently and photographed this painting by Picasso in a museum.

One thing that struck me immediately (perhaps because I am a Geometer :-) are the many different
triangles and tetrahedra forms that Picasso uses in the composition of this painting!!!

Combined with his solid columnesque 'architecture' of the mother and the chair she is sitting in...

This painting feels like a Monumental Mountain...
I guess that is why they call this style of painting "Cubism"...  :-)

Enjoy your viewing...

phineas8888

Walter Wick: Can You See What I See? On A Scary Scary Night?

 

 

 

Walter Wick: Can You See What I See? On A Scary Scary Night?

Dear Imagineers,

Walter Wick is a genius educator and artist and award winning author and photographer of books for children, and has one of the Most Fun Museum Exhibitions currently on display at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland during this Holiday Season: "Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic"... a must-see for kids of all ages...

and he has the best "Behind-The-Scenes"/How-to-Make-a "Can You See What I See" Magic Book Website at:
http://www.walterwick.com/cys_sn_street.htm
which is the specific link to his website "Scary Scary Night" book production photographs...and if you click on his Biography section, you will learn about his childhood art and development as a teenage artist and photographer, and see the actual 2 photographs he made as a young man that launched his phenomenal successful career...

which just so happens to be 2 stunning examples of "Analysis of a Whole and its Parts including Compare & Contrast Examples": using miscellaneous small screws, nails, pins, paper clips, springs, odds and ends... and his Scholastic Magazine cover photograph for Kindergarten kids, titled "Fasteners"...

So perhaps you and your students might be inspired and instructed in "How to Make Your Own Classroom "Can You See What I See?" Books of Phantasm and Phun...

Enjoy...

Allen
phineas8888

"Pixar: 25 Years of Animation" at the Oakland Museum and online...

Education Fun,

Okay, it is officially the Holiday Season...so if you are lucky enough to live around the San Francisco Bay Area, or are planning a visit there, go see "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation" at the Oakland Museum...on display through January 9, 2011.

Or if you don't live around the San Francisco Bay Area and will not be visiting this Holiday Season, visit the Exhibit online at hundreds of websites and youtube videos etc...
just type "Pixar" in Google search...

As you already know, Pixar is for Children of All Ages...

I checked out Pixar University online, a fascinating in-house University at their Emeryville, California Headquarters and found out amazing educational offerings for ALL their employees...and watched an Edutopia video lecture by one of their Chief Directors/University Dean: Randy Nelson emphasize "character study and development" and "mastery of a skill" and "resillency from failure to be able to achieve innovation"... (sound familiar...? :-)

I checked out www.pixar.com and read a wonderfully charming personal history of one of their animators, at their "Artists Corner"
http://www.pixar.com/artistscorner/ricky/interview.html
which reveals how a real professional artist's career path in (digital) animation can begin from very different backgrounds and interests, including "pre-med" college studies... :-)

anyways...

Pixar changed the world for all of us: creating new heroes and instilling new hopes in our hearts...
"In dreams begin responsibilities..."
so this Holiday Season, at Edutopia: let's dream together...
and make it happen...

Doodler with a pencil,
Allen
phineas8888